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Person-to-Person Hair
Transplantation:
Dr. Woods
& Dr. Campbell unveils the latest in hair transplantation
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Person-to-Person Hair Transplantation
pushing the
limit one more time
Author: Dr. Woods & Dr. Campbell
Last year, we agreed to present the Woods Technique, in
its entirety, to the Chicago ISHRS meeting. Due to protests, this
invitation ceased to exist. To some, this was an incredible missed
opportunity. To others it was possibly a sigh of relief.
As with many things , people need to make a decision regarding what they
know, what they want to know, and what they don't want to know.
Perhaps some are confusing our claims of "end point"
technology with infallibility. In this discipline, no one can be
infallible. But what is possible is commitment to trauma minimalization,
the best possible results and providing the safest surgery yet
conceived.
ISHRS members had the opportunity to see it and "maybe" things
could have changed. It seems to us that possibly, the price of change,
for some people, is just too high.
So, we continue to build a safe platform from which to launch successful
trainees. But the harder we try to build it, the greater the attempts to
destroy it.
In the past 18 months, we visited the USA 10 times. There has been more
than a dozen large information publications in the American Medical
Association Magazine, public and private seminars and widespread TV news
exposure etc etc. The shock waves have been felt throughout the entire
industry, worldwide.
All this is done to educate and wizen the mainstream public, so that
they ask questions and seek verification of doctors advertising and
claims. And one day, as our trainees enter the market place, the wider
public will understand who they are and what they represent
However, increasingly sophisticated attempts to derail our efforts are
well underway. Why are they doing this? Its quite simple.
The principles of The Woods Technique (Declaration of Patient Rights), is something many do not want
embraced by the mainstream public. We are committed to bringing together
the right doctors, who in turn, are committed to doing what is proper
and right "Not because it is easy, but because it is hard...”
On another note, there is much controversy about hair multiplication and
cloning.
Despite breakthroughs with cloning mammals , reptiles, and talk of
cloning humans, has anyone yet cloned or multiplied a follicle ?
With this in mind, we do not pretend for one second to
have a better chance than anyone else, but we do intend to see what
happens when follicles are longitudinally split. The patient “PaulV” , whose controversy many
will remember, is returning for further sessions. His posterior crown
will be the test area.
We have also been looking at the idea of person to person transplants.
This carries major logistic and ethical issues. Over the last few
months, a client is being assessed for receiving hair from his sister.
We have the leading transplant immunologists in the country performing
every conceivable test and we are looking at the ethical implications.
There is no guarantee yet that we can proceed but we are waiting
anxiously for the final go ahead.
Despite all this one must look at the major reason for hair loss.
Obviously, it is androgenic alopecia. However, the SECOND greatest
reason for loss of hair from the recipient and donor areas is hair
transplant surgery itself.
When we made the FUE breakthrough some years ago, it was with the full
understanding that if done incorrectly, it too will cause
scalp shock and damage. Hence, the Declaration of Patient Rights guidelines. This complimented
by our utilization of body hair discovery meant that the great majority
of people will get what they need from their own natural resources, with
preserved pre existing and donor hair.
All the other things are important, but every effort to avoid surgical
damage and further hair loss must become every HT surgeons immediate
obligation, duty and FIRST PRIORITY.
Dr Woods and Dr Campbell
HAIR TRANSPLANT FORUM
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