Dear HTN community,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a very exciting investigation that I truly believe will improve the overall field of hair restoration surgery. Our clinical trial has received approval from the Investigational Review Board and may lead to both increased graft survival as well as elimination of any donor area scarring (i.e. less than FUE). For your participation, you will receive a limited number of “grafts” (transplanted hair follicles) at no charge.

Patients interested in taking part in this endeavor must be able to travel to the office of Dr. Carlos K. Wesley located at 710 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA. Both the 30-minute informative consultation and the 1-to-2-hour investigative procedure will be carried out in our surgical facility. For more information about how to participate, please contact me directly via email: carloskw@aya.yale.edu.

Warm regards,
ckw
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Carlos K. Wesley, MD
710 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

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Dr. Carlos Wesley is recommended on the Hair Transplant Network

Thank you to those who have privately expressed interest in participating. The anticipated dates of the study are September-December 2011. You can learn more about the investigated method at:
Hair Transplantation by Carlos K. Wesley, MD

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Dr. Wesley,

I took the liberty of sharing the details of the upcoming study on our popular Hair Loss Q & A blog. Hopefully, this will help "spread the news" and allow you to attract a statistically significant participant population.

Feel free to read the announcement here: Dr. Carlos Wesley Begins Clinical Trials to Investigation Hair Transplant Scar Reduction and Follicular Unit Graft Survival Enhancement

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Blake (Future_HT_Doc)

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All opinions are my own and my advice should not constitute as medical advice.

Dr. Wesley,

I encourage you to share more details about this clinical study on this forum. Since all surgery produces at least some scarring and we all know that the FUT procedure produces a linear scar, how to you propose to significantly minimize the appearance of this scar even far beyond what the trichophytic closure technique can achieve?

I hope and trust you'll be willing to share the details of your study with this community for the purpose of ongoing education and continued improvement in the hair restoration industry.

Best wishes,

Bill

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I agree Bill. I would love to see some photos and evidence of the study.

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Dr Rahal in January 19, 2012
4808 FUT grafts- 941 singles, 2809 doubles, 1031 triples, 27 quads

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Hi, community.

As those with whom I've been able to chat in person since my initial post know, I really do enjoy explaining everything in detail and fully answering any questions people may have regarding the study.

Sorry about appearing so "cloak-and-dagger" about this study. It is certainly not my intention. I am truly just trying to be responsible for how I present proprietary information as well as being thorough in describing the steps involved (since 2008) that led up to the trial.

Finally, patients needn't commit to being involved in the investigation to learn more about its merit. While I can best demonstrate features of the concept in person, I am also willing to share details with interested folks outside of NYC via Skype at a mutually-convenient time.

A sincere thanks to all for their interest!

Carlos K. Wesley, M.D.

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I had this done last month .

Dr. Wesley taught me some interesting things about hair and it's structure . I was able to see the grafts before they were implanted .They looked like nice intact follicular unit grafts . Pretty interesting to see different types of grafts next to each other .

If you are interested in checking this out it was a breeze in my opinion .

It is good to see that there are more options becoming available to patients . Being a repair patient I appreciate the new techniques coming out .

Nice...congrats...can you describe to everyone how the procedure was performed? How is this method different from the current ones out there already?! I'm sure all of us would love to know. Thanks!

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I just got back from a consultation with Dr. Wesley where he presented his new technique to me. I must say that I am very impressed, it looks very promising. It's so simple, yet genius.

It was one of those moments where it just hits you and you say "Aha!" His new technique puts FUT/FUE to shame. I'm actually surprised that no one has thought of it before now... maybe they have, but he's actually putting it to practice.

Honestly, I think his new technique has the potential to completely replace FUT/FUE in less than 5 years. For serious!

Based on what I know about FUT/FUE, this is the natural and logical next step. It builds off all of the principles and groundwork laid by FUT/FUE, and improves upon them. It's nothing complicated at all, which is why it looks so encouraging. There is nothing unusual or particularly difficult about it, when you compare it to FUT/FUE or any other procedures in the medical field.

Of all the new ideas and technology in the HT market, this easily is the best, most realistic and practical that I have seen. What's more, it appears very close to becoming a reality within the next year or two. To me, there is hardly anything theoretical about Dr. Wesley's new technique, it's nothing like cloning, PRP or ACell... it's just a better way of doing things. I think he just has to finish the clinical trials and then put it on the market.

I won't say anything about the actual technique as I believe that that is Dr. Wesely's prerogative. He mentioned that he was going to be more forthcoming in the next couple months, once he gets the trials finished.

I will say this though, it's a new technique that is a significantly better way of extracting grafts. Here is what it improves on...

1. Graft Yield. The grafts suffer very little trauma... same level of FUT if not less.
2. Lowers Transection Dramatically from FUE/FUT.
3. No linear Scar like FUT. No punctate scar like FUE.
4. Minimally Invasie, even less than FUE... and of course, much less invasive than FUT!
5. The grafts are out of the head for only a short amount of time... we're talking minutes.
6. No shaving of donor or recipient area.

It does NOT replicate or multiply FUs. So you are still limited by your donor supply. Therefore, I think NW7s and Diffuse Thinners are still out of luck. Also, it will still deplete the donor area so it does nothing to address the problem of donor supply. You either got it or you don't.

I'm definitely not one to hypothesize what will be the next big break through in medicine, technology or culture, however, I have a lot of faith in this technique redefining hair restoration. To me, it basically fulfills everything FUE promised to be, yet didn't deliver... time will tell if I'm right.

Of course, I could be wrong. It's just that what is so different about this is that it is a technique, not some new laser, plasma or medication that we hear about every couple months. It's just a better way of doing things is the only way I can describe it. So of course, we're going to have to wait until the trails are over to know for sure... but it's looking good so far.

Like I said, I won't mention the actual technique so don't ask. Dr. Wesley will be publishing his findings soon enough. He has every right to protect his intellectual property. I told him that he shouldn't publish it all... at least not until it's ready for mass adoption.

However, when he does publish the outcome, you'll be surprised at how simple it really is, yet it makes so much sense. I don't blame him for holding off on his technique because the man is sitting on a goldmine.


You heard it here first...

Corvettester

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1,305 FUT with Dr. Dorin on August 10, 2011.

Looking forward to seeing more on this down the road. Thanks for sharing.

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