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By the way, you are seeing the beginning of acceptance of FUE by the FUT physicians. I've always said that it will take the patient community to demand the change. You cannot expect the vast majority of physicians to see the potential of a new protocol or procedure. What you need is patient demand to make most physicians alter their treatment protocol or methods. you are seing a very rapid acceptance of Acell and PRP, but FUE has taken a decade to gain acceptance. In 2002 hardly any physicians offered FUE. In 2008 over 10% of all hair transplant surgeries were done by FUE. By the time the 2010 census comes out don't be surprised if over 15% of the procedures done to restore hair loss are by FUE. Every FUE procedure takes away from the percentage of FUT procedures. Eventually 50% or more of all restoration procedures will be done by FUE.
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I dont know if Dr Gho is using Acell or not.
He states that he has a waiting list of patients until mid-2012 for his HST procedure.
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Dr Cole, I dont know whether you caught eye of the research coming out of Berlin Tech, the full article can be accessed here:
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Thanks. My skeptical mind would first lean toward how do we know which follicles were there before transplantation and which were the after transplantation. This is not answered. Even a bald scalp might have some pre-existing hair that was either there or resting. If resting, it might soon begin to grow after a study resumes. Here we have only hair that was partially removed yet was able to regrow in both areas, the transplanted area and the donor area. Great, but how do we know this occurred other than the investigator's supposition? We don't other than to take his summation of the results. While i want to concur with his results, I cant' based on the lack of objective data. Furthermore, we lack methods here. How were the follicles extracted and what did they look like. What were the minimal requirements for an extracted follicle? Perhaps Dr. Gho is on to something, but he has not given up enough information to repeat his findings. Without this information we are paralyzed Give us more so that we can better understand his protocol.Comment
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Dr. Gho is charging other surgeons 50,000 euro for training and the rights to his patented triple wave extraction tool and proprietary preservation medium. I think the phenomenon of transection and transplantation that Dr. Gho describes is real but with what consistency and results. In the interview with Spencer Dr. Gho offered to even go to another doctor's practice to demonstrate and share his technique. I'm still skeptical but it would be interesting if someone took him up on his offer.
FUT just seems barbaric to me. I like the idea of FUE as it seems better to thin the donor all over and have more of a balance between top density and side density than cutting a strip out and giving you half the density or less on top. There is always the problem though of not enough hair and we still can't create any new hair (c'mon Acell with FUE & Plucking). FUT has some awful implications when it comes to scarring, hair length and trying to maintain a decent hair style as the sides and back seem to race ahead and create the bozo the clown look.
I look forward to future developments such as Aderans and Histogen when we can have the best solution.Comment
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Well if it comes to a hair transplant, what would you rather do? Risk it with the HST or have a regular FUE...? I would take the HST any day... Dr Gho was in the news recently over here, that's where it stated he had a growing waiting list until 2012...Comment
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Hey UK, can you please explain what the HST is?Comment
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Well I think Gho can go blo.
Here we all are praising Cooley, Histogen and the likes for all their efforts. The HT community is working and collaborating and trying to get Plucking and Acell etc sorted. And then there is Gho... Gho who won't share a god thing unless he's paid 50K.
I don't want to know him. He's no better then any of the drug companies holding back on better solutions. He's actually against everything we advocate and talk about here.
Although... that said maybe we should all chip in and send Cooley over - he can learn the goods and then share it with everybody. Done!
Lets reverse engineer him and then open source his IP!!! ;-)Comment
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Ive been waiting on Gho for far too long - 12 years is too long to be waiting for this cure - and his lack of openness when other professionals want in on his technique is really suspect.
Dr Cole has tried to contact Gho - is there something Gho is trying to hide?
If he is so confident he has the surgical holy grail then why doesn't he let Dr Cole in on the process?Comment
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Dr Cole here is more reference for Dr Gho's procedure, I really dont know why he is unwilling to share the technique with anyone - we would love to have an independent professional such as yourself review it.
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thats why others have to jump in and test it. Pros like Dr Cole for Example because they are able to create superbe hair lines.
Oh And IronMan i know you will screencap this here so "Hey how are you doing"Comment
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