Dainish company offering HM (though don't get your hope up)

[somone uk]

this company called europa seem to be offering a procidure called Follicular Hair Multiplication (FHM) though it is obvious that you would have to fly for it since everything seems continental European (the email address is Danish)

http://www.europa-international.net/kos ... cation.php

this technique sounds alot like tweaked FUE though where the donor hair regrows

they have a more professinal looking website but it lacks infomation apart from a testimonial http://www.europa-international.net/cos ... l/andy.php

but idk if to belive this being HM or just someone selling FUE :dunno:

i think we DO have the technology for HM but i also think that alot of it is held back by the rigorous safety checks which might be a little more relaxed in continental europe

 

[Boondock]

I doubt it on the last point. Europe is the world's hub of excessive safety checks and bureaucracy, and if something's not allowed elsewhere - it won't be allowed there.

I don't have much to say on their overall procedure. Someone more experienced could probably vouch for its legitimacy. I did find their opening line hillarious, however:

Europa International, the longest-established plastic operation 'holiday' company in the UK, is offering a new breakthrough treatment for men who, like Elton John, are suffering male pattern baldness

 

[somone uk]

according to hairloss help forums the donor area has poor regrowth and is rendered obsolete compared to FUE

 

[sundayhd]

"One hair follicle can therefore produce two or more hairs. Thus the fundamental difference from this and traditional hair transplantation, is that you can have as much hair as you want-or are prepared to pay for. Instead of desperately attempting to redistribute perhaps the little you have left, by hair transplanting, you can with this technique, add as much as you want. "

if its true, this is really HM.. i mean a real HM offer!

 

[Avery]

If I'm reading it right, it seems like what they say they do is take part of a hair follicle and transplant it somewhere else, the follicle heals in both places, and thus you have 2 new healthy follicles.

I feel like that's a pretty simple method and would have been tried by now.

 

[MrAnon]

So, uhh, it's like FUE, except they intentionally transect every single graft?

 

[somone uk]

So, uhh, it's like FUE, except they intentionally transect every single graft?

just about yeah
hmm i wonder if there any hair transplant surgeons on this forum, they might be able to shed some light on this

 

[wesleyBelgium]

dont believe this...

its dr gho from nederland that does this procedure...
there clients on our hairforum, and still no proof of regrowth of used donor...
thats why the use of the word : "can" read the page again , they dont say the donorhair will regrow, they say : the donor CAN regrow...

at the convention of hair transplant-doctors in amsterdam , gho presented his method again , without using haircount or shaven donor 1 year after...
so he has no proof to show if it works, he just go to conventions to let everybody believe that his method works...
if you believe as doctor that it works , you mark the donor with a tatoo dot...
shave the donor, do a haircount in a circle , extract the hairs ... one year later seek the tatoo dot , shave the donor , mark the circle again , and do another haircount... and you got the proof...

he just show a long grown donor , how can anyone see this way if there was regrowth ?? and why , its a scam , and there always people who believe it works... so he has always clients that pay an overpriced little fue...

 

[somone uk]

so in other words he is tring to make his FUE sound better than everyone elses even though it isn't

 

[wesleyBelgium]

yep...

he says : you get regrowth in the donor , but never was there proof
why not ? it does not work , maybe it works for 10% regrowth if your lucky , but he says 80% , and never give on hair transplant-conventions any proof , just a lecture that his methode is the future... just to keep the desprate people there hopes up , and there cash ready...

 

[nohawk]

I doubt it on the last point. Europe is the world's hub of excessive safety checks and bureaucracy, and if something's not allowed elsewhere - it won't be allowed there.

I don't have much to say on their overall procedure. Someone more experienced could probably vouch for its legitimacy. I did find their opening line hillarious, however:

Europa International, the longest-established plastic operation 'holiday' company in the UK, is offering a new breakthrough treatment for men who, like Elton John, are suffering male pattern baldness

LOOOOOOLLLLLL.. like Elton John... !

 

[Nighthair]

Gho Clinic Says Their FUE Allows the Donor Hair to Regrow?!

August 11 2009, 3:34 pm PT | Posted in: FUE + Hair Transplantation

Q:

Dr. Rassman
i have stumbled upon a hair transplant clinic in Prague called the “GHO clinicâ€￾ which offer a proprietary FUE in which apparently the donor hair will regrow (page here)

i don’t know how well the human body would repair a partially punched out hair follicle, i just want to ask if this procedure is actually hair multiplication available today or just someone trying to make his FUE look better than everyone else’s?


A:


I just chaired the session at the annual ISHRS meeting in Amsterdam and had Dr. Coen Gho as one of the speakers. I had lost my voice, so I could not comment as the chair of that session, but considering that you asked me about him, I will use this as a forum to speak my opinion on what I heard.

Dr. Gho reported that he did 1500 patients with his “cloningâ€￾ procedure. If I had to give a score to the material he presented using a 1-10 scale for scientific credibility, I’d score it a 1, with 1 being the lowest possible. His science was pathetic, with slides that were blurred and blackened out so that there was really nothing to see. He claimed that his FUE technique cut the follicular units in half longitudinally, and that the part that remained regrew hair, but there was no proof of this in any of the material he showed. He did not show any patient results and certainly was never reviewed by any credible agency or physician.

Partially divided follicles have been well studied by many prominent researchers. Despite their attempts, none succeed to create even an equal amount of hair (equal to the original divided follicular units). Dr. Kim (Korean researcher) had done some wonderful research on this very subject and failed to do what Dr. Gho claims. I believe that what I heard from Dr. Gho is marketing hype without any evidence of any hairs regrowing.

 

[somone uk]

Gho Clinic Says Their FUE Allows the Donor Hair to Regrow?!

August 11 2009, 3:34 pm PT | Posted in: FUE + Hair Transplantation

Q:

Dr. Rassman
i have stumbled upon a hair transplant clinic in Prague called the “GHO clinicâ€￾ which offer a proprietary FUE in which apparently the donor hair will regrow (page here)

i don’t know how well the human body would repair a partially punched out hair follicle, i just want to ask if this procedure is actually hair multiplication available today or just someone trying to make his FUE look better than everyone else’s?


A:


I just chaired the session at the annual ISHRS meeting in Amsterdam and had Dr. Coen Gho as one of the speakers. I had lost my voice, so I could not comment as the chair of that session, but considering that you asked me about him, I will use this as a forum to speak my opinion on what I heard.

Dr. Gho reported that he did 1500 patients with his “cloningâ€￾ procedure. If I had to give a score to the material he presented using a 1-10 scale for scientific credibility, I’d score it a 1, with 1 being the lowest possible. His science was pathetic, with slides that were blurred and blackened out so that there was really nothing to see. He claimed that his FUE technique cut the follicular units in half longitudinally, and that the part that remained regrew hair, but there was no proof of this in any of the material he showed. He did not show any patient results and certainly was never reviewed by any credible agency or physician.

Partially divided follicles have been well studied by many prominent researchers. Despite their attempts, none succeed to create even an equal amount of hair (equal to the original divided follicular units). Dr. Kim (Korean researcher) had done some wonderful research on this very subject and failed to do what Dr. Gho claims. I believe that what I heard from Dr. Gho is marketing hype without any evidence of any hairs regrowing.

that's my question