ACell, a Current Review of Applications in Hair Transplant Surgery

[wolvie1985]

Hahahahahaha. With respect, please take your infamous ego and sour grapes somewhere else, doctor.

Rather than try to help advance the science of using plucked hairs with ACell yourself, you have chosen to sit in the backseat and criticize the driving of others without having taken the wheel yourself. Your 'experience and knowledge' is based on old methods and science that predates the application of ACell to plucked hairs, or combining the ACell with arterial blood.

You say: "With “autocloning” you are disassembling the follicle such that it not longer has the minimal requirements for growth and praying that Acell will make up the difference. What is left in the donor area is a mere fragment of the original follicle, yet these FUE skeptics feels this tiny residual fragment will routinely regrow hair in the donor area."

First of all, what is left in the donor is the follicle that has simply been plucked. Not a fragment. Unless you know something that the entire hair removal industry has yet to discover, plucked hairs grow back. Ask any woman who has had a brazillian.

Secondly, no need to 'pray' that Acell makes up the difference. It DOES. Cooley and Hitzig have DONE IT. And they say it works and have proven it works. You have not even tried their methods, and yet you think you are entitled to say they are wrong.

You also suggest that the Acell hairs that grow in the recipient area are thinner than regular hairs. Cooley and Hitzig have never said this.

CIT is the new laserdisc. Please deal with it instead of crapping all over your colleagues' ingenuity and courage.

[tbtadmin]

Hahahahahaha. With respect, please take your infamous ego and sour grapes somewhere else, doctor.

Rather than try to help advance the science of using plucked hairs with ACell yourself, you have chosen to sit in the backseat and criticize the driving of others without having taken the wheel yourself. Your 'experience and knowledge' is based on old methods and science that predates the application of ACell to plucked hairs, or combining the ACell with arterial blood.

You say: "With “autocloning” you are disassembling the follicle such that it not longer has the minimal requirements for growth and praying that Acell will make up the difference. What is left in the donor area is a mere fragment of the original follicle, yet these FUE skeptics feels this tiny residual fragment will routinely regrow hair in the donor area."

First of all, what is left in the donor is the follicle that has simply been plucked. Not a fragment. Unless you know something that the entire hair removal industry has yet to discover, plucked hairs grow back. Ask any woman who has had a brazillian.

Secondly, no need to 'pray' that Acell makes up the difference. It DOES. Cooley and Hitzig have DONE IT. And they say it works and have proven it works. You have not even tried their methods, and yet you think you are entitled to say they are wrong.

You also suggest that the Acell hairs that grow in the recipient area are thinner than regular hairs. Cooley and Hitzig have never said this.

CIT is the new laserdisc. Please deal with it instead of crapping all over your colleagues' ingenuity and courage.

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[wolvie1985]

You're right. I apologize for the tone. But I stand by the substance of my comments.

[Westonci]

Im also wondering where dr Cole got his info from regarding the "supposed" plucked scalp hairs being thinner than normal scalp hair. Im sure that Doctor Rassman or Doctor Bernstein as well as others who attended the ISHRS meeting in Boston and spoke with Jerry Cooley would have heard about it and mentioned it in their analysis, but they have not heard of this yet.

[Winston]

I think it’s good to have a balanced perspective and not to over hype any of these new breakthroughs, but in my mind there is only minor scientific data coming from either side of this discussion. So far we have some decent data coming form Dr. Cooley and Dr. Hitzig, and more of an opinion, based of his observations, coming from Dr. Cole. I guess only time will tell.

[Bakez]

Unfortuntely, what Dr Cole has posted is what I suspected. Obviously he has backed it up, but just based on pure logic I feel as though this won't work, and I sort of doubt that 'A-Cell' even does anything at all - is there actually any proper evidence at all that is has been used anywhere succesfully?

[wolvie1985]

"The whole concept of autocloning is merely an aberration or a slight of hand based on photographic manipulation."

The only thing manipulative is Dr. Cole's manifesto which I suggest is designed to undermine this massive advancement and slow down the massive stampede away from his own techniques. I'm sorry, it's hard to standby and let this go unchallenged.

Dr. Cole: tell us where and when Dr. Cooley told you that the autocloned hairs grow back thinner. That is a very serious claim and needs to be substantiated.

Either confirm this claim or apologize for this misinformation.