These days people are blogging about almost every thing. Now with our new “Hair Loss Weblogs” this includes hair restoration.
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I look forward to seeing your blog up and online.
Best wishes for new hair in the New Year.
Pat Hennessey,
Publisher of the Hair Transplant Network and the Hair Loss Learning Center.
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Pat,
I have a question for you regarding the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians. Do all of the physicians who comprise the Coalition use “lateral slits?”
The standards for the ultimate patient friendly hair transplant surgery have shifted higher in recent years. Today clinics on the cutting edge (forgive the pun) should idealy be making very tiny incisions that enable them to dense pack grafts when appropriate for a patient. They should also have the staff and skill to preform large sessions when appropriate for the patient.
In this community this relatively new and patient friendly procedure is described as “Ultra Refined Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation.”
Only those physicians who have mastered follicular unit grafting and stepped up to the challenge of performing Ultra Refined Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation with excellent results are eligable for membership in the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians. Read more about the standards of selecting Coalition physicians.
As masters of follicular unit grafting, members of the Coalition also pay careful attention to the angle, direction and orientation of each graft as it will determine the ultimate direction and angle of the hair’s growth. Some use lateral incisions, while other members use sagittal incisions.
There has been a fair amount of debate among top hair transplant surgeons about the relative advantages and disadvantages of incisions made perpendicular to the direction of the hair’s growth (also referred to as “lateral” or “coronal” grafting) versus incisions made parallel to the direction of the hair’s growth (also referred to as “sagittal”).
