What is the Implanter?
An implanter is a surgical instrument for hair implantation. Invented in the 90’s by a Korean doctor named Yung Chul Choi, they are small pens where we have two sizes: 0.8mm for one or two hairs and 1mm for three or more hairs.
What is the procedure like?
The hair transplant can be done in two techniques the extraction, as we know we have the FUE technique and the technique of the strip or FUSS. Either of the two can be used for an implant, where we see that we have two follicular units that enter the needle and the follicular units are protected, which we can regulate with these needles we can regulate the angle of hair growth, the depth of the implant, the distance between the implanted hairs and the density, which we can do almost the same as the natural, we can implant up to 80 follicular units per square centimeter.
What are the advantages over other techniques?
Minimal incisions are made, with 0.8 or 1mm, and this is completely natural. It is the same as when we take out the blood, the follicular units are closed, remaining in a natural way. Then we can regulate the depth of penetration of the hair. We can make a maximum density, and we can join the follicular units closer to each other to make it as natural as possible. We can regulate the depth of the hair, according to each patient’s hair is set to its exact depth. We can regulate the angle and make a totally natural angle, so that the hair can remain in its normal angulation. The density, we can make a higher density and with a higher growth rate. When we graft the follicular units inside these needles, it is protected with the needle, and that is why when we graft in the bald skin, it slides inside and with this we can reach a higher growth rate. We can reach up to 100% of the transplanted hairs. We can get to have a totally natural result and with these instruments hair transplantation has changed. The other previous technique, the clamp technique, in which we make the previous incision, we take a clamp, we open it and we graft one by one. But we have disadvantages. What are they? First, a larger incision is made that fits at least three to four grafts; second, higher percentage of fibrosis; third, it has a less natural appearance where we can observe the follicular outflow with a larger diameter, which we can see in this photo.