Stem Cells? Really?

I spent about an hour tonight on youtube reviewing a Denmark based hair stem cell clinic with other offices in Europe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-pNdl7z38).  I watched three videos about a half an hour each. What I saw was flamboyance with 8 star offices. One office was based in a castle,  very impressive spokesperson, communicative in multiple languages including English, and lots of fluff. When it got down to the reality of what they were doing, it was FUE, plain and simple. It was a limited procedure that they demonstrated, and despite the claims that they were extracting stem cells and that one hair would produce two, and two would produce forr and so on, the reality of what my professional eye was seeing was nothing more than a limited FUE procedure with no stem cells other then those normally found in an FUE graft and no cloning. I am asked many times about Dr. Gho’s stem cell technique and heretofore, have not commented on it.  I teach my patients a very basic principle about balding, that there is a limit to the amount of hair that one has. Short of an act of God, no doctor has yet gotten two healthy hairs from one, four hairs from two and so on. Somehow, Dr. Gho did not look like the God I know. People with advanced balding patterns must have limited goals. What I saw were a few patients who could never achieve any sense of reasonable results for the balding patterns they showed and with the number of grafts that were offered. I know that pomp and fluff sells and the dream of hair transplant patient world-wide is to have either stem cells or cloning solve their hair shortage problem, but I would suggest that readers of this blog follow the old adage that ‘let the the buyer beware’ and let it be a guiding principle for everyone looking into hair transplantation. I must be lucky because most of the patients I see, educate themselves about this hair restoration process and would never fall for scams. When patients just don’t know, I push them to get educated and this is why the editors write this blog, to educate our readership.