How does Dr. Wesley's Scarless Pilofocus work?

[Artista]

Hi Losthair85
That certainly is my intention. Being a senior member here I will do my best to update all on Dr Wesley's progress.
Kiwi,,I will ask about that for you no problem.

[hellouser]

I am a prospective patient, nothing is confirmed. Hopefully it gets moved up.

LOL, I could say I'm a 'prospective' patient too. I can't take your words too seriously.

[hellouser]

Hi Losthair85
That certainly is my intention. Being a senior member here I will do my best to update all on Dr Wesley's progress.
Kiwi,,I will ask about that for you no problem.

Body hair would be flipping awesome. Imagine the thousands of individual hairs from your legs/arms moved to your head to densify the areas or even add them to the finer areas on the hairline to add a more 'fine' look for a smooth transition from thin to thick hair rather than the hairline being packed with thick hair.

I did some simple estimates of the total number of hairs on my legs and its around 10,000 hairs. That is approximately 4,000 grafts! Couple that with approximately 4,000 donor grafts and you've potentially got a decent amount of coverage. I'd take the hairs from my legs and move them to my head STRICTLY to add some density. It'd be such an amazing alternative... and why not? Apparently Pilofocus is supposed to allow for much better harvesting and much better survival rates of grafts. I know that many of Dr. Umar's BHT treatments have relatively low yield rates so Pilofocus could make BHT a legitimate treatment.

[losthair85]

Hi Losthair85
That certainly is my intention. Being a senior member here I will do my best to update all on Dr Wesley's progress.
Kiwi,,I will ask about that for you no problem.

Yes, I have followed your reports closely, it is what prompted me to go meet him originally.


I stay in touch with him, but I haven't pushed for anymore updates recently. He is busy at work, and truly believes in this, and his sincerity makes me believe in him.

I am fairly certain he could have launched this earlier and made money, but the man truly wants the best results for ALL of his patients, and so he is not willing to cut corners or make claims.

I am looking forward to your meeting with him. Thanks for all you do for this forum.

[FearTheLoss]

dang, so this actually isn't going to be available until 2015 than? that sucks

[hellouser]

dang, so this actually isn't going to be available until 2015 than? that sucks

Didn't you or someone else say it'd be available mid 2014?

[FearTheLoss]

Didn't you or someone else say it'd be available mid 2014?

It was supposed to originally be available in the end of 2013. Then Dr. Wesley added another 6 month study to figure out the regeneration aspect, now this new poster is claiming he talked to Wesley and it's 2015. Which is news to me and apparently news to Artista, who also confirmed 2014 as the release..and he is in the trial.

[hellouser]

It was supposed to originally be available in the end of 2013. Then Dr. Wesley added another 6 month study to figure out the regeneration aspect, now this new poster is claiming he talked to Wesley and it's 2015. Which is news to me and apparently news to Artista, who also confirmed 2014 as the release..and he is in the trial.

I don't remember discussions about it being available end of 2013, all of us we're waiting on the San Francisco ISHRS meeting in October and then for further details about release.

[Artista]

Hellouser
the possible 2013 release was discussed on Spencer Kobren's Live show earlier this year. Keep in mind that Spencer has had discussions with Dr Wesley in addition to the specialized PowerPoint presentation.
End of 2013 was only a possibility based on Dr Wesley's discussions.
With any new technology in the makings, release dates are never exactly known until all the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted .
Pilofocus phase testings are ongoing as you know, the focus is more or less on updating/improving upon the instrumentation needed for the best results.
Currently 2014 is more than likely the year of public availability- but not officially confirmed.

[hellouser]

Hellouser
the possible 2013 release was discussed on Spencer Kobren's Live show earlier this year. Keep in mind that Spencer has had discussions with Dr Wesley in addition to the specialized PowerPoint presentation.
End of 2013 was only a possibility based on Dr Wesley's discussions.
With any new technology in the makings, release dates are never exactly known until all the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted .
Pilofocus phase testings are ongoing as you know, the focus is more or less on updating/improving upon the instrumentation needed for the best results.
Currently 2014 is more than likely the year of public availability- but not officially confirmed.

Well, either way... 2015 is only a little more than a year away. I'm still hoping on the regeneration, that should be a top priority. If we could get regeneration rates high enough to allow a person to have a full head of hair, scarring wouldnt be an issue as the head would be covered with hair to conceal it. You'd NEVER be able to tell unless you shaved to a low enough grade. But why would you considering your after MORE hair if only to shave it?

I'm looking forward to 2014 though.

[FearTheLoss]

Artista, is there any way Dr. Wesely would allow other members or BTT as a community to see the presentation you and Spencer saw? I guess I don't understand his reasoning for not letting us see it.

I really wish we could find out what kind of regen he was seeing factually in early trials. We all understand that they are trials and the final procedure may not reflect early results, but it would be nice to know what may be possible. Especially since it looks like we will be waiting a lot longer than imagined to have this treatment available.

[Javert]

Well, either way... 2015 is only a little more than a year away. I'm still hoping on the regeneration, that should be a top priority. If we could get regeneration rates high enough to allow a person to have a full head of hair, scarring wouldnt be an issue as the head would be covered with hair to conceal it. You'd NEVER be able to tell unless you shaved to a low enough grade. But why would you considering your after MORE hair if only to shave it?

I'm looking forward to 2014 though.

Couldn't agree more.

[hellouser]

A question about Acell:

Apparently it allows donor regeneration, well, at least Dr. Cole wants us to believe. He stated that it doesnt work as well as it should due to 'leakage'. He talks about the leakage here (go to the 7:00 minute mark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVm4wSpzjo

More interesting are his thoughts on the follicle extraction, he says that the reason for regeneration is due to certain stem cells that surround the extraction are able to create a regenerated follicle along with ACELL so as long as the extraction is limited to as little of the follicle as possible (minimal harvesting). This is an interesting point because...!! If you you know about Pilofocus from Dr. Wesley, than you know harvesting is dead accurate, follicle survival rate is higher and extraction sites are much less invasive... which, when coupled with ACELL, *also* regenerated follicles! Interesting sh*t!

Now, if leakage is in fact a problem, how would it be addressed with Pilofocus? I guess it wouldn't leak if it were packed underneath the skin and just spread itself around in extracted sites...??

Any thoughts on this?

If this does in fact work the way that it does in the presentation, we'd all need 3 mega-sessions to get to complete coverage with GOOD density... or full density on lower norwoods.

[Artista]

Hellouser- a wink for you.
FearTheLoss I will contact Dr Wesley and ask him for you.
I would imagine that his website would provide that info ,if not now, later when patients are needed to apply.
Its possible that he has the number of patients needed but I will speak with him. Cheers

[JDW]

I've somehow avoided this potential route/topic up til now, just having a look now...So is this something that we're generally positive about going forward?