ACell, a Current Review of Applications in Hair Transplant Surgery

[CVAZBAR]

So NW7's will never benefit from any of this and will never grow hair back? I guess we can't call this a cure. I don't understand why the reporters in the news always interview NW7's and make it seem as if they will one day get their hair back with Cotsarelis discovery.

[Gary Hitzig MD]

Two Replies

#1) The first plucked hairs that I transplanted were in 1999-no ACell. The ones that "took" are still recycling.

#2) The second answer involves the point of no return. I believe there is a point in miniaturization where you can no longer reverse the process. Compare it to a dying plant or person where you can institute all the correct treatments, but it is simply too late. I do not believe vellus hairs are anything more than dead plants sticking out of the soil.
If I am wrong, we will be both happily surprised.

I look at the ACell/Enhanced PRP injections as as "vaccination" against further hair loss with a strenghening of weakened hairs. Like the Flu Vaccine, it works in many but not all cases--Time will tell if we are right.

[CVAZBAR]

In other words, if PROGENITOR CELLS are the problem, why can't NW7's grow back hair again, if you put the stems cells back to work, reactivating PROGENITOR CELLS?

[Gubter_87]

Just to comment on what Keep Hoping had asked, it is the lack of Progenitor cells in the scalp which opens genetically sensitive (to 5DHT) hairs to miniaturizing. There is no problem with other hairs.

I asked the original question, and perhaps I was a bit unclear.
I meant if a lack of progentior cells is the issue with the hair affected by hair loss, and you theorize that the combination of Acell+PRP injected into the scalp will bypass this issue. Then why do you believe you did not get full regrowth of all the minituarized and lost hairs with the injections?

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

[SilverSurfer]

First plucked beard hairs

Dr Hitzig,

For how long have the first hairs you plucked and transplanted cycled?