Hair Cloning and Hair Multiplication
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Comment or Question: is hair cloneing/multiplication currently available at your practice? please leave a voice mail
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Hair multiplication is not available at our hair transplant centers or any other hair restoration clinic for that matter because present-day technology has not yet been able to successfully multiply hair for the purpose of hair restoration.
But there have been numerous studies and publications on hair multiplication, also known as hair cloning. And there is one company, Intercytex, , which has been considered by many experts to be at the forefront of hair multiplication research.
Intercytex announced that their staff finished phase II of the study and started phase III (the stage in which scientists try their particular product and method on a large number of people and follow them for eight to 10 years and wait and see if there are significant long-term side effects and complications to take into account).
However, at the last annual meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), it was announced that Intercytex hadn’t even successfully completed phase II of the study, which means phase III hasn’t been started. We don’t know which specific obstacles impeded the progress of this work, but we are aware that it generally takes about eight years for phase III of most studies to be completed.
So, the research might get started in about eight years, maybe longer, after which we may find hair multiplication proven to be safe and effective.
Tags: hair cloning, hair loss treatment, hair multiplication