» » Dr. Hitzig has agreed to do a small Q&A here for those interested in
» » knowing more about Acell hair regeneration, plucked Beard Hair Cloning
» and
» » Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) hair therapy.
» »
» » Be respectful and stay on topic. Inappropriate remarks or comments will
» be
» » removed.
» »
» » Please post your questions here, ONLY if they are pertaining to Acell
» hair
» » regeneration, plucked Beard Hair Cloning and PPR.
»
» I have seen many examples of using Acell to reduce strip scarring that
» results from harvesting donor hair for transplants.
»
» But do you think we may soon use Acell to regrow hair in donor areas that
» were harvested by the old punch graft method?
»
» For example, in the presentation Dr. Cooley made to the IHRS, there was a
» slide showing what I understand to be the formation of new hair follicles
» in an old circular punch graft scar.
Because it requires prior plucking out of previous scar it would be more appropriate to excise a strip of old punch grafts, utilize the hair remove between them and then work to regrow the entire strip area.
You can see an example on my slide show on Spencer Kobrins website.
Thank You
GH
» » I want to see more before and after results, whether it be Acell or the
» » plucked hair cloning. I don’t care much about PRP because Dr Jones
» already
» » proved that PRP doesn’t work that well anyway
»
»
» I don’t think he is talking about using PRP alone but in conjunction with
» Acell injections to reverse the miniaturization process of your existing
» hair. This would be a huge development if it worked consistently.
Just to make one statemnt: the process of comparing injections with PRP alone to PRP + ACell side by side in the same patient in thin areas to monitor wheather either or both will stop additional hair loss and/or regrow miniturizing hairs.
Thank You
GH
» - Will any doctor be available to perform surgeries with ACell to make
» “HM”?
»
» - Will this increase so much the price, or will keep the same (since the
» effort is not really different, if less)?
»
» - Actually I’m interested in this but you’re not offering any guarantee if
» it’s working or something, and I understand it’s hard to say nowadays. How
» much time do you estimate to get a surgery (if it really works) with ACell
» with real guarantees?
»
» - Albert F.U.
Myself and Dr. Cooley are doing this now.
As far as a Garuntee goes, As you are aware, No Dr. can give an type of Garuntee with any type of procedure, we can only show you our results.
As far as the price of the procedure goes, the price of the Transplant procedure increases by the price of the product only.
The approximate length of time is 4 hours and can vary depending on the amount of work needed.
Thank You
GH
» The obvious question is: When is it gonna be available
Myself and Dr. Cooley are currently doing so now.
Thank You
GH
» I want to see more before and after results, whether it be Acell or the
» plucked hair cloning. I don’t care much about PRP because Dr Jones already
» proved that PRP doesn’t work that well anyway
You can see results on my slide show on HairSite momentarily.
Thank You
GH
Thank you for answering the questions. How much do you charge per graft?
- The availability is Now, but as long as the patient is a suitable candidate…What it would be appropriate candidate?
With regards to the PRP and Acell combination, are you conducting these experiments now or is it something planned for the future?
If you’re doing it now, what are you looking for in a candidate: significant hairloss/thining (nw IV or greater) or somebody who’s just started thining or is not sever yet (nw II - III)?
Are you conducting these experiments in New York?
Dr. Hitzig, a somewhat unrelated question:
What do you think about body hair to head transplants? You have used beard hair and I wanted to know if the thickness and anagen phase of beard and other body hair is comparable to scalp hair.
Thanks for your exciting work here.
» I know–I saw that.
»
» But I was hoping Hitzig might have more info on it.
»
» BTW, as for the fineness of the hair shown growing in the punch sites in
» Cooley’s slide: if I remember correctly, those new hairs were still short,
» so they might be fine simply because they are so new.
»
» Even when normal new hairs first start growing, they are so fine as to be
» almost invisible to the casual observer. It’s not until they get to be
» about a half inch long that they start to become easily visible, because
» their diameter has increased enough down towards the base for you eye to
» notice them.
»
» Think of ear hair. One day you look for any hair growing from your ears
» to trim, and you see nothing.
»
» A day or two later, you look again, and suddenly you notice one or two
» long hairs growing from your ear. Their length means they were there the
» last time you looked, but their diameter then was still to fine for you to
» easily notice them.
»
» So if I’m interpreting Cooley’s slide correctly, it’s very possible the
» hairs growing in those punch sites will increase in diameter as they
» continue to grow.
sry… I do not share your ear-hair problem.
Thanks for your answers Dr. Hitzig.
Regarding full restaurations,
You say that autocloning is extremely tedious at this time. Could you please specify? How much time do you need to pluck a single hair and plant it in the recipient site? Is it very difficult to pluck a hair? Cooley says he did 1500 hairs on a female patient (I don’t know if they were 500 plucked hairs that multiplied to 1500).
Okay, lets suppose it would be very slow to perform a full restauration now (besides, a very bald person doesn’t have enough donor to do a full restauration in a single pass).
Then I propose you a “progressive full restauration”.
I am going to call it “The HM Challenge”.
Get a very bald person, who only has around 10.000 hairs at the back of the head. Take photos before any procedure.
First stage: you pluck all the 10.000 hairs, and plant them in a location of choice.
First Wait: wait 6/12 months to allow for recipient follicles to grow, and harvested sites to regenerate. Now this person has 20.000 hairs, or even more (you told Kobren that if you plant just 1 plucked hair, 3 hairs can grow!!).
First photos: At 6/12 months, you can already take photos of this patient and present them as very clear proof of the potential of your technique. These photos will no doubt make history.
also, these 12 months waiting has allowed you and Cooley to improve the autocloning technique. and you will apply these improvements at the second stage to speed up the process.
Second stage: pluck again the original 10.000 hairs and even the new 20.000 hairs. This way you could double again the number of hairs, or at least, increase them by 50%.
Second wait: as before
Second photos: as before
Third stage, etc…: until full restauration is reached.
Of course, you can stop the iterative process anytime (note that each phase is more labour intensive because it involves more and more hair) when enough proof has been compiled and everyone is satisfied or when the patient gets tired.
Supervisor:
I propose Dr. Jones as supervisor of the whole process to make it even more credible (we at Hairsite believe that Dr. Jones is very honest after he made two experiments and admitted failure in both). If you, Dr. Hitzig, and Dr. Cooley prefer to keep your technique secret (the “know how” ) , its okay, then Dr. Jones would simply check the patient before and after each phase.
Alternatively, an sceptic like Dr. Rassman would be a good “supervisor”.
Or several doctors.
How about it, Dr. Hitzig, do you like the idea?
» » Questions for Dr. Hitzig:
» »
» » 1. Regarding the latest set of pictures published at Hairsite, could
» you
» » please tell us the dates of each photo (time passed from surgery).
» » 2. Re. those same photos, hairs can be seen growing at the revised
» scar.
» » What is the origin of these hairs?
» » 3. Could you post a broader before photo, to assure that is the same
» » patient as in the after photos?
» » 4. As soon as you and Dr. Cooley confirm the durability of the
» » Acell-autocloning method, do you intend to make any full restauration of
» a
» » very bald person, to demonstrate the potential of that method?
» »
» » thanks
» »
» » » Dr. Hitzig has agreed to do a small Q&A here for those interested in
» » » knowing more about Acell hair regeneration, plucked Beard Hair
» Cloning
» » and
» » » Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) hair therapy.
» » »
» » » Be respectful and stay on topic. Inappropriate remarks or comments
» will
» » be
» » » removed.
» » »
» » » Please post your questions here, ONLY if they are pertaining to Acell
» » hair
» » » regeneration, plucked Beard Hair Cloning and PPR.
» Please refer to my slide presentation (HairSite to post shortly), where
» you can see dates that are specifically shown. In addition the pictures
» are better indictive of it being the same person/patient.
» the hairsite scar photos were posted as an example of showing healing of a
» revised scar with ACell Only. Please understand that healing in the scalp
» involves biological creep (formationof new tissue) the ACell works by
» directing new tissue to be a copy of the original rather then scar
» formation.
» 4. I think first we will be working in limited bald areas, cause auto -
» cloning at present time is an extremely tedious procedure and has been
» reserved for people with limited donor area remaining.
» 5. The availability is Now, but as long as the patient is a suitable
» candidate.
» Thank You
» GH
Dr. Hitzig, this is getting a bit confusing for me with so many options on the table all of a sudden, say as of now and in your opinion, which protocol do you think is the most promising so far?
Many thanks in advance.
» Dr. Hitzig has agreed to do a small Q&A here for those interested in
» knowing more about Acell hair regeneration, plucked Beard Hair Cloning and
» Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) hair therapy.
»
» Be respectful and stay on topic. Inappropriate remarks or comments will be
» removed. Also, while Dr. Hitzig will try to accommodate everybody, he is
» not obligated to answer every single question posted in this thread.
»
» Please raise your questions here, ONLY if they are pertaining to Acell
» hair regeneration, plucked Beard Hair Cloning and PPR.
»
» Thank you.
Dear Dr. Hitzig,
I am 27 years old and my hair has been diffusely thinning since i was 18 or so. It is getting increasingly hard to conceal. Therefor i was thinking of undergoing my first HT. However due to the latest developments, I am very uncertain on whether and for how long i should hold my breath on this?
What is your honest opinion? What would you recommend me to do?
Thank you for your sincerity on this issue.
Ok, I don’t know if Dr. Hitzig is going to answer more questions,
however I’ll post them here (perhaps I missed some points, so
I apologize for any already answered question):
-
In the next months we will know if the hair cycle,
but how long could take to know if they are dht-resistant? -
In the worst case (the hair will not cycle, and/or they are
not dht-resistant), is there (and perhaps you’re searching for it)
any research that could integrate acell auto-cloning
technique or we have to look to total different strategies? -
You say that auto-cloning is a very tedious work that
(at this time) should be done only on people that miss
donor zone. So it is more labour-intensive than current
transplant techniques?
Thanks,
Willy