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    Quote Originally Posted by drybone View Post
    What if they use Acell with chest hair. What is the yield?
    The following segment from the study seems to offer some hope for chest hair treated with ACell:

    Dr. Cole:
    "This study shows both a difference in the survival rate of beard hair as compared to chest hair, as well as a difference in the survival rates for grafts placed into a recipient area pre-treated with Acell compared to a recipient area that was not pre-treated with Acell. I performed an informal investigation to evaluate the survival of chest hair grafts placed into a strip scar that was pre-treated with ACell a year ago. I noted that the growth of chest hair in the recipient area of this patient was not as good as the growth of his beard hair from a procedure performed 1 year before. As a result I wanted to see if pre-treating the scalp with ACell had an improvement in the growth of chest hair. The donor area scar was transplanted with beard hair one year prior to this study. In the follow up procedure, I transplanted only chest hair to the donor area scar. I treated the donor area scar with an injection of several cc of Acell 1mg/ cc. I anecdotally found that the ACell improved the survival of chest hair in follow up 3 months later. The natural follow up to this evaluation was to objectively evaluate the survival rate of body hair in donor scars in the absence and presence of ACell."

    I recently asked Dr. Cole if he thought ACell would improve body hair results. He said no. I believe his answer relates to chest and stomach hair results remaining unpredictable. Evidently when the grafts and recipient areas are treated with ACell, there isn't enough growth improvement to get excited about.

    That's my interpretation. When Dr. Cole returns to the office I will ask him again.

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    Thanks for doing the research. I appreciate it. I sure wish they could make advances on it. So many of us men have unwanted body hair and not enough scalp hair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 35YrsAfter View Post
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    In early 2010, Dr. Cole did a study of beard graft yields

    It's a lengthy article. Here is the super condensed version:

    "Findings: The use of Acell resulted in a 92% yield for beard hair in the donor area scar at 6 months. The absence of Acell resulted in a 0% yield for chest hair in the donor area scar at 6 months."
    Thanks! Fortunately I've got pretty good donor beard as Cole said he would do 3-5k grafts from mine without hesitation. I may up my time period and come in around December for a small test run.

    Also, is Cole getting around 50% regeneration in beard donor area with Acell. If it was in study I overlooked it, I'll read it again.

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