As mentioned at www.dru.com, leading
and board certified dermatologist and surgeon Dr. Sanusi Umar has invented new
tools to undertake the hair restoration surgery for his patients with African
textured hair. He is nationally recognized doctor for his innovative work in
the field of body hair transplantation (BHT) and follicle unit extraction
(FUE). American Board of Dermatology certified him for his pioneering services
in hair transplant surgery. He is widely recognized and published in this
field, and also completed fellowship training in cosmetic surgery under
American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Currently, he is a member of the
International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) and an associate
faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA).
Now he has come up with a solution for African
heritage patients who are often turned away by hair restoration surgeons due to
conventional methods that are unable to treat fragile hair follicles and
tightly curled hair of African people. Those with twisted hair are usually
pre-tested of the hair follicles and turned away by many clinics and surgeons
because failure rate of hair restoration is too high among African-mixed or
African-American patients.
It is said that African-textured hair are weak
for Follicle Unit Extraction (FUE) due to two reasons; one is hair curliness
and second is the skin texture. Dr. Umar, who is himself native of Nigeria,
firmed to improve the hair restoration surgery for African patients who suffer
from hair loss but can’t go for FUE to restore hair. The new tools invented by
him include UGraft tools, UGraft Curl, UGraft Punch and UGraft Rotor. An
amazing thing is that surgery with these tools don’t require hair pre-testing.
According to the fresh study released by the
Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery Journal Global, 18 patients participated
who experienced 100 % results and had successful Follicle Unit Extraction and
transplantation.
Dr. Umar said “Patients with tightly curled
hair are not a homogenous group. This breakthrough points the way to a
universal approach in FUE for people with tightly curled hair regardless of
their Geo-ethnic background.”
With the conventional hair restoration
technique, there is almost 80% risk of FUE transection in patients of
African-background. However, the new invention has claimed to overcome these
issues for African-textured hair with minimal transection rates. It is
pertinent to mention here that this new invention may require additional
training for hair surgeons in order to get successful results and all these
tools are only available at Dr. U’s clinic.
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