Titanium hair

[robodoc]

3D Printing can make anything like Airbus commercial planes in South Africa, food, cranial plates to anyshape or size, body parts. Do some reasearch 3D printing is the wave of the future.....anyway, we can make hair out of non allergenic proteins. Lets call it Biohair. So the deal is can we implant biohair with a Titanium base that stays and does not cause rejection? Seems reasonable to me. Anybody offer their expertise to this idea. I know a bald engineer, ha, that would love to have some hair and is an expert in 3D printing. This is not an advertisement, pure comment.

[luca10]

This type of hair would be a good idea.

http://3dprint.com/117092/cesare-ragazzi-laboratories/

[luca10]

This hair looks much more natural than Biofibre.

[pixels]

Very cool. So imagine if they could create tiny titanium grafts that go straight into your scalp instead of having to use that membrane.

[luca10]

My dream.

[pixels]

I'd love to know if my theory is possible or if other people have tried.

[Dimoxynil]

We don't need to beat nature. We just need to trick people into thinking we have hair. Just not a hair piece though - it has to be convenient as well as convincing. Like topic

[PatientlyWaiting]

This type of hair would be a good idea.
http://3dprint.com/117092/cesare-ragazzi-laboratories/

Sounds expensive, and sounds like pretty much a better wig.

"The studio just requests that you come in once a month for professional cleaning and maintenance."

[pixels]

Sounds expensive, and sounds like pretty much a better wig.

"The studio just requests that you come in once a month for professional cleaning and maintenance."

Yeah that's the bit that sucks. If they can nail gene editing or a fake hair that our body doesn't reject we're going to win.

Here's an idea...

Could they edit the genes from donor hair to not be rejected by your body?

[pixels]

So how can we test this? :P

[Jasari]

Synthetic options don't work. The body rejects them too. If there was a way of tricking your body into thinking something synthetic was your real hair then maybe. Besides Would it be any different from owning a wig ?

Well if it was permanently in your head [Like a metal plate for a fracture etc] then psychologically I don't think it would be even remotely like a wig.

The problem with a wig is that it comes off. If you have fine strands of anything that are stuck in your head and permanent, I doubt anyone would care whether it's fake.

Sure you have one haircut forever, but that haircut is far superior to thinning hair or a bald skull.

[Jasari]

Basically this.

[allTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

Here's what I've wondered about for a while:


So the outer layer of our skin is just dead cells that can't 'reject' anything. Imagine 3D bio-printing a structure like that diagram, where the dead outer cells curve inwards to create a socket to anchor in a strand of synthetic hair. I'm thinking you could print a sheet of this then it could be FUE'd into the scalp. I do not know if this could be done cheaply enough but I'm more interested in knowing if there's a physical/practical flaw that means this wouldn't work.

[pixels]

Good thinking. We need more ideas and new approaches.

I don't care if my hair is mine or not.

A "cure" for me is cosmetic only but not a wig. Implants would be awesome.

[luca10]

+10