ACell, a Current Review of Applications in Hair Transplant Surgery

[Spanish Dude]

I have posted it before in this thread I think.
Here it is again (2003, autocloning beard hairs without Acell):

http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=12&topic_id=3857&mesg_id=3857&page=3

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Sat Jun-07-2003 10:23 PM
Dr. Hitzig has successfully done a series of 1-for-two hair transplants on 5 paitents using their beard hairs. The beard hairs are extracted using a tweezing protocol to remove the shaft and bulb while leaving the follicle intact. Approximately 80 percent to 85 percent of the transplanted hairs grew in the scalp, and the follicles left in the donor beard region continue to generate beard hairs.

"Our experience with this technique offers promise for men wishing to improve their appearance after an earlier hair transplantation procedure but who lack the donor supply for additional treatment. Further study may also lead us to the use of beard hairs as a source for in vitro cloning of scalp donor material, and if that technique is successful, we would be able to obtain an unlimited supply of donor hair and perhaps eradicate genetic baldness," said Dr. Hitzig.

According to Mr. Oz, the technology so far can only be used on beard hair since the surgical tweezers can NOT handle the much more smaller scalp hair, but the testining has been 95% sucesful. In addition, they're are already testing in vitro to remove ONE single beard hair from a human and use that one hair to duplicate a series of hairs on a synthetic mantle ( artificial skin).

Check the following article for the whole story:

http://www.dermatologytimes.com/dermatologytimes/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=47883

Dr. Hitzig's site also has a little information on this procedure:

http://www.nyhairloss.com/gsh-procedures.htm

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I have not included the mention of the lawsuit, as this is another matter.

Do you have a link where Dr Hitzig said 85% yield in 2003?

Ok then lets wait what Dr Hitzig has to say, because i think we are running around in circles here.

You can draw the line in MS Paint if you load up the picture there. I really doubt that you can shave the hair to create this kind of "Manipulation"

[UK_]

I have posted it before in this thread I think.
Here it is again (2003, autocloning beard hairs without Acell):

lol - Why did he only shave 'below' the scar aswel? You have a point - if this finding was as significant as it is made out i'd expect a grade 1 (full shave of donor area) all over the back to clearly show a white line on the right and barely anything on the left. Also a few close-ups and possibly a hair count!

[Spanish Dude]

lol - Why did he only shave 'below' the scar aswel? You have a point - if this finding was as significant as it is made out i'd expect a grade 1 (full shave of donor area) all over the back to clearly show a white line on the right and barely anything on the left. Also a few close-ups and possibly a hair count!

Thats it, and also the "just after surgery" photos, to see the "beginning of the process", the initial state of the wound.

[RichardDawkins]

Ok then lets see what he has to say then ;-) right now iam still positive towards the pictures but consider your arguments valid.

And to be fair i hope you guys are wrong ;-)

[Spanish Dude]

lets remind again the photos:

Quote Dr. Hitzig:
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Patient had transplant approximately 1 year ago. The right half of the donor was sutured normally, the left half was sutured normally and injected with ACell suspension (Spun down Arterial Blood)

NOTE THE EXTREMELY FINE LINE ON THE LEFT WITH HAIR GROWING THROUGH IT.
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[Spanish Dude]

And this is how it should have been presented. Its a simulation (I got a google pic, and modified it)

[PatientlyWaiting]

How does this benefit some one with a receding hairline and some thinning on the top? Like do I have to do an FUE or strip transplant, or is there some kind of vaccine being developed for people that don't want hair transplant? In other words, do I need to go through plucking or FUE/strip in order to benefit from this? Or can I just be injected with PRP+ACell and make my native hair stronger and longer?

I read through the whole thread and sort of understand, i'm new to this, but can some one answer my question. Is some kind of a hair transplant needed, whether plucking or something?

[PatientlyWaiting]

I saw a video of how PRP injections are done by Dr Greco on this forum. And that's kinda like what i'm asking. Is there going to be a procedure like that with PRP+ACell?

[montrose]

Dr. Hitzig offers acell+prp injections as a stand alone treatment. He has two sets of photos on his website. When I contacted his office about it the price seemed a bit high for something that is still in its experimental stage.

[Spanish Dude]

@Patiently Waiting:
there is a bit of chaos right now with the Acell stuff. In the beginning, it was meant to be plucking+Acell, but now it seems that the doctors point towards improved strips, improved fues, or improved PRP. The "improvement" is debatable because little convincing evidence has been presented, and no long-term results are known. But hey, I am a sceptic.

@montrose: IMO, Acell should provide the powder FREE of charge. (instead, they are charging large amounts of money to the doctors).
Furthermore, Acell should pay the doctors for their job, and the trialists for the bother. Also, results should be professionally evaluated, and presented to the FDA. If the product works, FDA approval would mean immense benefits for Acell.
But Acell prefered to go the "underground trials" route, charging money to the trialists, and getting poor, unreliable documentation of the results. Strange.

[RichardDawkins]

I was under the impression that Acell is FDA approved but maybe iam misinterpreting this

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf2/k021637.pdf

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf9/K092926.pdf

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf6/K060888.pdf

http://acell.com/about_med.php

[mlao]

I saw a video of how PRP injections are done by Dr Greco on this forum. And that's kinda like what i'm asking. Is there going to be a procedure like that with PRP+ACell?

Because Acell is new to the application of hair restoration there is no one correct way to apply it yet. You need to follow the doctors who are working with it and wait for them to release their findings.

the only doctor who is doing anything like you suggested is Dr. Hitzig
he is doing a combination of PRP/Acell injections into the scalp.
Here are two examples of the results.

http://nyhairloss.com/portfolio/acell-prp-case-studies/

I for one am going to wait until more information is released from the doctors as opposed to the guys on this forum who keep criticizing and pestering the doctors about their studies.
no one will know until at least the end of this year if Acell might become the next "Big Thing" in hair restoration.

[Spanish Dude]

Yes, Acell was FDA approved for human use, 2 or 3 years ago, and it was then when the HT doctors rushed to try it.
This would clear the safety concerns. But not the efficacy.

I am talking about FDA trials for efficacy on hair surgery and hair multiplication. Strip healing, autoplucking HM, FUE+Acell HM, PRP+Acell HM, etc.
These would require separate trials, in the same way that Proscar and Propecia required separate trials.

I was under the impression that Acell is FDA approved but maybe iam misinterpreting this

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf2/k021637.pdf

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf9/K092926.pdf

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf6/K060888.pdf

http://acell.com/about_med.php

[RichardDawkins]

Efficacy, well if it comes to that terms i would pay attention to this one user here who posted a picture of his scar and said something about "its better after a few weeks" then his other scars has been.

@SpanishDude : There is gossip talk that a lot of other surgeons are experimenting with Acell right now, someone mentioned H&W and Dr A answered some things aswell.

I dont know if a lot of docs rushed to experiment with Acell. Ok well i know i will regret it but PLEASE PUNCH MY FACE FOR THIS

Even Dr Gho did say something about this in a paper a few years ago. But as you i only wanna see one thing fully documented

"A guy with lets say a NW5 pattern who get his frontal area fully restored with high density only by using plucked hairs"

Thats in my books the only thing i wanna see, if this is gonna work, i will book my flight. Or are you disagree with such an "Proof"

[mlao]

Not at all. I am not a health professional, and furthermore, hair transplants are not my main interest, but I like to use logic and find inconsistencies.
Of course, I can fail and make mistakes, but in hairloss forums cheap believers are usually the ones who end up wrong.

What or who is a "cheap believer"?