Robotic Hair Transplant and its Advantages

Technology has greatly evolved from what it used to be few years ago; it has made our lives convenient with regard to different ways. It has not only helped us save time but also helped us achieve precision which was not possible with human hands.

With technology making everything simple and accurate, it was only time when it contributed in cosmetic surgeries. Hair transplantation is a very complex surgery which requires utmost care and accuracy. During the surgical procedure of hair transplant, two techniques are commonly used known as Follicular Unit Transplant or FUT and Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE.

Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) includes removal of strip of skin from the back of the patient’s head, while Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) directly extracts hair grafts from the donor area of the patient and transplants the same to the recipient area. Both the techniques are complex and require great precision on doctor’s side; this is the reason Robotic Hair Transplant has been developed. 

How Robotic Hair Transplant is performed?

Robotic Hair Transplant uses a specifically designed device known as skin tensioner and an image guide system that helps to keep proper track of the hair graft to be transplanted into the patient’s scalp and also helps to give great control over the device to provide proper accuracy to the implanted hair. With its high-quality sensors, patient’s movements are monitored closely and also a close check is maintained on the force used by the machine to punch in the graft to the scalp of the patient. If the sensors pick up any abnormal behaviour, they immediately shut down the system and notify the physician to check the patient. In all the tested patients, no such consequences have been noted so far. 

As compared to procedures performed by the hands of an expert doctor, Robotic hair transplant system has shown great efficiency in follicular unit graft extraction, the quality of grafts extracted, the time taken to extract hair grafts and the quantity of hair grafts extracted.  This technique helps doctors to achieve consistency in the extraction of 600 to 700 hair graft per hour as compared to traditional method which only allowed 50 to 60 hair grafts per hour. Thus, it has helped save great amount of time with absolutely amazing results. 

Advantages of Robotic Hair Transplant

This system has brought a great revolution in hair transplant procedure with its advanced features, as it makes use of latest mechanical and software technology to perform automatic FUE. 

• It is a reliable hair loss treatment that ensures complete safety of the patient.

• It provides benefits to both the doctor and the patient, such as 

• Great accuracy in follicular graft extraction, 

• Reduced harvesting time and 

• Increased graft survival

• The patient also gets the benefit of quality hair transplant in less time and with the use of minimal amount of local anaesthesia. 

• Furthermore, it gives more accurate results with better hair growth and overall better experience of hair transplantation.