New Instrument for Hair Transplant: Multichannel Hair Transplanter

Lee, Dong‐Youn; Lee, Joo Heung; Yang, Jun-Mo; Lee, Eil-Soo

doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2005.31096

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“…As mentioned previously, various HF extraction methods have been proposed. However, the only tool developed for transplanting HF is the manual implanter [20][21][22]. Further, an equipment for HF transplantation is very difficult to develop because HF transplantation comprises more complex operations when compared to HF extraction.…”

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Needle Transportable Semi-Automatic Hair Follicle Implanter and Image-Based Hair Density Estimation for Advanced Hair Transplantation Surgery

Bae

Jung²,

Kim

2020

Applied Sciences

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As the number of hair follicles transplanted in a patient is approximately 2000 or more, hair transplantation by a manual implanter requires a considerable amount of time and money and demands a great amount of patience and pain tolerance from both patients and surgeons. In addition, many surgeons frequently experience musculoskeletal disorders owing to the numerous simple repetitive motions of the shoulder and wrist during the procedure. Moreover, the results of the surgery may vary depending on the skill of the surgeon. Although the hair follicle extraction technology has advanced in recent years, the hair follicle transplantation technology still uses a simple hand-held implanter owing to the difficulty of transplanting hair follicles and hair. In this study, a needle transportable semi-automatic hair follicle implanter that can continuously transplant hair follicles is introduced to alleviate the inconvenience of the existing manual implanter. In the developed semi-automatic implanter, a plurality of needles, into which the hair follicles are inserted, are sequentially supplied from the needle supply magazine to the implanter body by the guide groove. The hair follicles in the supplied needles are transplanted to the scalp through the forward and backward movement of the needle gripper and driving motors. The developed implanter can transplant several hair follicles without any replacement, which can shorten surgery time and reduce the fatigue experienced by patients and surgeons. The effectiveness of the proposed implanter was verified through the results of animal and clinical experiments.

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Needle Transportable Semi-Automatic Hair Follicle Implanter and Image-Based Hair Density Estimation for Advanced Hair Transplantation Surgery

Bae

Jung²,

Kim

2020

Applied Sciences

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“…To improve the quality of a hair transplanter, we previously developed a new instrument called the multichannel hair transplanter, which can insert several grafts into the recipient sites simultaneously. 5 More recently, we have developed a surgical tip to overcome a popping-out problem for hair recipient sites in hair transplantation surgery. First, we made a hole using a 23-gauge needle for hair recipient sites before a hair transplanter was inserted and then inserted the hair transplanter containing a follicular unit or a single hair into the hole.…”

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