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As many as 50 percent of men will experience some hair loss by the age of 50, and many women also suffer from a genetic predisposition to permanent hair loss. There exist a variety of medications and treatments to halt the progress of hair loss, and a multitude of products designed to conceal or disguise thinning or lost hair, but only a hair transplant can restore hair that has already been lost. As such, many people seeking to regain the appearance and feel of their own hair consider hair transplants. Transplanted hair is in all ways real and natural, because it comes from areas of the patient’s own scalp that are not affected by hair loss; the back and sides of the head of not susceptible to genetic pattern balding. Within a few months of the procedure, the transplanted hair will grow as normal, requiring no special attention or treatment beyond normal hair care. The technology of hair restoration has progressed in recent years, offering patients the precision and ease of a robot hair transplant.
A robot hair transplant is very similar, in principle, to a manual FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) transplant procedure, in which naturally-occurring units of one to four hair follicles are extracted from the donor area of the scalp under local anesthetic. Each follicular unit, about a millimeter in diameter, is then grafted into the areas of the scalp affected by balding. In contrast with other procedures, in which a strip of skin containing follicles is harvested from the scalp whole, and then cut into follicular units, FUE is more precise in its follicle harvesting. Rather than leaving a long, linear scar where the donor tissue was removed, FUE creates much less scarring at the harvest site and less discomfort for the patient, and requires a shorter healing time. However, FUE is a more labor-intensive harvesting process, requiring hours of repetitive labor, keen perception, and careful judgment.
Using the ARTAS System, a robot hair transplant removes the guesswork and potential for human error from the harvesting procedure. Under the control of a physician, the ARTAS System uses cameras and 3-D imaging computer software to guide the robotic arm to perform the graft extraction. The imaging system can recognize individual hair follicles, and the computer uses an algorithm to determine the optimal angle at which to extract them to prevent damage to the follicles as they are removed. Even the most experienced human physician will have an average rate of transection, or cutting through the follicle, of 20-30 percent; the robot hair transplant system reduces the transection rate to an average of 8 percent, resulting in more intact follicles and a more efficient harvesting. The ARTAS System harvests follicular units at a much faster rate than can be done by hand, reducing the length of the procedure, the amount of anesthesia that must be used, and the patient’s discomfort, while shortening the time that the harvested follicular units must be stored before they are transplanted manually by the physician. This ensures that as many follicles as possible survive to take root and grow in the treatment site.
The ARTAS System received clearance from the FDA in 2011, and every physician who operates the system receives special training in its use. Use of the ARTAS robot hair transplant system guarantees a patient the most precise, least invasive, least uncomfortable hair transplant procedure available today by removing human error from the follicle harvesting process. If you are considering a hair restoration procedure, a robot hair transplant can offer you the precision, efficiency, and quick recovery time that your life demands.Mark A Bishara, M.D., P.A. Medical Director
The Paragon Plastic Surgery and Med Spa
Research trials are being conducted in the clinic of Dr. Mark A. Bishara.
Documenting the FDA approved research on Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), Dr. Bishara is demonstrating results while generating clinical data.
Using recently developed technology, an interactive computer system called ARTAS employs image guidance for individual hair follicle harvests. FUE, a traditionally labor-intensive process involving repetitive transplants of tissue, now employs the image-guided robotic arm in an extremely precise procedure that reduces scarring and other difficulties of the surgical FUE process.
Highest Quality Results Seen To Date
A computerized robotic arm delivers the highest quality results seen to date in the hair transplant field. Problems such as tightness or numbness of scalp, and painful healing have become resolved. With increased graft survival rates and reduced time spent harvesting follicles, forward progress in the technology of medical science is also being noted.
Image guidance enhancement provided by the ARTAS computer system supports the faster harvesting process likely to replace the strip transplant method that leaves hairline scars. Guided by cameras and 3D imaging software, the unit dissects follicles into units and removes them at a rate of 1,000 per hour. The carefully tested equipment is maintained for safety and precision.
A Physician Controlled, State Of The Art System
Harvesting the hair follicle during the restoration procedure offers numerous benefits. Precise technology makes dermal punches using a computer interface. The only natural, permanent and now– completely undetectable hair replacement process is available in this clinically supported, comfortable office environment. Experience less discomfort and much faster healing using a less invasive method.
Using the FUE with the ARTAS, Dr. Bishara moves healthy follicles to bald areas for a surprisingly effective result. The implants begin to develop a blood supply to grow and soon new hair is visible. Within a short time hair is growing and normal appearances have been restored.
Accuracy and Increased Survival Rates
With the robotic FUE using ARTAS accuracy, an increased harvest time is accomplished. This minimizes general damage for increased new-hair thickness and minimizes damage to the individual follicles in particular. It also enhances graft survival rates. Removed in groups of one to four, Dr. Bishara removes units from the skin and moves and replants them in a process taking one to four hours.
Robot Hair Transplant
Separation of follicular units from surrounding donor-tissue, is highly repetitive and labor intensive. It requires great precision. For success the action requires perfect centering of a punch over a follicle unit. Perfect alignment of the dissecting instrument over follicles prevents damage. Human variability and error are more common in this manually labor-intensive process. Robotics make things far more precise. Long hours of manual surgical removal in repetition with replanting of follicle units is currently the only other viable treatment options that has slower healing times, higher levels of pain and discomfort and is not as reliable in the end.
Manual FUE procedures require repeated follicle moves hundreds to thousands of times in a typical hair restoration procedure. Bishara Costmetic Surgery is the only location in Texas this specific robot hair transplant system is being researched, documented clinically and made available for the public by private appointment.
This safer, faster, more productive robot hair-treatment and hair-growth system cannot be equaled from within the medical field. The highest available modern technology can be delivered with this ARTAS system for FUE by robot–the hair transplant with extraction and replanting of hair follicles used because it is effective, non invasive, pain free with limited anesthesia, while showing markedly improved hair growth, thickness and longevity in results.
Mark A Bishara, M.D., P.A. Medical Director
The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
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Imagine meticulously counting the hairs on a portion of your head. Now imagine identifying and manually extracting tiny, randomly-spaced units of hair follicles, moving them to another location, and re-implanting them. If that sounds labor- and time-intensive, you’re right. For patients desiring quality FUE hair transplants (follicular unit extraction) with a natural hairline and acceptable density, however, it was the state of the art for many years. Fortunately, technology wasn’t standing still. Today, the ARTAS robotic hair transplant system—now offered exclusively in Texas by Dr. Mark Bishara—has brought digital optics and cutting-edge computer-aided robotics together to substantially automate what was once a tedious, prolonged procedure.
FUE hair transplants are the gold standard in hair replacement—minimally invasive, no staples or sutures, and offering quick recovery plus a high success rate of transplanted hairs. Typically, the surgeon employs a 1 mm dermal punch to manually extract follicular units containing from one to four hairs from donor areas of at the back and sides of the scalp. These follicles are genetically immune to male pattern balding and remain viable for life. After the follicular units are removed, the surgeon transplants them to balding areas to restore a natural hairline and scalp coverage.
While the results are highly aesthetic, there are downsides to conventional FUE hair transplants. Sessions are extremely lengthy and costly, as well as fatiguing to both surgeon and patient. Most of this results from the time-intensive process of identifying, isolating and extracting FUEs from the donor area. Accuracy in the extraction process—an important factor in the survival of follicle units in FUE hair transplants—is also dependent upon human factors which may be inconsistent, particularly in long, tiring sessions. This is one reason why only ten percent of hair restoration surgeons perform challenging FUE hair transplants, despite their incontestably superior results.
The ARTAS system utilizes digital imagery to magnify and track follicular units in the donor area, then precisely isolates and extracts them with a dissecting needle punch on a robotic arm, monitored by the surgeon. The time required for the extraction process is effectively cut in half. ARTAS can extract up to 1,000 follicular units per hour for FUE hair transplants which are then manually implanted by the surgeon in the balding area. Follicular units extracted by ARTAS are removed intact and with a reduced rate of “transection” (damage to the follicle caused by extraction). ARTAS boasts a transection rate of just 8 percent compared to up to 30 percent for manually-extracted FUE hair transplants.
ARTAS software identifies and isolates follicular units for extraction in a random pattern, preserving a natural appearance in the donor area. To prepare for FUE hair transplants, patient’s donor area is shaved down to a 1 mm length and numbed with a local anesthetic. The patient sits in an ergonomically-designed chair with the robotic arm positioned over him. A skin tensioner placed on the scalp has markings which serve as optical reference points, enabling the computer to track and compensate for movements of the patient’s head. ARTAS identifies the location and angle of each follicle within the donor area and utilizes complex algorithms and programming to determine the proper approach for extraction. Each extraction is previewed by the surgeon on a monitor, who inputs additional instruction to the computer. The robotic arm uses a sharp needle to score the skin, then a punch to dissect the follicular unit from the skin.
Follicular units extracted by ARTAS generally require no trimming or processing and are available for implantation immediately after extraction, enhancing the success rate of the grafts and the ultimate cosmetic appeal of FUE hair transplants.
Mark A Bishara, M.D., P.A. Medical Director
Bishara Cosmetic Surgery and Hair Restoration
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If you’re tired of finding ways to hide your receding hairline, or covering up that unsightly bald spot using expensive and often uncomfortable hair pieces, then it’s time you visit Dr.Bishara’s Cosmetic Surgery & Hair Restoration center. For men and women, going bald isn’t something that you can just get over; it weighs you down, makes you lose confidence in yourself and can prevent you from going out and doing the things you really want to do. Thanks to Dr. Bishara, you can now find a practical and affordable solution to your hair loss that will change your life forever. The answer is hair transplant surgery!
Using the very latest technology in hair restoration, Dr. Bishara has perfected what is called the “ARTAS System”. ARTAS is an interactive, computer assisted piece of equipment that employs image guidance to enhance the quality of hair follicle harvesting. It is the first hair transplant robot to improve the most challenging aspects of Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE). While under anesthesia, individual follicles of your healthy donor hair are chosen with the ARTAS system and carefully removed– as not to damage the hair follicle– and then, reinserted back into the thinning area of your scalp using a micro blade. This process is repeated hundreds to thousands of times and is usually subject to human error; but, thanks to the ARTAS system– currently the only one used in Texas by Dr. Bishara– human error is greatly reduced through the efficiency of smart computer technology. The implanted hairs develop their own blood supply, and your new hairs will be seen growing fuller and thicker within the span of a month following your procedure. The best part is, no real healing time (7 days) is required after your hair transplant and your new hairs will continue to grow over the course of a full year. You can enjoy the benefits that come from of a full head of hair after a single short visit to Dr. Bishara’s. The ARTAS system is so safe, and so effective, it even received clearance from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for use in April, 2011.
Now, if you are one of those people unsure about anything surgical, then Dr. Bishara has alternative options for restoring and preventing hair loss that require no surgery at all. By using prescription drugs like Propecia or shampoos like Rogaine and Mane N’ Tail, you can help to prevent further hair loss; but, these methods take time and are not always effective. If you want results fast, a robot assisted hair transplant has proven to be a safe and effective hair loss solution. If you’ve tried almost everything there is to prevent going bald, then hair transplantation may be right choice for you.
But why stop there? Hair transplantation is just one of many procedures offered by Dr. Bishara. Men and women with unwanted body hair can benefit from Dr. Bishara’s laser hair removal procedure. Have an unsightly tattoo you regret getting from back in your wilder days? Then look to Dr. Bishara for your tattoo removal needs. Women looking for that extra confidence booster can also see Dr. Bishara about suggestions for injectable facial fillers, Botox and cosmetic face/body procedures.
If there is something about you that is preventing you from possessing the confidence you desire, then the time is now to do something about it. Make an appointment to see Dr. Bishara at his office locations in Mansfield,TX, and Southlake, TX. Please call (877)-70-NEW-LOOK.
Mark A Bishara, M.D., P.A. Medical Director
The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake TX
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Hair loss has long been a problem for both the sexes, generally after the mid-40s. We tend to take good care of our hair with various types of shampoo based products, hair oil and hair growth lotions. But, by the time we reach 45 or 50 years of age, we still lose a lot of hair and may even become bald. Thus, various people opt for cosmetic techniques in order to ensure that their looks remain the same, and they do not feel embarrassed in social settings. In cosmetic surgery, robotic hair transplant techniques are used in order to implant an individual’s own hair on the areas of the scalp where we have lost the maximum amount of hair. Robotic hair transplant technique has proven to be very effective for the people who have faced issues with hair loss, and even baldness at a young age. Though, various private organizations exist all around the world, who promises effective hair transplant techniques, but few of them are actually renowned and experienced in achieving the right results.
One such effective cosmetic hair therapy clinic exists in Dallas, led by Dr. Mark Bishara. This clinic can be reached at their website markbisharamd.com on the internet. Techniques used by Mark A Bishara, M.D. have been effective in solving various issues related to hair loss via effective robot- assisted hair transplant techniques. A few of the features which he uses in order to achieve successful hair transplant therapy, are as follows:
· ARTAS system: In this technique, Dr Bishara is aided with the computer images, which allows effective hair follicle harvesting. FUE or Follicular Unit extraction techniques are used in this hair transplant therapy in order to harvest the lost hair follicle, and prevent further damage at the follicle level of the hair.
· The ARTAS technique has been cleared by the FDA (Food and drug association), and is almost done without any side effects. The robotic arm of the ARTAS system is used in order to harvest new follicles on the scalp, with the aid of the computer generated images and hence, the results are effective and visible. Often, small dermal punches are used alongside in order to make the hair transplant a complete success.
· Graft survival percentage is high with the aid of the ARTAS techniques used in this procedure. Since, the time required for harvesting the hair follicle is reduced to a large extent, therefore, the chances of graft survival increases. The robotic arm used in the ARTAS technique allows the proper and effective grafting measures for better results.
· The procedure though might seem to be complex and painful, is actually not so. When you choose this technique of robot hair transplant, local anesthesia is applied in order to reduce the level of pain to zero. Thus, you face no issues when the harvesting of hair follicles is done on the scalp.
· Repetitive grafting technique and selection of follicular units from the associated donor tissues actually might be erroneous; therefore, the robotic technique is applied. With the aid of imaging and robotic arm, the grafting technique reaches almost perfection level with no mismatch at all.
Dr Mark Bishara is already having various successful treatment centers, which include Southlake, Bay Harbor Island and Texas.
Dr. Bishara has made the Dallas region his home base. It is a privilege for the people of Dallas to have treatments like robot hair transplant from a very experienced doctor. Though, there are other doctors who perform excellent hair transplantation work- Dr. Mark Bishara is among the top five hair transplantation surgeons in the world.
Mark A Bishara, M.D., P.A. Medical Director
The Paragon Plastic Surgery and Medspa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
Cosmetic Surgeon Dr. Mark A. Bishara, M.D., serving Fort Worth, Arlington, and the surrounding area.
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