Gho Clinic Says Their FUE Allows the Donor Hair to Regrow?!
Dr. Rassman
i have stumbled upon a hair transplant clinic in Prague called the “GHO clinic” 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?
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 “cloning” 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.
OUCH!!!
I find his most recent published study that totally reveals his 2 for 1 technique to be of extremely high quality. I’m surprised other HT surgeons are still performing the old outdated FUE technique that doesn’t offer donor regrowth. They result in rapid donor depletion and an inability to fully cure the baldness.
Summary
Journal of Dermatological Treatment
Posted online on 13 Apr 2010.
Donor hair follicle preservation by partial follicular unit extraction. A method to optimize hair transplantation
Coen G. Gho1 & H. A. Martino NEumann2
1Hair Science Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence: Coen G. Gho, Hair Science Institute, Wethouder van Caldenborghlaan 45, 6226 BS Maastricht, The Netherlands. Fax: 31 20 575 2331. E-mail: C.Gho@Hasci.com
Abstract
Background: There are different stem cell pools located in the hair follicle. Objective: To try to determine whether follicular units can survive a partial extraction and whether this partial extracted follicular unit can regenerate new hairs. Methods: From five individuals, between 100 and 150 grafts were harvested from the occipital area of the scalp. Suitable grafts were implanted into the recipient area. Hair growth and characteristics in the donor area and the recipient area were observed at different intervals. Results: After 3 months, between 92.1% and 104.1% (mean 97.7%) of the partial follicular units in the donor sites survived and produced hairs with the same characteristics. After 1 year, 91.1–101.7% (mean 95.9%) of the implanted partial follicular units regenerated hair growth with the same characteristics as the hairs in the donor area. Conclusions: We revealed that extracted partial longitudinal follicular units transplanted to the recipient area can be used as complete follicular units to regenerate completely differentiated hair growth with the same characteristics as in the donor area. We also revealed that the partial follicular units in the donor area can survive and produce the same number of hairs with the same characteristics. This technique enables us to generate two hair follicles from one follicle with consistent results and preserve the donor area.
it’s simple, all dr gho has to do is publish some credible science in a journal and get someone else to replicate it
You lost your voice?