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FUE hair transplantation - SMP
Limiting discomfort during FUE procedure
Although FUE is more like a treatment instead of true surgery, there still are some factors that can cause discomfort to the patient.
In particular we are aware of 2 issues that come up most :
1. Discomfort during local anesthetics
2. Longer periods of uncomfortable positioning during extractions
Here are some solutions we have incorporated in order to manage these discomforts:
Local anesthetics:
Ice is used to cool the skin nerves before the actual local anesthetic is administered. Ice is known to slow down pain signals and helps to reduce the overall discomfort
Pre-administration of local anesthetics using non needle applicator. This device shoots some local anesthetics through the skin under high pressure, no needle is necessary. The lighting fast injection is so short that the pain is gone before we realize it.
Vibration applicator to distract nerve signals: hundreds of vibrations in a small area of the skin tends to confuse the brain, filtering out some of the pain sensations.
In all, when combined we find that most patients report us a 1-4 discomfort level on a scale of 10 (10 being most painful).
Shortening treatment time:
FUE is time consuming as it requires manual handwork for every graft. After extensive research and trials we no longer strive to use mechanical aids during the extraction period as we find that it yields in lower extraction quality.
Our solution to speed up extraction is to use left-right dual extraction. These extremely trained extraction specialist are capable of delivering particularly high quality grafts using manual procedure. We believe that our team is probably the first team worldwide to adapt this new extraction protocol successfully on a daily basis. It also helps to decrease the stress levels of the persons performing the extractions by spreading the work load.
The goal of our protocol is to cut patient in chair time . Obviously it is a process that needs to be learned over time, which we have since early 2010. Our new protocol enables us to harvest manually at speeds of over +700 grafts per hour without decreasing extraction qualtity, making FUE mega sessions more comfortable (and affordable) for our patients and still achieve very high quality levels.
Although FUE is more like a treatment instead of true surgery, there still are some factors that can cause discomfort to the patient.
In particular we are aware of 2 issues that come up most :
1. Discomfort during local anesthetics
2. Longer periods of uncomfortable positioning during extractions
Here are some solutions we have incorporated in order to manage these discomforts:
Local anesthetics:
Ice is used to cool the skin nerves before the actual local anesthetic is administered. Ice is known to slow down pain signals and helps to reduce the overall discomfort
Pre-administration of local anesthetics using non needle applicator. This device shoots some local anesthetics through the skin under high pressure, no needle is necessary. The lighting fast injection is so short that the pain is gone before we realize it.
Vibration applicator to distract nerve signals: hundreds of vibrations in a small area of the skin tends to confuse the brain, filtering out some of the pain sensations.
In all, when combined we find that most patients report us a 1-4 discomfort level on a scale of 10 (10 being most painful).
Shortening treatment time:
FUE is time consuming as it requires manual handwork for every graft. After extensive research and trials we no longer strive to use mechanical aids during the extraction period as we find that it yields in lower extraction quality.
Our solution to speed up extraction is to use left-right dual extraction. These extremely trained extraction specialist are capable of delivering particularly high quality grafts using manual procedure. We believe that our team is probably the first team worldwide to adapt this new extraction protocol successfully on a daily basis. It also helps to decrease the stress levels of the persons performing the extractions by spreading the work load.
The goal of our protocol is to cut patient in chair time . Obviously it is a process that needs to be learned over time, which we have since early 2010. Our new protocol enables us to harvest manually at speeds of over +700 grafts per hour without decreasing extraction qualtity, making FUE mega sessions more comfortable (and affordable) for our patients and still achieve very high quality levels.
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