A Robot Vacuum Cleaner Is One Thing. Now You Can Get a Robot Hair Transplant

Robots today are all the rage. You can now have your carpets cleaned by a robotic vacuum cleaner. And you have Alexa who can do all sorts of things for you like switching on the lights, giving you a weather forecast, making a shopping list, playing audiobooks, and a whole lot more.

Even better, if you are suffering from thinning hair, as many people in the Bay Area do, you can have a hair transplant by robot! Yes, for many years it has been possible to have a hair transplant carried out by a hair transplant surgeon, but now you can have a hair transplant by robot. How cool is that?

Of course, you cannot get a robotic hair transplant just anywhere. In fact, in the Bay Area your best bet is to take a trip into Foster City to Silicon Valley Hair Institute for a robotic hair transplant. Our director here is Dr Miguel Canales, and he is best known for being the leader of the team that actually invented the ARTAS robot for hair transplantation. For ten years, he was Medical Director of Restoration Robotics who are the manufacturers.

A Lot Of Advantages to Robotic Hair Transplantation

There are a lot of advantages to the ARTAS robot procedure. Just to begin with, it leaves no scar. When you have a hair transplant carried out by a surgeon by hand, he begins by removing a strip of hair from the back of your head. This is then cut into tiny units of one to four hair follicles that are transplanted into the area of thinning hair. Unfortunately, this leaves a scar at the back of your head which means that if you want to wear your hair short, it will show.

However, a hair transplant by robot removes tiny hair follicles one by one from the donor area of the head and transplants them into the recipient area. This leaves a very tiny little dot which is invisible to the naked eye.

The whole procedure is less painful and results in virtually no down time after the transplant, which is not the case with a manual transplant. Furthermore, the robot inserts the transplant follicles into the recipient area at exactly the same angle, height, and direction of any existing hairs in the area, which results in a more natural aesthetic appearance. In addition, the robot never gets tired. It can carry on all day, whereas a surgeon carrying out a transplant manually will obviously begin to tire, and errors may creep in, no matter how good he is.

There are other benefits, too, such as it being easier to harvest follicular units in patients from different ethnic backgrounds, such as the curly hair from patients of African descent.

For more information on a robotic hair transplant, you can book a free consultation with Dr. Canales when he can answer all your questions. Click on the Contact Us link or the Online Consult link at the top of the page to book yours