How involved is Dr. Cotterill in the procedure?

More and more doctors that perform hair transplants are leaving a lot of the surgery up to nurses and assistants. Some doctors do not remove the donor strip or suture the donor area, do not make the recipient sites or plant the grafts themselves. I take a different approach and have become even more involved in the procedure. I feel it is crucial to the success of the transplant that the doctor remove the donor strip, suture the area, make all the recipient sites and assist in planting the grafts. The nurses and assistants, in my office, will prepare the donor strip and assist me in planting the grafts. In this way, I am intimately involved in overseeing all aspects of the surgery. I would also like to emphasize that I will only perform 1 operation at a time, and do NOT have other surgeries running at the same time. I see all my patients the following day when they return to have their hair washed, as well as seeing patients at 1 week when sutures are removed.

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