VicTNYC
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1 hour ago, hairlossPA said:
I lol'd after the first result they showed
Yup! +1 for Humans
Sorry “impeding robot ai takeover apocalypse” 😂
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2 hours ago, Spanker said:
No.... the answer is no.
Also, in general, when reading a headline in the news that is posed as a question, the answer is almost always no...because if it weren't, it would made as a statement.
I agree @Spanker
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Looks as if the company behind the ARTAS robot has come out with a newer smaller, sleeker 2.0 version .... that now does implanting as well.
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Saw this video on YouTube on this new company, HairClone, a ‘Graft Bank’ of sorts, they are making claims of being able to preserve an individuals hair grafts in order to clone the cells giving a person a limitless cloned donor grafts down the road.
On a practical level, it makes sense. On a business level, they seem to be using the ‘Kickstarter’ method putting out marketing material in order to get funding and investment on future promises and future technology they plan to do, they claim to be partnering with many Ht docs and several recommended on this forum to roll out their method and service.
My bullshit meter is pretty good and I feel this is both, a pipe dream and scam to gain financial backing and credibility.
Anyone familiar with them?
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33 minutes ago, FUEblonde1985 said:
Hey guys,
I'm on day 12 from my FUE surgery. On day 8, I was advised to begin directly massaging the recipient area to attempt to get off remaining scabs after soaking the the hair for 10-15 minutes. My scabbing/crusting seemed to be pretty stubborn. I was very gentle for days 8 and 9 when massaging, and I was getting a little bit at a time, but most of the junk just stayed stuck in the recipient area. It was clearly loose, but it wouldn't come out, and I was too afraid to do anything outside the instructions.
For reference, this was my left temple on day 5, before there was really any attempt at getting scabs off:
This is how my left temple looked on day 8 right after the washing/massaging:
Today, (day 12) I felt like a little more direct action was needed, I kept the recipient area under the shower head (with the nozzle set to half pressure so its fairly light) while massaging/rubbing. I noticed today that it seemed like the recipient area was looking a lot different than before, so i took a picture and indeed it seems like about half of the hairs have fallen out already. It seems early, since most of what I've read is shedding happens about a month after. But I've also read that the grafts are fairly secure after the first 72 hours, and definitely fully secure by day 8-10. I was by no means scrubbing my hair like I normally would pre-op (think maybe like the same force you would use to pet an unfamiliar dog?). There was no blood or anything, though if there was any pain from it I would not have noticed because my recipient area is still totally numb.
Here is how it compares:
So my question is - is this just early shedding of the hairs? Couldn't see much of anything in the bathtub.
My second question is - I haven't been able to find any pictures on the web of people whose hair is full of the white stuff that my hair has. I'm a little worried that all of those are grafts that just didn't take, or "popped" out post-op due to bleeding (I was told that I had a lot of bleeding during my surgery).
These seem like they might be dumb questions and I think there is no issue, but...post-op anxiety about everything is getting to me.
It looks fine and normal to be honest man.
That “white stuff” looks to be just the build up of the your dried scalp skin that caked on while you it was healing the first several days and probably formed into what they look like while you were messaging with wash, I do not believe that those are grafts the “popped out”.
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7 minutes ago, HarryHonolulu said:
that's what I was thinking too.
if you zoom into the photo (as much as you can) there seem to be the telltale signs of FUE scarring.
very, very subtle. unless I'm losing my mind?
here's the original pic
Yup.
I mean the dude has done many other things to improve his facial appearance over the years why wouldn’t he get his hair beefed up, just look at his younger photos, looks like a totally different dude. Lost weight, fixed his bad teeth, sculpted his eyebrows, probably some facial plastic surgery to remove baby fat and sculpt it sharper and squarer, obsessed with skin care...etc.
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The only growth will be the $$ bonuses to the marketing/pr department at McD’s.
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I’m more curious to know which doctor Rafael Nadal went to for his Ht...
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I’m willing to bet he went to Dr Couto for a touch-up to beef up his hair.
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2 hours ago, Raphael84 said:
@VicTNYCThe video showing the hair piece is really something. Whilst personally, it would have never felt like the right decision for me personally, and without knowing anything about it, price, maintenance, longevity. However, I was quite intrigued and impressed by the look of the final outcome.
Yeah, looks impressive but I bet it’s very pricey and comes with a lot of maintenance.
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Work looks good.
Good luck & happy growing!
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Hair growth looks good, even though I’m no fan of finasteride I think it’s working well for you at this time, for how long remains to be seen since you are young and in your late 20’s, things could change if your body gets too accustomed and acclimated to the medication and results taper off down the road, but that remains to be seen if you continue use.
I would recommend buying and using an all natural shampoo that contains Saw Plametto (Serenoa Repens) extract in it in conjunction, there are some studies that have shown it can help lessen the amount of DHT in the scalp so may help additionally . I know everyone recommends Nizoral but it can get too harsh on your scalp and hair given all the chemicals and you would need to limit its use.
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Natural looking hairline and good density, nice work!
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5 hours ago, Steeeve said:
Maybe some post-op pics would help members understand the work done but I don’t see the point in blaming the clinic for the patients choice to keep his hair short prior to his procedure...
Your words make it seem like you were unaware that this is a thing that guys do when they start to lose their hair. Unless you’re being ironic? And if that’s the case the irony is completely lost in the text.
@ArochaAngel4247 I thought it was a nice result, however, I would really like to see immediate post-op pics from the clinic if they exist, which I’m assuming they do as your clinic is pretty thorough. The hairline looks really natural when the hair was pulled back but it would be great to see graft placement. That would help me, personally, understand the work that was done on a clean shaven head that grew out extremely curly.
It was a joke, I’m aware guys shave their hair to camouflage receding, I don’t blame the clinic for that, Im pointing out how the pre-op photos posted are unhelpful because you can’t really discern accurate progression, would have been good for the clinic to obtain more grown pre to compare.
It is a nice result by the doc & clinic as I stated.
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10 hours ago, HairCenter said:
This patient is in his early 50’s and has type IV hair loss. We started finasteride and minoxidil and performed FUT 3,694 grafts and PRP/ACell. He is shown one year later. He noted that the results actually looked better at 8 months. When I questioned him about what happened, he confessed to using anabolic steroids about that time, which contained dihydrotestosterone! I counselled him that taking exogenous DHT will damage the hair and finasteride won’t help because it lowers your own DHT but does not block the DHT receptors.
Great results and work!
Question:
In regards to the exogenous DHT damage....was this patient putting his Transplanted hairs at any risk from taking the anabolic steroids he did due to the extra DHT ... or was the exogenous DHT nullifying what ever “protection” finasteride may have helped his Native hairs and that they had succumb to the extra DHT and that’s why he felt he had better results at 8months rather than 12?
Thanks.
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Nice result ... BUT ... the pre & post comparison is not.
Posting pre-op photos of a fully shaved head alongside post-op results is not helpful.
I’ll quote some 🎾 champ....“You cannot be serious?!”
He hid his hair loss by looking bald? 🤔
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Nice coverage and result Doc, especially for that small number of grafts.
What is the age of the patient?
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2 hours ago, yesplease said:
I don’t know. I’ve been following these forums for a few years now and I feel as though a surprisingly high percentage of people state they’ve had side effects to some degree. This includes those that aren’t “voicing grievances” per se, but rather just mentioning it in passing.
This is is why I feel as though the incidence of side effects is understated in the available literature.
Yup, pretty accurate, imo.
the incidence of side effects is always understated in order to get a drug approved for market, like I’ve mentioned in a previous post, when a multi-national drug conglomerate can fund their own studies and “trials”, choose and pay to whom conducts them, then cherry-pick the data that looks most approval-favorable and wine & dine...err lobby, agency officials and doctors to get to market and get the money rolling in, it’s absurd to believe what they place in their drug inserts to be 100% accurate and honest.
All you have to do is look at all the drug lawsuits that have happened in the past and are happing by class-action for much more damaging and sometimes-deadly side effects that have caused patients, many times the pharmaceutical company having to shell out millions or hundreds of millions in judgments against them....but they don’t care, the’ve already made their ten’s of billions already so it’s just a ‘cost-of-doing-business’ to them.
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24 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:
I saw his YouTube video. It’s great he was honest. I wonder who his doctor was 🤔
Yeah, found this podcast entertaining and honest, haven’t seen the video you mentio but will look for it. Also wondered who his surgeon was.
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22 minutes ago, pkipling said:
Link didn't work, but I found it and reposting it for you.
It was definitely refreshing to hear someone with a large audience speaking so candidly about it and being fairly well-informed. (Really confused about the "stabbing" part of the conversation, but overall it was a good listen. Lol.) He also said if you do strip, "you'll never run out of hair" - but beggars can't be choosers when it comes to helping remove the stigma from hair transplants, I suppose.
Thanks!
Yeah, for a young somewhat famous dude to be so publicly open and his hair loss and proactive definitely helps break down the stigma of guy, especially young guys wanting to improve their appearance without shame.
I think he’s referring to dermarolling / micro needling when they joke about “stabbing” his scalp.
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Found this podcast of YouTube workout/prankster Connor Murphy discussing his hair loss and what he does to remedy it and his Ht interesting...slightly annoying but interesting 😂
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8 hours ago, hairman22 said:
Most of your post is just rephrasing what I said lol.
FUE is not a cure as it does not stop hairloss. More like a solution.
Agreed with some of your comment and elaborated a bit more since you seemed to be asking a question you already knew the asnwer to. Lol
I was referring to baldness. In my opinion and from many results on this site and others, to me, FUE is the cure to baldness and if tested and approved, that donor graft transfer from one persons scalp to another’s to provide donor grafts to those lacking is now closer to reality more so than cloning. Just as a heart/lung/liver/kidney transplant is a “cure” to an ill person’s alternative to dying.
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8 minutes ago, hairman22 said:
Why does DHT usually not cause any hairloss in the donor area's?
I don't think there will ever be a cure for hairloss. Any cure would just harm your hormones too drastically.
Maybe hair cloning might happen.
The will never be a full baldness cure in the form of a pill/lotion/vaccine ...without serious side effects.
Cloning maybe by 2040
The sort-of cure is here, FUE, and if the recently discovered science of scientists figuring out that they can remove the obstacle the prohibits transplanting hairs from one scalp to another is tested on humans and approved then that could improve donor supply availability much sooner than cloning.
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Looks good and fine.
Was this other doctors name Iman Idiot M.D.? Lol
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It was definitely refreshing to hear someone with a large audience speaking so candidly about it and being fairly well-informed. (Really confused about the "stabbing" part of the conversation, but overall it was a good listen. Lol.) He also said if you do strip, "you'll never run out of hair" - but beggars can't be choosers when it comes to helping remove the stigma from hair transplants, I suppose.
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I agree @jj51702
I just find it interesting that the company keeps flushing money into this.