Hair Cloning and Alopecia Areata
Q:
I have had alopecia areata since I was 3 years of age and now I’m 33. I have done as much research as I can to find the causes of this hair loss and there has not been any accurate information of the cause. But my question would be if you are cloning the hair and a patient has alopecia how successful will the procedure be if the hair growth from the patient is unhealthy in the first place?
This procedure is a billion to trillion dollar industry but the research has to be done extensively due to unknown side effects. Please keep posting more information as you go forward. There are many people waiting impatiently.
A:
Alopecia areata is one of those conditions that hair transplant, either from regular methods or through cloning, cannot help much. We have discussed the treatment options for alopecia areata on our website. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system reacts against the hair follicles and destroys them.
If we were to transplant hair to an area with active hair loss due to alopecia areata, the chance of you losing the transplanted hair is very high due to the same mechanism in which native hair has been lost. We do not have much information on cloned hair, but the same phenomenon is likely to happen after transplanting cloned or multiplied hair.
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