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Yep for cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery too which are adjacent industries.
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Can you dm me too @takuma Thanks
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If we get more people requesting vert with their docs, that might be another route. It might be instead of private trials other doctors will be more eager as this gains traction. So encouraging other people considering hair transplants to enquire about using verteporfin especially after we find a good source would be terrific.
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Honestly Dr Bloxham was very brave to try it fut instead of fue and deserves our admiration for that. I think from the beginning it was clear fue is the more promising combo.
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Sadly it means more money for them if they could open their minds. More follicles, more follow up surgeries. You know.
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It seems it is more variable with sutured healing I do think part of it is financial, with longaker making his patent, maybe other yap inhibitors being tested. However those will take years. I think with fue this will be a good solution. Maybe also with preventing scaring it seems more effective.
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It's moving relatively fast now. We have two doctors doing trials and people contacting other doctors. Once we source Verteporfin it should move allot faster.
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Unfortunately not off the top of my head but I know they produce it. Although some in this thread have mentioned Indian pharma as well and posted the link. They produce verteporfin. If you're buying in bulk you could also contact the manufacturer. There is also an online pharmacy based in Vanuatu a friend used to get finestride from called in house pharmacy I never used them, that carried Indian generics so you might be able to contact them. I know they did ship to the states so you might be able to work something out with them.
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Maybe contacting Indian pharma, I know some countries allow you to order pharmaceuticals online from foreign countries if you're an MD or have a registered clinic.
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Verteporfin is an adjunct to ht surgery and it's mainly of interest to people getting hts, hairless drugs are mostly not only useful used in conjunction with surgery. So this is more of interest to people considering a transplant.
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Exactly the community with the help of doctors and Melvin got us to this point.
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Even if Bloxhams trial doesn't regrow hair but reduces scaring you can transplant hair into a scar. It's way better if it works for fue and not fut rather than the other way around.
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Also optimizing the dose, Bargouthi suggested it is very probable a higher dose would yield better results if I remember
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Fue looks successful, fut (maybe because it's a closed sutured scar) less successful possibly but verteporfin does aid in scar reduction.
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Verteporfin has already been used on humans, for eye surgery. It's fda approved and commonly used
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And Bargouthi's trail will be a huge help as it's possible than verteporfin works much better for fue than it does for fut.
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There still is a limited supply and often he requests his patients keep their hair short due to depletion in the donor if they are say Norwood 6s. Verteporfin, ability to regrow hair benefits any ht
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It would be a win for him too as he could achieve more density especially for patients getting multiple surgeries. Honestly his method combined with verteporfin would mean amazing density. Like natural youthful density.
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Also would mean you could use beard transplants for ht, as someone who thought about a beard transplant before losing my hair this would be top I still think it would be important to leave some of the follicle in during extraction as we don't know if the memory of the transplant would be there.
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Also ironically this might mean that the only useful thing out of the hairclone project is, the banking of follicles as someone else pointed out donor areas thin, so if vert regenerates donor hair you could also bank young follicles for later use
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The benefit would be recovery I imagine as just extracting from the areas and injecting vert would be less of a recovery, disruption to life Like square said if someone went balding in their mid thirties and after the new hairs might last a good decade. Like botox VS a face-lift
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I think an fue extraction on the balding area might be better to start with, as it's possible microneedling might not create enough of a wound If we already know fue extracted hairs regrow than doing fue extraction of minutizered follicle areas makes sense as a next step
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It doesn't have to be for scarred areas just for areas with minturarized follicles The question would be how long if it grows fresh hair would those new hairs last. That would a good idea but the question would be which hairs would regenerate, you might want to extract it in such a way that it leaves some of that follicle in the scalp for that case.
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True I was thinking more you do something like fue extraction on the balding area
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Yep, and minoxidil interfers with collagen most of us want to look younger with our hair back so it's a catch 22. Vert might ironically make it better to be a Norwood 7 where are your new hair should stay. Personally I think if vert works with micro needling or maybe doing punches where dormant follicles are that would be it's selling point for maintaince. You get a hair transplant and then every so often you get extractions of dormant follicles with vert injected.
