Would you have a hair transplant now or wait for HM?
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Well I can't vote since I've already had 1 hair transplant. However, I am most likely going to wait a few years for HM to arrive. If it's not here by the time I reach 35 (I'm turning 29 this month), then I will go with another hair transplant session. And even if it comes out sooner than that, I will probably wait a few years to see how other people respond to it. If it works out, I'll most likely choose that over another hair transplant (provided I can afford it).
Trent
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in my opinion, this question can only be answered one way: it depends.
Really the only reason that I would get a hair transplant done right now, getting your hair to look money, and then waiting it out for HM to do the rest is if you meet the following characteristics:
A) You have gotten on treatments, and they seem to be stabilizing your hairloss pretty well over the course of a 1.5 years or more. This way, your hair won't end up looking like absoulte sh*t in three years because it just continues to thin aggressively.
B) Hairloss has really hit you hard, and you are finding that you are emotionally stresed ALL the time, and it has affected the way you live your life in a signficant way.
If you are sort of okay with it, and think you can still live a pretty good life without that added hair, then wait it out. This is definitely the best option because you hold off on a transplant (remember its never too LATE to get a transplant, only too early) they can better identify your balding pattern to allow for a better suited transplant. secondly, waiting may allow you to live a full life without scars if HM comes out in the next five years.
C) You have done your research and go to a hair transplant surgeon who is qualified, and that you feel very comfortable will be with you for future sessions if necessary, and who's work you have seen in person. I think the surgeon should also understands your "course of action," and agrees that it is a resonable risk to get a hair transplant now and then wait for HM to come out based on your hairloss type.
otherwise, wait it out man. If it does come out in five years, bam! you're money. if it doesn't, you can just get the hair transplant in five years, and the surgeon will have a better assessment of your balding pattern and thus can give you the best possible transplant for your head.
It is only under these circumstances that I would get a hair transplant now with the hopes of HM in the future.
I meet almost all of these qualifications, except all of (C) which i plan on finishing up this summer if i do decide to go the hair transplant then HM route in my life. hope this helps! these were the things that weighed into my thought process.
Really the only reason that I would get a hair transplant done right now, getting your hair to look money, and then waiting it out for HM to do the rest is if you meet the following characteristics:
A) You have gotten on treatments, and they seem to be stabilizing your hairloss pretty well over the course of a 1.5 years or more. This way, your hair won't end up looking like absoulte sh*t in three years because it just continues to thin aggressively.
B) Hairloss has really hit you hard, and you are finding that you are emotionally stresed ALL the time, and it has affected the way you live your life in a signficant way.
If you are sort of okay with it, and think you can still live a pretty good life without that added hair, then wait it out. This is definitely the best option because you hold off on a transplant (remember its never too LATE to get a transplant, only too early) they can better identify your balding pattern to allow for a better suited transplant. secondly, waiting may allow you to live a full life without scars if HM comes out in the next five years.
C) You have done your research and go to a hair transplant surgeon who is qualified, and that you feel very comfortable will be with you for future sessions if necessary, and who's work you have seen in person. I think the surgeon should also understands your "course of action," and agrees that it is a resonable risk to get a hair transplant now and then wait for HM to come out based on your hairloss type.
otherwise, wait it out man. If it does come out in five years, bam! you're money. if it doesn't, you can just get the hair transplant in five years, and the surgeon will have a better assessment of your balding pattern and thus can give you the best possible transplant for your head.
It is only under these circumstances that I would get a hair transplant now with the hopes of HM in the future.
I meet almost all of these qualifications, except all of (C) which i plan on finishing up this summer if i do decide to go the hair transplant then HM route in my life. hope this helps! these were the things that weighed into my thought process.
iamnaked
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I wouldn't be so down on the prospects. HM will initially be expensive, but it is not like a drug - you can't patent processes like that, and given how big I believe stem cell technology is going to be, the number of companies doing it should bid the price down quite rapidly.
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Even when HM comes out, you're going to still need cash to pay for it. How much are we talking, 10, 15 or even 20k?
I'd prefer to get a hair transplant - 1000 FUE on the hairline, with a well known UK Doctor, which will cost £4,000 ($7,200), and then think about HM later.
If you go to hairsite, they have a HM forum, full of speculation. It's so far away it isn’t funny. Some call it wishful thinking, thinking it'll be out in 4/5 years.
I'd prefer to get a hair transplant - 1000 FUE on the hairline, with a well known UK Doctor, which will cost £4,000 ($7,200), and then think about HM later.
If you go to hairsite, they have a HM forum, full of speculation. It's so far away it isn’t funny. Some call it wishful thinking, thinking it'll be out in 4/5 years.
follijinxed
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I am going to get a hair transplant next year if I can. Why get one in 5 years if your hair might look like sh*t by then only to get a transplant that makes your hair look thin. I'm 24, and if I had to choose between a lifetime of mediocre looking hair for the rest of my life at 30 or an awesome head of hair for a few more years. I'd rather have my youthful look while I'm in my 20s. HM will happen, there is no question about that. I don't think it is worth waiting for though if you aren't a NW5+. Then, by the time your hair transplant starts to look like sh*t, you'll still only have to wait a few more years to see if HM works or not, hopefully nobody gets cancer. And I'll be in my 30s when everyone is starting a family anyways.
Trent
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okay, the theory is that they take some of your hair follicles that are DHT resistant (from the back), and multiply them in a petridish or some neutral medium. The thousands of follicles are then put into a little syringe, and injected with tiny little holes into your head and a DHT resistant follicle begins to grow to give you a full head of hair.
the injury should be very very minimal, should not be painful at all (or at least less than hair transplant) and you will probably recover very quickly (go to work the next day) because there is no cutting whatsoever, rather a small injection similar to a pin prick.
this is the theory, if it all works out, it really is the solution we are looking for in my opinion.
the injury should be very very minimal, should not be painful at all (or at least less than hair transplant) and you will probably recover very quickly (go to work the next day) because there is no cutting whatsoever, rather a small injection similar to a pin prick.
this is the theory, if it all works out, it really is the solution we are looking for in my opinion.
hey guys, im not sure if you guys know this already but there is a lot of information about HM in the Follicle Cloning, Hair Multiplication, and New Techniques section on this site. You will be suprised at what other users have found out and reading through some of the posts will probably answer some of your questions.
Solo
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I´m also, like Trent, carefully optimistic on this HM business. They are advancing in the trials, and if they´re trialing, it´s a signal they got something to trial, they got a tecnique and research done and a security that they are going to get somewhere.
What disencourages me, personally, is that they are talking about it in the media, like the interview Bosley guy did, explaining their advances. As my experience, when a company got something big, they occult it from the public and competitors til it´s completely done. Talking on the media about a research or a major breakthrough is what weak companies do to create false hype around his name and capabilities. There´s no need for Bosley and Intercytex to talk about their research and it´s even negative for them if they are seriously plannig to get this thing done.
Well, I hope they are just feeding the hype to keep us in line to get their HM procedure done the very first day it´ll be available.
But with what I read on the stuff about the trials I think the critic point is the very next phase trials they´re doing right now and the next year. If everything goes OK, we are gonna see HM as a reality before we expected, maybe in just three years. Hold your breath.
If treatments work for me, and everything goes ok for me during the next years, and I got a great hair for the rest my life, I´m gonna think seriously that I´m blessed (even though I got cursed with this male pattern baldness before, but i don´t mind if I recover and mantain) . Maybe we all will be. Well, now I´m being more "optimistic" than "careful".
What disencourages me, personally, is that they are talking about it in the media, like the interview Bosley guy did, explaining their advances. As my experience, when a company got something big, they occult it from the public and competitors til it´s completely done. Talking on the media about a research or a major breakthrough is what weak companies do to create false hype around his name and capabilities. There´s no need for Bosley and Intercytex to talk about their research and it´s even negative for them if they are seriously plannig to get this thing done.
Well, I hope they are just feeding the hype to keep us in line to get their HM procedure done the very first day it´ll be available.
But with what I read on the stuff about the trials I think the critic point is the very next phase trials they´re doing right now and the next year. If everything goes OK, we are gonna see HM as a reality before we expected, maybe in just three years. Hold your breath.
If treatments work for me, and everything goes ok for me during the next years, and I got a great hair for the rest my life, I´m gonna think seriously that I´m blessed (even though I got cursed with this male pattern baldness before, but i don´t mind if I recover and mantain) . Maybe we all will be. Well, now I´m being more "optimistic" than "careful".
follijinxed
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The scar is definitely a down side. Wish I had the money for FUE, hoping the price will drop down in the next year. Supposedly there is still scarring, but it wont be obvious like a scar from ear to ear.
Lets just keep our hopes up. In California they passed a bill for studying stem cells and stuff like that. Something like $3 billion going into it. This is all off the top of my head btw. I'm hoping it will get me a good job and we'll have another dot com boom in California. They are taking votes right now on where to put the headquarters. Last I heard it was between San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego with San Francisco having a lead.
I'm not one to put much faith in govt work but the implications of biotech are huge and I think cloning hair is the first steps to being able to clone a heart, etc. My last job was in the biotech field and I was fairly surprised by the organization and progress made. This site is pretty thorough http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and pretty much all government run.
So basically, if the government can come up with something either on its own or through contracting, then the private sector should be wildly ahead and I would expect some pretty crazy stuff to be coming out in the next decade.
Lets just keep our hopes up. In California they passed a bill for studying stem cells and stuff like that. Something like $3 billion going into it. This is all off the top of my head btw. I'm hoping it will get me a good job and we'll have another dot com boom in California. They are taking votes right now on where to put the headquarters. Last I heard it was between San Francisco, Sacramento and San Diego with San Francisco having a lead.
I'm not one to put much faith in govt work but the implications of biotech are huge and I think cloning hair is the first steps to being able to clone a heart, etc. My last job was in the biotech field and I was fairly surprised by the organization and progress made. This site is pretty thorough http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and pretty much all government run.
So basically, if the government can come up with something either on its own or through contracting, then the private sector should be wildly ahead and I would expect some pretty crazy stuff to be coming out in the next decade.