Bosley Medical Procedures

For decades, practitioners have been able to cover up limited areas of balding scalp in select patients though it has come with many tradeoffs including loss of vital tissue and incomplete results. Along with this field came unethical medical groups who exaggerated the potential gains, hid risks, and put profits ahead of patient welfare. Today's Bosley Medical procedures are still constrained by the same ancient and invasive process as a wired.com report acknowledged: "Oddly enough, it's this 50-year-old traditional hair transplantation process that Washenik (Bosley's Medical Director) has been hired to make obsolete."

When it comes to irremediable surgery, most medical organizations try to give equal time to the negative aspects of a procedure so a patient can make an informed decision. Bosley Medical has downplayed or failed to mention the risks and drawbacks (instead of increasing the health and viability of the scalp these types of procedures have the opposite effect, see right).

Bosley is supposedly getting ready for hair multiplication with Aderans Research Institute, a separate entity owned by their parent company (which may not be going according to plan in view of several pushbacks and their option with Intercytex, a competitor). Yet Bosley's marketing efforts aimed at new patients makes little mention that a safer procedure may be in the works. Dr. Paul Kemp, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Intercytex indicated that younger patients who just started losing their hair may turn to ICX-TRC before they consider more invasive options such as hair transplant (see the Resources page for a link to this article and others).

The Anesthesia Process

A local anesthetic like Lidocaine can be used along with epinephrine. In a procedure called a “ring block” anesthetic is administered around the perimeter of the scalp to make the entire scalp numb. A long series of multiple injections is required, and both the donor and recipient areas are infiltrated. Needles are pushed into the scalp administering anesthetic a little bit at a time. Along with the pain and distention of the needle, the anesthetic itself causes a burning sensation as in enters the tissue. The large amount of pain involved in this process has kept patients from ever going back. A Bosley Medical nurse said she has seen patients suffer permanent hair loss as a result of the anesthesia process. On the "positive" side she said, since their procedures "kill the nerves in your scalp" subsequent anesthetic procedures could be "less painful".





	Bosley Medical Procedures For decades, practitioners have been able to cover up limited areas of balding scalp in select patients though it has come with many tradeoffs including loss of vital tissue and incomplete results. Along with this field came unethical medical groups who exaggerated the potential gains, hid risks, and put profits ahead of patient welfare. Today's Bosley Medical procedures are still constrained by the same ancient and invasive process as a wired.com report acknowledged: "Oddly enough, it's this 50-year-old traditional hair transplantation process that Washenik (Bosley's Medical Director) has been hired to make obsolete." When it comes to irremediable surgery, most medical organizations try to give equal time to the negative aspects of a procedure so a patient can make an informed decision. Bosley Medical has downplayed or failed to mention the risks and drawbacks (instead of increasing the health and viability of the scalp these types of procedures have the opposite effect, see right). Bosley is supposedly getting ready for hair multiplication with Aderans Research Institute, a separate entity owned by their parent company (which may not be going according to plan in view of several pushbacks and their option with Intercytex, a competitor). Yet Bosley's marketing efforts aimed at new patients makes little mention that a safer procedure may be in the works. Dr. Paul Kemp, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Intercytex indicated that younger patients who just started losing their hair may turn to ICX-TRC before they consider more invasive options such as hair transplant (see the Resources page for a link to this article and others). Hair Loss from the Trauma of Surgery The Anesthesia Process A local anesthetic like Lidocaine can be used along with epinephrine. In a procedure called a “ring block” anesthetic is administered around the perimeter of the scalp to make the entire scalp numb. A long series of multiple injections is required, and both the donor and recipient areas are infiltrated. Needles are pushed into the scalp administering anesthetic a little bit at a time. Along with the pain and distention of the needle, the anesthetic itself causes a burning sensation as in enters the tissue. The large amount of pain involved in this process has kept patients from ever going back. A Bosley Medical nurse said she has seen patients suffer permanent hair loss as a result of the anesthesia process. On the "positive" side she said, since their procedures "kill the nerves in your scalp" subsequent anesthetic procedures could be "less painful".