Hello, All techniques, including handheld FUE, strip technique, and ARTAS will have some transections or grafts which were damaged during harvest. Our numbers (which we believe translates to most other hair centers) were around 35-50% transection rate with handheld FUE, 15% transection rate with strip surgery (due to location of bevel of knife along the whole periphery of strip), and less than 5% transection rate with ARTAS. In my own transplant procedure, I had 1000 grafts harvested and 1 transection with harvest!!! If a patient paid for 1000 grafts, does this mean they paid for 1000 harvest attempts or 1000 legitimate grafts.Best, Dr. Anil Shah