Peruvian Hair Curly
This technique involves extracting the hair follicles from the back of the patient's scalp, culturing and multiplying them and injecting the newly-grown hair cells into the bald scalp. Among several teams of scientists on three continents researching hair multiplication, the UK healthcare firm Intercytex appears to be the frontrunner. Intercytex reported results of the latest stage of the clinical phase II study of ICX-TRC (a suspension of a patient's own dermal papilla cells) in March 2008 and they were positive. The next release is expected by the end of 2008. This therapy might hit the market in 2010 at the earliest. The main benefit of hair multiplication would be solving the shortage of donor hair that is the main limiting factor in hair transplantation.Generating hair follicles in wounds of hair-free skin is a completely new approach to regrowing hair.How can we use this information to our advantage? The H+ genetic test can predict a patients risk for hair loss or thinning. Because single follicular hair implants can be used multiple times and it is not limited as in methods like strip surgery this means a patient can theoretically never be allowed to go bald again. Patients should remember by the time hair loss or thinning is noticeable - almost 50% of your hair could be gone and the genetic test will help predict a patients hair loss before you can see any visible hair lossWhat are the medical treatments available?Another advantage of the H- transplant procedure is that it allows the hair transplant surgeon to extract as many grafts as is actually needed and on average, we usually extract and place 3,000-5,000 hairs per day.