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This informative article was written by Dr. Michael Meshkin of Newport Beach, CA who is one of our recommended hair restoration physicians.

Ultra refined microscopic follicular unit grafting raises the bar for hair restoration physicians and their staff. This delicate and demanding hair transplant procedure requires more skill and careful attention to be performed properly. The smaller and more tightly packed incisions require closely dissected follicular unit grafts that are carefully trimmed under microscopes. These follicular units are cut under the microscope into their natural state of one, two, or three hairs, and then placed into very small incisions using the lateral slit technique.

Another very important transformation is the size and the angulation of the incisions in the recipient area. These small and densely packed incisions are more difficult to place the grafts into. For these reasons, this procedure requires more careful selection of the doctor and the staff.  The hair transplant clinic‘s surgical staff should have been with the doctor for a long time and have highly developed surgical skills and qualifications to perform hair transplants.

A prospective hair transplant patient needs to ask about the doctor’s staff and their qualifications regarding hair transplant experience. These are the questions you may want to ask the doctor or his technicians:

1. The number of years the technicians have been working as hair transplant assistants.
2. How many technicians work on each client?
3. Are they full time or per diem?
4. How many surgeries per day and how long does it take for an average surgery?
5. Ask if they use microscopes for cutting the grafts.
6. Ask to observe a surgery and the technicians in action, or get a tour of the clinic.
7. Talk to the technicians and ask specific questions to test their knowledge on hair transplantation.

If a doctor does not perform hair transplant procedures on regular basis or does not have enough clients to keep full time staff, they use one or two assistants or in some cases hire per diem contractors for the procedure. In these cases the quality of the work is absolutely questionable. For today’s Ultra-refined Follicular Unit Hair Transplant, which is the standard of care, it takes a team of at least 4 to 6 experienced, well trained technicians working together for hours to ensure the procedure is done efficiently in a timely manner.

Always question the hair restoration physician about the staff and remember, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”

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