Is HASCI for real?

[NeedHairASAP]

im from london and he said he wouldnt operate on me because im not even a norwood 1 yet and there was a chance i wouldnt go bald at all, since my father has a full head of hair and was present during the consultation. I swear if i look at my dads hair its thin in exactly the same areas as mine and is alot more receeded, so i have quite a way to go and my hair hasnt receeded for quite a while its just the thin hair that annoys me, its getting thin atm, but he said the side density was the same as the top - indicating stress loss and he said he could see the hair growing back. The thing is, stress is not a problem for except the effects it has on my body.

I think after a certain amount of stress loss, there wont be any more ( I Hope ), either way im not really bogged down about my hair anymore knowing i can achieve a good density of hair ( i think 50 per cm2 is good enough) you will realise this when you achieve it. If money is the only problem its not a problem. + if i do have mpb i dont think i will have lose too much by the time the cures are out (histogen, replicel etc..)

I havent booked another consultation yet (i live in london) and i have an appointment with my local dermatologist to get another opinion and i'll book an appointment from there, the problem is i think dr.gho is going back to netherlands in the summer? so i want to have a consultation and book a date soon.

About your 700 + 700 graft thing being too labour intensive, i dont understand that, so what if its labour intensive, does he mean he wants to do them on seperate dates, please clarify, thanks !

I think your all good nrj. You should relax. Your hair looks fine bra.

[damielmillo]

Yes man, pls stay away from forums...if you see my hair you can say i have problems...
Relax and don´t worry....

[didi]

nrj you remind me of spencer, sometimes wanna punch him in the face, guys you dont know what bald means, stay away from hair loss forums and enjoy life..I mean seriously just do yourself a favour and go chase some girls

[CVAZBAR]

nrj you remind me of spencer, sometimes wanna punch him in the face, guys you dont know what bald means, stay away from hair loss forums and enjoy life..I mean seriously just do yourself a favour and go chase some girls

That's because people don't realize what they have until they lose it.

[Kiwi]

nrj you remind me of spencer, sometimes wanna punch him in the face, guys you dont know what bald means, stay away from hair loss forums and enjoy life..I mean seriously just do yourself a favour and go chase some girls

I agree... Go have some fun before you actually start to really loose your hair

[didi]

Ok lets get back to the subject. So dr Gho is the only doc n Marleen is the only one who speaks english. Im goin to give up emailing them as its takin ages to get answer back. Is marleen located in london or amsterdam so i give her a call?
Why theres no new clinics opening up as dr gho said they have lot of interested docs from arnd the wrld? If the tech wrks they need to market this better, rite now it sucks.

[NeedHairASAP]

Ok lets get back to the subject. So dr Gho is the only doc n Marleen is the only one who speaks english. Im goin to give up emailing them as its takin ages to get answer back. Is marleen located in london or amsterdam so i give her a call?
Why theres no new clinics opening up as dr gho said they have lot of interested docs from arnd the wrld? If the tech wrks they need to market this better, rite now it sucks.

thats
true

[didi]

Does anyone know how big the company is?i know they have research division, 4 clinics or 5....how many employees?

Dr Gho is awsome scientist and crappy businessman just like Nikola Tesla was

[Kiwi]

Does anyone know how big the company is?i know they have research division, 4 clinics or 5....how many employees?

Dr Gho is awsome scientist and crappy businessman just like Nikola Tesla was

On the contrary dear watson...

He's rich
He's fully booked

Probably doesnt give a **** about you. Or me. Or anybody that isnt booked to pay :P

[sanook]

hey guys i thought i should mention i'm booked in for surgery with dr gho in a few months. I do i lot of photography and i'm keen to document the treatment as clearly as possible. Hopefully I can get my hands on a good macro lens before hand...

I noticed the use of dotted tattoos to follow donar regrowth. Anyone got any other ideas for tracking donar regrowth?

Also, I'm a little concerned over one of the remarks someone made about how the donar hair grows back curly if its used more than once? This seems like a pretty big limitation to me? I think it was dismissed as a real issue because the chances of using that same graft more than once isn't likely? but if people are returning back to Dr Gho for this procedure 5 or more times wouldn't the chance be fairly likely that a portion of these grafts would be used more than once? isn't that the beauty of this procedure? virtually infinite donar supply?

Maybe it sounds stupid, but I guess I just don't like the idea of odd curly hairs? i'd like to know how curly they would be? are there any images to document this?

[gc83uk]

I've just received confirmation of my 2nd procedure booked with Gho in London in a couple of months time, originally the earliest I could get was August, but I've managed to get a cancellation again!

They have also told me that they only want to do 600 -700 grafts, just as last time. I asked them why couldn't I do more (pointed out to them that their site says 2300), but the answer I received back said: "We can’t extract 2300 grafts because you have scars. We are sometimes able to extract more but this depends on the quality of the skin and follicles, the size of the donor area."

I will also need to add, that I have asked for the procedure to be done again without the need to shave all my donor, just as I did last time, so this of course reduces the available donor area.

Perhaps I'm the exception here and others will have no problems getting more grafts done per procedure.

Changing the subject a bit, this Marleen woman, the one who emails us back from Hasci.... I actually thought she was just the secretary, but she is also a technician from Maastrict. Even more embarrassing, she is one of the two technicians who operated on me last year, I've always been shit with remembering names! She and Rolf will be the two technicians operating on me again this March in London. I only realised after seeing the staff photos: staff - hasci

[Kiwi]

I've just received confirmation of my 2nd procedure booked with Gho in London in a couple of months time, originally the earliest I could get was August, but I've managed to get a cancellation again!

They have also told me that they only want to do 600 -700 grafts, just as last time. I asked them why couldn't I do more (pointed out to them that their site says 2300), but the answer I received back said: "We can’t extract 2300 grafts because you have scars. We are sometimes able to extract more but this depends on the quality of the skin and follicles, the size of the donor area."

I will also need to add, that I have asked for the procedure to be done again without the need to shave all my donor, just as I did last time, so this of course reduces the available donor area.

Perhaps I'm the exception here and others will have no problems getting more grafts done per procedure.

Changing the subject a bit, this Marleen woman, the one who emails us back from Hasci.... I actually thought she was just the secretary, but she is also a technician from Maastrict. Even more embarrassing, she is one of the two technicians who operated on me last year, I've always been shit with remembering names! She and Rolf will be the two technicians operating on me again this March in London. I only realised after seeing the staff photos: staff - hasci

What type of scars, are you talking old FUT scars?

Also does this mean that you don't have unlimited donor OR that you can keep going back for 700 grafts each year.

Thanks for keeping us all in the loop. I will say it'd be nice to see some more photos of your results, less zoomed in so I can get a feel for the overall procedure, a top down from the front angle would be cool...

Anyway thanks again.

[gc83uk]

No I don't have scars as such.

My condition scarring alopecia theoretically can start again and perhaps they are being overly cautious, despite not having any further hair loss from this condition over the last 18 or so years.

So when she said scars, I think she is basically saying, putting too many grafts in the scarred alopecia area may be too much trauma for the scalp and trigger it off again. At least this is how I understand it. Other surgeons have refused to operate for this very reason.

As for pics, yes I'll do some more, before and after the next procedure from different angles too.

[gc83uk]

week 19

It's been 19 weeks since my first HSI procedure with Gho, I have cut most of the transplanted hairs fairly short in order to see the density count better. I've counted numerous areas of the transplanted area which show approx 30 grafts per sq cm, which I think is ok, but maybe not enough for my final result. I'm pretty happy with the result so far and can't wait to get the 2nd procedure done.

week 19 pic

[clandestine]

Looks good gc! Good update, thanks for sharing.