It's great and all, but at the end of the day, you're still moving hair from A to B.
You sure are, but with Pilofocus you're getting nearly 100% success rates with harvested and implanted follicles. So moving hair around without any scars doesn't automatically set you up for any kind of 'failure'. What's nice is that you can always move hairs back.
BUT, suppose the regeneration claims are true. Why not harvest from the donor area.... and harvest again from the recipient area? Pilofocus keeps the follicle completely intact. No one would ever be able to tell you had any kind of procedure, its scarless. You could have it done 10X, it wouldnt matter.
Here's the other thing... if youre assuming your going to go bald, and regeneration DOESNT work (I hope this isn't the case) I would just get the maximum number of grafts possible right off the bat. IF youre going to go completely bald... well then, doesnt matter, might as well enjoy a significant improvement for the next 'X' number of years (maybe even score a woman in that time!?).
What I really wanna know though, is how Pilofocus could be used on body hair. My legs are riddled with hair... so, lets do some math!
My lower part of my legs (shin) is about 40cm in length. Lets be conservative with numbers and say its 35cm. Circumferance here is also around 38cm, so lets say 35cm. Around my thigh I get hair up to about 15cm in length with a circumferance of about 48cm. Lets say 45cm.
I'm NOT counting the knee either here. So lets no figure out the area!
Lower leg = 35cm * 35cm = 1225cm/2.
Upper leg = 15cm * 45cm = 675cm/2
I've thankfully got both legs, so that means 2 * (1225 + 675) = 3,800cm/2
Dayum, thats a lot!
Now... density! I've got about 4-7 hairs per cm/2. Depends on area. Let's say 4 hairs, and this is a low figure.
3,800 * 4 = 15,200 hairs!
On average, a hair follicle has about 2-3 hairs, so 2.5. Now lets divide:
15,200 / 2.5 =
6,080
We've got roughly, or at least (using conservative numbers) 6,000 follicles to harvest from legs ALONE... and without regeneration. I'll take hair off my arms too, but I won't count this figure (although these hairs would be awesome on the hairline for a fine natural look).
So, now we also have our donor hair from back and sides of head... which can be anywhere from 4,000 (low end) - 8,000 (if youre lucky) follicles... again, without regeneration.
I myself would need about 3,000 follicles to go back to basically an NW1-2 with good density. Hell, I could take just 1,600 grafts on hairline/temples and use leg hair for density everywhere else and I could finally get on with my life. But for higher norwoods... BHT with Pilofocus could do some amazing things. The problem to date with BHT has been survival rate of follicles... Pilofocus is supposed to alleviate that.
I hope Dr. Wesley seriously considers body hair. But more importantly, I really hope regeneration WORKS; one megasession and many of us would be DONE with this nightmare!
