I am a male of African descent, 37 years of age and approximately stage 3 to 4 on the Norwood scale. I live in Ontario Canada. I'm told I would require 2000 to 2500 grafts to bring about adequate coverage from hairline to the crown area, but that the robotic Artest(?) and Neograph methods would like not work due to the type of hair I have, and that the strip method is the only option. I wear my hair low, and would prefer not to bear the resulting scars from the type of procedure.
Answer: FUE usually do NOT work for Curly Hair You may look like a Norwood 4 but YOU MAY BE A NORWOOD 6 (ALL BALD) in a few years. Did the doctor tell you this?FUE does not usually work well for curly hair. It doesn't matter if it is ARTAS or Neograft or the best surgeon. Generally you need to have a FUE test to make sure you are even a candidate.I was an engineer working with Dr. Rassman in 1998 (before I became a doctor) . My work involved a concept of a robot which would use a special optical sighting system to align the hairs for an automated FUE. This work became U.S. Patent 6572625 that we licensed to the ARTAS robot. Similar technology from our U.S. Patents are used in the NeoGraft. I perform FUE in my practice with my hybrid FUE instruments, ARTAS, or even NeoGraft. My point is that I am very familiar with the FUE, ARTAS, NeoGraft, and all forms of harvesting hair follicles.Curly hair is still a challenge.Your focus of surgery should be on RESULTS. Not how a doctor takes out the grafts. From a donor scarring perspective, you keep your hair very short (BASED ON PHOTOS), so FUE may be your only option. But you may STILL SEE the FUE scars at that length on some occasion. Thousands of white dots.Many doctors push FUE or Neograft or ARTAS claiming "no scar" or "minimally invasive". Many doctors dissuade patients from strip surgery asking "why would you want a big scar".Just remember a 4000 graft FUE scar is like having a collective open wound hole the size of a baseball on the back of the head. There is nothing minimally invasive about that. I also perform Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP) and fix horrible FUE scars routinely. These is nothing "scarless" about FUE. I have performed surgery on Dr. Rassman and his family members using the strip technique. The linear scar on Dr. Rassman is a pencil thin line you probably will have a hard time finding. The point is, a strip surgery scar is not as terrible as the Internet makes it out to be. Both FUE and Strip surgeries has its place. Don't be caught up in marketing and doctors who try to sell you one type surgery.The focus should be on Results. A bad hair transplant result from FUE or Strip is like Herpes. You'll carry it with you for life (with either thousands of dots or a line).
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Answer: FUE usually do NOT work for Curly Hair You may look like a Norwood 4 but YOU MAY BE A NORWOOD 6 (ALL BALD) in a few years. Did the doctor tell you this?FUE does not usually work well for curly hair. It doesn't matter if it is ARTAS or Neograft or the best surgeon. Generally you need to have a FUE test to make sure you are even a candidate.I was an engineer working with Dr. Rassman in 1998 (before I became a doctor) . My work involved a concept of a robot which would use a special optical sighting system to align the hairs for an automated FUE. This work became U.S. Patent 6572625 that we licensed to the ARTAS robot. Similar technology from our U.S. Patents are used in the NeoGraft. I perform FUE in my practice with my hybrid FUE instruments, ARTAS, or even NeoGraft. My point is that I am very familiar with the FUE, ARTAS, NeoGraft, and all forms of harvesting hair follicles.Curly hair is still a challenge.Your focus of surgery should be on RESULTS. Not how a doctor takes out the grafts. From a donor scarring perspective, you keep your hair very short (BASED ON PHOTOS), so FUE may be your only option. But you may STILL SEE the FUE scars at that length on some occasion. Thousands of white dots.Many doctors push FUE or Neograft or ARTAS claiming "no scar" or "minimally invasive". Many doctors dissuade patients from strip surgery asking "why would you want a big scar".Just remember a 4000 graft FUE scar is like having a collective open wound hole the size of a baseball on the back of the head. There is nothing minimally invasive about that. I also perform Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP) and fix horrible FUE scars routinely. These is nothing "scarless" about FUE. I have performed surgery on Dr. Rassman and his family members using the strip technique. The linear scar on Dr. Rassman is a pencil thin line you probably will have a hard time finding. The point is, a strip surgery scar is not as terrible as the Internet makes it out to be. Both FUE and Strip surgeries has its place. Don't be caught up in marketing and doctors who try to sell you one type surgery.The focus should be on Results. A bad hair transplant result from FUE or Strip is like Herpes. You'll carry it with you for life (with either thousands of dots or a line).
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June 29, 2015
Answer: African American Men Do Very Well With Neograft! Folicula, My team has worked on many African American Men and Women utilizing the Neograft procedure. You do not need a large scar, staples, or stitches! the beauty of this procedure is that we can utilize the neograft system to follow the course of each graft allowing it to be transferred in its entirety. I urge you not to get a strip. I believe in this procedure so much I not only perform it but had my team perform it on myself one month ago.
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June 29, 2015
Answer: African American Men Do Very Well With Neograft! Folicula, My team has worked on many African American Men and Women utilizing the Neograft procedure. You do not need a large scar, staples, or stitches! the beauty of this procedure is that we can utilize the neograft system to follow the course of each graft allowing it to be transferred in its entirety. I urge you not to get a strip. I believe in this procedure so much I not only perform it but had my team perform it on myself one month ago.
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Answer: Is the FUE hair transplant method a option for men of African descent? If so, where? This is probably the one of the most common questions asked and the opinions posted below have inaccuracies. First and foremost every patient is a candidate for FUE. We have performed FUE on a plethora of curly hair from latin and African decent. It takes experience. Neograft is a company that hires techs, sends them to clinics to perform FUE so you probably will not have a good experienced technician. ARTAS robot has issues with curly hair and punch size. Do your research and you will find those that perform great FUE on curly hair.
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Answer: Is the FUE hair transplant method a option for men of African descent? If so, where? This is probably the one of the most common questions asked and the opinions posted below have inaccuracies. First and foremost every patient is a candidate for FUE. We have performed FUE on a plethora of curly hair from latin and African decent. It takes experience. Neograft is a company that hires techs, sends them to clinics to perform FUE so you probably will not have a good experienced technician. ARTAS robot has issues with curly hair and punch size. Do your research and you will find those that perform great FUE on curly hair.
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July 19, 2017
Answer: African American FUE Hair Transplant Now Possible Neograft is a basic traditional FUE tool and you are correct in assuming is likely NOT to work for Afro-textured hair. Neograft, like all other traditional FUE tools, utilizes a rotary round-tipped punch. This basic design makes it unsuitable and often unsuccessful in performing FUE in black men and women. The new FUE tool I invented called the Dr.UPunch Curl is a non-rotary tool with a revolutionary design that is hook shaped rather than round. I have found it to be successful in all cases where a round-tipped rotary punch has failed.
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July 19, 2017
Answer: African American FUE Hair Transplant Now Possible Neograft is a basic traditional FUE tool and you are correct in assuming is likely NOT to work for Afro-textured hair. Neograft, like all other traditional FUE tools, utilizes a rotary round-tipped punch. This basic design makes it unsuitable and often unsuccessful in performing FUE in black men and women. The new FUE tool I invented called the Dr.UPunch Curl is a non-rotary tool with a revolutionary design that is hook shaped rather than round. I have found it to be successful in all cases where a round-tipped rotary punch has failed.
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January 4, 2014
Answer: African-American hair and hair transplantation Follicular unit extraction is feasible in African-American hair. The follicle may have a slight different direction underneath the skin, however an experienced FUE transplanter would be able to extract these without having to do the strip method. Usually extracting the first several hair follicles will give a lot of information about what the remaining follicles look like underneath the skin. One may have to use a slightly larger punch if the follicles are very tortuous. However you can still get very good yields and very good transplantation and survival rates of the grafts.
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January 4, 2014
Answer: African-American hair and hair transplantation Follicular unit extraction is feasible in African-American hair. The follicle may have a slight different direction underneath the skin, however an experienced FUE transplanter would be able to extract these without having to do the strip method. Usually extracting the first several hair follicles will give a lot of information about what the remaining follicles look like underneath the skin. One may have to use a slightly larger punch if the follicles are very tortuous. However you can still get very good yields and very good transplantation and survival rates of the grafts.
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