GHO Clinic - Follicular Multiplication Information Slideshow

Slide 9 - Partial Follicles making New Hairs

Next we did a study to determine whether follicular units (hairs) extracted from someone's head would still have the potential for follicular regeneration. The significant difference about these types of extracted hairs is that we only extracted the top half of the hair, leaving the original root of the hair in its original location. Since we found two pools of stem cells, we hypothetized that we might be able to remove the top half, extracting the upper stem cell pool for implantation elsewhere, and leaving the lower stem cell pool to let the original hair grow back to full length.

In this study we revealed that partial follicular units smaller than 50% of the original length could actually initiate their own growth into a full hair. This means we are able to implant only a part of a follicle into another portion of someones scalp, and grow an entirely new hair from it, in a new location. This is what Follicle Multiplication is.

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