Surgery – Instruments – Means for removal of skin or material therefrom
Patent
1997-06-14
1999-02-09
Lewis, William
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removal of skin or material therefrom
606187, A61B 1734
Patent
active
058687580
ABSTRACT:
A method, device and kit for preforming multiple hair transplant grafts disclosed. The device includes a plurality of cutters adapted to make a pattern of incisions in the tissue to receive the grafts. A dilator device preferably comprises interengaging plates. A first plate includes a number of downwardly extending spikes for extension through a number of downwardly extending hollow catheters of a second plate. The first and second plates are pressed together with the interengaging spikes and catheters to define dilators of a pattern corresponding to the pattern of incisions. The dilators are inserted into the incisions and the first plate is removed, leaving the hollow catheters of the second plate in the tissue. A third plate filled with hair grafts is sleeved into or aligned with the catheters of the first plate. The hair grafts are pressed downward through the third plate, through the first plate catheters, into the tissue. The kit includes the incision device and dilator device.
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Article entitled "Micrograft Dilators: In Pursuit of the Undetectable Hairline," published in J. Dermatol. Surg. Oncol. 14:3, Mar. 1988.
Pages from Robbins Instruments Inc. supply catalog, circa unknown, showing Marritt dilators.
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