Dear NeoQ777,You may have sacrificed the ability to trim your hair with a 1 or a 1.5 level trimmer. The FUE procedure, whether using NeoGraft or any other FUE tool, reduces the number of follicles in the donor area. It's like removing trees from a forest; if you remove too many, you're going to see a lot of the forest floor. The surface area of your scalp remains the same while the number of hairs in the donor area is decreased. Over-extraction can be a major problem, especially for inexperienced clinics. I see many physicians in the country who have been doing other types of medicine (eg: botox and fillers and laser resurfacing) purchase a NeoGraft device and call themselves hair restoration surgery experts by piggybacking on the marketing efforts of the NeoGraft corporation. Using the NeoGraft, because it is a hand-held instrument, and must be performed manually, is very difficult work, and typically a technician with or without any experience in hair restoration is asked to actually perform the procedure of follicular unit extraction (FUE) with the NeoGraft device while the surgeon performs procedures simultaneously on a different patient in a different room. Because of these various factors, the results from an FUE procedure using the NeoGraft device, or the ARTAS robotic hair restoration system, will vary dramatically from one provider to the next. One major advantage of the ARTAS robotic system is that it allows me to set the distance between the harvest sites in the donor area down to an accuracy of 0.001mm. For instance, in a person with very dense hair in the donor area, I might set the robot to extract follicles no closer than 1.875mm from each other. In a person with less dense hair in the donor area (as measured by the ARTAS system itself) I will increase that to 2.225mm, or even 2.575mm to prevent over-extraction.Hair transplant results will depend entirely and 100% on the experience and dedication of your physician and his or her team of technicians. There are literally hundreds of subtleties and nuances in the performance of this hours-long, surgical team-oriented, artistically-demanding procedure. Clearly, common sense would tell you that a physician who has dedicated their practice and career to hair restoration will deliver much different results than a physician who recently acquired a device to start performing hair restoration procedures. Interview more than one physician, and make sure you're comfortable with their background in the field before proceeding.