New treatments could come from another angle altogether

[kaandereli]

who wants to donate his hair?even if a treatment is found , no one would donate his hair

[jman91]

Transplanting hair follicles from one person to another is not a good idea. The definate risks far outweigh the possible benefits.

I agree with that right now in 2012 it has too many draw backs to be viable, but what I'm saying is that given the current research/treatments being developed, it's not that far fetched to say organ transplantation becoming a safe, risk free procedure may pave the way for a cosmetic procedure where you either pay for someone else hair follicles to be transplanted on to your scalp. Mixed in with a transplant of your own this would in effect double the size of donor availabe and with 12,000 grafts, even a NW7 would be able to achieve a very full looking head of hair.

[jman91]

An old GF had to have a transplant. It bought her 3 more years of life but eventually the drugs let her get sick and it unfortunately went downhill from there.

I am very sorry to hear about your old girlfriend, but it does go to prove that organ transplantations are far from perfect and scientists are trying to fix that. Its obviously fuelled by a much more important reason (saving lives) but if/when an organ transplant becomes a very low risk procedure, it may open up new avenues for hair loss treatments.

[mpb47]

I am very sorry to hear about your old girlfriend, but it does go to prove that organ transplantations are far from perfect and scientists are trying to fix that. Its obviously fuelled by a much more important reason (saving lives) but if/when an organ transplant becomes a very low risk procedure, it may open up new avenues for hair loss treatments.

Thanks-She was beautiful both on the inside and out-took me YEARS to get over her and I have also been trying for years to find someone comparable.

With that said I think they are getting somewhat safer as my boss's husband had the same operation. He is much older and worse shape yet he is still hanging in there. But I still think that other than hair docs, most docs do not consider it a medical problem. Look how many of them are balding themselves and they could get free samples all day long if it really bothered them. Out of my 4 docs, 2 are balding, much more than me. And the other 2 are women so they don't count.