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Robotic hair restoration, I believe, can be the next greatest thing in the field of hair
transplants. It's extremely interesting, extremely advanced technology. And what it is exactly
is this company called Restoration Robotics developed this artist machine. And what the
machine does, it helps assist us with a laser-guided, robotic arm in doing the follicular unit extraction
process.
Today, all it's able to do is assist in the hardest thing. It's very time-consuming to
remove the grafts from the back of the head one unit at a time. This requires a lot of
concentration on the physician, by the physician and actually results in operator fatigue.
It's also difficult to be very consistent at the appropriate angle and depth for the
extraction of the graft.
However, the robot, which is guided by the surgeon, is able to reproduce the angle, the
depth of penetration and the consistency to give us very nice grafts on a consistent basis
for harvesting with very little fatigue of the surgeon. Because the surgeon actually
uses a handheld device similar to playing a video game, and can actually see the follicles
as they're being extracted one at a time.
While the robot today is only able to harvest the donor tissue, there are plans for the
future for it to be able to be used to make recipient sites, as well as potentially even
transplanting the grafts.