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HairClone - Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, MD, FACS
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THE HAIRCLONE® CONCEPT
Approximately 50 hair-containing follicular units (or grafts) are taken from the patient under local anesthetic. This is about a 30 minute procedure and would involve removing the follicular units from the back or side of the head with a tiny punch extractor. The patient’s own hair should comfortably hide the harvest sites and he/she can go back to normal life almost immediately and there would be no long lasting scars. Initially these follicular units would be cryopreserved and banked until needed.
When required, some of the follicular units would be taken from the bank and processed to isolate the specific cells involved in the production of the hair shaft itself. These cells would be grown in culture our MHRA licensed laboratory and they would divide and multiply rapidly over 2-4 weeks. These expanded cells would then be transported back to our clinic and micro-injected into the patient’s scalp where needed where they would be expected to migrate to miniaturizing follicles and rebuild the thinning vellus hairs causing them to produce thicker terminal hair shafts and regain a more youthful appearance. In a later version of the product injected cells would be able to create brand new hair follicles by a process called follicle neogenesis.
HOW HAIR CLONES ARE PRESERVED
Individuals who bank their hair follicles with HairClone® have around 50 to 100 follicles taken as a sample while they still have healthy hair.These hair follicles go through a cryopreservation process to keep them intact, and then they are stored in a sub-zero facility (typically -180°C or 292°F) until they’re needed.
When the individual begins to notice hair loss the frozen hair cells can be thawed then certain cells multiplied many times in the lab, then sent back to the doctor for injection into the patient’s scalp.