Scalp expansion been tried for male pattern baldness?

[casperz]

This looks like a procedure that would work from some of us.

The girl in the story had half her scalp replaced:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...alp-create-new-skin-cover-huge-birthmark.html

I could see moving scalp from the sides and back to the top and forward.


Dream or reality?

 

[bilboswaggins]

Looks like a risky procedure.
Not something they would do for men but for a young girl of course. Imagine the horror of a woman with a bald patch!!

 

[SayifDoit]

Quite astonishing reading that.
To think imagine if this was the cure we've been waiting for and it's seems so simple.

I doubt it though, I'm just being hopeful. How does new hair appear, I don't get it!!!

 

[Fena2000]

Quite astonishing reading that.
To think imagine if this was the cure we've been waiting for and it's seems so simple.

I doubt it though, I'm just being hopeful. How does new hair appear, I don't get it!!!

New hair doesn't appear, the skin is just stretched out.

 

[TD500]

ya let me just ask my job if they could allow me 6 months off. lol

 

[moskva]

yeah i think this thing has been discussed before in the forums. Actually don't think regenerating hair follicles would be this easy, especially for grown-ups

 

[TheShining]

I saw a TV show about plastic surgery where this technique was used on a guy that had an ugly scar after a FUT. He didn't have enough skin on his scalp so they inserted a balloon and stretched the skin before they could removed the skin with the ugly scar and sew it back together again (you could basically not see the new scar at all, so it was a successful surgery). It was very painful for the patient to stretch the skin.