there is an unrestricted supply of your own hair for use

A few months ago Ukmedix News wrote about a company based in the UK that was working on research from which they hoped they would clone hair from individuals in a laboratory and then replant the hair follicles on to the scalp. The treatment would be able to be used not only by men suffering from male pattern baldness but also by women suffering from premature hair loss.

The process that has been developed by a company called Intercytex which is based in Manchester has been named Follicular Cell Implantation and the initial results on patients have been extremely good. The UK government has taken an active interest in the research and has given almost £2million in the form of a government grant.

The big advantage that this treatment has over normal hair transplantation surgery is that it is not necessary to remove hair from any other part of your scalp and therefore there is an unrestricted supply of your own hair for use. It is estimated that this treatment will be available to men and women over the next five years and will be specially useful for the people who have lost all of their hair due to burns or severe accidents. Cancer patients who have lost their hair after chemotherapy would also be able to make use of this research to regrow their hair.

Initial results show that two out of three patients re grew hair after a six month period and this number grew to 80 percent when the scalp was stimulated before treatment started.

For this technique to work the dermal papilla cells which are responsible for the growth of hair are taken from about 100 hairs at the back of the head. The cells are then treated with a specially patented culture and they multiply many times over. The cells are then injected into the scalp which stimulates hair follicles and encourages the growth of new ones all over the head.

This method of re growing hair will be much less intrusive and difficult to perform then hair transplant surgery. It is also likely to be far cheaper and accessible and therefore could be a great help for men suffering from the advanced effects of male pattern baldness.