Can you imagine shutting down your immune system to get a lower hairline? Lol. Man, maybe we really ought to work on being "comfortable" with ourselves about as hard as we do to find that perfect doc. ...Nah.

actually it will be closer than you think. Docs and dentists use acellualr dermis all the time for large tissue and gum grafts. demeralized bone is used as well for orthopedic procedures.

As mentioned, you cannot ake a vital hair follice, filled with bllod, tissue antigens, etc and transplant it, it willl reject, unless you take the immuno supressmeds.. which will make you gain 100 pounds anyway.. so what's the point.

but for those interested, do a little research on "PRP". this is plasma rich proteins. essentially, you give your own blood, they centrifuge it, extract the plasma, which is rich with your own growth factors.... now you could mix this with a radiated, or acellualr dermal layer (follicle, or whole scalp for that matter)..(essentially the foriegn donor tissue is "washed" of all it's anitgens) and it "could" be transplanted.

I am not saying this is a fact.. but i would see it as a viable option in the future.

i would suspect the cloning would be more at the forefront .. it all depends on how much $$ is to be made, on who does the researxh.. and for fda approval.
obviously the fda will be more favorable (as well of medical grant foundations, etc) for dermis studies for burn pt's etc, over dudes who want better hair... but possible???

anyway.. think of the potential skullduggery.. we would be back to the early med school days of paying the grave robbers for fresh bodies.

ever see that bum on the corner with a great head of hair, laying in his own fluids? You think to yourself.. what a waste. dude might sell his hair, or whole friggen scalp for the right $$$. the ethical problems are boundless!


btw. the average kidney can be purchased in Egypt for less than $400.00

GOOD INFO. DALEW, (especially the part about the kidneys from Egypt... )

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Dalew:

Great perspective. Obviously it does not work now, but it is always nice for researchers to be open minded about possible options.

BTW, i had PRP (my own) mixed with my grafts before they are implanted. I also had the PRP injected in my recipient site and donor. This was performed by dr. Cooley with the objective of speed up healing and increase yield. So far, i can say that my healing process was very quick. What is left to access is the growth yield, which i will be able to assess at my one year mark.

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HT with Dr. Cooley on Nov 20, 2008
2097 grafts, 3957 hairs
Proscar, 1.25 mg daily, skip the 5th day, started Nov 2007

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