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The Gold Standard


There’s nothing like the Olympics to reinforce the importance of a split-second and a quarter-inch in achieving optimal results. Watching the games in Vancouver provided us example after example of the absolute precision necessary to be the best. For ski racer Bode Miller, 1:54:40 meant the bronze, while 1:54:31 got his Swiss competitor Didier Defago the gold. In women’s speed skating, South Korea’s gold was just 0.05 seconds faster than Canada’s silver.

We recently set a new world record at the Hair Sciences Center. In a one-hour procedure using our proprietary Powered SAFE Scribe, I was able to extract 787 grafts. By the 2.75-hour mark, we had more than 2,100 grafts to transplant. And our total transection rate was just 7.8 percent.

What’s great about this is direct relationship between the speed of the FUE (follicular unit extraction) procedure and the results this client is realizing. The less time the grafts are out of the body, the greater their potential to survive and thrive. It also means that we achieved a very complete dissection—which is to say, the grafts came out of the skin with minimal effort, and that minimizes the trauma.

Having developed the Powered SAFE Scribe, I must admit it’s very exciting—and humbling—to know that it’s now at work internationally. For whether I’m achieving optimal outcomes for my patients here in Colorado or a colleague I’ve trained is doing so in Guadalajara, we’re setting the “gold standard” in client satisfaction.

And that’s a world of difference.