JoeTillman
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Westcoaster wrote:
I'm glad you asked this question. To recap, Topcat said...
No, the image I posted is not the donor zone created by the robot. The image I posted was the donor zone created by one of Topcat's heroes in 2012, someone that has been performing FUE for over twenty years and is someone that he references as having that special skill that only comes from patience and using his hands, like a true artisan Jedi craftsman would. It is a doctor that Topcat said he would like to be like if he were ever a hair transplant doctor. The "crazy extraction pattern" as you referenced is made up of large excisions sites that are overlapping. The excision sites are already at least 1mm to 1.2mm in diameter and many of them are joined together thereby increasing the size of the wound by a factor of two, three and even four times. It could almost be called a "confluence" of donor wounds. The size of the extractions sites are no better than the size of earlier robotic extraction sites when the punch used was 1.7mm in diameter.
The robot today is doing much better than the early days and I daresay much better than what we see in the above image.
To be fair, these images are 1 day post-op so the extraction sites do close up a bit during this time but it is vastly better from what was seen in the first image I posted. The point of this is twofold.
1. To show yet again that Topcat is wrong with his information and he has questionable (at best) recommendations. His information is, in his mind, indisputably the best and anyone that disagrees is a scumbag or is corrupt and only trying to make a buck. There is actually a long list of insults he's made but I don't have time to look them up.
2. The robot is improving and at this point it cannot be stated that massive damage is being done to the donor due to giant punches that no manual FUE surgeon would use.
And to be clear, I'm not advocating or promoting the robot but I felt it was necesary to show the differences between a supposed FUE Jedi master and the robot that Topcat endlessly disparages.
Hi Westcoaster,JoeTillman wrote:If you think the robot is so bad then tell me what is wrong with this donor zone.Plenty of marketers out there promoting robotics for example when many in the industry that have actually been performing the procedure for years will tell you that it simply cannot compare to fue by hand. Many of those early robotic patients were having extractions where the surface area of the extraction site was easily 2-3 times the size of the extraction sites compared to those that had mastered the small hand punch.
What a crazy looking extraction pattern. Was this Artas?
I'm glad you asked this question. To recap, Topcat said...
Plenty of marketers out there promoting robotics for example when many in the industry that have actually been performing the procedure for years will tell you that it simply cannot compare to fue by hand. Many of those early robotic patients were having extractions where the surface area of the extraction site was easily 2-3 times the size of the extraction sites compared to those that had mastered the small hand punch.
No, the image I posted is not the donor zone created by the robot. The image I posted was the donor zone created by one of Topcat's heroes in 2012, someone that has been performing FUE for over twenty years and is someone that he references as having that special skill that only comes from patience and using his hands, like a true artisan Jedi craftsman would. It is a doctor that Topcat said he would like to be like if he were ever a hair transplant doctor. The "crazy extraction pattern" as you referenced is made up of large excisions sites that are overlapping. The excision sites are already at least 1mm to 1.2mm in diameter and many of them are joined together thereby increasing the size of the wound by a factor of two, three and even four times. It could almost be called a "confluence" of donor wounds. The size of the extractions sites are no better than the size of earlier robotic extraction sites when the punch used was 1.7mm in diameter.
The robot today is doing much better than the early days and I daresay much better than what we see in the above image.
To be fair, these images are 1 day post-op so the extraction sites do close up a bit during this time but it is vastly better from what was seen in the first image I posted. The point of this is twofold.
1. To show yet again that Topcat is wrong with his information and he has questionable (at best) recommendations. His information is, in his mind, indisputably the best and anyone that disagrees is a scumbag or is corrupt and only trying to make a buck. There is actually a long list of insults he's made but I don't have time to look them up.
2. The robot is improving and at this point it cannot be stated that massive damage is being done to the donor due to giant punches that no manual FUE surgeon would use.
And to be clear, I'm not advocating or promoting the robot but I felt it was necesary to show the differences between a supposed FUE Jedi master and the robot that Topcat endlessly disparages.
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