The future of Hair Transplant surgery?

Spinner

Dr. Cole,

In your opinion, with all of the improvements that have been made in HT over the last several years, and given the outstanding results that I see in your patients on this website...what type of improvements do you foresee in the near future? You said in one of the posts that your procedures get better and better all the time. Where do you go from here?

Thanks,
Spinner

INeedHair

I think about this sometimes,

Peronally I think Cole and a couple other Dr's have taken HT to the limit,and although i know they will improve a bit more each year with something, this is the main peak and height of the HT as far as results...

that is with the 2 main problems HT faces which to me are 1. limited donor 2. the inability to be 100% sure you can stop your hairloss for life...

if you eliminate both or one of those variable HT's can go in a more aggressive manner and a Dr. like Cole can "let it loose" to say...

with those two variables in play, the future to me will see

perhaps some better placement improvements, but slight IMO (I think things are pretty caught up there)

a better understanding of yield and increase in yield (again slight, as top Dr's get pretty high yields)

minimizing scarring more both strip and FUE (again slight as scarring is minimal now on both fronts and there will just have to be some scarring with surgery like this)

and the BIG advancment I would like to see is what GHO works on and I believe Dr. Cole has played with,

the idea of transecting the follicle so you still pull it out to grow a hair in the recipeint but leave some in the donor which still produces a hair, a 2 for 1 so to speak, this will be a HUGE advancement in the HT world...

some other great advancments which occured and perhaps will be improved on a bit would be the fact that Dr's now take great care in looking for future loss and following family history, so better estimates to assure that you don't go to big and regret it...

something early HT Dr.s never even cared about, heck they use to sell you on if you did an HT it would stop further loss...horrific...

orrible*

I read that intercytex or Aderans not sure which are working on a machine for hair multiplication. Perhaps thats how HT's will go. Surgeons will hand over the tools to machines who will be able to do mega sessions in minutes, annalysing the head for perfect donor removal & perfect placement with 100 % growth rate Shocked

Great question though, it seems that HT's have improved in leaps and bounds since follicular units and then fit/fue & mega sessions. I wonder where next. I would love to see BHT embraced by all and be as successful as possible giving people full restoration possibilites.

INeedHair

As for the machines, I have thought of this before, but there is a human factor involved to an HT...

but, think about this...if a machine could analyze the pattern from the donor, then replicate it to perfection in the recicip...but (since donor availablity is hindered) leave every other one out, so it would look totally natural and in par with how nature made you...

I think of this with HM as well, but just don't know how HM works, if it revitalizes dead but exisiting follicles or creates new ones....

but with a "plant them here and they grow" it would be cool to have a machine that could replicate everything to perfection like that...

of course it would suck if it was called "Hal2000" and you were the first in the chair..

but the human factor is that as still as a patient sits for a DR, there just has to be some movement throughout the ordeal which could and would throw everything of a bit...and if over the course of it, you leaned your head slowly right a half inch, your hairline would be of center a half inch and the whole thing a disater....I don't know if machines are up to par with this type of thing yet...