Donor Regeneration = The Cure? (why Aren't More hair transplant Docs Looking Into This?)

[IvanXproject]

Are there any hair transplant doctors out there today who are able to regenerate donor hair? Wouldn't this basically be a cure? Why aren't more hair transplant docs looking into this?

You could in theory move all of your donor hair from the sides and back to the front, midscalp and vertex.
Even a 80 - 90 % regeneration would work pretty good.

Would this have to go through clinical trials of some sort?

What is the current status on this?

 

[Beowulf]

Are there any hair transplant doctors out there today who are able to regenerate donor hair? Wouldn't this basically be a cure? Why aren't more hair transplant docs looking into this?

You could in theory move all of your donor hair from the sides and back to the front, midscalp and vertex.
Even a 80 - 90 % regeneration would work pretty good.

Would this have to go through clinical trials of some sort?

What is the current status on this?

I don't think a single transplant surgeon actually does research. The only thing I've heard about that's even close is surgeons who have put machines to make it easier.

Look in the pipeline and you'll find that Riken are onto it, and there are some other companies doing sort of similar stuff.

 

[IvanXproject]

I don't think a single transplant surgeon actually does research. The only thing I've heard about that's even close is surgeons who have put machines to make it easier.

Look in the pipeline and you'll find that Riken are onto it, and there are some other companies doing sort of similar stuff.

I thought Riken was working on hair multiplication and not donor regeneration?

What I mean by donor regeneration is basically just that the hairs that are extracted during a hair transplant grows out again.

 

[Beowulf]

I thought Riken was working on hair multiplication and not donor regeneration?

What I mean by donor regeneration is basically just that the hairs that are extracted during a hair transplant grows out again.

That doesn't sound possible, when you do a hair transplant they cut all the skin off. You'd have to get a skin graft.

 

[coolio]

hair transplants don't just pull out the shaft of the hair and move it. They take out a chunk of skin with the follicle in it. It's basically a skin transplant, just a tiny little piece of skin. It has to include the follicle itself or the hair won't grow in the new place.

It's like getting a "fingernail transplant" by cutting off the end of an entire finger and moving it over to your other hand. The "donor finger" is not going to regrow another nail after that. The chunk that was removed included all the fingernail-making machinery.