Emailed a partner in California and this is their response. Wow, some big promises here:
Thank you for contacting OC Hair Restoration, where Dr. Ken Williams and his team offer medical, non-medical,
and surgical options for hair restoration at our state of the art medical facility at Canyon Medical Plaza.
We are just letting patients know, that all 35 plus, US locations hope to offer hair cloning harvest of approx. 100 grafts in Q 3 of 2019.
After harvest of tissue here in US at an estimated cost of $3,500+ USD. Tissue will be sent to UK for storage, at estimated cost of $3,500-$4,000, per year.
Still unsure of cost to have transplanted in the UK, estimates at this time of $10,000 USD, per 2000 grafts implanted.
Typical patient may have 3-4 procedures over multiple years. Still many questions that we do not know the answer for yet. Only patients that live in UK are in the clinical studies.
Patients that live in the UK, can go direct to
www.farjo.com Yes you can go directly to the UK for the harvest and the transplant in one place, hopefully starting in Q1, 2019.
We feel confident that this may treat patients with DUPA diffused unpatterned hair loss The harvest from patients scalp in the US has been delayed due to shipping issues.
We encourage you to visit the web site www.hairclone.me to sign up for updates, so you will know when and where the locations in the US will be offering harvest of tissue.
Welcome your call to answer your multiple questions.
The strategy of HairClone is to develop the various follicle extraction, cryopreservation/banking, cell expansion, cell delivery processes in parallel. We are not sure how long this may take.
This will create a community of scientists, clinicians and patient/clients dedicated to bringing this revolutionary treatment into clinical practice.
- Follicle Banking and storage
When developed, patient/clients can pay to have hair follicles extracted, cryopreserved and stored. The cost structure of such banking will be similar to other cell banking services and payment
will be be one-off, annual or monthly depending upon the patient/clients preference.
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Cell treatment
When the process for expansion and re-implantation has been developed by the scientist/clinician/patient partnership, portions of the banked follicles would be dissociated and expanded in culture, transported to the treatment clinic where they would be micro-injected back into the scalp. It is expected that this process will both rejuvenate miniaturising follicles as well as inducing new Follicular structures. This process would be Repeated every 2-5 years as the balding process continues by taking additional portions of the patient’s banked follicles and expanding them.
). Before thinking of letting them now harvest my follicle for a lot of money i would considere to fund them with a few hundred bucks. (which is less money and you still have the feeling you doing something for your hair.)
