Hair transplantation has been around for a while, this new method is just a potentially 'better' way of doing it.
Bobby Amoroso owns a hair salon. When he noticed his own hairline receding, he got nervous. "I'd look up in the mirror, and that's all I'd see. I'd focus right on my hairline."
At just 34-years-old, Amoroso wasn't ready to lose his hair. "I knew I had to do something fast."
While researching his options, he found Doctor Alan Bauman and a solution for the hair he'd already lost.
Dr. Bauman is a board-certified hair restoration physician of Bauman Medical Group in Boca Raton, FL. "The only way to restore that hair is through transplantation."
Follicular unit extraction, or FUE, is the least invasive transplant option available. It harvests hair follicles from the back of the scalp and re-implants them up front. It works well, but it's a long, difficult process.
Dr. Bauman explained the procedure further to ABC12 reporters. "We'd have to do multiple days. Either back to back or weeks apart, to get the number of grafts to get coverage."
Dr. Bauman now uses a new device, called the neograft, to make FUE easier. "What the neograft does ... it really accelerates the harvesting of the graft."
The device uses slight rotation to loosen follicles, then acts as a punch with suction to quickly remove them. "You can literally make dozens, if not hundreds, of extraction sites and then pluck all the follicles in one fell swoop," explained Dr. Bauman.
In traditional FUE, it may take six hours to harvest 800 follicles. The neograft can get up to 1,600 follicles in one day. Amoroso saw results four months after his procedure. His hairline and his confidence are now restored.
Dr. Bauman says fewer than ten physicians across the country are using the neograft, one of them is in Southfield.
It costs from $10,000 to 20,000. But once the hair is transplanted, it's there for good.
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