A hair transplant is a surgical treatment to address hair loss of the balding scalp, eyebrows, and so on. Hair loss treatments have advanced with new and cutting-edge techniques. However; these new methods are rarely employed. Have moral bounds been crossed due to monetary influence and gluttony?
The cutting edge hair transplant procedure performed today is called the 'Follicular Unit Extraction ' (FUE) strategy. This method of hair restoration results in natural hairline results, using Micrografts, with nearly invisible donor scaring (where hair is harvested). There are over 1000 hair restoration physicians in the U.S. And less than 10% offer this superior hair loss treatment technique. Why is this?
In the 1950's the Japanese pioneered the strip technique - micrograft system, using 1-4 hairs per graft yielding natural hairline results and long linear 'acceptable ' donor scaring. Nonetheless US hair transplant physicians opted to employ the 'plug methodology ', comprising 10-20 hairs per graft, yielding bizarre hairline results and giant donor scaring. This surgical hair loss strategy was fast, comparatively easy, and highly lucrative. It required over 40 years to convert from the plug strategy to the strip technique...but why? Because for the plug method, the technical skill needed was less and the profits were bigger.
Today we are challenged with the same resistance: changing from the strip strategy to the improved FUE hair loss treatment method. The FUE strategy demands talent and time, both of which lessen hospital profits thus providing the motivating force to maintain the existing strip method technique.
It'll take many decades for this shift to the much better surgical hair transplant FUE strategy to 'take root ' and become the conventional hair-loss therapy procedure. This new method has been available for at least 10-years...and many patients, even after a Hair Restoration Consultation, have still never heard of it.
The cutting edge hair transplant procedure performed today is called the 'Follicular Unit Extraction ' (FUE) strategy. This method of hair restoration results in natural hairline results, using Micrografts, with nearly invisible donor scaring (where hair is harvested). There are over 1000 hair restoration physicians in the U.S. And less than 10% offer this superior hair loss treatment technique. Why is this?
In the 1950's the Japanese pioneered the strip technique - micrograft system, using 1-4 hairs per graft yielding natural hairline results and long linear 'acceptable ' donor scaring. Nonetheless US hair transplant physicians opted to employ the 'plug methodology ', comprising 10-20 hairs per graft, yielding bizarre hairline results and giant donor scaring. This surgical hair loss strategy was fast, comparatively easy, and highly lucrative. It required over 40 years to convert from the plug strategy to the strip technique...but why? Because for the plug method, the technical skill needed was less and the profits were bigger.
Today we are challenged with the same resistance: changing from the strip strategy to the improved FUE hair loss treatment method. The FUE strategy demands talent and time, both of which lessen hospital profits thus providing the motivating force to maintain the existing strip method technique.
It'll take many decades for this shift to the much better surgical hair transplant FUE strategy to 'take root ' and become the conventional hair-loss therapy procedure. This new method has been available for at least 10-years...and many patients, even after a Hair Restoration Consultation, have still never heard of it.
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Dr. Loria is well respected as a front-runner in the Lexus Fue hair transplant procedure that provides one of the best hair loss treatments for hair restoration.
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