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The second edition of Hair Transplant 360: for Assistants, Volume 2, featuring an extensive study of graft preparation and placement, is thoroughly revised and expanded, as it has never been discussed anywhere before. The book also discusses a new technique for the extraction of follicular unit grafts and further elaborates on bioenhancement methodologies. Videos have also been thoroughly revised and expanded.
Salient features:

• The basics of hair anatomy and hair growth cycles necessary for assisting in hair restoration

• Male and female pattern baldness, nonsurgical hair loss solutions, and the evolution of hair restoration

• Surgery overview and surgical assistant’s duties

• Graft preparation (magnification and lighting, donor-harvesting techniques, graft survival, and tissue preservation, managing difficult situations during graft preparation, quality control)

• Silvering (technique, instruments used, silvering strategy, tissue preservation)

• Graft dissection (technique, instruments used, dissecting strategy, graft preservation)

• Graft extraction (technique, instruments used, dissecting strategy, graft preservation)

• Graft placement (technique, choosing the forceps, placing principles and strategies, proper graft handling and preservation, quality control, managing difficult-placement situations)

• Postoperative care, short-and long-term patient follow up

• Assistant training: Phase I and II (new inanimate models)

• Creating standardized hair-transplant photography

• Stress management.