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Rather than complain here, why not just give him a call? If he hears from us, maybe he will come forward since we are anxious to follow the state of the experimental outcomes. Feller and Broxham is the name of the group.

Released less than a day ago.

Here's a thought I had related to this and it involves hair parts. To make hair parts less noticeable, it there potential to wound skin in the area, inject verteporfin and have it regrow with more hair to cover these areas which appear thin and scalp is see through? It sounds to me like the possibilities are becoming enormous regarding what this drug can do. The problem is the expense and limited number of medical professionals willing to do experiments with it.

Murine studies are not applicable to human skin. When is the same experiment going to be used on porcine models? If it works in them then I will be fairly assured the method will also work in humans due having a more similar skin structure. Sorry for my absence of months and then posting so much. I am excited to see the successful results of Dr. Taleb Bargouthi's experiment with FUE and verteporfin to regenerate the skin and hair removed. I am fairly sure fixing my situation would be best accomplished in a microneedling procedure. Ideally, it would be best to just inject the verteporfin without wounding the skin at all and get newly formed hairs but that seems not the way this drug works. Something has to signal the body that a wound has been inflicted in order for the healing process to be enacted. Now the question is how deep and large a wound is needed to get new skin to be regenerated with dense hair appendages? These are experiments Dr. Bloxham wants to do after listening to videos of him. The thing is who and when will a participant come forward? It won't be me, especially if a biopsy must be taken. I'd rather just get pictures taken to compare the difference before and after. Another thing to keep in mind is that once a wide wound is made, which is better to sew up the area? Staples or dissolvable stitches? Dr. Bloxham uses staples, which I seem to not like and they could cause follicular loss should they get into an area containing follicular ostia.

Here is the video. It's not the Bloxham one as I was hoping:

I have other issues related to hair and am wondering if Verteporfin could solve them. I have temples that are nearly hairless and am wondering if wounding the area and injecting the Verteporfin is likely to get a result of new skin tissue with hair appendages? Right now I am getting Kenalog shots to see if anything in the area can regenerate. I just got my second series of shots. It seems questionable if there is any progress but the dermatologist sees hair regrowth in his opinion. In addition to this I am taking 7.5 mg of oral minoxidil (2.5 mg, three times a day) for 7 months, vitex supplement for 1 month, inositol supplement for one month, and iron supplement for one month. I am hoping to get an even frontal hairline or youthful rounded hairline. Now another issue I have is what dermatologists tell me is a hair whorl in my right vertex which also exhibits a degree of male pattern baldness. I'm not sure this is exclusively the case. My situation was evaluated through Hair Metrix, reflectance confocal microscopy and dermatoscope. I refuse to biopsy. I have multiple thin linear areas of hairless scalp that extend downward in my right vertex. I was under tremendous stress a few years ago and felt tingling and numbness in the area, so suspect cicatricial alopecia being possible but did have the 100 day telogen effluvium following the incident. In addition, I had red pustules and pain from the stress months after due to my hair loss. I've gone to experts and none dare to transplant given the likely possibility of transection due to the areas of loss being so linear and thin. In summary, I want full hair coverage and no scalp peeking through. What is the likelihood Verteporfin can accomplish my objectives? How can I best fix my situation? Any thoughts? I am not interested in scalp micropigmentation. Sorry to divert somewhat regarding my particular situation but am very distraught over it as I think I caused it due to freaking out from learning of my initial temple hair loss. Additionally, I have very long hair and so finding the areas that need to get resolved could be extra difficult to isolate. My situation is a mess and the medical profession has failed me thus far in bringing about a cosmetic solution to my satisfaction.

Hair Transplant Network - YouTube I just got this update that Melvin is doing a video sometime today regarding Verteporfin. Might be the 3 month result from Dr. Bloxham?

I really don't understand why you say there's no scientific backing to the blood flow theory. Could you please further explain your position to give a strong case for your statement? From how I understand the situation, that without blood flow to the follicles they shrink, deplete and die off. What's unscientific about that? It makes perfect logical sense. If you get no blood flow to any part of the body for long enough time it simply shrinks in size, loses function and dies off.

I know of her actually. She is situated in UK I believe? I am in New York. Might be worth chatting with her about it to gain some insight.

I was hoping for wounding with Verteporfin added trials for old scarring alopecia and regular androgenetic alopecia cases. Wish some dermatologists could come on board for this modality to trial for regrowing hair. I never got a hair transplant and have no interest in doing one, but would like to see if it has possibilities in getting my temple areas filled in and some thinning spots on my vertex thickened up.

This is proof Melvin's pitch was effective! Great job buddy. It shows how even if one has no degree next to a name that in the right circles of people an individual can be taken seriously. Well done!

I agree that if a normal chest hair is of a certain type, Verteporfin should regrow a hair that is normal for its skin type and location. However the difference with miniaturized hair is that it was a process of DHT exposure that caused it to miniaturize, but if a new layer of skin is grown that time has not been able to alter that by logic would tell me rather than a vellus or lanugo type of hair being regrown it should instead produce a terminal hair. The other instance of why I think a terminal hair may not be regrown is the skin tension hypothesis. If there is too much muscle mass and not enough blood to reach the area through capillaries, then there is not what's needed to create a thick hair. There is a real argument to this as men who transition with drugs that change the skull mass many seem to regrow these areas of hair thinning and balding with time, at least partially if not fully. It's like they've reversed the process of what caused the issue. Our skulls do continue to grow in mass as we age from what I've read, adding credibility to my position. I think the reason woman lose hair in different areas from men is their skull growth patterns by what sections increase in size with time, thus explaining the female "Christmas Tree" pattern (as an example). However sometimes yet more uncommonly men and women can get skull growth patterns that are more commonly found in the opposite sex. I know a lot of people dismiss this but it seems to make sense from my observation of the morphology of people with time. I could be wrong. Usually a younger person will have a smaller sized skull on average than an older person.

So you think if I incision wounded my bald temples, then injected Verteporfin, the likely result would be regrown healthy skin tissue but no regeneration of terminal follicles to the area? The thing is this Verteporfin is supposed to repair the scarring process with healthy skin, so if the area originally had terminal follicles before the DHT damage occurred then why wouldn't it regenerate with terminal follicles? I guess there's still a lot about this wound repair healing process with YAP inhibition we don't know yet in every circumstance. This process is all very novel and there are so many different variables one has to consider for the range of quality in a result. It may take years to figure out exactly how to do the process for the best results based on area of the scalp or other body parts for regeneration. It's fascinating yet scary due to uncertainty of results at this point. Another interesting thing is I read that the Verteporfin can only be used once, and doing repeated injections in the same place has shown to make the scarring worse.

There's so many variables that need to be worked out to get the best result with this method. The concentration of Verteporfin, the depth of wounding, the width of the incisions and how many can be made in an area of thinning to be effective. Can anything be added to the Verteporfin mixture to make it potentially more effective. Or what kind of baldness and how much is needed to make it worth the risk. Everyone is viewing it from the lenses of replenishing the donor section. I am looking at this towards using the treatment alone to repair areas with or without transplantation. For example, I have the receded temples among other problems. Could making wounds and injecting the Verteporfin get me terminal hairs back in those depleted areas. These are experiments very worthwhile to try. I have thinning in my vertex but not complete baldness. This is especially difficult to resolve and doubt anything whether Minoxidil, Rosemary, Finasteride, Dutasteride, Bicalutamide, Spironolactone will solve it. If just some follicles died off in between mostly healthy ones what does one do to regain fullness/coverage? Transplants are risky in these cases as well. The dermatologists just tell me to go on medication but then I get bad reactions to all of them. I feel like I cannot get a workable solution and am deeply troubled by it.

I'm not familiar with all three treatments Amplifica is pursuing. Could you find me a link that tells about them please? I've been to their official web site, it doesn't relate much.