The ARTAS robot is the only robotic arm controlled by the doctor that is FDA cleared in the United States for hair restoration. Dr. Bishara has been awarded most ARTAS robotic hair transplant cases in the world.
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A high-tech solution for a very common problem – by age thirty-five two-thirds of American men will have some degree of hair loss. By the age of 50, 85 percent are a lot thinner on top. A doctor becomes the patient – as he tests out a new robotic hair restoration procedure.
“Well my biggest concern is my hairline.” Robert Leonard, D.O., told Ivanhoe.
Normally Dr. Robert Leonard is the one performing hair transplant surgery but this time he is the patient, trying out a new FDA-approved robotic device to restore his hairline.
Under the control of a hair transplant surgeon, the ARTAS system uses a robotic arm and digital imaging. Every 20 milliseconds it re-calculates hair position to achieve the best results from a patient’s donor area.
“The robot will line up to each hair follicle each hair shaft either one grouping up to almost four groupings and will punch each one out by a one millimeter punch.” Matthew Lopresti, D.O., told Ivanhoe.
Unlike traditional hair transplant surgery the ARTAS robot leaves no linear scar allowing patients to wear their hair shorter at the donor site.
“I just had this technique just done a very short time ago, and my whole hair line was transplanted,” said Leonard.
Dr. Lopresti says the ARTAS is more precise, than the traditional surgery – cutting down on time by approximately 25-percent. Under local anesthesia it takes about five to seven hours to perform.
“Most patients do not complain of any discomfort whatsoever especially at night time lying on a pillow versus the traditional method where you do have a line with skin that was taken out with sutures in the back,” said Dr. Lopresti.
In about eighteen months Dr. Leonard can expect to see full hair growth.
As hair transplants are considered elective procedures, health plans do not pay for hair transplantation surgery.
BACKGROUND: No matter what causes baldness, many people decide to undergo hair transplants to regain self-confidence. Primary causes can include ageing, hormone change, and family history, although there are several external factors that can contribute as well. Poor scalp circulation, vitamin deficiencies, dandruff, and excessive hat-wearing have been debunked as possible causes of baldness.
NEW TECHNOLOGY: Since the ARTAS Robotic Hair Procedure harvests individual groupings of hair without the removal of a large section of the scalp, there is almost no scarring in the donor area – no need for stitching or staples. Due to this primary factor, recovery time is drastically reduced. The goal of the ARTAS system is to create the most natural appearance for hair transplants.
(Source: https://www.artashair.com/faqs/)
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El robot ARTAS es el único brazo robótico controlado por el médico que es aprobado por la FDA en los Estados Unidos para la restauración del cabello. Dr. Bishara ha sido galardonado con la mayoría de los casos de trasplante de cabello robótico ARTAS en el mundo.
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Una solución de alta tecnología para un problema muy común – por treinta y cinco años dos tercios de los hombres estadounidenses tendrán algún grado de pérdida de cabello. A la edad de 50, el 85 por ciento son mucho más delgado en la parte superior. Un médico se convierte en el paciente – como él pone a prueba un nuevo procedimiento de restauración del cabello robótica.
“Bueno, mi mayor preocupación es mi cabello.” Robert Leonard, DO, dijo a Ivanhoe.
Normalmente el Dr. Robert Leonard es la realización de la cirugía de trasplante de cabello, pero esta vez es el paciente, probando un nuevo dispositivo robótico aprobado por la FDA para restaurar el nacimiento del pelo.
Bajo el control de un cirujano de trasplante de cabello, el sistema ARTAS utiliza un brazo robótico y la imagen digital. Cada 20 milisegundos se vuelve a calcular la posición cabello para lograr los mejores resultados de la zona donante de un paciente.
“El robot se alineará a cada folículo piloso cada tallo del pelo, ya sea una agrupación hasta casi cuatro agrupaciones y perforará cada uno por un golpe de un milímetro.” Mateo Lopresti, DO, dijo a Ivanhoe.
A diferencia de la cirugía de trasplante de pelo tradicional robot ARTAS no deja cicatriz lineal permite a los pacientes llevan el pelo más corto en la zona donante.
“Acabo de tener esta técnica sólo hecho hace muy poco tiempo, y mi línea pelo todo transplantado”, dijo Leonard.
Dr. Lopresti dice el ARTAS es más precisa, que la cirugía tradicional – reduciendo el tiempo en aproximadamente un 25 por ciento. Bajo anestesia local se tarda alrededor de cinco a siete horas de realizar.
“La mayoría de los pacientes no se quejan de las molestias que sea especialmente durante la noche acostado en una almohada contra el método tradicional, donde usted tiene una línea con la piel que fue llevado a cabo con suturas en la espalda”, dijo el Dr. Lopresti.
En unos dieciocho meses el Dr. Leonard puede esperar ver el crecimiento del cabello lleno.
Como los transplantes de cabello se consideran procedimientos electivos, los planes de salud no pagan por la cirugía de trasplante de cabello.
ANTECEDENTES: No importa lo que causa la calvicie, muchas personas deciden someterse a trasplantes de cabello para recuperar confianza en sí mismo. Las causas primarias pueden incluyen el envejecimiento, el cambio hormonal, y los antecedentes familiares, aunque hay varios factores externos que pueden contribuir también. La mala circulación del cuero cabelludo, deficiencias de vitaminas, la caspa, y con sombrero excesiva han sido desacreditado como posibles causas de la calvicie.
NUEVA TECNOLOGÍA: Desde el Procedimiento de pelo robótica ARTAS cosecha agrupaciones individuales de cabello sin la eliminación de una gran parte del cuero cabelludo, no hay casi ninguna cicatriz en la zona donante – sin necesidad de costuras o grapas. Debido a este factor primario, el tiempo de recuperación se reduce drásticamente. El objetivo del sistema ARTAS es crear la apariencia más natural para los trasplantes de cabello.
(Fuente: https://www.artashair.com/faqs/)
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In an article in the Prime Dermatology journal, authored by Dr. Chang Jun Huhen, titled “Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Hair Transplantation”, Dr. Huh reviews the evolution of hair restoration surgical options and contrasts that to technological advancements and unique benefits offered by the ARTAS Robotic Procedure.
Over the past 10 years, robotic procedures have enhanced surgical care that doctors give their patients. Robotic systems help surgeons improve the outcome for patients and help reduce manual and repetitive movements, which ensures more accuracy and precision. The use of robots has paved the future for surgeries and will help patients have better experiences. The advantages of minimally robotic procedures appeals to doctors and patients, because of decreased pain and increased recovery time.
Restoration Robotics was founded by physicians and engineers to help develop a solution for hair restoration patients. Robotic technology plays a role in Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) because it gives patients consistent and safe results, with no visible scarring or long recovery time. The ARTAS Robotic System enables surgeons to give their patients natural-looking outcomes with fast recovery time.
In the past, hair restoration involved Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT), where a strip of scalp is surgically removed and individual hair grafts are generated by manual dissection. This has been common practice FUT method since the early 90’s. Soon after, manual FUE started, by using small dermal punches to remove single hair grafts directly from donor sites and implant them in the balding scalp area. This was the beginning of a less invasive technique with faster healing time.
The ARTAS Robotic System is a FDA approved, physician controlled, interactive computer-assisted system that enables harvesting of hair follicles during hair restoration. It is the first and only technology that allows physician-controlled, image-guided, robotic assisted FUE. The robot is programmed to be able to do with great precision what physicians can do only with extensive experience. The robot can harvest follicular units in a random pattern, or as a percentage of the total number of follicular units in a designated area. The physician can make changes to dissection depths and angles during the process. Because the robot is making the repetitive actions, it makes the process go much faster.
Benefits of ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplants:
- Robotically precise and consistent
- Reduced treatment time
- Decreased discomfort
- Faster recovery time
- No linear scar
- Undetectable donor area
The robotic system dissect grafts accurately and consistently, thousands of times with acceptably low transection rates of between 4.9%-8%. The ARTAS system will also soon be able to use sophisticated 3D patient modeling and design to help create recipient sites at the rate of 2,000 per hour. The addition of the ARTAS system attracts many patients that would be hesitant to try traditional transplant procedure, and allows physicians to take hair restoration to the next level and produce high patient satisfaction.
Please see the attached article for a more in-depth view of the ARTAS System.
What is a Robotic Hair Transplant?
In Robotic FUE hair transplant procedures, follicular units are isolated using the ARTAS robotic system. The ARTAS system is a computerized, image-guided robot that automates the labor intensive process of extracting grafts. Its advantage over other FUE techniques is due to its precision and consistency in extracting grafts. All FUE procedures at The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa are performed using the ARTAS robot.
ARTAS is the very latest technology in hair restoration. Dr. Bishara is using the ARTAS System in his Mansfield and Southlake offices. This interactive, computer assisted equipment employs image guidance to enhance the quality of hair follicle harvesting. ARTAS is the first hair transplant robot to improve the most challenging aspects of Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).
This physician-controlled, state-of-the-art system enables the harvesting of hair follicles during hair restoration procedures. It offers numerous beneficial features, including an image-guided robotic arm, special imaging technologies, small dermal punches and a computer interface. The ARTAS System is capable of identifying and harvesting individual follicular units to implement the FUE technique. The device, guided by cameras and 3-D imaging software, can perform the dissection of hair follicles individually at a rate of up to 1,000 per hour.
Please visit our website at www.MarkBisharaMD.com for more information on robotic hair transplants or call our office at (817) 473-2120.
Hair transplant surgery has come a long way since it was first introduced in the 1950s. Back then, Dr. Norman Orentreich started testing a theory that hairs located at the sides and back of the head were genetically “programmed” to resist balding and that when relocated to balding areas, these “donor hairs” would retain this characteristic. It was an idea that was, quite literally, ahead of its time because while the theory was sound, the available surgical techniques were too crude to produce consistently natural-looking results.
The Bad Old Days of Hair Transplantation
In the 1960s and 1970s, hair transplants consisted of removing clumps of donor hairs with a round punch and then transplanting these plugs of hair into regularly spaced rows. Sometimes, if the patient had enough donor hair and dutifully completed all the sessions of hair transplant surgery, a doctor might be able to achieve good coverage, albeit with a very solid-looking hairline and limited ways the patient could style his hair. Too often, however, the patient would run out of donor hair before a good result could be achieved and the result would be the dreaded “doll’s head” look with obvious, evenly spaced plugs of hair. For an entire generation, the words “hair transplant” became virtually synonymous with “hair plugs” and many people, quite understandably, preferred to live with their hair loss than get an obvious-looking hair transplant.
When It Got Better
In the 1980s, hair transplant technique took a giant leap forward with the introduction of smaller grafts. Instead of large plugs of hair, surgeons would excise a strip of hair from a balding-resistant patch and section it into two types of grafts, mini grafts (4-8) hairs and micro grafts (units of 1, 2, and 3 hairs). The mini grafts were placed where fullness was desired and the micro grafts were places along the hairline for a more natural look. More grafts could be transplanted in each session than when surgeons used the “punch” technique and the results were definitely better looking.
When It Got Great
In the 1990s, we finally achieved a truly natural-looking hair transplant method called Follicular Unit Transplantation or Follicular Unit Grafting (FUG) that mimics the way hair naturally grows. The introduction of a new and powerful microscope, called the binocular microscope, made it possible for surgeons to take that same strip of donor hair and section the hairs the way they naturally grow, in units of 1, 2, 3, and 4 hairs. These “follicular units” can be transplanted into very tiny incisions placed very closely together. The result is excellent density, even after just one session. And because the hair is transplanted the same way it grows, there’s never an awkward phase where the patient looks strange or like a work in progress.
A further refinement of the technique, called Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) does away with the strip. Instead, these follicular units of donor hair are removed one at a time using a small circular punch. There is no incision with FUE and the minimally invasive procedure leaves no visible scars. The donor hairs are placed the same way they would be with FUG and the results of both types of procedure are completely natural. When performed by an accomplished surgeon — no one will know that you’ve had a hair transplant.
Hair restoration product literature, including Propecia information, is available in our office. Please contact us at 817.473.2120 to schedule an appointment or visit our website at www.MarkBisharaMD.com
Please also visit our website to learn more about ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplants System at www.MarkBisharaMD.com or call our office at (817) 473-2120
Cosmetic Surgeon Dr. Mark A. Bishara, M.D., serving Fort Worth, Arlington, and the surrounding area.
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