The bad news is — you’re suffering from hair loss. The good news is — you have more options than ever before to stop hair loss, grow existing hairs and restore your scalp’s former fullness. So which option is the best option to restore your hair and your confidence? First off, what are your options?
While you can slow and stop hair loss using topical treatments such as Finasteride/Propecia, many patients find that, while these options help, they don’t do enough to restore the scalp to its original, healthier and fuller condition. You can add PRP (platelet-rich plasma) to the mix for added improvements — this treatment helps existing grow hair; it does not add new hairs.
To get hair back, you have two main options. You can try manual treatments such as follicular-unit extraction, or FUE, or you can try another method that’s been around for a while, robotic hair transplantation. Each method has pros and cons — though one method has many more pros than cons. Let’s look at these options more closely to determine which one can truly get you the results you deserve.
Manual Hair Restoration Is as Good as the Hand That Performs it
When we purchase a product, we prefer something that’s hand-made. Hand-made usually means better — more care and more attention to detail, facets which add quality and make the product premium, unique and more valuable. To some extent, the same is also true of manual hair restoration methods. In the hands of a highly-skilled plastic surgeon with significant experience performing the procedure, you can have excellent results.
During a manual hair transplantation procedure, your results will largely depend on your surgeon’s artful eye and the knowledge gained by performing this procedure countless times. But you can already see the problem here. Fatigue. If you have significant hair loss and need thousands of grafts, and you have one surgeon performing your procedure — as you should to have a consistent looking scalp — your surgeon is going to experience fatigue.
Fatigue is a natural, human and unavoidable phenomenon. It doesn’t mean your surgeon lacks the skill; it just means your surgeon is human. That fatigue will ultimately affect the quality of your hair grafts and your final results. If you have minimal hair loss and require minimal grafts to get the look you want, you can still get great results from a manual hair restoration solution. But if you need more work done to get the full head of hair you want, a manual solution adds risk that you don’t want.
Why should I trust my scalp to a robot?
You can see right away that a robotic solution to hair restoration solves one of the key problems of a manual solution — robots don’t get tired. This means that — with an ARTAS Robotic Hair Restoration solution, for example — the quality of your last hair graft will equal that of your first. As we mentioned above, if you need a lot of hair grafts to get the look you want, this is a major consideration that will affect your final results.
Another factor to consider is one we mentioned above — the artful eye of your surgeon. In planning the final look of your hairline, a board-certified plastic surgeon who uses the FUE technique will be required to plan (with your input) what your final results will look like. This will factor in things like the density of your hair in the concern area as well as in the donor area and the quality of those hairs. This is a complex problem which takes a lot of skill and experience to solve, and your final look will depend on it.
Yes, you can get great results from a highly-qualified and experienced board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in manual hair restoration techniques. However, a robotic hair restoration solution, such as ARTAS, takes a different approach to getting you results. Using state-of-the-art imaging systems and selection algorithms, ARTAS can calculate the hair densities in each area, select the optimal number and quality of hair grafts from the donor area and create an optimal distribution of hair grafts in the recipient area to ensure both your recipient and donor areas look healthy and full after your ARTAS treatment.
A robotic hair restoration solution also minimizes your risk in another way. In addition to eliminating the chances that fatigue will affect your final look, a robotic solution can protect your existing hairs. During manual extraction, you face the risk of damaging some of your existing hair follicles, and this risk increases with doctor fatigue, naturally and unavoidably. With a robotic solution like ARTAS, you can avoid this, ensuring that you have as much of your own healthier hair in place when your procedure is over.
The Choice Is Clear
In the right circumstances, you can have a manual hair transplant procedure performed by a surgeon who specializes in hair transplantation and get amazing results. This won’t be your best option in every case, however. Even if you have minimal to moderate hair loss concerns, you can get great results consistently with minimal risks with a robotic hair restoration solution like ARTAS.
ARTAS, like any tool, however, requires someone skilled in its use and application. So if you’re considering exploring ARTAS, you’ll want to visit a hair restoration specialist with significant experience with ARTAS or who uses ARTAS exclusively. Hair by Robotics has helped thousands of patients restore not only their hair but also their confidence using the ARTAS Robotic Hair Restoration solution.
Give Hair by Robotics a call to learn more about ARTAS and see if ARTAS can give you the hair results you want. We think the answer is — absolutely. You can reach our offices at 1-844-HAIR-BYROBO to schedule an appointment and talk to one of our hair restoration experts. Don’t wait. The quicker you call, the sooner you can start enjoying your new, fuller head of hair and your best self again — with Hair by Robotics and ARTAS.