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It may significantly impact whom they go to, because a botch job may no longer be a death sentence. So the allure of saving money by going with a cheaper surgeon may be harder to resist.

People who got botched by a hair mill may not be screwed for life if existing scars can be regenerated. That is certainly not nothing.

Looks like you're the kind of candidate for whom verteporfin could make a massive difference. That is if you have the funds and patience for getting several large procedures 😁.

This is exactly how I feel too. And anyone who wears their hair really long, say shoulder length or more, would benefit hugely from verteporfin. Mainly because verteporfin may allow for much higher densities in the recipient area, instead of the illusion of density at 40-50% native density. The illusion of density only holds up with short or slicked back hair. If you wear your hair really long, it doesn't look very good unless you're reasonably close to native density. The parting would be too see-through, and the tresses that frame your face too thin. If verteporfin HTs really do allow for unlimited donor, and become available, I'll take out a second mortgage on my house and not stop getting HTs until my hair looks like one of the members of Rust in Peace era Megadeth:

I can see the expensive Visudyne work for plastic surgery where it's injected along a line. But for a full FUE, you'll need so many bottles of Visudyne, you'll easily get into the 5-figure price territory. I'm going to imagine that surgeons would rather use a generic and put the verteporfin surcharge in their own pocket.

Yeah no doubt they'll make bank from it initially. But if we can really make verteporfin mainstream in cosmetic surgery as a whole, it's all but certain that generics show up.

For all we know, maybe you can use an FUE punch to excise existing scars, inject them with verteporfin, and get the donor back?

Well, it's normal in a strip procedure that there is (temporary) shock loss in areas adjacent to the wound. Maybe that shock loss is caused by the Engrailed-1 expression that verteporfin inhibits? I find it very implausible that a hair follicle can grow in a matter of weeks, and start growing fully terminal hair at a normal rate immediately after. Both in babies starting to develop scalp hair, as well as people partially reversing MPB through medication, follicles slowly start producing velluslike hairs and gradually transition to growing terminal hair normally. This is why I can't imagine the increased hairiness in the control sites to be regrowth. The hairs are too long and too thick for how young they would be if they had regrown.

Once its fully healed, shave the donor area and take close up shots and compare test to control.

Very interesting results from Dr. Bloxham, but I believe the conclusions drawn here regarding regrowth are premature. Hair follicles don't grow from scratch within a month usually. The injected areas looking hairier is likely to be due to less shock loss, especially considering the length of the hair, as Dr. Bloxham mentions in the video.

Interesting. In light of this I wonder if regrowth potential would be affected by FUE punch size. I noticed from @DrTBarghouthis work and his results that he's very specialized with very small punch sizes. No doubt this is perfect for reducing scarring, but perhaps excising more skin could be more condicive to follicle regeneration?

True, although in the case of FUT the entire wound is sutured, so we can't assess regrowth potential. Of course reduced scarring is also a very interesting outcome, but it's not nearly as much of a potential breakthrough as donor regeneration.

It's beyond fantastic that we have two full FUE case studies coming up, and that these are with even higher dosages, and an improved injection technique. These should really be able to give us a much better idea of whether HT+verteporfin is or isn't the world's first procedure that can effectively multiply hair follicles. By summertime next year, we may finally have a decent indication of whether this may be the major breakthrough that many of us hoped it would be ever since the first animal study. It's really really cool to be following this. Thank you @DrTBarghouthi.

@DrTBarghouthi Just out of excitement and curiosity, have you had an opportunity yet to set another date with the patient?

Maybe you were onto something. He canceled so many times, it's rather odd. Maybe he's reading this thread and having a laugh lol. Nevertheless it was a good idea to try. But glad that Melvin and Dr. Bargouthi realized it was going nowhere and we're going ahead anyway.