Hair Transplant Procedure: DHI: Implanter® vs. Forceps

As part of our continuing research and development in hair restoration procedure, DHI International has been studying the results of using the DHI: Implanter® versus the use of surgical forceps for placement of the extracted hair follicles. Performing hair transplants is a very precise procedure and we will forever strive to develop the extraction and implantation tools necessary to ensure a painless and 100% guaranteed hair loss treatment.

Placement of the hair follicle is incredibly important for a successful natural looking hair restoration. When your hair loss became evident, you probably noticed a ‘pattern’ to which your hair was growing. The direction and angle that your hair grows comprises this ‘pattern’. By using the DHI: Implanter®, our patented medical tool that allows the control of the precise depth, the proper angle from 10 degrees to 45 degrees and allows a differing direction of each hair follicle implanted, your doctor will can reproduce your natural hair pattern with the follicular implants. Thus ensuring the safe transfer of hair follicles from the donor site to the implantation site with minimal disturbance by medical tools. Using forceps does not allow such accuracy with your hair implants.

Placement into the recipient area is a gentle process where your doctor merely releases the follicle into an opening the size of a pinhead. By comparison, use of the surgical forceps puts your hair follicles in contact with stainless steel medical instruments and the doctor must push the follicle into an opening or hole with the forceps and this creates trauma and damages the follicles very easily.

As the main reason behind undergoing a hair transplant is to stop the balding process, it makes medical sense to use the safest technique available. At DHI, our extraction and implantation technique does not damage nor cause the loss of more hair follicles than you have already lost!