HASCI - -How well does it work? Now we'll be able to find out!

[Arashi]

Sorry, I forgot to paste public link. Actually, I managed to solve my problem already. Came home, sat down and found out the solution. I'll let you know if I get stuck again.

Great to hear ! Sounds like you're making very good progress, nice !

[AlmostUndone]

Your link doesnt work

Sorry, I forgot to paste public link. Actually, I managed to solve my problem already. Came home, sat down and found out the solution. I'll let you know if I get stuck again.

[Arashi]

I need help or some idea how manage this one. Need to find a before-after connection as high up as possible in the picture... (Or at least somewhat higher than the current red line which I hope is correctly drawn.)

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=task11.jpg

Otherwise I don't have much left to do before we can count the recipient.

Your link doesnt work

[AlmostUndone]

I need help or some idea how manage this one. Need to find a before-after connection as high up as possible in the picture... (Or at least somewhat higher than the current red line which I hope is correctly drawn.)

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=task11.jpg

Otherwise I don't have much left to do before we can count the recipient.

[AlmostUndone]

Good job mate ! Good luck with linking all the photo's, if you want me to do something, let me know. Otherwise I'll just do the counting again.

Ok mate, good to hear of you! I know you can count, but I need some time to compose the necessary photos. Thanks.

[Arashi]

Good job mate ! Good luck with linking all the photo's, if you want me to do something, let me know. Otherwise I'll just do the counting again.

[AlmostUndone]

Ok, so it's been 11 months, and by now we can get an pretty strong idea about what 800 grafts looks like. I've included before and after into one image so it's starting to make sense:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81057175/recipient_work_11months.jpg

[AlmostUndone]

Anybody can help me get started. Let's connect these two images.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81057175/61-connect.jpg

Goal: find 1 common hair or follicle

[AlmostUndone]

Today I shot the recipient. Obviously it will take a while to make the necessary connections, and then we can see if we have enough pictures to answer the question in this thread's title

[Arashi]

I had huge plans to do it next weekend, but I was just booked there to a very occasional side-job o' mine. However.... the following next weeks look veeery promising.

I'm still probably gonna depend on daylight. So there's another variable.

Ok good to hear the next weeks look promising ! Good luck !

[AlmostUndone]

I had huge plans to do it next weekend, but I was just booked there to a very occasional side-job o' mine. However.... the following next weeks look veeery promising.

I'm still probably gonna depend on daylight. So there's another variable.

[Arashi]

He is using a smaller punch to partially split them in a vertical manner. Not manipulating the hair follicle structure itself further in vitro AFAIK.

If the hair follicle is split horizontally it can apparently regenerate and quite often too, however the hair follicle will grow back thinner (diameter decrease); http://drcarloswesley.com/T/06082014.pdf.

I remember Dr Nigam tried that, he failed. But he's an idiot so not sure what to think of it. I also remember that Dr Aaron Gardner said on this forum that he thought it would be possible to dissect the follicle under a microscope and make 2 out of 1 that way. He also said that it's not feasible to do so because of the man hours needed, I think he predicted 5 minutes per follicle, so 12 per hour, so rougly 100 hairs for 1 day of work, so that's not feasible unfortunately. Maybe with some machine/robot though...

But splitting them vertically, blindly, like HASCI does, that's not working for sure. Hopefully AlmostUndone has some time for us in the coming weeks, so we can see the results

[Swooping]

Great job AlmostUndone and Arashi !
@ Arashi from the analysis do you think they're splitting the follicle or just removing the whole thing (i.e. an fue with smaller punch)?

He is using a smaller punch to partially split them in a vertical manner. Not manipulating the hair follicle structure itself further in vitro AFAIK.

If the hair follicle is split horizontally it can apparently regenerate and quite often too, however the hair follicle will grow back thinner (diameter decrease); http://drcarloswesley.com/T/06082014.pdf.

[Arashi]

Great job AlmostUndone and Arashi !
@ Arashi from the analysis do you think they're splitting the follicle or just removing the whole thing (i.e. an fue with smaller punch)?

Most certainly they split it. It's what we saw from the petridish photo's before and it's what we see here: 3 hair grafts growing back as 1 or 2 hair graft is most common.

[Canucks]

Great job AlmostUndone and Arashi !
@ Arashi from the analysis do you think they're splitting the follicle or just removing the whole thing (i.e. an fue with smaller punch)?