WFI Avignon 2019

Message from FUE Europe and World FUE Institute speakers: 

FUE hair transplants technologies will continue to evolve and improve...

World FUE Institute :

4th annual Workshop, June 20 - 22, 2019, Avignon, France

The conference was held in the historical surroundings of the Palais des Papes in Avignon, and it ended with a day of "live" surgery on voluntary patients at Natural Hair Transplant clinic (Dr. Philippe Ginouves).

It brought together around 200 people, including 40 WFI members (South and North America, Europe, Asia), who made technical presentations on all aspects of the FUE hair transplants during the plenary sessions. In the next room, sponsors  promoted instruments and supplies (U-Graft, Mamba, Ertip, Lion, Doctus, InFery, Scharf, Zavimed), hair loss treatments (Rigenera meso transplants), hair systems (Cesare Ragazzi), services (TrichoLab digital diagnostics, Milena Lardi micro-pigmentation training, Dr. Feriduni's Patient Care application). In total, the current evolutions on FUE hair transplant techniques have been perfectly illustrated (read more after the photos).

Personally, I have particularly noticed the current innovations in motorized punches (for example, Dr. Trivellini's Mamba is equipped with a suction system for aspirating fluids and a device for extracting long hair, the U- Graft of Dr. Sanusi Umar has a lubrication system that facilitates the extraction of grafts, especially for Afro-Caribbean type hair).

I also noted that the "FUE No shave" method is developing thanks to new equipment (punches, implanters) adapted to long hair, and because "FUE no shave" can also be achieved by trimming (1 cm long) individually the hair to be transplanted (preparation phase, usually the day before the surgery).

Digital diagnosis (assessment of donor area potential, post-op mapping) makes a big leap forward with Dr. Koray Erdogan's KE.BOT, and with the Fotofinder multifunctional imaging platform (Fotofinder Trichoscale pro software, in association with TrichloLab services), which produces a wealth of information for the analysis of hair loss and donor area.

Finally, all the speakers pointed out that Finasteride remains the essential medical treatment to guarantee the success of a hair transplant and to preserve the patient's hair in the long term (hence the interest that some patients have in Finasteride in lotion or gel, which acts directly on the scalp, with lighter doses that reduce the risk of side effects).