Snippet from the press release: Read the rest — Hair Restoration Pioneer Improves Robotic-assisted FUE Hair Transplant Procedures For those doctors that use the FUE robot (ARTAS), these procedures that Dr. Bernstein presented should help to minimize problems with graft growth.
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The follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique is a simple and elegant technique conceptually, but it is highly variable or difficult in practice. Since I published my FUE article in 2002, hundreds of doctors have adapted their own automation and instrumentation. I encourage this, as one superior technique or machine may emerge. But as of 2011 […]
The cost of the ARTAS robot is $200,000 and the doctor must pay a fee of $1/graft for its use. That cost must be factored into the doctor’s overhead for the procedure (rent and surgical supplies). The robot will not lessen the cost of a highly skilled staff, so I am not sure if the […]
Note: The annual meeting of hair surgeons was in held in Alaska this past week. The following review is very selective and is biased by the things that were interesting to me and what I (Dr. Rassman) thought could be interesting to the readers. This is part 7. More to come… *** Robot assisted hair […]
Snippet from the article: Read the rest — Doctor Uses Robotic Arm To Perform Hair Transplant This new technology will make follicular unit extraction (FUE) more popular and easier for most doctors, but it will not likely drive the cost of a hair transplant down as the robotic Artas® system is quite expensive for the […]
I am told the robot will cost about $250,000. I think that this has to be paid down and the result should be a more expensive hair transplant. At least initially. I am just speculating, though, as we don’t have the robot in our practice. This may be an issue of quality, not cost alone. […]
Automation of the hair transplant process has been a goal of doctors from the earliest part of their career because of the tedious manual processes used today. In particular, with the large sessions, fatigue becomes a problem and the skill sets required of the staff take years to acquire proficiency. I have been a pioneer […]
The article states, “The Restoration Robotics prototype system is a state-of-the-art, interactive, image-guided robotic system that is designed to conduct automated harvesting of follicular units in hair transplant surgery.” For those doctors who have not mastered FUE through a manual approach, this will become a tool that will aid new doctors in the field. It […]
The patent mentioned in that forum was actually built by Dr. Jae Pak when he worked for me as a biomechanical engineer (before he became a doctor) and it was proven to work. The patent was eventually purchased by Restoration Robotics and there is an actual robot that does the FUE extraction (still in development, […]
The license to use our patent for this was granted to Restoration Robotics a few years ago. I have seen the technology and it works, but far less efficiently than we do in our office (with humans, not robots). The entire process is not perfected yet, so we all wait out the product release when […]
The company (Restoration Robotics) is currently conducting limited testing in the San Jose, CA area. I will update you more after the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) conference in September 2008, as I am sure they will have a presentation. Between now and then, I will contact them to see if I can […]
“Restoration Robotics, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) is a company using image-guided robotic technology to perform hair restoration by emulating the FUE technique. The robotic technology is in development. Currently, it is not approved by the FDA and the technology is not for sale”, said a company spokesperson when I contacted them. I also found this […]
I get this question quite a bit from patients who have already had the hair transplant strip surgery and then inquire about having a follicular unit extraction (FUE) procedure to follow it up. It makes little sense for the person that already has a strip scar (no matter how wide it is) to have an […]
Scalp laxity become tighter after successive procedure, but this is not usual. The use of scalp exercises solves the problem. It sometimes takes 30 minutes/day for 3 months to adequately address the scalp laxity. In our original article when we introduced the FUE technique a decade ago, we reported a situation where patients differed with […]
I don’t have any personal recommendations for New Hampshire or anywhere in New England. The only hair transplant doctor I can endorse in the area is in NY. Dr. Robert Bernstein, who I have personally worked with for over 15 years, is one terrific surgeon. He informed me that he just purchased the ARTAS hair […]
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