Robotic hair transplantation allows rapid, accurate harvesting of follicular units from donor region with minimal scarring. Hair grows in natural 1- to 4-hair units on the scalp. Contemporary hair transplantation places natural follicular units from the donor region into thinning scalp in the frontal scalp, resulting in consistently natural appertaining transplanted hair. Elliptical donor harvest includes the cutaneous excision of hundreds to thousands of follicular that are then divided into individual follicular units by surgical assistants. Follicular unit extraction is the direct removal of natural 1- to 4-hair follicular units from the posterior scalp either manually, by device-assisted instruments or an independent robotic device.

Donor harvesting techniques have evolved along with the size of the grafts. Elliptical donor harvesting involves excising a long narrow ellipse from the midocc.ipital scalp. The ellipse is carefully dissected into individual follicular units by trained surgical assistants using magnification to minimize transection of hair follicles.3 The number of follicular units created depends on the density and size of the donor ellipse and the density and size of the recipient site to be transplanted. Elliptical donor harvesting is an efficient technique to harvest follicular units but it creates a linear scar of 10 to 20 cm in length. For the vast majority of patients, this scar historically was of no practical concern in the short or long term because their remaining hair in the posterior scalp camouflages the scar. For a minority of patients, particularly men who prefer short hairstyles, the scar could limit styling options.

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