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gobble

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  1. But if you can go to that job with toppik on your head why can't you take a 10 day vacation and return with some redness? Just tell people what you had done and be confident about what the results will ultimately be.
  2. Sorry, but I don't think you'd be well served by the forum telling you it looks great and you're ready to start performing surgery on your own head, if only you had the tools. Of the two pictures I think the natural one looks best. You're probably not fooling anyone with the toppik so why not go have it done by a professional and live with the redness for a while? Who cares what people think. I'm sure people know I had something done but none of us should be embarassed that we took a step to improve on nature. And I believe my instructions said I could apply toppik after 2 weeks if I wanted so why not just do that?
  3. I had to check my phone to see if it was April 1. Is this a joke? The guy's hair in the "toppik" picture looks ridiculous. You can tell that's fake from a mile away.
  4. Dr. Cooley, do you find that the transplanted hairs tend not to shed as much and, if so, is that a problem when the growth begins? I'm over 6 weeks past my second procedure (with ATP this time) and still have the majority (I think) of the transplanted hairs. That wasn't the case last time.
  5. I had a spot along the scar the size of a fingertip that hurt really bad even with the slightest touch for the first two weeks. It eventually went away though.
  6. How many grafts do you "typically" need to burn to camo a thin strip scar?
  7. If you FUE into a "good" strip scar are you normally able to shave down without seeing the scar?
  8. A few more observations on my part. I'm now almost 6 weeks post-op. I used this stuff and still have a good number of hairs that haven't fallen out. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I remember last time around on one of my follow-ups the doctor plucked some of the transplanted hairs out to make room for the new ones to come through. Anyone have thoughts on this? Also, I'm starting to get pimples already. Last time I think that happened after several months.
  9. I don't buy that doctors in Turkey and India can do FUE better than the US. Look at the recent writeup of the conference these guys had. All the Americans were the presenters. Wesley is such a bright guy that he's invented a new technology for FUE. I've met with him and he came across as very knowledgeable and caring. Price might be better in the third world, but there's just no way a US or Canadian doctor can't get the same results. What you probably have is the foreign clinics more active in posting their results on this forum.
  10. I've posted this before. I had something like 2500 grafts FUT from a NYC doctor two years ago and my girlfriend of a year had no idea I had anything done. Even when I told her she had to really dig in my hair to find the scar. I don't think I could get nearly the number of grafts over my lifetime FUE as I'll be able to get FUT. Have anyone ever seen a Rahal patient, for example, say FUT was the worst decision they've ever made?
  11. Vitamin E goes on the scar or recipient area? Is there anything you can do on the scar after the stitches are out to make it heal better and faster?
  12. How in the world do you know exactly how many hair survived the first procedure?
  13. You mentioned that the scar wasn't that long. I was wondering why it would be shorter than the first one if both procedures were about the same size.
  14. You had roughly 1,500 grafts on each procedure? Any idea why the second cut is shorter than the first one?
  15. Wow hopefully the scar from this procedure heals as good as the first one. It just looks like a small line of hair missing.
  16. I'm not sure if it's related, but I'm a month in now and used this stuff and still feel most of the transplanted hairs when I pat my head. I think most of them were gone by this time last time.
  17. One thing I noticed and maybe it's just a coincidence is that my second procedure when I used this spray I didn't have the little white things falling off my head after 7-10 days. The dandruff looking stuff. Why would that be?
  18. Interesting. I think my bottle said to keep refrigerated and spray every hour for the first 24 or 48 hours after surgery (I forget). I just kept spraying every hour until it was gone which was about another day past that timeline. Does it go bad with time and was it harmful to go past the time on the bottle?
  19. So beyond the technical stuff what does it actually do? Will it prevent the transplanted hairs from falling out? Make them regrow faster? Simply prevent less from dying? Allow the surgeon to have them out of the scalp longer?
  20. I found this: BOTHELL, WA—October 17, 2012—BioLife Solutions Inc. (OTC BB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, and contract aseptic media manufacturer, today announced that it will begin marketing and distributing a novel hair graft storage solution additive that has demonstrated it can improve the survival of hair grafts during hair transplantation procedures. BioLife Solutions will introduce the compound, branded as Cellenergy™, to the broad hair restoration industry at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, October 17th – 20th, in Nassau, The Bahamas. Cellenergy was invented at the University of Louisville and licensed to Energy Delivery Solutions, LLC, a company founded by William Ehringer, Ph.D., co-inventor of the underlying intellectual property. Energy Delivery Solutions will manufacture the product under Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) for BioLife, which will exclusively market and distribute Cellenergy to hair restoration physicians throughout the world. Mike Rice, BioLife Solutions Chief Executive Officer, noted that HypoThermosol®, BioLife’s optimized storage and shipping media, has already been adopted by more than 30 leading surgical hair restoration groups and individual physicians as an improved graft storage medium. The combination of HypoThermosol and Cellenergy as an improved graft storage solution was first conceived of, and tested by, internationally recognized hair surgeon Dr. Jerry Cooley, founder of Carolina Dermatology Hair Center. He then formulated Cellenergy as a post-operative scalp spray, which led to further improvements in the results he observed. Dr. Cooley stated, “I believe that the use of HypoThermosol and Cellenergy is the best way to optimize graft survival, and that these two products will become a new standard of care in hair restoration surgery.” Rice continued, “We are very pleased to be able to offer Cellenergy to the worldwide hair restoration community and believe this represents a significant market opportunity for BioLife. We are encouraged by the positive feedback we have received from leading clinicians on the noticeable improvement in transplants when grafts were treated with HypoThermosol and Cellenergy. We’re also very pleased to announce that Dr. Cooley has joined BioLife’s Scientific Advisory Board.” The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) estimates that 279,381 surgical hair restoration procedures were performed worldwide in 2010. About Cellenergy™ Cellenergy is a sterile, lyophilized (powder) form of a novel formulation of liposomal adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary cellular energy source naturally occurring in the human body. The product is simply reconstituted with sterile, ion-free water, and mixed before use.
  21. I've had two procedures with the same doctor. After the second procedure I was given a bottle of this stuff to spray on my head every hour for two days.
  22. What exactly does it mean other than they paid a fee to this website to be included in the coalition? Is there someone making money off this site or is it just a public forum?
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