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Follicular regeneration for hair loss treatment
Med Hypotheses. 2009 Jun 20.
..The smallest follicular regenerating unit: Potential treatments for hair loss.
Wang S, et al
edited for hair loss blog
Hair loss affects many people, especially adult males. An effective treatment is hair transplantation. However, this traditional method, equivalent to one-to-one transplantation, simply redistributes hair rather than increases the number of existing hairs. Although hair transplantation is actually the transplantation of hair follicle, it has been confirmed that whole HFs could be reformed from parts of HFs... Thus we hypothesize that the most efficient follicular regenerating unit and the smallest follicular regenerating unit are in whole HFs. snip.. In order to test and verify the hypothesis, we design a method called hair follicle micro-dissection (HFM) which aims to help find the regenerating units and increase the number of hair for transplantation. This may provide a more mature and realistic treatment for hair loss if practical.