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Hair restoration surgeons, Doctors Hasson & Wong, pioneered the lateral slit technique, recognized as the single most important surgical breakthrough in hair transplant surgery since the follicular unit. Lateral slit technique provides natural results, mimicking nature, and minimizing scarring. This revolutionary surgical method for recipient site creation is now used by leading hair transplant clinics around the world.

Natural Hair Transplant Results

The lateral slit technique is the only surgical method that is able to duplicate the alignment and distribution of hair as it occurs in nature, maximizing coverage, and eliminating the pluggy results of older hair transplantation methods. The angle and direction of hair growth can be precisely controlled, allowing transplantation of areas previously regarded as too difficult or unsuitable for hair transplant surgery, i.e. the temple and sideburn zones. In the donor area, follicular units appear to be lined up alongside one another in a plane perpendicular to the direction of hair growth. Lateral slit technique mimics nature's arrangement of hair follicles providing the patient with the most natural possible results. In other methods of creating the recipient site, incisions are made sagitally, parallel to the direction of hair growth. In such methods, maximum possible density in a given area cannot be achieved, hairs grow randomly and often atop one another, producing redundant coverage and unnatural results.

Praise from Peers in the Hair Restoration Field

Dr. Victor Hasson, hair restoration surgeon, was the guest lecturer at the annual Live Hair Transplantation Surgery Workshop held in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 2003. This workshop was geared towards the experienced surgeon wishing to learn new cutting edge techniques. Dr. Hasson was asked to demonstrate The Hasson & Wong Lateral Slit Technique at this conference because of its overwhelming success.

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Live Surgery Workshop, 2003