What Should You Keep In Mind About The Sweet Hair After? - Part 3

These are the remaining treatments you can try to regain the hairline. Expect a low-key effect as it takes time to grow back hair. So, watch for what treatment your doctor prescribes before settling on any of it.

What Should You Keep In Mind About The Sweet Hair After? - Part 3

What About Surgery?

Transplanting hair follicles from the sides and back of the head to the top of the head is one way to combat hair loss. Kaufman then explains this surgery has evolved over the years. 

He further explains that the standard of care was to take large grafts, plugs of 12 to 20 hairs, and implant them, in the late 1980s. They are sure to give either a very good or an acceptable result. They got that doll’s-hair or corn-row phenomenon called Little poles of hair jutting out as some men got older and lost some more hair. 

Transplanted very close together for a more natural look, today’s hair grafts are called follicular unit hair transplants of one to four hairs. 

Scalp reduction is another mostly out-of-favor technique. 

Moving on Kaufman believes, to reduce the bald area, scalp reduction is to cut the balding scalp out and suture the remaining skin together. You have a smaller area to transplant after several of these. To be invisible it needs to be transplanted leaving a visible scar. 

Where a flap of hair from a hair-bearing area is partially removed, swung around, and attached to a frontal area, similarly out of fashion are flap-type procedures. Whereas it may lead to scarring or the death of a portion of the scalp. 

The relevant question comes to be in this case how well do hair transplants work? The answer is that it now depends on the amount of healthy hair a person has that is available for transplant. On a person’s expectations, it depends. 

Here Kaufman states where it has stabilised and is not losing more hair quickly is the best candidate for hair restoration surgery who has had a loss for a number of years. To give them a natural-appearing hairline, a person needs to have realistic expectations of what can be done. 

Kaufman says women make excellent candidates although most people who seek hair replacement surgery are men. 

The Future for Hair-Loss Treatments

As William Shakespeare says there’s many a man who has more hair than wit. 

Getting shutdown follicles to regenerate is the Holy Grail of hair-loss treatment. It is upon this that Cotsarelis’s lab is working on. They have thereby made a breakthrough just as they have learned in case of how to manipulate in the test tube, the stem cells. 

In this area, it is not the only lab working. 

As Cotsarelis says, growing them with dermal papilla cells, others are taking hair follicles out of the human scalp. You might be able to recombine them with skin cells and form new follicles if they grow in culture. For a hair transplant, this would let you expand the number of follicles you get. Maybe 5 to 10 years, as this may not be that far off. To do that there’s very good evidence. 

Aderans the huge wig manufacturer based in Japan is the company that’s leading this research. 

Tom Barrows, Ph.D., director of product development at Aderans Research Institute Inc., Atlanta, tells that they are off and running. 

As they are not real keen on the word cloning, hair cloning is something this has been called. It is a duplication process as they are not creating a whole new organism. Cells that have the capacity of creating new follicle, they are taking follicular stem cells and thereby packaging them into follicle inducing implants. 

Making headway is a gene called sonic hedgehog. Already trying to tame sonic hedgehog for hair growth is a company called Curis. 

As Cotsarelis opines, converting resting hair into growing hair is the sonic hedgehog. If it controls follicle size and growth, it could be something a treatment might be based around as they don’t know its full role. 

In labs, the sonic hedgehog is just one of several key genes scientists are tinkering with. 

It is in case this all sounds futuristic. As to that this kind of technology will move forward, there are good reasons. On hair restoration surgery, Americans spend $800 million today. If the surgery got faster and better, they would spend a lot more. 

Barrows then says it will be done, if it can be done. 

The Final Thoughts On The Discussion 

As we wind up, there is more to be expected when it comes to hair restoration treatments. As hair is one of the most popular elements of attractions people spend their savings to have a head full of hair no matter what the cost is.

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