Sabine-Prohairclinic
FUE hair transplantation - SMP
Bart posted this information on another hairloss forum. I found it an interesting topic and fine tuned his post a bit.
An interesting question was asked by a user on another web forum. He had noticed that we can use up to 8 assistants during FUE megassion, whereas most FUE docs only have 1 or 2 assistants.
Regardless strip or FUE, when it comes to megassesions there are literally thousands of actions that need to be performed : harvesting, counting, possibly splitting and preparing grafts under a microscope, implanting. As most of you know all these actions are performed manually.
In order to execute a safe large FUE session within a reasonable time frame for the patient and minimizing out of the body time of the grafts a lot of hands are needed.
In our institute we have basically a morning team and an afternoon team.
The morning team consists out of the dr. and 3 or 4 assistants.
The assistants first job is to prepare the treatment room. Checking if all tools and other required materials are present. In our clinic the cleaning/sterilization process of the instruments is entirely in hands of our drs, no compromises are made . Preparing the patient for the treatment and shaving the donor/recipient area is one of the assistants tasks.
Our drs (dr. De Reys) performs all the scoring of the follicle units during large sessions. Obviously he also takes care of the numbing of the donor area before commencing the extractions.
During the extractions one of his assistants helps collecting the grafts from the skin.
In some cases a second assistant will help to stabilize the patients donor skin. This is a crucial task because some patients skin will 'float' and the skin needs to be fixated in order to avoid 'normal' transections.
A third and sometimes fourth assistant will be in charge of counting/sorting the grafts. Furthermore they will prepare single hair grafts under the microscope if this is required.
Afternoon team
The drs is responsible for the patient and as such he stays present throughout the procedure.
The afternoon team comes in around lunch time. After the extractions have finished they prepare the treatment room for implantation work. These assistants are all dedicated implanter. We plant using 2 or sometimes 3 technicians simultaneously. One assistant is devoted with our moisturizing protocol (crucial when doing FUE). All of these assistants are implanter and they can take over from one another when someone gets tired, or worse gets sick. A backup implanter is not a luxury in a world where the law of Murphy is lurking.
Please understand that some of these large sessions take up to 12 hours to complete. Fatigue is not acceptable, nor is fading concentration due to working with micro surgical precision.
Each graft is worth gold and should deserves to be handled with utmost respect. Therefore we go to extreme lengths in order to provide best possible conditions.
An interesting question was asked by a user on another web forum. He had noticed that we can use up to 8 assistants during FUE megassion, whereas most FUE docs only have 1 or 2 assistants.
Regardless strip or FUE, when it comes to megassesions there are literally thousands of actions that need to be performed : harvesting, counting, possibly splitting and preparing grafts under a microscope, implanting. As most of you know all these actions are performed manually.
In order to execute a safe large FUE session within a reasonable time frame for the patient and minimizing out of the body time of the grafts a lot of hands are needed.
In our institute we have basically a morning team and an afternoon team.
The morning team consists out of the dr. and 3 or 4 assistants.
The assistants first job is to prepare the treatment room. Checking if all tools and other required materials are present. In our clinic the cleaning/sterilization process of the instruments is entirely in hands of our drs, no compromises are made . Preparing the patient for the treatment and shaving the donor/recipient area is one of the assistants tasks.
Our drs (dr. De Reys) performs all the scoring of the follicle units during large sessions. Obviously he also takes care of the numbing of the donor area before commencing the extractions.
During the extractions one of his assistants helps collecting the grafts from the skin.
In some cases a second assistant will help to stabilize the patients donor skin. This is a crucial task because some patients skin will 'float' and the skin needs to be fixated in order to avoid 'normal' transections.
A third and sometimes fourth assistant will be in charge of counting/sorting the grafts. Furthermore they will prepare single hair grafts under the microscope if this is required.
Afternoon team
The drs is responsible for the patient and as such he stays present throughout the procedure.
The afternoon team comes in around lunch time. After the extractions have finished they prepare the treatment room for implantation work. These assistants are all dedicated implanter. We plant using 2 or sometimes 3 technicians simultaneously. One assistant is devoted with our moisturizing protocol (crucial when doing FUE). All of these assistants are implanter and they can take over from one another when someone gets tired, or worse gets sick. A backup implanter is not a luxury in a world where the law of Murphy is lurking.
Please understand that some of these large sessions take up to 12 hours to complete. Fatigue is not acceptable, nor is fading concentration due to working with micro surgical precision.
Each graft is worth gold and should deserves to be handled with utmost respect. Therefore we go to extreme lengths in order to provide best possible conditions.