Will FUE interfere with upcoming treatments?

[comb0ver]

What do the more well-informed members of the forum think?

Will an FUE treatment limit our ability to get Histogen, Replicel, SM0 etc. when/if they come out?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts

[Follisket]

Was just about to ask something similar myself. Do we have any real research on this, people?
Or better yet, do we know any transgendered person who's had a HT prior to their MTF transition? That would probably give us a conclusive answer on the matter.

[inferiorfollicles]

Death will come before future treaments, no need to worry about fue.

[comb0ver]

Death will come before future treaments, no need to worry about fue.

oh FFS. with the recent histogen progress things are looking very interesting in the next few years.

it would just suck to get a HT now (which I'm thinking of doing) and then find out it means you're not allowed to get histogen in 2017/18/whenever.

[pilipili]

You take hair in the « healthy » zone and you transplant them on the scalp. so what’s the deal ? Why would this interfere with potential new treatments ? need new hair where there are dots scars ? does it really matter ?
Later You could potentially still hide these scars with a scarless HT like pilofocus.
Neverending story. Meanwhile shedding ...

[Follisket]

Nah, it's not about the visibility of the scars in the donor area at all. It's a question of whether the implanted grafts cause any sort of scarring, tension, pressure or other unfavourable conditions in the recipient area that might prevent regrowth.
Because you're not likely to get natural thickness or a perfectly natural hairline with an FUE, but you might get them with a future treatment (*major suspension of disbelief*). I mean, it'd be nice to know what you can expect, no?

[comb0ver]

Nah, it's not about the visibility of the scars in the donor area at all. It's a question of whether the implanted grafts cause any sort of scarring, tension, pressure or other unfavourable conditions in the recipient area that might prevent regrowth.

exactly.

[pilipili]

I see. Unhapily Nobody knows? That would need another trial *sigh*. but the strategy could be this one: have a HT with max density on the front of the scalp. At least you get a hairline, That's the most important to have a good looking face. and wait for the treatments "to grow hair everywhere else. Mega *sigh*

[Occulus]

This issue is why I won't be getting an HT. I just don't see how a drug that is designed to revitalize a miniaturized follicle will be able to do that when the follicle has been chopped up during the implantation of a hair graft.

[Trouse5858]

I'm not an expert by any means but I can't think of a good reason why a FUE would hinder future treatments. The follicles are being transplanted to a different area of the scalp but then they function just the same. They continue to grow through the identical stages of hair growth/ shedding, can be cut, styled and dyed without issue. I don't think this would even be possible if there was serious residual scarring taking place under the skin.

[Thinning@30]

What Follisket said. There has been speculation that FUE grafts create a small margin of scar tissue in the area around the graft side. After all, a surgeon has to create small incisions for the implanted hairs to go into.

[inferiorfollicles]

oh FFS. with the recent histogen progress things are looking very interesting in the next few years.

it would just suck to get a HT now (which I'm thinking of doing) and then find out it means you're not allowed to get histogen in 2017/18/whenever.

People have been believing the cure is just a few years away since centuries ago. What makes you believe this time it's real?

[comb0ver]

People have been believing the cure is just a few years away since centuries ago. What makes you believe this time it's real?

go take a read through the histogen section of the forum, listen to gail naughton's recent interview with spencer. then tell me the future isn't looking good.

[Occulus]

I'm not an expert by any means but I can't think of a good reason why a FUE would hinder future treatments. The follicles are being transplanted to a different area of the scalp but then they function just the same. They continue to grow through the identical stages of hair growth/ shedding, can be cut, styled and dyed without issue. I don't think this would even be possible if there was serious residual scarring taking place under the skin.

Because the transplantation does damage to the existing follicles in the recipient area. If those are damaged or destroyed, how can they be coaxed back into growing terminal hairs by future protocols such as Replicel?

[Paul73]

Because the transplantation does damage to the existing follicles in the recipient area. If those are damaged or destroyed, how can they be coaxed back into growing terminal hairs by future protocols such as Replicel?

Where did you get the info that hairs next to the transplantes ones are destroyed?

The scars around the transplantes hairs are minimal and superficial. That's what some ht doctors told me.

Btw, hairs can grow in scars. Just take a look at the restoration cases of fue into strip scars (which are much more serious than those in the recipiente área).