HT vs Cells reactivation

[luis]

Hello everyone,

I'm starting to go bald, at 20, genetics can be evil . And just like a lot of you guys I started doing some research about cures and stuff.

The Hair Transplants with Hair multiplication look very promising, and will probably come to market in a near future (i'd say 5 years). But how expensive will it be? Each FUE is already incredibly expensive, and with hair multiplication being possible you will want lots of them! It will cost a fortune to make it look like a "cure"..

Although recent studies showed that the cells are still in the scalp, they are just no longer activated to produce hair. If scientists can reactivate these cells, that would be the cure we all look for, natural hair, and probably a lot cheaper than HT. Ir will probably take a couple of decades though to get to this...

Does anyone know of anything better, and coming up soon-ish?

[bostonhooligan]

Check out the Histogen HSC thread. Could be our best bet on the horizon.

[matlondon]

Hello everyone,

I'm starting to go bald, at 20, genetics can be evil . And just like a lot of you guys I started doing some research about cures and stuff.

The Hair Transplants with Hair multiplication look very promising, and will probably come to market in a near future (i'd say 5 years). But how expensive will it be? Each FUE is already incredibly expensive, and with hair multiplication being possible you will want lots of them! It will cost a fortune to make it look like a "cure"..

Although recent studies showed that the cells are still in the scalp, they are just no longer activated to produce hair. If scientists can reactivate these cells, that would be the cure we all look for, natural hair, and probably a lot cheaper than HT. Ir will probably take a couple of decades though to get to this...

Does anyone know of anything better, and coming up soon-ish?

Anything that comes out will be cheaper than a HT
the average cost of any future product will be around the $5k mark. adreans looks very promising, release date 2014, they try an expand it as much as possible for greater revenue and less costs.

[Mojo Risin]

I'd pay 5000$ to get my hair back tomorrow if it was available.
And it would be the best 5000$ invested of my life.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I would much much rather see cell reactivation by far. I'm sick of hearing the words 'hair transplant' which in my opinion is such shitty (yet widespread) so-called solution to the problem of hair loss. I want my hair back and I don't want a permanent ear-to-ear scar in attempting to get it back. And I certainly don't want cobblestone marks all over my head from having it cut open to pluck out and then re-attach hair. I have heard that bone marrow stem cells and the chemical Noggin have the potential to promote robust hair growth yet no one is experimenting with them. What the **** are these scientists/doctors waiting for??

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I surely pay $5,000 for my hair back. I'd even pay $20,000, no questions asked, to get my hair back!! But I'm not about to spend it on some shitty, scarring, minimally effective hair transplant.

[Follicle Death Row]

**** that I'd go to $30,000 maybe $40,000 for the full head of hair...Wait I retract that. Dr. Ken and Dr. Craig are lurking lads lets downplay this one. Ten bucks doc, take it or leave it and I take HSC by force.

[Dutch_Dude]

I think a little more nuance is necessary. A hair transplant for the front and midscalp section is a very good solution until histogen or aderans come out.

[PatientlyWaiting]

I honestly can't even afford a regular shitty FUT. I'm a college student, still living with my parents.


But if cell reactivation were available, and it cost about the same as a FUT, I would make myself afford it. I just don't like HT's. I could have afforded one about 3 years ago when I had a lot of money saved from working, and I didn't jump at the chance at getting a HT because i'm just not convinced by the results I have seen. I'd hate to pay 1000s of dollars and not be 100% satisfied, because I don't have money growing from a tree like apparently a lot of you other guys do, who can afford $40-50k HT's, good for you, but I can not afford that.

[UK_]

Id pay £100,000 for a full head of hair without question.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

PatientlyWaiting, I totally agree with you. I can afford a hair transplant now but I will not get one. I don't like the procedure, and I don't want a permanent ear-to-ear scar on my head for the rest of my life, or little cobblestone marks from where your head was cut open. I am not convinced by the results at all since you need multiple procedures to get anything close to a full head of hair. And frankly, these procedures just really don't add a lot of hair. But if there was some kind of stem cell or cell reactivation therapy that could regrow hair, I would pay absolutely anything for it; 40,000-50,000 dollars, I don't care. Doctors, are you listening??!! If something other than scarring hair transplants is offered, many of us would pay through the roof for it!! So let's get something going!

[Flowers]

PatientlyWaiting, I totally agree with you. I can afford a hair transplant now but I will not get one. I don't like the procedure, and I don't want a permanent ear-to-ear scar on my head for the rest of my life, or little cobblestone marks from where your head was cut open. I am not convinced by the results at all since you need multiple procedures to get anything close to a full head of hair. And frankly, these procedures just really don't add a lot of hair. But if there was some kind of stem cell or cell reactivation therapy that could regrow hair, I would pay absolutely anything for it; 40,000-50,000 dollars, I don't care. Doctors, are you listening??!! If something other than scarring hair transplants is offered, many of us would pay through the roof for it!! So let's get something going!

FUE doesn't leave a scar and have you seen doctors like Cole's results? If you have good donor a HT is a pretty good option. And on a side note how many guys wear hairpieces? I know celebs do and they look great but what if you had enough donor to give zones 1,2, & 3 good density but not enough for a full crown? You could wear a piece and that's probably been some peoples' strategy. Thicken up more in the front and cover up the back

[PatientlyWaiting]

FUE doesn't leave a scar and have you seen doctors like Cole's results? If you have good donor a HT is a pretty good option. And on a side note how many guys wear hairpieces? I know celebs do and they look great but what if you had enough donor to give zones 1,2, & 3 good density but not enough for a full crown? You could wear a piece and that's probably been some peoples' strategy. Thicken up more in the front and cover up the back

See, you're gonna pay $1000s of dollars for an FUE, which if I am not mistaken is more expensive than FUT, and in the end still wear a wig just to be satisfied? Na, I will pass. But to each his own.

[Flowers]

See, you're gonna pay $1000s of dollars for an FUE, which if I am not mistaken is more expensive than FUT, and in the end still wear a wig just to be satisfied? Na, I will pass. But to each his own.

Well true, even if you don't wear the piece and leave your crown open or thin, its better than you were before the HT. But the whole idea is to have a full head back. That was somewhat hypothetical anyway because I think Acell + FUE is going to get really good in the next few years. I don't know what you're waiting for but if its HSC then have fun sitting around on forums arguing why it'll be around in "5 years". To each his own.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I am just very against hair transplants. It is really unbelievable that there isn't better technology out there to regrow hair. I've heard that FUE still leaves permanent pockmarks all over your head from where they yank the hair out of one place and move it to someplace else. IMO, there are so many things wrong with hair transplants: 1) doesn't create any new hair, 2) creates permanent scars and pockmarks and downright excessive bleeding), 3) normally doesn't come close to giving anyone a full head of hair, 4) plenty of times much of the transplanted hair falls out. I've heard of so many stories on here and elsewhere where former hair transplant patients sorely regret ever making the decision to get a hair transplant in the first place, and wind up with permanent scars and marks all over their heads.