Article on piloscopy...

[barfacan]

Nore like PillowFocus because that shit'll only be available in your dreams

[tedwuji]

Nore like PillowFocus because that shit'll only be available in your dreams

LOL

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[Tomtom21]

Wasnt carlos wesley supposed to provide a presentation update of his small scale clinical trials today? Anybody have any news or links to his presentation at the 23rd isrhs today?

[Tomtom21]

Wasnt there supposed to be a presentation or update on pilofocus as per dr carlos wesley yesterday in Chicago? Anyone hear or find anything?

[Carlos Wesley, MD]

Hi, all.

The Bald Truth recently posted highlights from my lecture delivered in Chicago last week at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery conference.

Here's the link to their thread.

Enjoy!

[Artista]

Hi Dr. Wesley!
I wished that we could have met up while you were here in Chicago!
I have so much to do at home , at work and in my art studio !
Of course, once you ad me on to your Phase Testing, I WILL find time for it(of course-lol)
Cheers to you

[Occulus]

Hi, all.

The Bald Truth recently posted highlights from my lecture delivered in Chicago last week at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery conference.

Here's the link to their thread.

Enjoy!

Dr. Wesley, that presentation was amazing. You should be very, very proud of what you've accomplished - few can claim to have changed paradigms, and that's exactly what you've done. I can only imagine how transformative this will be. I wonder if you have any plans to partner with researchers in regenerative medicine to see if the introduction of other protocols to your procedure could encourage significant donor-site regrowth?

[tedwuji]

Hi, all.

The Bald Truth recently posted highlights from my lecture delivered in Chicago last week at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery conference.

Here's the link to their thread.

Enjoy!

Ok

[Swooping]

Thanks for the presentation.

There is no doubt anymore that hair follicles have the capability to regenerate.

Quote from other doc;

The summary to this initial study is that transected follicles within partially transected grafts in FUE have about 50% potential to grow mature hair. In other words, only about half of the transection rate in FUE actually corresponds to amount of the wasted hair, assuming that none of the transected follicles left behind at the donor area grows back mature hair.

Interestingly, there was another poster presentation by Dr. Jean Devroye which was aimed at investigating what the growth rate is at the donor area with these transected follicles. He totally transected the top half of follicular units to find a 60% growth at the donor area. He stated that this was a bad consequence of transections. However, if we combine the two studies we actually see that there may not be any loss of hair caused by partial transections in FUE at all.

I'll go even as far as saying that this will be highly likely the next step in hair transplant surgery to provide a "functional cure" for everybody before regenerative therapies will set ground. At least such is my prediction. The proof of concept is there. More experimentation and work just needs to be done to achieve higher regeneration rates and yield.

[Occulus]

Thanks for the presentation.

There is no doubt anymore that hair follicles have the capability to regenerate.

Quote from other doc;



I'll go even as far as saying that this will be highly likely the next step in hair transplant surgery to provide a "functional cure" for everybody before regenerative therapies will set ground. At least such is my prediction. The proof of concept is there. More experimentation and work just needs to be done to achieve higher regeneration rates and yield.

I agree. It may prove easier to get follicles to regenerate than it is to grow them de novo. By developing transplant techniques that create a better environment for regrowth and combining them with protocols that encourage that regrowth, you have effectively found a cure (albeit an inelegant one). I would love to see piloscopy combined with Acell, prp or any other of the known protocols that have shown anecdotal evidence to encourage regrowth.

What else I like about piloscopy is that it leaves the scalp relatively undamaged. What has kept me from a transplant is a concern that the damage done through traditional techniques will prevent any future protocols from working due to the fibrous scaring that HTs cause. Piloscopy seems to keep that sort of damage to a minimum.

I really hope piloscopy becomes available within he next few years.

[Renee]

Is it correct to say with this method there will be regeneration in the donor area?

[nameless]

Hi, all.

The Bald Truth recently posted highlights from my lecture delivered in Chicago last week at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery conference.

Here's the link to their thread.

Enjoy!

I can't get into the utube presentation. It says password required. It would be nice if you could make it possible for someone to see the presentation without the person having to go through a bunch of rigmarole.

[joachim]

we already know that hair follicle regneration from two splitted halves is possible, but what many seem to forget is the resulting diameter of the regenerated follicles.
until now nobody was able to regenerate a follicle with nearly the same diameter. the diameter was in all cases around 30 to 50% thinner.
a 30% smaller diameter means that the overall volume of the single hair is halved. it looks extremely thin then. diameter is what gives the hair robustness and volume.

so, if dr. wesley can't regenerate the splitted halves with at least 90% of it's initial diameter, then it's totally useless. i'm not sure if acell and similar mixtures are able to do that.

i think, donor regeneration is a dead end.
if wesley could achieve the required 90% diameter consistently, then it would be a defacto cure.
if not, then pilofocus is almost pointless anyway, like hair transplants in general.
i hope the era of hair transplants will end in a few years when we finally see the real cure happing (with wounding or iPS approach).
i'm sick of discussing stone-age treatments like hair transplants.

[Trouse5858]

we already know that hair follicle regneration from two splitted halves is possible, but what many seem to forget is the resulting diameter of the regenerated follicles.
until now nobody was able to regenerate a follicle with nearly the same diameter. the diameter was in all cases around 30 to 50% thinner.
a 30% smaller diameter means that the overall volume of the single hair is halved. it looks extremely thin then. diameter is what gives the hair robustness and volume.

so, if dr. wesley can't regenerate the splitted halves with at least 90% of it's initial diameter, then it's totally useless. i'm not sure if acell and similar mixtures are able to do that.

i think, donor regeneration is a dead end.
if wesley could achieve the required 90% diameter consistently, then it would be a defacto cure.
if not, then pilofocus is almost pointless anyway, like hair transplants in general.
i hope the era of hair transplants will end in a few years when we finally see the real cure happing (with wounding or iPS approach).
i'm sick of discussing stone-age treatments like hair transplants.

That's a pretty bold take on transplants. They've come a long way in a relatively short period. Saying that they're 'pointless' isn't really fair. Have you seen how much better a guy like Wes Welker looks? You wouldn't be able to tell he ever had thinning hair. Transplants are certainly limited, but they've also made a lot of guys look much, much better IMO

[joachim]

That's a pretty bold take on transplants. They've come a long way in a relatively short period. Saying that they're 'pointless' isn't really fair. Have you seen how much better a guy like Wes Welker looks? You wouldn't be able to tell he ever had thinning hair. Transplants are certainly limited, but they've also made a lot of guys look much, much better IMO

true. but the limitations is what makes me angry. also, many transplants have gone wrong in the past, with unsatisfying or even horrifying results.
there are only a handful of HT docs on the world who can create good results. that alone is a pain in the a.s.s.
if you are new to the HT world and don't do research for weeks and months in forums like this, the chance is very high to get a HT done with bad results. happened to two of my friends.

and with HTs being pointless, i mean that in a few years with stem cell or wounding approaches leading to a cure, transplants will be soon a thing of the past. it's only an intermediate step until the full cure is here. simply because there is no other and better option.

this is similar to hybrid cars which have always been pointless because everyone knew at that time already that only the full-electric car is the future. hybrid cars are fuc* ing complex and expensive, but the industry tried to bridge the gap until electric cars get mainstream. tesla did the first step already and showed the world how to do it. now the others have to catch up and in a few years, when the battery price is reduced to a reasonable price, then there's no other way to go.
and still, some desperate car makers like toyota are trying to push their hydrogen fuel cell cars as the next revolution. this is just dumb, but also a kind of intermediate step to try push some good revenue for another 10 years.

and now, the time has come that HTs and pilofocus are getting more and more pointless. only a matter of years, but soon the waiting game and nightmare will be over.