Hair Transplant Tools — Choi Implanter vs Carousel

I have sent this question to this blog several times, however have had no response. I understand you have extremely high volumes of email, but i feel i might of had no reply due to the question its self as it may be considered that i am being purposely insulting. My question is as follows. The carousel i think is an extremely well designed implanter. And i imagine its results are alo very good, however i have seen in one of your replies to a question about the choi implanter were you said, ‘The Choi implanter is just a surgical tool. It makes some aspects of the transplant easier to perform, especially for those people who did not develop the difficult placing skills with the more traditional transplant tools used throughout the world.”

This to me seems a contradiction when the carousel is also an automated surgical tool, which also makes some of the transplant easier to do. I admit that the carousel could be considered to be better in the sense that it may harvest the hairs better, however its still like the choi implanter. One could say the carousel is a better evolved version of the choi implanter. The carousel and the choi implanter do the same job in almost exactly the same way. Please will you reply as i would find an explanation really interesting. Thanks.

Practically speaking, the Carousel and Choi implanter are similar in that both make a recipient site directly into intact skin and then place a follicular unit into such sites. Mechanically speaking, the way they place the follicular unit in the site is different. The main limitation of the Choi implanter is that you have to load one follicular unit at a time, make the site with the implanter, place the FU in the site and load it back again before you can continue. For the Choi, a single hair graft is pulled into the instrument by a hair (being backed in). The advantage of the Carousel implanter is that it holds 100 follicular units, making the process smoother. The discussion is moot, however, because the Carousel is not currently on the market and can not therefore be used by any surgeon.

Note: The image to the right is of the Carousel implanter.