VIDEO: Dr. Bernstein Talks About The Science Research in Developing FUE
In this video, Dr. Bernstein discusses the transition from hand-held extraction instruments to the computer-driven, image-guided ARTAS Robotic System for FUE:
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When we first wrote the first paper on Follicular Unit Extraction in 2002, our main concern was the fact that as you extract the follicle, some of them would be sheared or shredded and we wouldn’t be able to capture the entire follicular unit. Over the years, we’ve done work to refine the procedure — and this has not only been our work, but the work of many of our colleagues — and what we found is that if you try to take one instrument to go down over the follicular unit, because the follicular unit splays — it’s like wheat almost, a bushel of wheat, where on the surface it’s very tight and under the skin it spreads out — because of this configuration as this instrument that cuts the surface of the skin goes deeper, it cuts off the bulbs. Or does what we call transects the follicles.
