1. Advances and Challenges in Hair Restoration of Curly Afrocentric Hair
Nicole E. Rogers, MD, Valerie D. Callender, MD 
Dermatologic Clinics 
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages (April 2014)
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2. Fig. 1
Two sisters with early and late forms of scarring hair loss in the vertex area, shown on biopsy to be CCCA.
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3. Fig. 2
Dermatoscopic exam: before (A) and after (B) medical therapy for CCCA.
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4. Fig. 3
Female patient with CCCA, immediately after placement of 10 test punch grafts.
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5. Fig. 4
Female patient with TA, after placement of 25 test follicular units of 1 to 4 hairs.
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6. Fig. 5
Anesthetic drawn up and properly labeled in advance for hair transplantation.
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7. Fig. 6 Curly Afrocentric hair on a tongue blade from side view.
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8. Fig. 7
The flexible DermaBlade® can be used to separate curly hair follicles.
(Courtesy of Energizer Personal Care-Personna Medical, Verona, VA; with permission.)
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9. Fig. 8
Young African man with inherited hair loss (androgenetic alopecia).
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10. Fig. 9
(A) A 47-year-old African woman with CCCA before hair transplant surgery. (B) The same patient after undergoing hair transplantation with a total of 1124 follicular unit grafts of 1 to 4 hairs. This larger session was only performed after a test transplant showed successful growth.
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11. Fig. 10
Instruments used for recipient site creation. From left to right: 16-gauge needle (1.6 mm wide), spear-point blade 90 (1.5 mm wide), Minde knife (1.3 mm wide), 18-gauge needle (1.44 mm wide).
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12. Fig. 11
Demonstration of the ARTAS robotic harvesting of hairs using automated technologies for rapid FUE.
(Courtesy of R. Shapiro, MD and Restoration Robotics, Inc., San Jose, CA; with permission.)
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