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ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplant Surgery Draws 70,000 Viewers For LIVE Broadcast

To date, last Friday’s broadcast is the most viewed live streamed cosmetic surgery procedure in the history of internet broadcasting. We’re glad that so many of our loyal TBT listeners, viewers and readers were able to drop by.

View entire two hour broadcast here:
Artas Robotc Hair Transplant – View Archived Broadcast of Live Surgery Event

Spencer Kobren’s The Bald Truth is internationally syndicated through the GFQ Network

Robot Assisted Hair Transplant Streamed Live On The Bald Truth

Tune in to watch IAHRS Accepted Member Dr. James Harris and his team perform the worlds first live streamed robotic hair transplant tomorrow, Friday, October 28th, 12 noon EST, 9am PST.

This interactive broadcast will be co-hosted by Spencer Kobren and GFQ Broadcasting Network’s, Andrew Zarian and can be viewed worldwide on www.thebaldtruth.com and through the GFQ network.

The broadcast can also be viewed and listened to on most smart phone devices and tablets through recourses including Itunes radio, Stickam,.com, Ustream.com or by going to www.GFQlive.tv.

Call our studio line 1-888-659-3727 to speak with Dr. Harris, his patient and his staff during the procedure or join us in the chat room to interact with other hair loss sufferers and industry experts watching the broadcast.

This is a show you wont want to miss. Hope to see you there!

Jason Gardiner Helps To Educate Thousands During Live Streaming Hair Transplant Procedure

In the UK and Australia, Jason Gardiner is best known to audiences for his role as a judge on the hit TV show Dancing on Ice (Granada/ITV), but to TBT fans here in the U.S. and abroad, Jason has become the poster boy for successful, state of the art surgical hair restoration. Jason has put himself out there to help others struggling with hair loss in hopes to both educate and empower hair loss sufferers by proudly letting the world know that it’s ok to mourn the loss of your hair and to do something about it.

See Part 1 of Spencer Kobren’s exclusive live intraoperative interview with Jason and his surgeon, IAHRS accepted member Dr. Craig Ziering.

Part 2
Andrew Zarian, Founder of the GFQ Network joins Spencer Kobren for the live streaming event.

Spencer Kobren Speaks With Dr. James Harris About The Development of The ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplant System

IAHRS accepted hair transplant surgeon, Dr. James Harris is known worldwide for his role in the development of innovative technology that has helped to advance FUE surgical hair restoration to where it is today. Dr. Harris’ S.A.F.E. System is described as a three step process that utilizes both sharp and blunt instrumentation in order to rapidly and safely extract intact follicular units during the FUE process.

During the development of the ARTAS system, Restoration Robotics turned to Dr. Harris and his breakthrough FUE technology to further improve their already cutting edge follicular unit extracting system. According to those who have used the ARTAS system in practice, the result of merging these technologies is an incredibly efficient robotic tool, that so far has proven to significantly lower graft transection rates while improving the overall consistency of FUE hair transplant surgery.

>>Listen to Spencer Kobren’s Interview With Dr. James Harris

Robotic Assisted Hair Transplants – Will Restoration Robotics’ ARTAS System Revolutionize Surgical Hair Restoration?

Inventing devices to automate surgical hair restoration is nothing new. Both hair transplant physicians and patients alike recognize the tremendous potential in developing machinery that can make the hair transplant process more efficient, and more patient friendly.

In a perfect world, the ability to automate hair transplantation would not only create more consistent and possibly superior surgical outcomes for patients, but it would also lower the cost to a more universally
palatable price point.

Not too long after Spencer Kobren introduced the work of Australian hair transplant pioneer, Dr. Ray Woods, to the North American hair transplant community, the race was on to evolve and to improve upon a surgical technique which would prove to revolutionize the field of hair restoration surgery, Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).

For many in the field, changing the infrastructure of their practices and taking the time to learn this labor intensive technique, was not practical. However, as FUE evolved, more physicians were willing to slowly incorporate the technique, offering patients broader options in their quest to restore their hair. [Read more]

Dr. Gary Hitzig Responds To Dr. John Cole’s Recent Analysis of The Use of ACell MatriStem In Surgical Hair Restoration

Surgical hair restoration expert, Dr. John Cole, recently published a post on BaldTruthTalk.Com titled “ACell, a Current Review of Applications in Hair Transplant Surgery.” In his final summary, Dr. Cole writes:

1. There is evidence that ACell improves FUE healing and full thickness 4 mm punch graft healing in terms of skin color.

2. There is evidence that ACell can regenerate hair in FUE extraction sites, but more work is necessary to insure this is not an isolated anecdotal occurrence.

3. There is no evidence that ACell improves the growth of plucked hair.

4. There is no evidence that ACell makes the growth of transplanted hair more “Robust”.

5. There is no evidence that ACell improves strip scar appearance.

6. There is qualitative evidence that ACell improves the feel of a strip scar in some instances, but it is difficult to understand how Dr. Cooley arrived at this conclusion .

7. There is no evidence that ACell induces transected hairs to regrow, but it might.

8. There is no evidence that plucked hairs regrow in the donor area, but they might.

9. There is evidence that plucked hairs will grow finer and result is poorer coverage than transplanted hair.

10. There is no evidence to conclude that “autocloning” occurs.

This review has evoked several questions, concerns and criticisms about the use of ACell MatriStem in surgical hair restoration.

This week Spencer Kobren spoke with with Gary Hitzig, M.D. about his impressions concerning the recent questions and criticism expressed by CIT/FUE pioneer, Dr. John Cole.

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Hair Transplant Success And The Anxiety That Follows

Many hair transplant veterans believe that undergoing surgical hair restoration is one of the best decisions that they’ve ever made. These patients explain that the restored confidence that comes with their new and improved hairlines makes them feel as though they have a second chance in life, and that the costs involved are worth every penny. However, for some, this new found confidence also comes with the new found anxiety of eventually losing more hair and needing more surgeries to make them feel whole again.

Spencer Kobren speaks with one very happy hair transplant patient who is experiencing these all to common concerns.

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Spencer Kobren’s The Bald Truth Draws More than 14,000 Viewers For Live Streaming Hair Transplant Surgery

On October 5, 2010 more than 14,000 people joined our live video broadcast to view fitness icon Monica Brant undergo the world’s first live streamed female hair transplant. Monica Brant chose Austin hair transplant surgeon and IAHRS accepted member Dr. Dan McGrath, to perform the surgery and they were both fielding questions from callers during the procedure.

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Dr. Richard Ochs – Has He Violated a Patient’s Privacy?

Is This Hair Transplant Surgeon in Violation of Federal-Medical Privacy Laws? HIPAA Violations and Enforcement Can Be a Slippery Slope.

The preservation of patient privacy no matter what the circumstances, is a concept based on ethics and goes back to the Roman Hippocratic Oath. The Oath of Hippocrates, traditionally sworn to by newly licensed physicians, includes the promise that

“Whatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.”

It has recently come to our attention that on August 9, 2010, a user going by “Drochs” posted a scathing and vicious complaint about a person, who actually turns out to be a patient of this poster. In the posted complaint about this patient, he reveals personal details about the individual, including his full name and place of employment.

This news comes on the heals of recently discovering that Dr. Richard Ochs has been posting anonymous defamatory remarks about his local hair transplant competitor. To learn more about this visit:

Dr. Richard Ochs – Hair Transplant Consumer Alert

Here is the complaint that was posted by “Drochs”

DANOUSH TEHRANI CYBER TERRORIST BULLY UNIVERSAL WATCHES
Danoush Tehrani Complaint by Drochs

danoush tehrani of LAWATCHES and UNIVERSAL WATCHES is in the greater los angeles area. after a consumer dispute, Danoush attempted to extort a refund from me. He threatened to destroy my reputation if I didn’t comply with his demand for payment. I was unable to meet his demand and he visited various 5 blogs, consumer complaint web sites and review web sites. he totally ruined my reputation that has taken 15 years to build. this has cut my income in half and I have lost many business opportunities. my family has suffered as well as my employees. this behavior needs to be banned by law and google has to stop supporting this behavior. he works at LAWATCHES and UNIVERSAL WATCHES as a staff accountant. If he gets mad at them he will terrorize their reputation. avoid this individual at all costs

Link to Report

The user “Drochs” has one other report under that name, and it is actually a positive review for himself ?

It is likely that this complaint was issued by “Drochs” in response to the report which this patient posted on February 3, 2010 [Read more]

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