Hair Cloning Mayhem— Hope Or Hopeless?

HARROW, U.K. - Jan. 19, 2016 - PRLog -- Stem cell transplantation procedure is aimed to be independent for not being an autologous procedure, unlike hair transplantation. A person with good hair density, who is either a relative of the patient or a stranger, could donate their stem cells for a bald person matching blood group might be sufficient to conduct this procedure. It is going to be an injection procedure with perhaps a number of sittings, much resembling a PRP hair loss treatment.

The procedure has become widespread with much anticipation, since the possibility of hair restoration for baldness without the need for donor hair. This means that the procedure can regenerate hair growth for patients of chemotherapy radiation which is major procedures for cancer treatment which and unavoidably causes destruction of stem cell progenitor cells, resulting in baldness.

This will also make hair restoration for women easier. Androgenic hair loss in women leads to diffuse thinning in contrast to men’s patterned baldness which typically leaves a horseshoe shaped band of hair at the back of the scalp that is used with hair transplant surgery to relocate onto bald zones. But in case of diffuse hair loss, it not always a viable option.

Scarring alopecia which is another complex aspect of hair loss treatment is also on the line to benefit from this procedure. Scarring alopecia means any hair loss caused by non-androgenic and non-hormonal functionality and mainly from an external cause of inflammation of hair follicles, such as scalp infection, burns, and bruises, and even acute hair damage. There are further subcategories of cicatricial and non-cicatricial alopecia that has limited or no potential of benefit from hair transplantation, or pharmaceutical hair loss treatments.

The stem cell procedure for hair loss treatment practiced and probated by some of the highest qualified trichologists, hair transplant (http://www.hshairtransplant.co.uk/) surgeons and hair specialists. The procedure has widely been performed on mice, which is an unethical activity against animal law, so the studies have been much harder to continue due the lack of experiments. There are very limited reports about the procedure being tried on people, and its results have also been nonchalant.

Stem cell therapy is also much widely known as bone marrow transplantation, which is a successful and widely performed medical procedure. The cloning of stem cells is thus a possibility that even made the cloning of organisms possible.

Despite being a solid and concrete therapy in theory, the treatment is still underdeveloped leaving a raised hope of its results for hair restoration.

Hair transplant surgery remains to be the most solid hair restoration option that recycles one’s baldness resistant hair to cover their bald zones permanently and even resume normal hair growth. But many times candidates are turned down due to insufficient donor hair or not having ideal scalp laxity.