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Our next free Stem Cell and PRP Seminar is Thursday April 25th

Come to our next scam-free Orthopedic Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma Seminar!

Come spend an hour with us and get some honest answers about what PRP and Stem Cells are best used for in orthopedics. The Director, Don Buford MD, will be leading the seminar and answering all your questions and giving you tips on how to avoid scams. Dr. Buford is a board certified orthopedic surgeon in Dallas for 19 years and is very involved in research and teaching and training other doctors in orthopedic regenerative medicine.  The seminar runs from 7p - 8p at 1015 N. Carroll, #2000, Dallas, Texas, 75204

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We just crossed over 2000 followers on Instagram @dallasstemcell!

Orthopedics and PRP and Stem Cells! Have you seen our Instagram site recently?…We are adding ever 250 followers a week and just added our 2000th follower. On IG I mix in fun tips and tidbits, clinical tips, short interviews on hot topics (like commenting on the umbilical cord blood hashtag#scam “Stem Cell” injection the actor who played Superman recently got from a nurse in Beverly Hills. I also just started the critically acclaimed “Know More” interview series on regenerative medicine. Check it out! @dallasstemcell on IG

Canadian Study shows benefits of autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cells for Knee Arthritis.

Interesting Canadian pilot study (N=12) on cultured bone marrow derived MSCs used for knee osteoarthritis (KL3 and KL4) This is one of the very few published papers showing dose dependent outcomes (higher dose…better outcome) with autologous cultured bone marrow derived MSCs.
Of note is that the MRIs didn’t change out to one year.  Clinics routinely telling patients that their xrays and MRIs will improve from a stem cell procedure should just stop!
Remember we can’t culture stem cells and use them without specific FDA regulatory approval in the USA so even the lowest dose in this study (1 million, 10 million, 50 million) is far out of reach of our same day procedures where we can expect to be delivering 5,000 up to 50,000 MSCs depending on how much marrow we harvest and whether it is centrifuged or not.  Hint:  We draw more bone marrow and then centrifuge because we get 3-5x more stem cells on the same day that way!

We do have some published data on same day bone marrow MSC outcomes for knee osteoarthritis so it is interesting to compare improvements in pain and functional score to see if culturing is “worth it”. Maybe the pain and function improve so much more than a same day procedure that culturing will ultimately be shown to be worth the additional cost?

LINK FOR PAPER

Introducing the Regenerative Medicine “Know” Series

#1. There are no living stem cells in frozen, shipped umbilical cord or amniotic fluid or Wharton’s Jelly or placenta
#2. The FDA has ruled that these products are unapproved biologic drugs when used for orthopedic conditions (ie. illegal to give)
#3. Injection are being done by non-orthopedic doctors.
#4. Patients are being scammed into paying thousands of dollars for these sham procedures.

Know Series – Superman

Mounting legal problems for clinics using fat/adipose stem cells in orthopedics

Any clinic still using adipose/SVF as a stem cell source should probably stop now!

The NY Attorney General has just filed lawsuit against Park Avenue Stem Cell and Dr. Joel Singer for selling adipose/SVF derived stem cells.

The Park Avenue Stem Cell clinic is a former Cell Surgical Network affiliate which is a network whose founders (Drs. Mark Berman and Dr. Elliot Lander, are currently entangled with their own legal struggles with the USA Justice department over their stem cell clinic claims and activities.

The AG is seeking permanent injunction on the basis of “fraudulent and illegal advertising regarding its stem cell procedures.” The alleged fraud was based on the clinic selling an adipose/stromal vascular fraction stem cell therapy as a treatment for “…urological diseases, erectile dysfunction, cardiac/pulmonary disease, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and ALS, various autoimmune diseases such as lupus, and orthopedic conditions.”

Additionally, the clinic is accused of misrepresenting that the treatments were “FDA-approved, that their patients are participating in an established research study” both very common lies told to patients by clinics trying to justify these alleged scams. Finally, the AG is seeking a return of profit, and a potential penalty of $!!

FDA Just Reaffirmed That You Can’t Use Umbilical Cord Blood in Orthopedics Without A Drug License Or Specific Permission Thru a RMAT Or Other FDA Program

3/29/2019
https://lnkd.in/eR7Jpq2
FDA clearly states that umbilical cord blood is NOT exempt from registering as a biologics drug under section 351.
FDA states that “….using the umbilical cord blood products to treat orthopedic conditions is not homologous use as defined in 21 CFR 1271.3(c).”
If you are using or selling umbilical cord blood for use in orthopedics, regardless of stem cell claims or not….you better register thru section 351 or get a RMAT!!!

#orthopedics #stemcells #stemcell #regenerativemedicine #orthobiologics #orthopedicsurgeon #scams

What About Stem Cells In Orthopedics?

Here is a link to a 17 minute lecture I recently gave at the 38th Annual Cherry Blossom Course which is a meeting primarily for orthopedic surgeons and other interested health care professionals.
The title of the Lecture is: “What About Stem Cells in Orthopedics”
Have a look!