Also want to add this........
Scars are regarded as products of the natural repair of injured tissue. The healing of surgical incisions or lacerations which are closed by approximation with sutures differs from the healing of open wounds such as third-degree burns, stasis ulcers, or decubitus ulcers. Other types of scars may be produced by infections or certain inflammatory diseases.
In superficial wounds, where only a portion of the dermis is destroyed, epithelial cells may migrate from the remnants of sweat glands or hair follicles to form the new surface. The final healing might be a slightly depressed scar such as often is seen in acne or the deeper infections of impetigo or chicken pox. Large boils or papular or cystic acne may produce considerably deeper scars, sometimes of the "ice-pick" variety.
Large deep wounds - where the dermis is destroyed, such as in third-degree burns - pose a different problem for the body. In the absence of adnexal structures such as hair follicles, sebaceous and sweat glands, repair of the defect is by way of granulation tissue. Granulations are capillary buds extending upward to the surface and carrying with them fibroblasts and inflammatory cells. Once a good granulating surface is established, epidermal cells may migrate across to cover the healing surface, but if the wound is large, grafts may be required. Beneath the new thin epidermis new collagen is laid down. The resulting scar may be smooth, but often it presents an irregular, sometimes ropy surface. Shrinkage of the tissue may result in contractures and deformity.
conclusion.....dermarolling experiment here is a trial, squeegee, wanted to go the extreme route and use deeper wounds to stimulate new hair growth which he was excited about his growth. I took the safer approach and stimulated growth using superficial wounds,
He used a 3.0 at times, but I believe his main growth was with 1.5 dermaroller. One may be better than the other, that's what this experiment is all about. We don't really know the specifics on how deep we should go and what will result in best growth, too bad squeegee had a temper, I got rid of mine cause I wanted to change, now hopefully someone else is using bigger than 1.5 so we could compare results.
also when you achieve as much regrowth as I did, you will started asking different questions then.....can I regrow my hair? Your new questions will be.... I now have regrown my hair, how long should I continue dermarolling, and can I stop completely and just maintain with healthy diet, and other techniques to increase blood flow?
this is where i am, my temples receded 3/4 inches on both sides about 3" width on left and right temple, that is all filled in now with black hair.
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Youcandoit, speaking for a lot of us, thank you very much for your very inspirational post. Just did my 6th roll, I didn't notice an increase in bleeding compared to last time. Again reporting it doesn't hurt as much as first couple times.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Yes, I noticed something weird last roll, I noticed increase blood flow up till week 9, my last roll was my 10th and I noticed less blood flow, only think I could think of I did different was dermaroll with crude oil mixed with minoxidil. Since then I don't plan on using anymore minoxidil, like I said In previous post, I never applied minoxidil after dermarolling, I just dipped it in a solution of Pennsylvania crude oil, and few drops of minoxidil week 4 and 8. Doubt it has affected growth for the better, I don't like drugs.
i also have decided that I will wait longer than 7 days, I'm thinking more of 9 or 10, I want to stay in a natural healed phase longer to see if it makes a difference.[/FONT]
