Believing In Dr Gho’s Hair Multiplication and Cloning Procedure

I often get emails for hair cloning and hair multiplication from people around the world who want to believe:

READER COMMENT 1:
Um, doc, there is a working model in place. Not just Aderans and Histogen, but Dr. Gho’s hair multiplication at HSI. Yes, say what you will about Dr. Gho’s history, but his clinic is performing daily procedures without depleting the donor — I’m not surprised that this continues to be ignored or laughed off because the procedure is patented and would render every other FUE/FUT procedure obsolete. But the truth won’t stay hidden from the wider populace forever.

MY REPLY:
I’ve already written about that HERE. Proof is in the pudding.

READER COMMENT 2:
Yes, doc, and you can eat pudding every day in their clinic if you just went over there and saw the results for yourself as I did. The donor regrows. Every day they’re doing it and they’re booked through the fall of 2011. Here’s an idea: why don’t you call them or email them and ask them to send you photo-doc proof of one of their patients as I have? Aren’t you curious? Don’t you as a peer want to reach out to them after they published a peer-reviewed article in the journal of dermatology about this procedure?

I saw Dr. Gho’s presentation at the ISHRS medical convention and read the journal article. He was doing FUE and I believe that he was splitting the follicular units in the scalp, removing a hair from the follicular unit. That would allow him to leave some hair behind and remove others producing the illusion that the hair was regrowing at the point of extraction. I would embrace what he is doing if he was actually regenerating/multiplying hairs, but as far as I could see, this was not the case. If he is splitting follicular units, I would think that telling the world that he solved the hair multiplication challenge would be less than honest. Of note the published study in 2010 was on only five individuals. After four years, I would think it would have revolutionized the world of hair transplant as we know it, if it really worked.