97% regrowth(!), I don?‚??t believe that Janna and I?‚??m sure you not know this for sure too!
I think it?‚??s over 70% maybe 80% worldwide, that means in the states/canada but also in holland/germany!

OK I want to achieve a 100& regrowth but if this is really realistic I don?‚??t know!
I think maybe it could be done better with quickgrafting, I hope it brings better results en stops the shedding!

Holland is the hairtransplanting country nr 1 worldwide and I think we got overhere allot of good hairdocs!

Sorry from me to Ron Shapiro MD about my words to his book together with Walter Unger MD on HairSite but I don?‚??t like it when they not recommend hairlase and my favorit hairdoc Malte Villnow MD!

In German, I believe Walter Unger MD knows that language!
"Malte Villnow ist das A&O der Sch?¶nheitschirurgie und wir d??rfen froh sein das dieser Sch?¶nheitschirurg sich angezogen f??hlte zu die Haartransplantation und sich dar spezialisiert hat!" "Besuch im mahl in seiner D??sseldorfer Praxisklinik ist meine Emphelung zu dir f??r dein ebentuellen n?¤chsten Buch ??ber Haarchirurgie! MFG Frenkie the hairobservator.

Greatings Hairobservator

Hairobservator,

I think that it is the broken english and language barrier that makes it very difficult for us to fully understand the points that you are trying to make.

After Janna's post I have been able to comprehend about "quickgrafting" and do see some legitimacy to it but I don't know if it is such an advanced alteration that will drastically improve graft growth percentages. Possibly?

I would agree with you that there are probably several excellent european physicians that should possibly get a little more recognition. I believe that Pat (the editor of this site) is planning to address that concern by visiting more clinics overseas.

It appears that you are quite educated on HT and it is a shame for the language issue as I'm sure that we all would benefit from some of your insight. Can you post photos of yourself and the work that Dr. Villnow performed? We are always interested in seeing positive results from anywhere in the world.

Thanks for your insightful posts.

Hi Bill,

Well, I'm speaking now just for our clinic; we have six techs who work everyday. Once the donor strip is taken out, four techs start slivering and dissecting the grafts while the other two assist with suturing and administering local anesthetic to the front/top of head for recipient site incisions before cutting grafts. This process of suture/anesthetic can take about 30 minutes to an hour. Once the patient is numbed up, the doctor starts making incisions. Our technicians cut approximately 200 to 250 grafts per hour under the microscope. These are fine, trimmed grafts. The process of making incision can take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours depending on how many incisions need to be made. An hour after strip removal, there are approximately 1000+ grafts ready for insertion yet the incisions are not ready for planting.

I know there are doctors/other clincis that make faster incisons than ours sometimes, and there's also the technique of making 1/3 or 1/2 of the total incisions, plant, then make another 1/3, etc. Even with this method, you have the first cut grafts sitting out of body for minimum of an hour.

I don't know how imperative it is to plant the grafts within minutes, and studies have been done to see how long grafts can be safely out of the body. The longer grafts are out of the body the less viable they are. We, along with many other clinics keep the cut grafts chilled on ice soaked with saline. The studies done have stated chilled grafts can be out of body for 6-8 hours before losing viability. This does not mean the grafts are dead after 8 hours.

We get great results with current method, however, it never hurts to reevaluate even a proven method to constantly improve.

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Sorry Folks, but this guy has been accused of spamming several sites in order to "push" this technique or the Doc he works for.

He is targeting all of the main Hairloss Forums and all of his posts up to now have been copied verbatim.

Sorry HAIR Frenkie, but I think your a spammer/shill.
Unfortunately, because of your English, I can't really tell who/what. Perhaps Malte Villnow?

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B Spot,

I have also noticed his posts on other forums. And this last post does indicate that he is trying to push his doc, whoever "Malte Villnow MD" is, I don't know.

Janna,

You stated:

I think this says it all. If indeed this is true, then there should be no reason to think that this "quick implant technique" will be of any benefit or consequence (general statement here, not stating you Janna think it's superior or inferior). The concept in itself doesn't seem to be anything substantial or new, at least from my logical mind, though I admit, I'd like to hear from a doctor on this. Has no other doctor thought about this before? In a field where accuracy is extremely important, I imagine that all options were explored about what would provide for the most accurate and highest yield hair transplant. That being said, I'd find it hard to believe any of our top doctors would look at this and say "I never thought about this before". Just my thoughts, but I'd love to hear from a doctor on it.

Bill

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I?‚??m not a spammer(!), but I want to bring my idears with "quickgrafting" to the public attention(hairpatients!) and that is only possible on this hairforums!
On HaarWeb.nl in holland i?‚??m very respected user, maybe a hairexpert if they are existing?
On Alopezie.de I was the first user of the old HT-forum sinds 1999 under the name of Dr. Hair!
Now in 2007 I enter the american hairforums under my username "hairobservator" and wanted to know how the american hairdocs are reacting on my new "quick implant method"!
After reactions of Kokott MD in 2004, Heitmann MD 2005 and Villnow MD 2005/2006 in europe I want some american opinion, I thank Janna again for her reaction, thank you Janna and give Dr. Shapiro a warm greating from me!

This is what I mean!
We get great results with current method, however, it never hurts to reevaluate even a proven method to constantly improve.
Trichophytic Closure Strip is an improvemend to hairrestoration I can say, maybe quickgrafting is that too!
Thank you!

Yes my favorit hairdoc is Malte Villnow MD because he is a very experience hairsurgean with more then 10.000 patients, he has done allot of celebrity?‚??s also from Hollywood too!
But I don?‚??t know if he is doing quickgrafting already, he was just smiling at me!
I see him this week and ask him again!?

What I don?‚??t like for years is that you all hairsurgeons in the states/canada follow the experiences of Walter Unger MD about laserhairtransplantation!
Malte Villnow MD is the most experience hairdoc worldwide with lasergrafting and he is not in the book of Unger/Shapiro, why?

Yeah I hope Pat publisher is coming to D??sseldorf and visits the hairclinic of Malte Villnow MD!

Believe me Bill ore B-spot ore who ever in god?‚??s name, the hairdocs worldwide don?‚??t like it that I have a new option/method/technique in hairtransplanting and they didn?‚??t came on this idear for almost over 50 years that hairrestoration is introduced to the western world! I?‚??m a hairpatient/costumer and that?‚??s embaresing for them that I have to bring this idear too there attention! But now they can think about it, change ore go on with regular threathments?

With that 97%, yeah that is wat all the hairdocs say on those conferences but they don?‚??t know that for sure! I worked for many years at the hairclinics of Dr. Villnow in Haarlem, Hasselt & D??sseldorf!
Janna & Dr. Shapiro you know also as I know that allot of those hairpatients you never see them back again(!), only if they want a second threathment ore something else, do you check the before foto and then look on his head and can see that 97% is growing!? It?‚??s very hard to get a % of regrowth with hairtransplantingpatients maybe sometimes impossible, I can only say that my bellyfeeling say?‚??s that it would be more in % with quickgrafting!
I know allot of all the hairdocs here in europe and I could be called an HT-expert, believe me that the german hairdocs are as good as the americans hairdocs and the results maybe are even better overhere! Just joking I think they are the same, we got topdocs overhere & you got topdocs overthere!

Sorry for my broken englisch but i?‚??m working on it!

Greatings Hairobservator

About before & after foto?‚??s I must say that this is forbidden in germany sinds last year in the hole plastic & cosmetic surgery branche!

www.hairlase.de no foto?‚??s, dr. Villnow is working on a new website!
www.hairlase.com there are foto?‚??s of the hairwork of dr. Villnow!
Hairdoc Malte Villnow MD too the right!
I?‚??m working on something too but until then I?‚??m not showing any pictures of myself, sorry!

Here are some results of Dr. Villnow!
http://www.hairlase.com/hairlase/cases.htm
http://www.giel.de/file/or/spiegel/20021111/004/011.htm

Greatings Hairobservator

Laser Technology has been around for a few years now, and has been dismissed by most Doc's.

One of the biggest drawbacks to using lasers is transection/burning of surrounding follicles.

In patients who have very little native hair, creating recipient sites with lasers poses less risk.

However, on patients who have some density (either by transplanted hair/existing native hair) say 25-40 fu's cm/2 it becomes difficult to transplant in these areas with lasers.

It is also difficult to control the angle and depth of recipient sites as well.

I think your reaching a bit with this, to be honest. Most "Top" Dr's communicate between themselves and keep up to date with new ideas and results of clinical trials.

I think if this method was this successful, more Docs in the States would have transfered over or a larger portion would have incorporated this methodology.

I am not saying that lasers are not useful or effective in some instance. What I am saying is that overall, I highly doubt the results are as good as the Ultra-Refined techniques employed by the best HT Docs in the world.

This is completely unrelated to your posit that keeping grafts out-side the body for shorter periods of time results in better growth percentages.
This is logical and makes complete sense.

However, in order to refine and trim grafts AND do larger sessions, a 3-4% loss in overall yield is acceptable when doing sessions of 2000+ grafts.
Your argument is based on an "unknown" yield factor, whereas IF the BEST Docs continually had patients that yielded less than 95%, say 80 to 85%, we would know about it or be able to recognize this and act accordingly.

I am still trying to determine if your presence here is one of learning and education or to promote your Doc and this method.

EVERYONE here is always interested in new ideas and developments and interested in new techniques that BENEFIT US, the hairloss sufferers.

I hope that your intentions are honorable.
Time will tell.

Thanks
J

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Nice reply BSpot, I also have noticed that there is really nothing new or exciting that I saw and read from Hairobservator's postings and his website links to the other clinics ....

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Oh yeah hairlase is shit you saying!
But 50.000.000 hairlase impulses can??????t be wrong!
You in the states all believe that dude caled Walter Unger MD but was he right in 1994 ISHRS in Dallas with his report on laserhairtransplant, I know now for sure he wasn??????t!
Malte Villnow was there too but that was the first and last time he went to a ISHRS convention and that??????s for a good reason!
Malte Villnow MD is the laserexpert worlwide on lasergrafting but you americans think you know all better that??????s it!
With lasergrafting you created those very thin transplanthair what expecialy is needed for fine hairlinework!
You need a special software and experience to do a hairlase threathment!
You don??????t wanne respect my favorit german hairdoc because he is maybe better then you all overthere that??????s what it is, a complottheorie against him and what do you know B-spot, what did you see B-spot your only a beginning haircostumer/patient and maybe a spammer yourself for me, you wanne sell Dr. Shapiro!?
Sorry folks but it must be done in this way because you all must think otherwise!
With hairlase and quickgrafting method!

I have seen it all(1990-2007) and they are telling me nothing new in the states, I talked to George Fettig of Bosley Medical in 2002 and his ears where glowing they stil have interest of bying LA to enter te market in europe and bring lasergrafting/hairlase to the states/canada but they don??????t wanne sell on the moment, maybe never!
Suddleson MD, Rassmann MD, Elliot MD, Ochs MD, Sword MD they all where speechless when I went to Hollywood in 2002! OK Alan Ochs MD said: "O those germans they are so hot about that laserthing!" With William Rassman MD I talked a long time about his new Fox threathment on his openday with NewHair, when Villnow MD startet/entered in the hairtransplantfield(1992) he traveled to USA/Canada and did some threathments together with William Rassman MD in Beverly Hills & David Seager MD in Toronto on that moment maybe the best newcoming hairdocs!
At Transhair(92-96) he worked together with Dr. Neidel but he became the leading hairdoc and in 1996 he started his own beautycompany Laser Aesthetic!
Sometimes Geoffrey Epstein MD did call from Miami to D??????sseldorf for information!
I think that Walter Unger MD must come to D??????sseldorf and talk with Dr. Villnow for his next book about Hair Transplantation maybe Ronald Shapiro MD can help in this way!
So that??????s all what I wanne say about lasergrafting maybe you wakeup in the states!

About my "quick implant technique"/"quickgrafting method" I hope allot of hairdocs in the states/canada are changing there normal threathments and start doing it this way, I hope they will do it at Shapiro Medical!?
Remember this name!
Frank Frederikus Wilhelmus Bolk
Alias Dr. Hair & Frenkie today better known as the hairobservator!

Greatings Hairobservator

Oh yeah B-spot I??????m honorable and i??????m writing a book also of my way of suffering with hairloss starting in 1990 then to my first hairtransplant in 1996 and my work today!

To Janna of Shapiro Medical I have a question?
Are you already doing some quickgrafting?
On friday I??????m gonna see and speak with Malte Villnow MD in D??????sseldorf and ask him some questions! I will be back!

Greatings Hairobservator