I am sure by now you have heard about hair implantation, the hair restoration procedure that is also referred to as hair transplantation. As you know, when a hair restoration surgeon performs this procedure he or she actually removes some living hair from one area of the patient’s head and transplants or implants them into the balding area. This does two things, it fills the bald area in to a certain extent with hair that will grow and it removes hairs from the donor site which can make that area thinner.
Well, there is a new treatment that may make the removal of living hairs redundant. If this new genetic procedure which is in clinical trials in Europe is successful, the surgeon will not need to make the hair thinner in one area in order to put hair in another. A genetic research company in Canada, Trichoscience Cellular Replication, has actually found a way to grow new hair follicles by starting with just a few cells from the existing hair roots. These seed cells are removed from the roots and then bathed in a solution which helps them to replicate. As they split, these cells grow into new hair follicles which can then be implanted into the scalp.
This procedure is very important for women with hair loss and balding problems because of the nature of their hair loss. Unlike men, who tend to lose their hair in set patterns, women will experience hair thinning over their entire scalp. This means there is no good donor area as all the scalp sees hair balding. If the trichoscience procedure is successful then hair restoration clinics would be able to grow new hair follicles for women to treat this embarrassing problem.
Keep your eye out for new information on this exciting procedure that may be the long sought after cure for baldness. Clinical trials commenced in September 2009 and are progressing very smoothly.
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