There is a poster on another site who had the treatment in Switzerland. He's a month out and has had no results, though he was told it would take six weeks at the earliest. The way he described the process made it sound like PRP, but with fat - fat was withdrawn from his stomach, half of which was injected into the scalp, and the other half run through a centrifuge and then also injected into the scalp. I simply don't see what hypothesis would suggest this would grow hair - it sounds like a very expensive scam to me.
This is
NOT the same thing as Kerastem.
In Kerastem they do the following:
1. Take out some fat from the patient.
2. Harvest the ADSCs from that fat.
3. Put those ADSCs into a specific product called PUREGRAFT, which is this:
http://www.puregraft.com/
4. After getting the ADSCs into the Puregraft then the mixture is put into the scalp.
You should talk to your friend and if anything different from what I just described happened then he did not receive Kerastem and he should complain and kick up a BIG fuss. We need to get the clinics to start doing what they're advertising that they're doing. It's very doubtful that what they did would work because there is nothing to hold those stem cells in the target location. Those stem cells were supposed to be put into the PUREGRAFT
product.
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If what you're saying is true the Swiss poster did not get what he was supposed to get - he did not get what the company is advertising and he should complain to the authorities that he is a victim of fraud.
If he purchased Kerastem here is what he's supposed to receive:
http://kerastem.com/our-technology/
In the above link look at the diagram with the female silhouette because that displays the treatment.
1. They harvest fat from the patient's hip.
2. They extract adipose derived stem cells from the fat harvested from the patient.
3. They put the adipose derived stem cells into a purified fat product called PUREGRAFT and this combination forms the
final treatment mix.
4. They implant the
final treatment mix (
adipose derived stem cells taken from the patient's own fat and put into a specific product called PUREGRAFT) into the patient's scalp.
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There is a poster on another site who had the treatment in Switzerland. He's a month out and has had no results, though he was told it would take six weeks at the earliest. The way he described the process made it sound like PRP, but with fat - fat was withdrawn from his stomach, half of which was injected into the scalp, and the other half run through a centrifuge and then also injected into the scalp. I simply don't see what hypothesis would suggest this would grow hair - it sounds like a very expensive scam to me.
What site is this poster at? I would like to talk with him if that can be arranged.
If the clinics offering Kerastem are not doing it as advertised we need to report that.
If the treatment is done right there's a good chance that it will work, but if charlatans
are going to cut corners then it won't work. But they'll still make a bunch of money, and
they won't go to the expense of doing it the right way if they can make money from selling
a scammy version of it. If we want them to do it right then we need to raise a big ruckus if
they're not doing it right. If they're selling something other than the process/mixture that they're
advertising then they could get into a lot of trouble for fraud. Switzerland has strong anti-fraud laws.
If he didn't get what he paid for we need to make a big issue of that and get the clinic into trouble for
cheating him. If they did cheat him then they were probably just trying to cut corners to cut expenses.
