

This year’s annual meeting of ISHRS 2019 held in Bangkok. The conference is a great platform to learn, to share our work and to become familiar with the new advances going on in the field of hair restoration all over the world.
Dr.Seema Garg and Dr. Anil Garg both were invited faculty at this conference.
Now the main aim of hair Restoration is to give as much as we can, by Combination of all available modalities, Medical treatment, Laser, FUT, FUE, BHT, and SMP.
Dr.Seema Garg presented a paper on “Artistic use of Beard and Chest hair along with the scalp hair to improve the aesthetic result of a hair transplant”.
The paper was very well appreciated. The basic concept highlighted in the paper is – the result of hair transplant depends mainly on the number of grafts transplanted, we can only harvest a limited number of grafts from the safe zone of the scalp and if you want more you have to look on the non-scalp source, here comes the role of beard and chest. But the characteristic of these hair is different from that of the scalp and this is why we should use them along with the scalp hair in the combination to give the perfect natural look.
Dr.Seema also presented the technique of ” no touch to root implantation and simultaneous technique of hair follicle extraction and implantation to reduce graft out body time.
Dr.Seema also presented a detail case report on a patient of hair transplant.
There was a great emphasis on the advantages of FUT which now is called Linear excision surgery or strip surgery. With the advancement of FUE, most of the new Hair restoration surgeons and physicians don’t take much interest in the linear excision.
But in the advanced grade of baldness, you can achieve the best result by combining FUT, FUE, and BHT.
Dr. Seema Garg was also one of the hosts for the newcomer’s orientation session of the ISHRS.In the Newcomers orientation program, the first time attendees are educated and introduced with the Hair restoration and goals of ISHRS and ABHRS.
ISHRS launches the campaign “Fight The FIGHT” against the delegation of the surgery to unlicensed personnel and nonphysicians, FIGHT stands for Fight the Fraudulent, Illicit & Global Hair Transplants.
The triple crown of FUT, FUE, and SMP was the logo of the conference. World Live Surgery Workshop, justify the “Triple Crown” for featuring three prominent techniques in hair restoration -FUT Strip (Follicular Unit Transplantation) known as Linear excision now, FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) and SMP (Scalp Micropigmentation). Dr. Garg also attended the WLSW and get acquainted with the recent trends in SMP, Scalp micro pigmentation is a very good answer for the persons who want to give a shaved look to their head and also for females with thinning and they want to reduce scalp showing.
Every year ABHRS keeps a get together for all the diplomates from all over the world in the ISHRS conference. This year also it was a pleasure to be part of the get-together.
So it was a great meeting indeed.