If clumps of your hair suddenly start falling out due to a common form of premature baldness, please don’t fret - scientists have pioneered a treatment to clone hair.
According to them, the technique, known as follicular cell implantation, works by replicating remaining hair strands and it could eventually help bald people to regain a full head of their own hair, The Daily Telegraph reported.
In fact, the technique has the potential to re-grow a limitless supply of hair for individuals who have become bald during cancer treatment, from suffering severe burns, or the onset of age, the researchers said.
However, the treatment may require more than 1,000 tiny injections to produce that number of hairs in extensively bald patients, but it promises to be quicker and less invasive than current hair transplant techniques.
The procedure is being developed by Intercytex, a British company based in Manchester, which is among many competing to find a cure for hair loss — a condition which affects 40 per cent of men over 50.
Trial results have indicated that the cell therapy can increase hair count in at least two thirds of patients after six months, and four out of five if the scalp is stimulated beforehand through gentle abrasions which encourage growth.
The therapy could be made available to patients within five years, the researchers hoped.
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June 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Sir,
I have undergone micro follicular hair transplant surgery before three months and noe i am regaining some of the hair in scattered way whether it will work or i have to go for hair cloning .I have done my plantation at APOLLO HOSPITALS CHENNAI
August 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Hello Arun,
I’m from Bangalore and I’m planning to go for Hair Transplant. May I know, how was you experience and the App. cost it took for the treatment?
Reply would be greatly appreciated.
rgds,
Padmananbhan.S
December 29th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Hi people,
This is Jes from Bangalore again.
I would like to know which one will suite for me.
I’m just 24 and gone completely bald.
Tell me the right method of getting the hair to regrow on my bald scalp.
Hair Cloning or Hair Transplantation ???
Also wanted to know about the cost in INR for both the processes and suggestions on Doctors if any in bangalore
February 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
i am mano… please tell me about hair cloning and where it can be done(address of your treatment centre)…and also tell me the approximate amount one has to spend for hair cloning…
February 7th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
i am raj… please tell me about hair cloning and where it can be done(address of your treatment centre)…and also tell me the approximate amount one has to spend for hair cloning…
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:34 am
hi i am 29 years old and having a severe hair loss, also 50% grey hair. Getting bald rapidly. Kindly suggest a suitable remedy and a approximate cost.