Art, Technology and a Qualified Team

Hair Transplantation is a surgery that combines art and technology.

In what stages of the surgery is art used?

• when we determine, case by case, the best design for the front hairline.
• when we create a non-straight hairline and degradée, that is when we create a natural hairline.
• when we ascertain what the correct angle of inclination is for the follicular units to be transplanted in each area.
• when we determine the percentage that should be transplanted in each area in order to optimize the result.
• when we determine the correct marking of the donor and recipient areas, etc.

Art is used in planning the best strategy for each case, but the application of art occurs primarily during surgery, coming from the ability of the surgeon and team.
The surgeon who performs hair transplant surgery must be very skilled in order to create the micro incisions where the follicular units will be placed, as well as adhere to many other details important to this surgery.

Team

Just as important as the surgeon, are the surgical assistants, who prepare the follicular units and assist in their placement.
It is necessary to have a tremendous skill to prepare the FUs under a high powered microscope without permitting any damage to the donor area, that is without permitting any trauma to the roots.

Preparing sliver (transversal cut) with the aid of a high powered microscope

As we may not waste a single hair follicle, during the training phase for new assistants, we use other materials that are not a patient’s scalp tissue. The new assistant will only begin working with us in surgery when we are certain that he or she has acquired the skills to perform the necessary functions.
For every three assistants who begin training, only one will continue on our team, the one who has the essential ability.
The second phase is to acquire speed in the process of separation, which takes on average six months to one year of practice.

Separation of the follicular units of 1, 2 and 3 hairs

You may then imagine the difficulty in creating a large team, as highly qualified as ours, composed of eight professionals.

Further, we have to prepare for the possibility that an assistant may be sick on the day of surgery, leave the team, etc. In this case, we cannot wait another six months to train another assistant, so we maintain a staff of ten assistants on a rotation schedule to avoid this situation.

Team

To keep the team well attuned, involved in the area of hair transplant surgery and well trained, frequency is necessary, since a band that plays every day, plays better than a band that plays once a week.

Imagine the hair transplant surgery team like an orchestra, with the surgeon as its conductor.

Technology

• State-of-the-art microscopes used to separate follicular units (1).
• Micro-surgical blades to create incisions (2).
• materials and preserving solutions utilized to store the FUs until the moment of their placement (3).
• high powered magnifying glasses to improve visibility at the moment of placement (4).
• monitors to train assistants and also for patient comfort (5).