March 6th, 1999
Synopsis: This short paper summarizes the article that advises to physicians to limit the use of adrenaline when performing large hair transplant sessions and it explains various practical ways to accomplish this.
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March 6th, 1999
Synopsis: This paper argues for standardization in the classification of various hair transplant techniques in order to facilitate communication between hair restoration surgeons and their patients and to aid in scientific research.
March 6th, 1999
Synopsis: This paper discusses the evolution and rationale for follicular unit hair transplantation, as well as the logic for the various techniques used in its implementation. The central role of the follicular unit constant in the surgical planning is discussed, as well as the importance of keeping recipient sites small, using microscopic dissection and performing large hair transplant sessions.
March 6th, 1999
Synopsis: As the twentieth century drew to a close, this paper looked into the future to try to discern the direction that hair transplantation was headed in the next millennium. Particular areas of interest were; the follicular unit/mini-micrograft controversy, graft storage mediums, how to maximize the donor supply, methods to enhance wound healing, automated devices, lasers, new medications, cloning and genetic engineering.
February 14th, 1999
The dissecting microscope takes some getting used to, but using it makes more efficient use of donor hair during follicular unit transplantation than magnifying loupes with transillumination, reported Dr. Robert Bernstein.
September 28th, 1998
At the 6th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons held in Washington, D.C. in 1998, Dr. Walter Unger (defending the “old guard”) debated Dr. Bernstein (representing the new technique of Follicular Unit Transplantation) in front of an audience of over 450 hair restoration surgeons from around the world. Dr. Unger took the position that large grafts still had a place in surgical hair restoration, particularly for creating density. Dr. Bernstein took the position that the new procedure of Follicular Unit Transplantation could create that density while at the same time achieving a completely natural look — something large graft procedures were incapable of doing. He argued that the versatility and naturalness of Follicular Unit Transplantation rendered the older procedures obsolete.
March 6th, 1998
Synopsis: This editorial cautions that new instruments made to cut the donor strip rapidly, by placing the strip on a grid of knives, cause unacceptable levels of graft damage. The author advises that these devices should not be used in surgical hair restoration.
March 6th, 1998
A New Surgical Instrument For the Automation of Hair Transplantation WILLIAM R. RASSMAN, MD, Los Angeles, CA ROBERT M. BERNSTEIN, MD, New York, NY Dermatologic Surgery 1998; 24: 623-627. Background As hair transplantation evolved into a procedure in which large numbers of very small grafts are moved in a single session, new problems have emerged. …
March 6th, 1998
Synopsis: The “Carousel” is an automated device used for hair transplantation that simultaneously makes recipient sites and inserts grafts. The instrument can hold up to 100 grafts at time. In theory, the instrument could decrease the total operative time and eliminate some human factors that contribute to graft injury during the hair restoration process. The Carousel, however, was limited in that very close graft placement was not possible and it could not account for the great variability in the human scalp that sometimes rendered the device ineffective.
March 6th, 1998
Synopsis: Dr. Bernstein heads a group of twenty-one hair restoration surgeons in an attempt to standardize the classification of follicular unit transplantation and other small graft procedures, including various technical aspects of graft harvesting, graft dissection, and placement. The goal is to standardize the nomenclature, and formally describe other factors in the surgery, so that communication between physicians and patients may be enhanced and different hair replacement procedures may be examined and compared.
