A Modified Scalpel in Hair Restoration
October 2010
in “
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
”
TLDR In 2010, Marco Toscani's team introduced a new scalpel for hair transplants that cuts parallel to hair follicles, reducing hair loss and improving on previous methods.
In 2010, Marco Toscani and his team introduced a modified surgical scalpel with a No. 10 blade as a new tool for hair transplantation. The scalpel, folded at a 120-degree angle, was designed to make incisions parallel to the hair follicles, thereby minimizing the resection of hair during dissection. This was proposed as an improvement over previous techniques such as steel punches, multiblade knives, follicular unit extract (FUE), and single-strip harvesting, which were limited by the amount of hair available in the patient's donor scalp. The authors suggested this modified scalpel as an ideal instrument for removing the donor area in hair transplantation.
