Modifications of Multi Slit Knife for enhanced versatility in balding and vertex area hair transplant

Autor: Kuldeepsinh P. Atodaria, Pradipkumar R Atodaria
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Vertex (computer graphics)
business.industry
thinning areas
lcsh:Surgery
transection rate
Dermatology
lcsh:RD1-811
Slit
Hair transplant
body regions
Easy to assemble
modified version of MSK is very useful in recipient-site slit creation in balding areas
with no/minimal damage to existing hair follicle
and vertex areas overcoming the shortfalls of MSK. It is very precise in terms of depth
direction
and angulations of recipient sites/slits. Customization is possible
with respect to recipient-site density
depth
and angulations. It is easy to calculate the total number of slits created. It saves surgeon’s time
reduction in surgeon’s time
better graft survival
Medicine
Surgery
Computer vision
Innovations
Artificial intelligence
sense organs
multiple coronal slits
business
Hair transplantation
Whorl (botany)
Zdroj: Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 247-250 (2020)
Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery
ISSN: 0974-2077
Popis: In hair transplantation, recipient-site creation is an important step. It is a repetitive and time-consuming step, which increased the “out-of-body time” for the grafts, which could hamper their survival. To solve this problem, we had devised an instrument called the Multi Slit Knife (MSK). The MSK has advantages of creating a high-density brick pattern of recipient sites in significantly less time. It had the undesirable side effect of damaging the preexisting hair follicles while making slits in the balding region. The MSK had some limitations. It was also difficult to maneuver the MSK in the vertex region where maintaining the natural whorl pattern of hair is important to obtain optimal aesthetic results. To overcome the shortcomings of the original MSK, we made a few changes to it to make a new modified MSK. It has fewer knives and a smaller platform as compared to the original MSK, better ergonomics, and more customizability with choices for blade sizes, number, and spacing. It tries to retain the advantages of the original MSK while reducing the damage to the preexisting hairs in the recipient regions. It is also better adapted at creating the recipient sites in a whorl pattern, closely mimicking the natural direction and angles of the hair in the vertex region. The modified MSK can be used singly or in combination with the original MSK, based on the patient’s recipient areas, making it a versatile set of instrument for making multiple coronal slits for hair transplant.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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