HAIR TRANSPLANT FORUM

I think there are an average of 17,000 follicular units in the donor area. some will have more and some will have fewer. certainly there are even more follicles on the body and this is very exciting.

If you take a follicle out properly with minimal transection and you move that follicle to the recipeint area properly, you are going to get growth that is equal regardless of how your harvested it. Our growth rates are very good regardless of the method of harvest. when you look at growth rates and percentages, you will find data all over the board. the fact is that it is almost impossible to count all the hairs you move by hand and even harder to count those that re-grow. a better way to assess growth is through comparing the hair mass index (of donor plus recipient area)and the hair mass transferred. I personally like our regrowth and density much better from FIT than i do with our strips. when someone tells you he does not get equal results, to me he is saying that he cannot do it well so he should either find a way to do it better or cease doing it. i am not being critical of Dr. Epstein. I think he is a fine physician whom i recomend.

strips are easier for the physician. i don't blame physicians for charging less for a surgery that is performed mostly by the assistants rather than by the physician.

we did over 1750 FIT grafts cut and placed in 7 hours this week on a patient. We did it with three physicians and three of our skilled surgical team. It litrally was a full court press done mostly by physicians. This is a much different procedure than a 2000 to 5000 graft strip performed in small part by one physician and in a much larger part by 5 to 6 staff members.