Expert guide: Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery 2015 16 June 2015 June 2015 17 to perform hair transplant surgery, including making Follicular Unit Ex-traction (FUE) incisions (or directing a robot to make FUE incisions). The BAHRS endorses Hair Transplant Sur-gical Assistants (HTSAs) extracting FUE grafts where the incisions have been made by a doctor or doctor-guided robot, and implanting grafts, derived either from Strip Follicular Unit Transplant or FUE, into recipi-ent site incisions made by a doctor. The BAHRS does not endorse HTSAs making recipient site incisions using implanters or other instruments. As technology evolves, robotic devices will be able to make recipient site in-cisions and it will be even more im-portant for patients to be assured that the robotic device will be di-rected by a doctor who is adequately trained in hair restoration, and not a technician.Conclusion It is important for anyone having a hair transplant to know who will ac-tually be performing different parts of the procedure and what their training and experience is. This in-volves doing adequate background research, meeting the doctor who will be in charge of the operation, asking who will be performing each stage of the procedure, and knowing who the different members of the team are on the day of surgery and what their roles are.Greg Williams is the only member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons who is a full time hair transplant surgeon. He has over a decade of experience in hair resto-ration for burns and trauma, as well as for hereditary male and female pattern hair loss, and alopecia from dermatological and other aetiolo-gies. He is the current President of the British Association of Hair Res-toration Surgery and is actively in-volved in research, teaching and ed-ucation. He was recently awarded the prestigious ‘Fellow’ status of the International Society of Hair Restora-tion Surgery which recognises senior hair transplant surgeons around the world. He works at the Farjo Hair In-stitute www.farjo.com.united kingdom REFERENCES 1 – www.nwl.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/non-surgical-cosmetic-interventions/ 2 - www.ishrs.org 3 - www.ishrs.org/content/fellows-fishrs-international-society-hair-restoration-surgery 4 - www.bahrs.org 5 - www.bahrs.co.uk/membership-categories 6 - www.rcseng.ac.uk/publications/docs/professional-standards-for-cosmetic-practice 7 - www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-regulation-of-cosmetic-interventions