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Experiments performed by the hair transplant surgeon Dr Seager in 1996 gave significant credence to the surgical technique of unit follicular hair transplant. Since these experiments had demonstrated that the survival rate of intact follicular unit was better than the single hair micro-grafts, the use of micro-grafts for hair transplant surgery was more or less dropped.

Although the results of surgical hair restoration with the use of follicular unit transplants were sound and aesthetically pleasing, this form of hair transplant surgery suffered from drawback of requiring a long time period (6-8 hr) to complete a transplant session. It involved teams of highly skilled assistants for the hair transplant procedure of separating the follicular units. As the procedure required long time and much skill the procedure was proving to be very costly to the patient. The surgical damage caused to the follicle when two follicular units extremely close together were dissected apart, also started to affect the results of Hair Restoration Surgery.

A reduced success in follicular unit transplantation was more frequent in hair restoration surgeries that were being performed by hair transplant surgeons undertaking follicular unit transplant surgery only infrequently. The fact was of much concern to the professional hair transplant surgeon. The primary reason for a reduced success rate was that the assistants of the hair transplantation surgeon lacked the expertise and experience in correctly isolating single follicular units and dissecting them at a fast pace.
Ensuring that the follicular unit remains intact and is dissected and implanted into the scalp in the shortest possible is essential for increasing the chances of the hair follicles surviving the process and growing. But whenever an assistant was not able to take care of this important aspect, it affected the results.

For the above mentioned reasons, a technique that leaves the follicular unit intact but at the same time advocates the use of three and four-haired follicular groupings for surgical hair restoration was evolved by the innovative hair transplant surgeons. This procedure was found to have many advantages over follicular unit transplantation.
A single hair follicular unit does not necessarily comprise a single hair and may contain 2-4 hairs in a single hole. When the follicular units are found very close to each other in the donor skin sample it is not advisable to separate them as it can cause iatrogenic damage to them. Advantage of this fact is taken to form three-and four-haired groupings when 2 two-haired follicular units or a three haired unit and one-haired unit are naturally placed very close to each other. A group (of 1-4 follicular units naturally placed close to each other) transplanted as a single graft results in superior hair growth and at the same time lessens the surgical damage and trauma to the recipient site.

The hair transplant procedure of using natural groups for the hair transplant surgery has many advantages:
1. It results in much quicker hair transplant procedure as it saves time for separating each follicular unit and less time is required for their placement.

2. Hair transplant procedure prevents iatrogenic injury to follicular units during the dissection phase.

3. It lessens iatrogenic injury during placement phase because follicular groupings are not as fragile as follicular units because of more tissue attached to them.

4. As this hair transplant procedure proceeds at a faster rate, it allows the grafts to be left out of the body for a shorter period of time and increases their survival rates.
5. The last but not the least important advantage of this hair transplant procedure is that it reduces the cost of hair transplant surgery and is there for affordable to the patient.
Besides the above mentioned advantages, the technique of grouping of hair follicles can serve as a crucial tool in an expert hair transplant surgeon’s hands to create wonders through the hair restoration surgery! Success and a natural looking hair transplant requires strategic planning! The grouping technique does not undermine the importance of a unit follicular hair transplant but actually compliments it by conserving more single-haired follicular units for the defining the hairline. The 2-haired follicular groups can be used for gradation in the area immediately posterior to the hair line and use of denser, but not bigger, 3 haired groups to provide the hair-density to the bald scalp behind. Besides saving the hair in the donor area for the future hair transplants this innovative technique of hair restoration surgery provides you the results which are just wondrous!
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It’s understandable if your PR fizzles when it’s limited
to simple tactics like news releases, broadcast plugs,
press events and brochures. But then starts to sizzle
when you do something meaningful about the
behaviors of those important audiences that MOST
affect the business, non-profit, government agency or
association unit you manage.

It especially sizzles when your public relations creates
the kind of external stakeholder behavior change that
leads directly to achieving your managerial objectives.
Then continues as you follow through by persuading
those key outside folks to your way of thinking by
helping move them to take actions that allow your
department, group, division or subsidiary to succeed.

A fact of PR life is this: when you need to move a
message from here to there, communications tactics
usually can do that job. But be careful here, because
a preoccupation with tactics usually denies managers
the best that public relations has to offer by diverting
the manager from pursuit of the real sizzle outlined
above.

And I mean sizzle based squarely on an underlying
premise such as this: people act on their own
perception of the facts before them, which leads to
predictable behaviors about which something can be
done. When we create, change or reinforce that
opinion by reaching, persuading and moving-to-
desired-action the very people whose behaviors
affect the organization the most, the public relations
mission is usually accomplished.

As it turns out, the premise delivers on its implied
promise: good public relations planning really CAN
alter individual perception and result in changed
behaviors among key outside audiences. But the fact
is, you’ll only get there when your PR demands
more than news releases, special events and broadcast
plugs. Only then will you receive the quality public
relations results you believe you deserve.

When we look closer at the kind of PR end-products
that can come your way, we see quite an array:
community leaders begin to seek you out; welcome
bounces in show room visits; new proposals for
strategic alliances and joint ventures; prospects
actually starting to do business with you; capital givers
or specifying sources begin to look your way;
politicians and legislators start seeing you as a key
member of the business, non-profit, government or
association communities; customers begin to make
repeat purchases; even membership applications
start to rise.

Your PR staff will be indispensable from now on.
Work closely with them on your new opinion monitoring
project since they’re already in the perception and
behavior business. But satisfy yourself that your PR
people really accept why it’s SO important to know how
your most important outside audiences perceive your
operations, products or services. Briefly, be certain
they believe that perceptions almost always result in
behaviors that can help or hurt your operation.

Spend some serious time reviewing with them how and
when you will monitor and gather perceptions by
questioning members of your most important outside
audiences. Suggest questions to be asked like these:
how much do you know about our organization? Have
you had prior contact with us and were you pleased
with the exchange? Are you familiar with our services
or products and employees? Have you experienced
problems with our people or procedures?

However, shgould you decide to use professional survey
firms for the opinion gathering chore, be advised that
it may be more expensive than using your PR people
to carry out the monitoring chore. So whether it’s
your folks or a survey firm asking the questions, the
objective remains the same: identify untruths, false
assumptions, unfounded rumors, inaccuracies,
misconceptions and any other negative perception
that might translate into hurtful behaviors.

With key outside audience opinion gathered, the
number one job now is to establish a clearcut and
realistic PR goal that calls for action on the most
serious problem areas you uncovered during your
key audience perception monitoring. You may
decide to stop that potentially painful rumor cold.
Or straighten out that dangerous misconception.
Or correct that gross inaccuracy.

The path to your new goal, however, requires an
action-oriented strategy that shows you how to get
there. Here, you have just three strategic options
available to you when it comes to doing something
about perception and opinion. Change existing
perception, create perception where there may be
none, or reinforce it. Of course, the wrong strategy
pick will taste like maple syrup on your meatballs.
So be sure your new strategy fits well with your
new public relations goal. You certainly don’t want
to select “change” when the facts dictate a strategy
of reinforcement.

Now it’s time for the best writer on your team to
prepare a persuasive message that will help move
your key audience to your way of thinking. It has
to be a carefully-written message targeted directly
at your key external audience. Your writer must
develop really corrective language that is not
merely compelling, persuasive and believable, but
clear and factual if it is to shift perception/opinion
towards your point of view and lead to the behaviors
you have in mind.

Your next challenge as a manager will be to insure
that the communications tactics most likely to carry
your message to the attention of your target audience
are selected by your PR team. Happily, there are
many available, from speeches, facility tours, emails
and brochures to consumer briefings, media interviews,
newsletters, personal meetings and many others. Just
be certain that the tactics you select are known to
reach folks just like your audience members.

One of the realities of human existence is that someone
else’s message is often suspect because of the WAY in
which it is communicated. So you may wish to unveil
your corrective language through smaller meeting
presentations rather than using higher-profile news
releases.

When you elect to distribute progress reports to illustrate
results, know that this should alert you to begin a second
perception monitoring session with members of your
external audience. You can use many of the same
questions used in the benchmark session. But now, you
will be on strict alert for signs that the bad news
perception is being altered in your direction.

The vicissitudes of life being what they are, any program
can suffer periodic slowdowns. Should that be the case,
here is a reliable remedy: boost momentum by adding
more communications tactics and/or increasing their
frequencies.

As it turns out, a public relations program fizzling along
on simple PR tactics, can indeed begin to sizzle when you
do something meaningful about the behaviors of those
important audiences that MOST affect the business,
non-profit, government agency or association you
manage.

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box
in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website.
A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net.
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Robert A. Kelly © 2006.

Bob Kelly counsels and writes for business, non-profit and
association managers about using the fundamental premise of public
relations to achieve their operating objectives. He has published over
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Expert Author, click Robert A. Kelly. He has been DPR, Pepsi-Cola
Co.; AGM-PR, Texaco Inc.; VP-PR, Olin Corp.; VP-PR, Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; director of communications, U.S.
Department of the Interior, and deputy assistant press secretary, The
White House. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Columbia
University, major in public relations.
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What’s valuable to our society nowadays? I’m afraid that if we answered that question I would become very depressed. So, let’s not get to in depth with that one, except would it be fair to say that many of the things on that list would qualify as superficial? Ugh, I’m getting depressed. But, that’s a blanket generalization and certainly doesn’t apply to all. What do you think about education? Or educating others? Ooh, just the thought alone gives a little lift to my heart. I have thought for a long time that teaching is one of the noblest professions around. I have the utmost respect for those who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the lives of others through expanding their understating of the world, mental capacity, analytical reasoning, and even the self-empowerment that comes from gaining these things. Unfortunately, with our skewed value system, the educational system seems to always be in need of competent, trained teachers, at all levels of education. This is where online PhD degrees comes in.

If you are already working within the education field this could be a great option for you. You’re already certified as a teacher and have gained a good understanding of the type of schooling you’d like to pursue. Your schedule is tight, as the work day of teachers doesn’t end when the bell rings. Virtually all major Universities are now offering education online PhD degrees and more are starting all the time. So, its not about some disreputable institution that provides you with a faux degree, but the same quality of classes that require the same demanding work, except you can work around your schedule.

Getting your education PhD degree will provide you with the understanding in various educational methodologies and practices, the theoretical base, research and administration knowledge that you can use to advance in your career and offer the students the best possible opportunity to learn as possible. This is achievable through an online PhD degree.

Nelson Widrow is an author who’s written multiple articles about online degrees. Read more of his articles including: online accredited degrees and online phd degrees.

Golf swing aids are rampant! Every golfer has dozens of them gathering dust in their garages or closets. How many wives have threatened a “clearing out” of these contraptions? If you are feeling me…keep reading.

Have you purchased golf swing aids only to use them once or twice and not see improvement? Isn’t this an everyday occurrence for golfers? I see and hear this all the time, and yet golfers will continue to spend hundreds of dollars by the ‘latest/greatest’ gimmick.

I don’t know if they (golfers) think they will find the “one” training aid that will change their game forever; or they are just trying to take the easy way out?

Either way, the main reason most golf swing aids don’t help is because you are not working on what’s causing your swing faults. You! Your machine (body) dictates your outcome! There’s no way around it!

What your body is capable of in that moment is the result you’ll get.

How many times have you wished you could make a bigger backswing but can’t? How often do you walk off the course with a sore back? How many times did you have a good front nine only to blow up on the back nine and shoot your normal score?

The above results were because of the “physical” issues within your body. Until you realize this and take a different approach to your golf improvement program, you’ll be a frustrated golfer for a long time.

In my opinion, there are a couple of golf swing aids that are effective when you incorporate them with your new golf training program. One is the medicus. This is a fantastic golf swing aid that gives you instant feedback. Swing it too fast or out of plane and the shaft breaks at the hinge.

Another golf swing aid I like is the weighted golf club. I swing mine everyday and boy does it loosen me up and strengthen my golf swing muscles.

Other than the above golf swing aids, there are dozens and dozens of ones that are a total waste of money. Save your money and work on you! The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll stop buying the latest, greatest golf swing aids.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf performance experts in the country. He is Golf Magazines golf performance expert; author, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf performance membership sites. Take a look at his just released golf dvds and manual at his golf swing training site – Perform Better Golf.