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3 minutes ago, Melvin- Admin said:

Dr. Behnam purchased the Verteporfin. I hope he gets a trial started asap. 

Go Drs. B!

Thanks Melvin for your efforts!

Bloxham just posted a video unrelated to Verteporfin. If there's more of us asking for updates in the comment section he might at least reply.

4 minutes ago, sansi said:

That's wound size and number of FUE per cm2. I'm asking about used punch size and total number of follicles in marked area, so we may know what % of follicles were extracted.

My bad then

1 hour ago, sansi said:

Thank you Doctor for the awesome job you do !

May I ask what is the punch size used ? How many follicles were originally in the marked areas ?

It's all written right there in each pic

Hi @Melvin- Admin, were you able to meet with Dr. Mohebi? Thanks!

1 hour ago, Tonyyy said:

I really regret having hair transplant, it left dot scars on the back of my head, i have been struggling and tired with them for over a year, will Verteporfin work on old Fue scars,,can anybody answer me? I’m so grateful

Hey, I'm here hoping I can "undo" my hair transplant with Verteporfin someday. Theoretically, they could excise your scars and/or grafts and treat them with Verteporfin.

Hey guys, good news!

These are Dr. Parissis' replies on his last video from 2 days ago with Dr. Bloxham.

Gosh what's with all this silence and waiting :c

I'm very patient but this is killing me lol

Wow that's great news. I remember him being very skeptical about Verteporfin around 4 months ago. The fact that he's starting a trial now is very encouraging! Even more so given his background.

Thank you Melvin.

2 hours ago, sansi said:

Definitely needs more time for regeneration. The guy who had a burn on his cheek showed his 2 year results and it is scarless. We are getting more and more evidence lately that verteporfin is effective. We just need more doctors and trials.

Wait what? Was Verteporfin tried in burns 2+ years ago? Source?

Hope we get Dr. Bloxham's update soon so we don't lose momentum 🙃

9 minutes ago, Fox243 said:

The doc is close to ready. I will share it here and people can help make edits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3JkF9woMIebkXbpE_UxrjBfNy9i7AuBclDqn9HGrAo/edit?usp=sharing

Nice work, can you protect the document from unwanted edits?

6 minutes ago, ijustbethinkin said:

Man this has to go mainstream - this is incredible. The regrowth is pretty clear at this point, the big question left is how many grafts are regenerated?  30? 50%? 70?. Even 30% is incredible, 50%+ would be an effective cure. More testing will no doubt improve the percentage. I wonder how long it would take before this becomes standard practice to incorporate Vert in transplants. Im hoping by the end of 2024 at least 5-10 docs are offering it. Ill be holding off until then.

It doesn't make any sense to me that this hasn't gone mainstream already if there are studies backing it up. Forget about hair transplants, we are talking about skin regeneration, this could be a huge leap in all medical fields. And the drug is already approved.

Exciting news! Thank you Dr. for your work.

Consistent lighting will definitely help for future updates. For example, the white dots in the control box for 0.24 are more noticeable than the ones in the 0.4 control box, which should look the same if seen in person, from what I understand.

But anyway, there's a clear difference between the control and test area, and that's what matters. Do the current observations contradict the biopsy results in any way?

14 minutes ago, takuma said:

So far it's two surgeons, Doctor Bargouthi and Doctor Bloxham that are actively experimenting with verteporfin on hair transplant patients, Have any other doctor's expressed interest? Does anyone know.

Dr. Pittella and Dr Parissis afaik. They expressed interest but that's all, no plans have been made public so far.

7 hours ago, takuma said:

there's something that confuses me, so when we get a hair transplant the surgeon punches tiny holes in the scalp donor region and extracts follicles and when the skin heals it leaves scar tissue which doesn't grow hair. But, the surgeon also makes incisions in the recipient area at the top of the scalp and inserts the extracted follicles into those incisions, correct. So why does the hair grow back, after all the surgeon is wounding both areas, shouldnt the skin in both areas grow back as scarred skin that is unable to grow hair from it, or am i missing something 

Because they insert the grafted healthy skin with the hair follicle. There's no "hole" left in the recipient area.

Doctors are now injecting Verteporfin right after the wound is made, but has it ever been discussed if the drug should be reapplied in the days/months following the procedure for optimal healing?

How do we know if a one-time injection (provided the method and dossage are on point) is enough to unlock the full potential of the drug?

2 hours ago, victorcitolago said:

I don't want to give my opinion because it seems that you don't want to see reality even with everything against you: let's see, back in 2008 they discovered a topical cream called avotermin that significantly reduced scars, well, although we were doing several studies where it was clearly seen how the scars were reduced considerably, it did not pass the phase 3 trials and it remained a dead letter, I emphasize that I only said that it was a cream for topical use, therefore easier to use. I use it than verteporfin, safer, without so much downtime and cheaper, because it has still disappeared and today no one knows anything about it, so I imagine that verteporfin, having not shown 100% efficacy from the first moment, will end up happening the same. since no doctor is going to dare to cut a scar, inject verteporfin and then wait to see what happens, since for that they would have researched back in the day with the cream that at most the side effect it could cause would be irritation, but with verteporfin it has several effects that can arise: you can suture the patient badly, causing him to get a new scar and sue you, etc., so I honestly don't think this will end up going very far, sorry. How hard but it's the reality of what I see, I don't know, it was discovered in 2021 and there are very few doctors who have joined to experiment on their own, there must be a reason. The photo that I put below is the one of the cream called avotermin, as you can see it was not perfect but it worked, it worked, because even so it did not pass the phase 3 trials and until today that I bring it here it has not been talked about again, so I think that verteporfin being its method of application much more invasive and not showing 100% efficacy, I doubt that more investment will be made in it, I'm sorry because I know it's hard, but it's my opinion and what I'm afraid will end up happening.

Dude what's the point of monitoring this thread if you are so skeptic about it.

I found this interview between Dr Bloxham and a surgeon called Dr Parissis from 2 weeks ago.

Someone in the comments asked this dr to join the effort and he replied he's working on it.

New update by Dr. Bloxham:

11 minutes ago, DrTBarghouthi said:

Hi guys,

I have few updates:

1. I have a scheduled follow up with the first trial for this coming Wednesday. The patient had several work trips and so our schedules weren’t working well. Hopefully we will have an update on him this Wednesday.

2. In view of Dr. Bloxham’s recent trial and him trying higher doses of Verteporfin, I think there is a potential to trial even higher doses to see if the effects can be optimized with higher doses or we should be maintaining a narrow range of testing. I have booked the trial for the 24th of October but my Volunteer patient is having constant difficulties with time off work. He is an ideal candidate- so I don’t want to give up on him yet. Hopefully we will have that done with him on that date. 
3. I have also scheduled another trial for November 21 with another patient who is also having a full FUE. 
As mentioned earlier, I have the Verteporfin ready for both of these trials. 

Thank you, any plans to excise old scars in these upcoming trials or not yet?

2 hours ago, Square1 said:

My takeaway from that trial is that it looked like there was substantial regrowth in the Test sites as compared to the Control sites. Especially for the higher dosages.  Following up with that patient would, I think, provide a lot of useful info on its efficacy for hair regeneration. For some reason unknown to me it is just not happening. Maybe the patient is no longer available or so. 

 

 

We also need to count on the patient trimming the back of their head very short for the follow up, or else it would be pretty useless.

8 minutes ago, sansi said:

What can we do for such trial to take place ? Maybe donations if any doctor commits to do such trial ?

I guess it is easier to do than standard FUE trial.

Find patient, excise some of the scars (Maybe a small area) and inject the drug.

I don't think it would make sense to start new tests before having updates of the ongoing trials. I really really really want this to work, but part of me is still skeptical with the results we have to date. The control-test area pictures we have from the previous FUE trial are not rigorous enough in my opinion.

It's just a matter of time. If this truly works, the incentive for healing preexisting scars would be huge for essentially any scar in the human body.

39 minutes ago, sansi said:

Can fue scars be excised ?

I hope so, that's why I'm here lol

35 minutes ago, SkyeBelcher said:

The hope is that it can be, though none of the trials are testing this specifically. 

That's not correct, Dr Bloxham has made a incisions over old FUT scars and injected them with Verteporfin in his trial.