Artas Hair Transplant Robot

April 29, 2011
The Artas Hair Transplant robot has received FDA 510 clearance. The manufacturer, Restoration Robotics announced that FDA cleared their computer assisted, image guided robotics system has been cleared by the FDA for hair transplantation, specifically follicular unit extraction. FDA 510 clearance means the company can market the system. The FUE robot is said to solve most of the technical challenges a hair transplant doctor faces when performing follicular unit extraction. The system is operated under the direction of an experienced hair transplant doctor. The Artas FUE robot is capable of identifying individual follicular units (naturally occuring hair bundles) and harvesting them. Although the system aids in the extraction, the doctor will still have to create recipient sites and the doctor and/or technicians still have to insert the grafts manually as in the current standard of care.

Robot May Solve Problem Inherent to FUE

The Artas hair transplant robot may solve the “blind harvesting”, high graft transection rate, and cost associated with current FUE techniques, which is why the vast majority of hair transplant doctors go with follicular unit extraction via strip. In FUE, once the punch tool sinks belows the skin’s surface, the doctor cannot see what it is doing and may then transect follicles. The Artas FUE robot utilizes computer imaging which provides a very high degree of precision that drastically reduces transection rates.

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