Ear­lier this year the FDA approved an excit­ing new hair trans­plant tech­nol­ogy that is going to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way hair trans­plant surgery is cur­rently being per­formed.  The use of robot­ics is widely used in many fields of med­i­cine espe­cially in sur­gi­cal procedures.

The Restora­tion Robot­icsâ„¢ ARTAS Sys­tem is a state-of-the-art, com­puter assisted, inter­ac­tive sys­tem that facil­i­tates har­vest­ing of hair fol­li­cles dur­ing fol­lic­u­lar hair trans­plant pro­ce­dures.   Incor­po­rat­ing many fea­tures includ­ing spe­cial imag­ing tech­nolo­gies, an image-guided robotic arm, a user friendly inter­face and many other tech­ni­cal fea­tures that aid in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and har­vest of indi­vid­ual fol­lic­u­lar units to be imple­mented in the hair trans­plant tech­nique process.

Ben­e­fits of robotic tech­nol­ogy for fol­lic­u­lar unit extrac­tion are:

• Reduced heal­ing time due to min­i­mal approach
• Less inva­sive surgery
• Effi­ciency and speed
• Excel­lent graft growth
• Elim­i­nates lin­ear scar in donor area

The ARTAS Sys­tem has an inter­ac­tive image-guided robotic sys­tem that has the abil­ity to remove hair grafts one at a time and pos­sesses the abil­ity to implant them as well.   Adding value to this amaz­ing inven­tion is the abil­ity to design a com­put­er­ized hair­line for the patient.  When in action, as the patient moves, abil­ity to recal­cu­late the angle as each fol­lic­u­lar unit is located as well as the loca­tion and ori­en­ta­tion of all hair on the sur­face of the scalp, are just a few of the tech­ni­cal tools this sys­tem offers for hair trans­plant surgery.

With the posi­tion and loca­tion fea­ture the image sys­tem guides the robotic arm to the grafts one at a time.  The fol­lic­u­lar units are then extracted from the scalp and stored in a cool vial where it’s kept moist until it’s time for implantation.