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Dr. Hitzig, 1 for 2 hair transplant using beard hairs (Hair Transplant)

posted by HairSite  , 08.05.2008, 23:05

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Dr. Hitzig has successfully done a series of 1-for-two hair transplants on 5 paitents using their beard hairs. The beard hairs are extracted using a tweezing protocol to remove the shaft and bulb while leaving the follicle intact. Approximately 80 percent to 85 percent of the transplanted hairs grew in the scalp, and the follicles left in the donor beard region continue to generate beard hairs.

"Our experience with this technique offers promise for men wishing to improve their appearance after an earlier hair transplantation procedure but who lack the donor supply for additional treatment. Further study may also lead us to the use of beard hairs as a source for in vitro cloning of scalp donor material, and if that technique is successful, we would be able to obtain an unlimited supply of donor hair and perhaps eradicate genetic baldness," said Dr. Hitzig.

According to Mr. Oz, the technology so far can only be used on beard hair since the surgical tweezers can NOT handle the much more smaller scalp hair, but the testining has been 95% sucesful. In addition, they're are already testing in vitro to remove ONE single beard hair from a human and use that one hair to duplicate a series of hairs on a synthetic mantle ( artificial skin).

Check the following article for the whole story:
http://www.dermatologytimes.com/dermatologytimes/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=47883

Dr. Hitzig's site also has a little information on this procedure:
http://www.nyhairloss.com/gsh-procedures.htm

I want to mention that based on what I gathered from this forum, Dr. Hitzig is controversial--he's a veteran HT surgeon with a few class-action suits brought against him. He also reportedly hired a moonlighting New York City Department of Sanitation worker to be an assistant on his surgical team and allowed the guy to do more than what he's supposed to be doing (on the patients). However, I think those things should not undermine his efforts in looking for a better way of treating hair loss.

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