Would ACell Be Like Going Back to Old Plugs?

Can you explain how these ACell hair transplant procedures most likely will be performed?

In my mind, the strip option would be leave a scare too big for the ACell’s MatriStem product to heal/regenerate with out stitches , and If you take a strip of skin out, and stitch it together, there will not be alot of room for regenerating. A standard small FUE scar would be less time efficient and more costly for the customer. I guess, if donor supply is becoming unlimited, customers will demand higher density,more coverage and less conservative hairlines, which would make for more “mega session” type surgeries. As a 24 yr nw3 stable due to proscar, hair transplants never seemed like an option for me, just because of available donor hair – future balding, as I am pretty sure I will end up at Nw6 or 7 if science doesn’t beat genetics.

So If ACell’s MatriStem products turns out to be the standard, do you think we will go back to the old school butchering plug extractions? Since the sessions will be longer and more of them as well (I guess clients will ask for masterplans to have 10,000-20,000 or even 30,000 grafts! Instead of 3,000 – 7,000). And with the healing more forgiving, Would the ACell’s MatriStem product allow the surgeon to butcher the back of clients heads?

Your thoughts on the subject would be very interesting to read.

This is still a very early stage of trials and development. New ways of doing old things will arise. If the new technology works as planned, it will certainly not be like the old days of the bulky hair plugs. It should not produce scarring, as there is no surgery here.

I’d prefer to not get into too much detail here at this time, so please follow our announcements to come. You can see all of our recent posts on this subject in the new ACell category.