Innovation in the treatment of alopecia

The Artas™ robot makes it possible to perform hair transplantation on patients with alopecia in an automated and precise way. The Institute of Aesthetic Surgery already has this innovative system.
The second generation, of this robot, improves extraction, optimizes the results of grafted hair growth and offers a comfortable experience for the patient.

89% of Spanish men and 16% of Spanish women are predisposed to develop androgenetic alopecia. This type of pathology arises when the follicle that houses each hair shrinks over time, resulting in shorter and thinner hair until finally no new hair is produced.

Recently, a state-of-the-art robotic system has been created, totally pioneering and innovative, the Artas™ robot. This new method makes it possible to treat alopecia quickly and precisely, reducing surgery and recovery time, eliminating the unnecessary invasive interventions that were performed with the old methods and minimizing scar sequelae. The robot-controlled system does not replace the surgeon, but it does optimize precision during the process.

New developments in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia

Around 300,000 hair transplants are performed worldwide every year, of which some 5,000 are performed in Spain. The most common indication for this treatment is androgenetic or hereditary alopecia.

Hair transplantation is the only safe solution to recover hair. Until now, the manual technique was the only way of transplantation, a much slower method than the robotic Artas™ and with inferior results. The efficacy of this treatment is thanks to a “smart” and minimally invasive procedure composed of imaging and precision robotics.

Artas™ is the result of research by American engineers who came from the design of robots for serial vehicle manufacturing lines. Its advances allow the preview of the final result, faster extractions of follicular units in the area to be applied, the exclusive selection of bulbs with two or more follicles and the making of precise incisions in the alopecic area. This “anti-balding” robot already represents the automation of hair transplants.

The choice of a good expert, together with robotic technology, offers a better experience for the patient and reliable results, with an estimated 92% survival rate of the transplanted follicular units, compared to 70 to 80% for the manual technique.

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The advantages of hair transplantation with Artas™.

Hair implantation with Artas™ is based on transplanting excess follicular units from areas where there is no tendency to fall out, such as the nape of the neck or the temples, to areas lacking hair. It is an outpatient procedure, performed under local anesthesia and lasts four to eight hours.

The Artas™ System scans and digitizes a donor area of the scalp to identify and determine the density of follicular units. At the discretion of the doctor in charge, the surplus is selectively extracted. The needle system maneuvers to carve small fragments containing a follicular unit. With a gentle aspiration the dissected graft is lifted, so that the surgeon can remove it.

Thus, the most modern hair implantation technique is used, the FUE method (Follicular Unit Extraction), assisted by the Artas™ robotic system. The main advantage of this technique lies in extracting the follicular units from the donor area in a single session, with more precision, with minimal aggression, i.e. without stitches; and therefore without relevant scar sequelae.

In addition, the Artas™ System allows the extraction of a greater number of follicular units per hour and in more optimal conditions to be grafted. An expert surgeon can extract around 250 follicular units per hour, whereas the robot is capable of obtaining 1,000 in the same time. Thus, in a single session up to 4000 follicular units (10,000 hairs) can be transplanted. Its intelligent robotic process using 3D imaging allows for micron precision, reduced treatment time from 12 to 6 hours, faster recovery and more natural results without scarring in the donor area.

With the Artas™ robot, the time spent in extraction is reduced, which is vital for the hair follicles to be in the best biological disposition to successfully conclude the subsequent grafting. With Artas™ 92% of the follicles are fixed forever, naturally and undetectably.

Finally, the Artas™ procedure involves less postoperative discomfort and a faster recovery. While with the other method the discomfort in the treated area was perpetuated for 6 to 9 months, now 3 to 4 days.