International Clinics already performing Hair Multiplication

[DarklyCharming]

Did some research online. Here are clinics already performing Hair Multiplication. It's not far off guys.

Intercytex in England:
http://www.intercytex.net/ICX.php?Page=trichocyte

The Bazan Institute in Mexico:
http://www.itzan.com/prices-hm.htm

The GHO clinic in Maastricht:
http://www.ghoclinic.com/index.php?menu ... evelopment

Rogers Medical in England:
http://www.rogersclinic.co.uk/newslist.asp

Granted, three are trial based and Mexico isn't exactly the most reliable as far as authenticity but encouraging to know.

Also, I read an interview with Dr. Armani in Canada. He was asked during a consultation whether the patient should wait for Hair Multiplication rather than getting the transplant. He responded that the patient should honestly decide that for himself, that hair multiplication would certainly be available in 10 years and whether he could deal with his hair loss until then.

 

[Trent]

good post darkly! very encouraging. we may have been hit with male pattern baldness at a very interesting time.. just time enough to let propecia hold us off until HM comes out. may we forever be blessed with hair.

 

[DarklyCharming]

Yea I think we might be okay. We're both 23ish as I recall. If we hit 30 and have full heads of hair, I'll take you out for a beer.

 

[Trent]

yup. 24 here. god, how amazing would it be to know that you could always fall back on HM if it works out, if money were the only thing standing in your way.

if i have a full head of hair at 30, i will buy all the veteran HairLossTalk.com folks a night of beers.

 

[LosingmyhairIthink]

You guys have it good. I'm already thinning at 17. If I started thinning at 23/24 that 6/7 years. Take propecia or maybe even Osh101 and wait it out until HM.

 

[Trent]

no you're in the same boat we are. you are just starting to thin, and thus taking propecia will buy the seven or so years you need to wait out HM.

I started using finasteride when I was 19 and first started to notice that I was losing my hair. I'm 26 now, and I have a full head of hair. You really can't even tell if it's thinning if it's soaking wet.

So yeah, I had some regrowth, and I've kept things to this point.
It's been 6.5 years, and I'm in pretty good shape.

I periodically use 5% minoxidil. I might apply it every other day. Maybe .5 mL. Usually after showering.

Good luck, dude.

best post i've seen in a long time.

 

[KiLLuMiNaTi]

lol trent how old are you

 

[Trent]

24

 

[The DJ Guy]

It's appears to be true that HM is still uncertain for now but probably 4-7 years in the future it will be possible. One other poster commented that it would likely be pretty expensive and I would have to agree with that knowing what a good hair transplant costs now. I just received 4 treatments of Follicular Multiplication (FM) which is a stepping stone to HM and it's fine until HM comes on line. I don't have much donor area for my Norwood-6 situation, so FM is perfect for me in the mean time.

The DJ GUY

 

[Buffboy]

Yea I think we might be okay. We're both 23ish as I recall. If we hit 30 and have full heads of hair, I'll take you out for a beer.

Can I come as well? :roll:

 

[Fallout Boy]

hmm what exactly is FM??

 

[Lopfraze]

"Phase I clinical trials (safety) have been completed in seven volunteers at a single UK transplant centre. No safety issues have arisen and five out of the seven patients have shown increased hair numbers. A high dose trial will commence in the UK during the first half of 2005. This will be followed by a multi-centre Phase II clinical trial on patients with male pattern baldness. The Phase II trial is planned for the first half of 2006 and will be performed in both the UK and US. A Phase III trial for both male pattern baldness and female diffuse alopecia is planned for 2007."

Great news.

 

[member5959]

This is really great news FallOut boy!!! Keep the updates coming, they have definitely given me hope over the last few weeks. Anyways, this is probably a dumb question but, hair multiplication is based on the fact that the samples are taken from areas on the head not affected by DHT (the very back of the head) correct? But lately i've been wondering what if your hair loss is not attributed to DHT? What if inflammation or any of the other numerous pseudo-causes of hair loss affect you? Will hair multiplication still work? (again probably a dumb question)

 

[Trent]

No. I think HM will only work if you have hairs that you know will be resistant to DHT, like the ones in the back of your head.

 

[hardcastle]

Great posts, Darkly. Definitely raised my spirits.

Can you post a link to that interview with Dr. Armani?

 

[chewbaca]

No. I think HM will only work if you have hairs that you know will be resistant to DHT, like the ones in the back of your head.

what;s the problem with that...HM will work cause we know that the hairs at the sides are DHT resistant

 

[Trent]

chewy, you have to read what my quote was in response to, don't take it out of context. Yes, you're right there is nothing wrong with HM coming from the DHT resistant areas of the head, and using these to get a full head. but member5959 was asking if it would work if your problem was due to inflammation or some other cause other than male pattern baldness DHT. In this case, no, transplanting DHT resistant hairs isn't going to help with the inflammation problem. These new hairs will just be susceptible probably to the same inflammation that was going on before, until that particular problem is treated. Now i guess if there were some permanent loss due to the inflammation, and the inflammation was stopped due to some other treatments, then yeah, i guess you could tranplant some hairs up there once you get a healthy scalp again.

here's what i was responding to ---------

This is really great news FallOut boy!!! Keep the updates coming, they have definitely given me hope over the last few weeks. Anyways, this is probably a dumb question but, hair multiplication is based on the fact that the samples are taken from areas on the head not affected by DHT (the very back of the head) correct? But lately i've been wondering what if your hair loss is not attributed to DHT? What if inflammation or any of the other numerous pseudo-causes of hair loss affect you? Will hair multiplication still work? (again probably a dumb question)

 

[Guest]

I am elated by this news!

 

[guy83]

yup. 24 here. god, how amazing would it be to know that you could always fall back on HM if it works out, if money were the only thing standing in your way.

if i have a full head of hair at 30, i will buy all the veteran HairLossTalk.com folks a night of beers.

Id like to have a vodka martini instead..

 

[Algag85]

What do you guys think it will cost to have a HM procedure? I haven't really found much discussion on this topic. I am 20 years old here and diffusely thinning uptop pretty roughly, although I think propecia is finally starting to hodl off what's left. But anyhow, for someone who still has half there hair on there head, what do you guys think it will roughly cost. Will it break the $5k mark, or even the $10k mark? I have read one post which talks about it possibly being $20k or higher. Is this not a concern for some people? Whis it may not be, for you high rollers out there, but us average balding guys just don't have 20 thousand dollars lying around to toss up.