November 3 2005, 4:11 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Products
What can you tell me about a company called Current Technology and a procedure called CosmeticTrichoGenesis(CTG) that they have the patent. You sit under a chair with a hood for approx. 12 minutes 1x per week and it emits small amounts of electric energy to both stop hair loss and enhance hair growth. Although not FDA approved, I am seriously considering taking advantage of the treatment. I think I’m a good candidate and not ready to go the transplant route. My wife’s hair salon just got a chair and I know several clients who are very pleased. Please let me know what you’ve heard about the procedure and its efficacy and or results. Thank you.
The new names never cease to amaze me. As I have been reviewing questions people have written to me for this blog, fancy new names of “magical” cures continue to come in from various individuals surfing the net. This one is all in the name. Cosmetic implies elective fixes to improve looks, Tricho means hair, and by linking the two words together you get the loose meaning of “hair improvement therapies”. Genesis means growth, and implies that there is something that stimulates the hair to improve the cosmetic appearance of a person. There is nothing new here, other than the combination of colorful words.
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You would be wise to review the peer-reviewed medical publications available on Current Technology’s website, http://www.current-technology.com, before making off-handed and incorrect statements to your readers. The TrichoGenesis platform has a clinical efficacy rate of over 96% for hair regrowth or stopping hair loss. There are two devices: ETG & CTG. ETG has received the CE Mark approval as a medical device in Europe and has also been approved in Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Greece, Cyprus, Kuwait, and Singapore on the basis of clinical trial data. CTG was developed as a cosmetic device for use in the US and operates from the same proprietary platform. Application for FDA approval for ETG will be made shortly. CTG is currently in limited use in Kirkland, WA and several other US cities. See http://www.kirklandlaser.com/solutions-cosmetrictricho.html
i work at a spa that has the CTG Machine, but we have lost all our info on it..do you have any info you email me or a contact for the machine?