Punch Hair Matic rescues baldies

Medicamat of France will be launching its new robot for hair transplantation - the Punch Hair Matic - at the Medica trade fair in Dusseldorf (24 to 27 November 2004).

Medicamat of France will be launching its new robot for hair transplantation - the Punch Hair Matic - at the Medica trade fair in Dusseldorf (24 to 27 November 2004).

The new, patented technology is known as TRANS-F.E.R* (for 'Trans-Follicular Extraction and Re-implantation').

Medicamat (which is an ISO 9001-certified company) has been a specialist in dermatology and plastic surgery for more than 25 years, and has acquired specific expertise in the field of hair surgery.

The company is seeking local distributors.

The Punch Hair Matic (which is patent-protected) is a robot using micro-instruments to remove follicular units, which makes surgery simpler, faster, and less debilitating for the patient, with more convincing aesthetic results.

The hairs taken - one, two or even three at a time, depending on the size of needles chosen - are immediately sucked up into a sterile catheter and transferred to a small hand-piece that pushes the hair into a small reception orifice (also called recipient site) by simple pressure.

A complete session of 700 grats can be performed by one doctor with one assistant in two hours only.

This new, patented technique shows that the automation of follicular transplantation (or Trans-F.E.R) has many significant advantages for both the patients and the surgeon.

First of all, the surgery performed is far less invasive, so that it can be performed in a doctor's surgery or in a private clinic under local anaesthetics.

Second, the technique used greatly reduces operating time, which reduces the costs incurred by the patient accordingly.

Third, there are no visible scars left after just a few weeks if the treated area chosen (for the re-implantation) is of a size inferior to 1.25mm or 1.3mm.

This, in turn, means that the patients can wear their hair very short in the wake of the surgery and without any inconvenience.

Fourth, the surgery causes little or no post-operative pain, which means that the patient can return to a normal, active life within one or two days at most.

A major additional advantage of the procedure is that the patient can choose the number of hairs transplanted per session, in agreement with the doctor - some patients prefer long sessions involving more than 1,000 hairs being transplanted per session, while others prefer frequent, shorter sessions with fewer hairs transplanted per session ('lunch-time surgery').

Finally, the quality of the follicular units taken is guaranteed, together with optimal vascularisation and growth, given the very short operating time.

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