Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

FAQ: No visible linear scar with SmartGraft Hair Restoration

13 Apr 2020 · 1 min

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A short FAQ-style YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD (uploaded April 13, 2020) describing a SmartGraft hair-restoration technique that avoids the traditional linear donor scar by using 1 millimeter punches. The speaker contrasts the older strip method (which left a visible linear scar across the back of the head) with the newer punch-based approach that contracts as it heals, leaving no visible linear scar—typically showing no evidence after about two weeks and sometimes as little as one week for people with faster hair growth. The technique is presented as stylist-friendly because there is no scar to hide.

Questions this video answers

1 millimeter

About two weeks (sometimes as little as one week)

Chapters

So how is this different from old techniques? Yeah, you know, the traditional technique used to leave a scar across the back of the head, and that's how I was taught. I never really liked the appearance of that scar, and clients obviously didn't like. It's hard for you as a stylist to hide it. Right. It's terrible. So this knee technique leaves no linear scar. So it just takes one millimeter punches out of the areas, and as they heal, one millimeter contracts down. You can't even see it as a scar. So there's no linear scar. There's really no evidence after two weeks that was ever done, provided it's a 1 millimeter punch. And so as your clients heal up, within, you know, two weeks, nobody's going to see anything, you know, as little as a week for you because your hair grows so fast.