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Dr Ray Woods M.B.,B.S.,Dip.Obst
Dr. Ray Woods graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1982. He had wide experience in many areas of medicine including Neurosurgery, Obstetrics, and Internal Medicine, trauma, skin cancer surgery and cosmetic Dermatological surgery. However, he maintained a fascination with the concept of Hair Transplantation since he was 17 years old, and in 1989 decided to investigate the process.
Dr. Woods had envisaged the discipline to be a process of microsurgical follicular extraction, but found that worldwide best practice was extremely different and far removed from his vision. After witnessing close friends suffer the physical and psychological trauma of disfiguring hair transplant surgery, he began research and experimentation to create a new minimally invasive microsurgical follicular single unit extraction process, which did not exist anywhere in the world. As his work progressed, many thought his concept was impossible and impractical. Along with creating this new discipline, it was paramount to Dr. Woods to set new standards in ethics and accountability. Every aspect of this discipline was explored, developed and perfected, including intricate and complicated scar repair previously thought to be untreatable.
In 1995 the procedure was already achieving nationwide recognition in Australia, and in 1996 he presented to the Australian Association of Trichologists annual meeting. The procedure became known as "The Woods Technique" and was shown on an Australian national television medical program in April 1997. Many international publications and websites reported on the extraordinary breakthroughs. A second national television documentary was shown in March 2000 and demonstrated the cure of a cancer victims radiation scar to the scalp.
Further "world's first" breakthroughs came in 1999 when Dr. Woods began transplanting body hair onto the scalp of balding men and those with severe scarring. The procedure was a great success but it was not until August 2002 that Dr. Woods realized that body hair transplanted to the head assumes the characteristics of normal scalp hair and grows to normal scalp lengths. This is one of the most innovative discoveries in dermatology, as well as hair transplant surgery.
In April 2002, Dr Ray Woods and Dr Woods Campbell held a seminar in Los Angeles, attended by some of the leading hair transplant authorities and doctors in the USA. Further seminars in October 2002, March 2003 and December 2003 were held in LA and New York. Their work has been showcased on numerous occasions on US television, as well as radio, journals, websites and newspapers around the world.
Dr. Ray Woods created an irreversible world wide trend toward minimally invasive microsurgical hair transplant surgery, and is recognized internationally as the innovator and world's most experienced and leading expert in the field of Follicular Single Unit Extraction hair transplantation and related scar repair and body hair to scalp transplants.
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