Price??
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Fallout Boy
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20 grand would definitly be worth it for a permanent full head of hair.. woudlnt you say? i think i would even pay like 70 k for a perfected HM procedure!! haha yea i really want to beat this male pattern baldness thing as you can tell!!
that and im fricking crazy
that and im fricking crazy
Trent
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for me, money is a non issue. not because i have lots of it, but because this is just that important to me. superficial but true. i would rather drive a piece of sh*t care, and have a full head. PM darkly charming about costs though, he had some estimates, i think it was based on how much you transplanted, and i know the highest price was 36,000 dollars for like 15,000 hairs.
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Trent, I couldn't agree with you more. It may sound vain, but you couldn't put a price on this for me. I would rather have a bicycle (or a bus pass :lol: ) and keep all the hair I got.
It's more or less all speculation at this point. It will have to be competitive with hair transplantation price-wise though. hair transplants can give a NW5 a reasonably full head of hair for ~$20000-$30000, so HM probably won't cost a whole lot more than that.
I think though, that once they get it perfected and its been out for a while, it will cost less than hair transplants do, because the actual procedure is less complicated and invasive. Taking the sample and culturing the cells will consume more time on a per patient basis, but hundreds or thousands of patients can be done simultaneously, and the culturing would be done by lab techs whose salaries are much lower than an MD's is. The injection process should take less time and effort on the part of the doctor than transplants too. I imagine dermatologists and regular plastic surgeons could do HM injections, without being as specialized as regular hair transplant doctors are now.
Of course, this is really all just my opinion. I don't have any idea what may happen. Costs may be outrageous initially, because a lot of very desperate, very bald men might be willing to pay a lot of money for the procedure, which will initially be done by only a few doctors, but once a lot of doctors are doing it, and a lot of patients have had it done, prices should be reasonable.
I think though, that once they get it perfected and its been out for a while, it will cost less than hair transplants do, because the actual procedure is less complicated and invasive. Taking the sample and culturing the cells will consume more time on a per patient basis, but hundreds or thousands of patients can be done simultaneously, and the culturing would be done by lab techs whose salaries are much lower than an MD's is. The injection process should take less time and effort on the part of the doctor than transplants too. I imagine dermatologists and regular plastic surgeons could do HM injections, without being as specialized as regular hair transplant doctors are now.
Of course, this is really all just my opinion. I don't have any idea what may happen. Costs may be outrageous initially, because a lot of very desperate, very bald men might be willing to pay a lot of money for the procedure, which will initially be done by only a few doctors, but once a lot of doctors are doing it, and a lot of patients have had it done, prices should be reasonable.
Fallout Boy
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they take the sample out from the back of your head , use YOUR cells and multiply them.. then inject YOUR cells back into YOUR head.. you cant use anyone elses cells or your body will reject them.[/b]
What I meant was, they take the sample from your head then they take it to the lab, culture the cells, and inject them. There's no reason they can't have a lot of cultures going on at once. I didn't mean they would just grow vast quantities of generic cells and have them on hand.