Physician FAQ

Dr.UGraft instrumentation is designed with specific features that are built to overcome the precise issues that have long prevented the safe extraction of body hair follicles until now. One of the key challenges is the sharp exit angle of the hair relative to the skin’s surface.

Following this exact angle with a generic cylindrical punch in a straight trajectory will sever the actual follicular structure, whose exact positioning below the skin’s surface can be difficult to ascertain. Dr.UGraft™ punches (The Intelligent Punch) patented smart features that enable the punches to auto navigate the course of the grafts through their tortuous subterranean path below the skin surface.

This helps avoid typical forms of mechanical damage that would otherwise harm the grafts.

Also, the fluid irrigation system serves to lubricate the punch tips thus minimizing tissue drag and injuries that attend the typical FUE process. The fluid system also serves to keep the grafts hydrated during the extraction process and gently expel them when they become impacted in the punch lumen to avoid the use of forceps which could contribute to trauma inflicted on the grafts.

The flared ends of the Dr. UPunch i ™ (The Intelligent Punch) represents a forward evolution from the basic beveled cylindrical shape of conventional FUE hair transplant punches. This advanced structural design helps avoid damage from typical errors, by ensuring that the cutting edge points away from the graft and into the surrounding tissue instead.

During the scoring process, a curved (non-threatening) surface faces the follicular unit. This is by far a much safer scenario compared to a standard beveled cylindrical punch where the cutting direction points towards the graft as the punch rotates.

The flared punch of the Dr. UPunch i™ thus helps avoid common sources of mechanical damage that would otherwise contribute to high transection rates.

The Dr. UGraft™ instruments use absolutely no suction to pull the grafts during extraction. They are designed to strike a highly effective balance between the forces of pulling and cutting. When there is a high focus on pulling the grafts through means like suctioning, this creates a higher risk of separate the hair from the follicular structure, resulting in what amounts to plucked hairs.

Instead, the Dr. UPunch i™ (The Intelligent Punch) relies several patented novel features invented by Dr Umar that eliminate the need for suction and preserve the delicate balance of the push-pull dynamics between the punch and the skin tissue that is required to extract intact grafts in a concept Dr Umar calls Intuitive FUE that enables safe and efficient harvesting of grafts regardless of body or head location and skin characteristics.

The Dr.UGraft™ central console is an integral path of the UGraft system (The Zeus) which is an advanced technological machine that has been optimized on several levels to work efficiently with the Intelligent punch. According to Dr Umar, both the intelligent punch and the UGraft Zeus were conceived by him from the beginning. It took a while to perfect the engineering of each component of the Zeus to such that we finally have the consummate FUE system capable of performing successfully in all FUE scenarios. The one (The Intelligent Punch) needs the other (The Dr.UGraft Console) for optimal function.