Surgical Hair Restoration and the Advent of a Robotic-Assisted Extraction Device

    November 2014 in “ PubMed ”
    Anik Gupta, Danika C A Lyons, Deanne Daigle, James S. Harris
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    TLDR A robotic device could improve surgical hair restoration, but it needs more testing to confirm its effectiveness compared to current methods.
    The document from 2014 discussed the increasing number of surgical hair restorations performed worldwide, with follicular unit transplantation (FUT) being the gold standard. FUT involves transplanting individual follicular units (FUs) from the donor region to the recipient region. The most common methods for FU production were strip extraction and manual FU extraction (FUE), each with their own merits and limitations. The paper introduced the concept of a robotic surgical assistive device that could potentially overcome many of the limitations associated with traditional strip and manual FUE methods. However, the authors emphasized that this new technology would require further independently funded, peer-reviewed, clinical testing to establish its efficacy relative to existing hair restoration methods in clinical practice.
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