Dr. Feller wrote a misleading article 18 months ago
Dr. Feller,
About 18 months ago you wrote:
[QUOTE=Dr. Feller;2544]"Any new FUE device will get my full attention, but I have some serious concerns about this one." You further stated that another "concern" of your is that the NeoGraft machine " utilizes a spinning punch, and while this may facilitate the procedure for the doctor, it also subjects the grafts to TORSIONAL forces which are detrimental to FUE grafts." Next, you were "concerned" about the grafts being "sucked" through the "spinning punch" and finally you were "concerned" about the "transection and trauma" to the follicles, which may look okay but may really be "dead."
This post was written over 18 months ago and all your false, inaccurate, speculations, conjectures, and concerns about the NeoGraft machine have been totally disproved. As a doctor who had never seen the NeoGraft device do a procedure, you based your critical, negative, false concerns on a totally wrong assumption which was that the NeoGraft device is “a spinning punch.” Once you had made this false assumption, and believed it, you then went on to explain how as a “spinning punch” there will be damage consisting of “Torsion, Traction and Compression.” You made it sound as though the NeoGraft device did follicular homicide. However, you were absolutely wrong that the NeoGraft device is a “spinning punch”. The NeoGraft extraction tool spins less than a tool used to extract grafts manually. The NeoGraft device is controlled by the doctor and it spins less than two times before it has extracted the graft. Doctors doing manual FUE have to spin their tool much more often to score the skin. Because of the small rotation NeoGraft technology produces, there is no “Torsion, Traction and Compression” occuring.
As for the graft going through the tube to a receptacle, there is no evidence of any damage to the graft. The NeoGraft machine was used in a live demonstration at the Live Surgery Workshop in Orlando in April of 2010 which was filled to capacity by doctors. These doctors can attest to the excellent quality of grafts extracted by the NeoGraft device. Many of them examined the grafts under the microscope. Furthermore, the NeoGraft machine had the lowest transaction rate of any other manual tool. This means the NeoGraft machine did the least damage to grafts, compared to any other FUE method used. In addition the NeoGraft machine has been demonstrated live 4-5 times every month all over the U.S. with the same results.
As for the grafts drying out, your analogy of wetting your lips and then finding they dry out, does not apply to the NeoGraft technology. With the NeoGraft machine, constant misting of the grafts is possible, so they do not dry out, as was witnessed by the doctors at the ISHRS show who saw grafts that were robust, moist, and of excellent quality. An article such as this, based on false speculation, is very bad reporting, even if it is couched as a “concern”. It opens the door for others to “run” with these false ideas and disseminate them further, turning them into facts, which has happened in the last year and a half. This is unfortunate for the confusion it creates in the reader’s mind, as it may reduce the reader’s choices if he wants an FUE transplant, by scaring the reader.
This negative type of reporting has not hindered other doctors from including the NeoGraft device in their practice, once they saw the NeoGraft device demonstrated (which we do live 4 times a month all over the country) and they realized how beneficial this device will be to their patients. FUE with NeoGraft is beneficial because it eliminates the large elliptical scars that occur so often in many patients with the STRIP procedure. This allows patients to wear their hair short. An FUE procedure with NeoGraft is a much less invasive procedure, without risk of cut nerves or arteries, it is a much less painful procedure, the down time is greatly reduced, allowing patients to get back to work sooner. There are many other benefits to a NeoGraft FUE procedure as well such as less damage to the grafts compared to a manual FUE procedure or from using tweezers in either manual FUE or STRIP surgery to place grafts.
Now that 18 months have passed since this misleading, inaccurate article was written it is possible to dispel another concern which was the concern about the results of a NeoGraft procedure. There are many patients who have undergone the NeoGraft procedure at this point in time. Two of them were Greg Benson, (an actor) and Kevin Nalty, an internet marketing personality. Both of them had a live procedure done on the internet where about 30 thousand viewers watched the procedure. According to Dr. Bauman, who did the procedure, their hair is growing like “gangbusters”, a word Dr. Bauman used on Spencer Kobren’s radio show to describe the results of these transplants with NeoGraft. Dr. Ken Williams has also been on Spencer Kobren’s talk show and he had a NeoGraft hair transplant done himself, and his transplant is grown out and looks excellent. Anyone can watch this video. The doctors who are using the NeoGraft machine have given it excellent testimonials. They claim the NeoGraft machine is “an enormous breakthrough and it is changing the industry” and more importantly they state that many patients do not want “scars, staples” and want to get be able to get back to their activities as quickly as possible. Dr. Bauman says his patients “want this [NeoGraft] and love it.”
Dr. Feller,
About 18 months ago you wrote:
[QUOTE=Dr. Feller;2544]"Any new FUE device will get my full attention, but I have some serious concerns about this one." You further stated that another "concern" of your is that the NeoGraft machine " utilizes a spinning punch, and while this may facilitate the procedure for the doctor, it also subjects the grafts to TORSIONAL forces which are detrimental to FUE grafts." Next, you were "concerned" about the grafts being "sucked" through the "spinning punch" and finally you were "concerned" about the "transection and trauma" to the follicles, which may look okay but may really be "dead."
This post was written over 18 months ago and all your false, inaccurate, speculations, conjectures, and concerns about the NeoGraft machine have been totally disproved. As a doctor who had never seen the NeoGraft device do a procedure, you based your critical, negative, false concerns on a totally wrong assumption which was that the NeoGraft device is “a spinning punch.” Once you had made this false assumption, and believed it, you then went on to explain how as a “spinning punch” there will be damage consisting of “Torsion, Traction and Compression.” You made it sound as though the NeoGraft device did follicular homicide. However, you were absolutely wrong that the NeoGraft device is a “spinning punch”. The NeoGraft extraction tool spins less than a tool used to extract grafts manually. The NeoGraft device is controlled by the doctor and it spins less than two times before it has extracted the graft. Doctors doing manual FUE have to spin their tool much more often to score the skin. Because of the small rotation NeoGraft technology produces, there is no “Torsion, Traction and Compression” occuring.
As for the graft going through the tube to a receptacle, there is no evidence of any damage to the graft. The NeoGraft machine was used in a live demonstration at the Live Surgery Workshop in Orlando in April of 2010 which was filled to capacity by doctors. These doctors can attest to the excellent quality of grafts extracted by the NeoGraft device. Many of them examined the grafts under the microscope. Furthermore, the NeoGraft machine had the lowest transaction rate of any other manual tool. This means the NeoGraft machine did the least damage to grafts, compared to any other FUE method used. In addition the NeoGraft machine has been demonstrated live 4-5 times every month all over the U.S. with the same results.
As for the grafts drying out, your analogy of wetting your lips and then finding they dry out, does not apply to the NeoGraft technology. With the NeoGraft machine, constant misting of the grafts is possible, so they do not dry out, as was witnessed by the doctors at the ISHRS show who saw grafts that were robust, moist, and of excellent quality. An article such as this, based on false speculation, is very bad reporting, even if it is couched as a “concern”. It opens the door for others to “run” with these false ideas and disseminate them further, turning them into facts, which has happened in the last year and a half. This is unfortunate for the confusion it creates in the reader’s mind, as it may reduce the reader’s choices if he wants an FUE transplant, by scaring the reader.
This negative type of reporting has not hindered other doctors from including the NeoGraft device in their practice, once they saw the NeoGraft device demonstrated (which we do live 4 times a month all over the country) and they realized how beneficial this device will be to their patients. FUE with NeoGraft is beneficial because it eliminates the large elliptical scars that occur so often in many patients with the STRIP procedure. This allows patients to wear their hair short. An FUE procedure with NeoGraft is a much less invasive procedure, without risk of cut nerves or arteries, it is a much less painful procedure, the down time is greatly reduced, allowing patients to get back to work sooner. There are many other benefits to a NeoGraft FUE procedure as well such as less damage to the grafts compared to a manual FUE procedure or from using tweezers in either manual FUE or STRIP surgery to place grafts.
Now that 18 months have passed since this misleading, inaccurate article was written it is possible to dispel another concern which was the concern about the results of a NeoGraft procedure. There are many patients who have undergone the NeoGraft procedure at this point in time. Two of them were Greg Benson, (an actor) and Kevin Nalty, an internet marketing personality. Both of them had a live procedure done on the internet where about 30 thousand viewers watched the procedure. According to Dr. Bauman, who did the procedure, their hair is growing like “gangbusters”, a word Dr. Bauman used on Spencer Kobren’s radio show to describe the results of these transplants with NeoGraft. Dr. Ken Williams has also been on Spencer Kobren’s talk show and he had a NeoGraft hair transplant done himself, and his transplant is grown out and looks excellent. Anyone can watch this video. The doctors who are using the NeoGraft machine have given it excellent testimonials. They claim the NeoGraft machine is “an enormous breakthrough and it is changing the industry” and more importantly they state that many patients do not want “scars, staples” and want to get be able to get back to their activities as quickly as possible. Dr. Bauman says his patients “want this [NeoGraft] and love it.”
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