Thymosin beta 4 - activation of hair stem cells

[HairTalk]

I have yet to see even one piece of photographic evidence in support of treating hairloss with P.R.P. or P.R.P.+ACell injections. This whole thing seems like either a failed experiment at cost to the patient (rather than on the researcher's dime, which is how testing should be conducted), or a simple scam.

[matlondon]

Is that a before–after comparison? I see no marked difference, if it is: look at the way the hair is combed in the second shot.

Agree the hair the 1st is combed to the side the hair on the 2nd pic is comb forward and is longer.

[VictimOfDHT]

But have you guys seen the video on youtube about Dr. Greco (also on his web site) ? It kinda gave me a little bit of hope but I'm not really that optimistic about it any more.

[level]

But have you guys seen the video on youtube about Dr. Greco (also on his web site) ? It kinda gave me a little bit of hope but I'm not really that optimistic about it any more.

Yeah, I saw it. But that video is about 2 years old. It's probably the only documented PRP case that shows vast improvement. If anyone has seen other pictures/videos of patients who have had noticeable success with PRP, please provide a link. I personally haven't seen any evidence that leads me to believe that PRP is a viable solution for hair loss. And this is coming from someone (me) who received PRP injections over a year ago.

Man, like seriously, with all the talk about PRP over the last 3 years and with all dialogue about acell over the last 18 months, there should be substantial, undeniable evidence that these treatments are working. There's been a bunch of hearsay, but nothing concrete.

[DepressedByHairLoss]

I heard that Dr. Greco has a new thing now called Orogen Plus which is a supposed improvement over PRP. I like Dr. Greco because: 1. He seems dedicated to developing new treatments for hair loss, 2. He doesn't solely focus on hair transplants to treat hair loss, and 3. He is always very responsive and informative on here and in e-mails.
If he developed something new, I would go to him.

[debris]

Yeah, I saw it. But that video is about 2 years old. It's probably the only documented PRP case that shows vast improvement. If anyone has seen other pictures/videos of patients who have had noticeable success with PRP, please provide a link. I personally haven't seen any evidence that leads me to believe that PRP is a viable solution for hair loss. And this is coming from someone (me) who received PRP injections over a year ago.

Man, like seriously, with all the talk about PRP over the last 3 years and with all dialogue about acell over the last 18 months, there should be substantial, undeniable evidence that these treatments are working. There's been a bunch of hearsay, but nothing concrete.

if you mean the video of the guy with curly blonde hair ... the guy had 2 HT's together with the acell prp.

that says it all.

[level]

I agree with hairtalk; these pictures are a bit deceiving. The patient's hair is obviously combed different in the second picture and I'm skeptical about the lighting. If this treatment were producing concrete, noticeable results, the improvement would be obvious and no one would be questioning the pictures. Call me a pessimist, but this stuff appears to do nothing. If science has proven that we have a constant amount of stem cells on our scalp, and if this treatment claims to rehabilitate our progenitor cells, then this combination of prp, acell and thrombin should be producing even results throughout the scalp-not the scattered, hardly noticeable "results" we are seeing in these pictures.

I'm sorry to say, but there's nothing in the pipeline that has me uber excited. Some things (i.e. histogen, acell, prp, etc.) have caught my attention, but noting has seized my confidence. I do like the paradigm shift that is occurring, but I feel we are several years away from having a viable treatment for hair loss that doesn't require surgery.

[HairTalk]

I'm sorry to say, but there's nothing in the pipeline that has me uber excited. Some things (i.e. histogen, acell, prp, etc.) have caught my attention, but noting has seized my confidence. I do like the paradigm shift that is occurring, but I feel we are several years away from having a viable treatment for hair loss that doesn't require surgery.

Agreed. I'm as eager as the next to have the almighty "cure" available within the next couple of years, but I think it's a silly fantasy, right now, that it will be in people's hands by 2014, as many were positing or hoping it would be, even into spring of 2011.

Well, if nothing else, by the end of 2011, we should hear how things are moving with ACell and plucking, and, by 2012's conclusion (though I'm reluctant to plan that far ahead, as things have a tendency to fall apart or be to be grossly delayed), we ought to know more about Histogen's H.S.C. and about RepliCel/TrichoScience.

I still wonder what's going on with Allergan's work against male-pattern baldness, using bimatoprost (Latisse).