Spencer Kobren Interviews Dr. Jerry Cooley | ACell MatriStem Plucked Hair

[KeepTheHair]

Does anyone know if this is going to be more expensive than other hair transplants and roughly when we will be able to get something like this done?


Anyone?

[Westonci]

http://www.iahrs.org/news/spencer-kobren-interviews-gary-hitzig-acell/

In part I at around 13:00 Hitzig says he implanted 50 plucked hairs, soaked in Acell, into scar tissue, and these hairs multiplied and the result was 150 hairs growing after 8 months.

He says that for every one plucked hairs that is implanted 3 hairs will grow. Im very excited

[Westonci]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPq1q2Z4P0

I made a sensationalist video on Youtube, sorry I couldnt help it [/QUOTE]

[Westonci]

I made a sensationalist video on Youtube, sorry I couldnt help it

[Westonci]

Did Oprah predict the Cure for Baldness?

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

[mlao]

wow, this comment is not very cheerful

Dr. Rassman and Dr. Bernstein are two of the most honest and renowned doctors in hair restoration If they are studying the applications of Acell in their practice I think that it is a strong endorsement and it will have weight thru out
the industry. And while it is still too early to start celebrating I for one am cautiously optimistic.

[Spanish Dude]

This is getting interesting Dr. Rassman has just put another comment on his blog.
http://www.baldingblog.com/

wow, this comment is not very cheerful

[Spanish Dude]

More questions for Dr. Cooley:

1. How difficult is to do the autocloning method? Hitzig says it is "extremely tedious". How much time do you need for each autocloned hair?

2. Have you observed the "triplication" observed by Dr. Hitzig? Dr. Hizig saw that he planted 50 plucked hairs, and 150 hairs grew!!

3. Regarding the female patient who got 1500 autocloned hairs.
Did you plant 1500 hairs, or did you plant only 500 hairs and grew 1500 hairs?

[mlao]

This is getting interesting Dr. Rassman has just put another comment on his blog.

http://www.baldingblog.com/

[Spanish Dude]

I have just plucked one from the side of my head using pliers. Nothing at the root, just the shaft is white at the end, and ends in a small hook. But no substances.
Second attempt, the hair broke at the plier.
Third attempt with tweezers, grabbing the hair close to the skin. Now there is a distinct black bulb but no cells attached (well, just a few at 2mm from the end).

Westonci, I was meaning bleeding in the skin, at the extraction site, not bleeding in the plucked hair.

[Westonci]

Yes, but this is not waxing. It seems to me that this is harder.
Westonci, you posted photos of plucked hairs. How did you do it? Did the donor bleed?

Ive been plucking by eyebrow and nose hairs every week since highschool age (15), im 22 now and i can say that the hairs are just as thick as i remember them.

As for the pictures i posted, I used a tweezer and simply plucked hairs from the side of my scalp. I then used a digital camera with macro zoom to take the picture. And no, the hairs follicles did not bleed as far as i remember.

If your concern is that plucking will reduce or damage donor hairs, Im 99% sure it wont have any major effects on the hairs

[Spanish Dude]

You would have to wax every week for many years to begin destorying hair follicles.

The procedure that Dr. Cooley is using only plucks the hair a handful of times and so shouldnt effect the growth of the hair follicles.

Yes, but this is not waxing. It seems to me that this is harder.
Westonci, you posted photos of plucked hairs. How did you do it? Did the donor bleed?

[Westonci]

You would have to wax every week for many years to begin destorying hair follicles.

The procedure that Dr. Cooley is using only plucks the hair a handful of times and so shouldnt effect the growth of the hair follicles.

[Spanish Dude]

Oh, I am watching Cooley's slides again (part 4, the eyebrow repair case), and Cooley says there is a bit of bleeding when the donor is plucked. so it seems that it is indeed more aggressive than waxing, and, as I expected, this could damage the donor follicle significantly.

To avoid damage to the donor follicle, why not placing a little bit of Acell after plucking, in the donor site?

there are a lot of things to be tried, eh?

[Spanish Dude]

Before I listen to Hitzig's interview, one important question:

Anybody knows what kind of plucking is this? How does it compare to waxing?

I discussed with Ahab, at HS, that waxing damages the follicles. After repetitive waxing, follicles get thinner, and eventually could die.

http://www.************/hair-loss/fo...-id-69227.html

This applies to body hair waxing . But scalp hair is weaker than body hair, so I expect it to suffer even more from waxing.

Also, I assume that autocloning-plucking is even more "damaging" than waxing.

Resume of the hypothesis: Plucking scalp hair repeatedly could kill the donor follicle after just a few pluckings.
The question is how many pluckings can be done on the donor follicle, without compromising its normal long-term functioning.

Thus, it would be necessary to monitor closely the donor area, to see how well it regenerates after the first, second, etc harvestings. For example, totally harvesting a 1cm x 1cm donor area and marking that region using a tatoo. This has been sugested by topcat at Hairsite, (and also in previous occasions by other forum members).