FUE hair trans­plant pro­ce­dure.

On April 14, 2011 the FDA granted a 510k dol­lar clear­ance to the ARTAS Sys­tem for fol­lic­u­lar unit extrac­tion of the scalp on andro­genic alope­cia patients. In 2007, the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Hair Restora­tion Surgery (ISHRS) meet­ing was pre­sented with the ini­tial test results of ARTAS. At that point, the pro­to­type had and unac­cept­ably high tran­sec­tion rate of 30%. After more research and test­ing at the ISHRS, the com­pany reported that the device had decreased trans­ac­tion rates to 6–15%. At the ISHRS meet­ing in Sep­tem­ber 2011 the com­pany reported fur­ther improve­ment in the trans­ac­tion rates.