Titanium hair

[Kiwi]

My friends Dad just had some bone replaced with a Titanium replacement. It got me googling titanium hair, titanium thread, titanium cotton and to be honest not much came up.

But the reason you can transplant somebody else's hair into your head is because your body rejects it right, same as synthetic hair... so what if you could transplant fine strands of that into your scalp.

[Dimoxynil]

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 ?

[Trouse5858]

I wish hair was like blood. Certain types of it exist that are compatible with other peoples' and you could transplant them accordingly. Then you'd just have broke guys with amazing locks of hair donating follicles for profit and there'd be no limit to how much you could transplant onto your head except for finding the right consistency and color.

Oh well..

[Kiwi]

But apparently the body doesn't reject titanium - aka hip replacements etc...

[Dimoxynil]

But apparently the body doesn't reject titanium - aka hip replacements etc...

That's very different. Your bones aren't sensitive to your hormones like your hair is

[JayM]

Urrr there is alot of hormonal action going on with bones. Especially bones which need plates attached to them.

Infact I'm pretty sure there is a lot more activation of HER Ect. I'm fairly certain the last place you would want to be sticking things your body rejects is in your bones.

I don't really understand how it's different? You could stick titanium out of your scalp like you would with an animal limb if the Skin is healed with the mesh.

Why would it matter what my hair is sensitive to if I'm replacing it with something that isn't rejected by my body?

[robodoc]

Yes, my understanding Titanium is not rejected by our immune system but do you think thousands of titanium hairs would damage the scalp? I say if they can create a hair with a titanium anchor try it, test it. Are many of you familiar with 3D Printing? A 3D printer could produce all the hair you wanted with a titanium base. I am not sure how well the skin would lke it. Who knows?

[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.

[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.