Will it work? My friend's hair transplanted onto my head.

[Vinny]

Hello,

I'm thinking about getting a transplant and have a male friend who's willing to donate his hair follicles to me (he owes me a huge favor, that's why). Has it ever been done and will it work, meaning, will it keep growing? Please advise! Thank you very much!

 

[s.a.f]

No it needs to be your own tissue or the body will reject it.

 

[Vinny]

Please what's the huge favour lol?

We served in the SF in Afghanistan together, and let's just say he now would do pretty much anything for me.

As for the person who actually answered my question, thank you! I have not gone to see a hair surgeon, but thought to ask on here first because it's not nearly time yet (maybe in a couple of years down the road).

 

[GeminiX]

It may be possible now, but as with any donor organ (I believe), you would need to be on drugs to suppress your immune system to stop it from rejecting the follicles.

That said, I'm in no way a donor specialist so don't take my post as absolute fact.

 

[joshua88]

It's true. You would need to take immunesuppressive drugs for life, and as such your lifespan would be significantly shortened and your quality of life diminished (which would be counterproductive, since the aim of getting more hair is to increase your quality of life.)

Besides, as with anything "foreign" that is transplanted into the body, the foreign grafts would not last for a lifetime. Nowhere near a lifetime. They would only probably last for some years.

 

[armandein]

What about this, Any advance from 1990?

http://ezinearticles.com/?Exploring-the ... id=2619523


When did hair cloning come about?
It was in the year 1990 when a British scientist by the name of Dr. Jahoda took sheath cells from his own skin and transplanted them to his wife's own skin. The result of the transplantation was quite interesting, because after the transplantation of the dermal sheath cells, hair began to grow on his wife's arm. During genomic exploration, it was found that the hairs on this wife's arm contained both Dr. Jahoda's DNA and his Dr. Jahoda's wife's DNA.

 

[Vinny]

Thanks for your answers! I did not know anything about hair transplant and such, but thought to ask on here first. I will eventually gain much more knowledge about it when it is time to talk to a hair surgeon (or whatever they are called). But it's still a couple of years away, hopefully.

Ok, then I will not be going that route, because I refuse to take such a drug. I was hoping it would work so I won't have any scar and my friend would finally fulfill his wish of "paying me back", even though I've never asked for it. It's not like I'm afraid of a little pain or anything. I've endured much greater pains.