This is not your only cure for baldness
Aug 2011
For years, hair fall has been a nightmare for people and apart from
hair transplants, a new treatment is at hand.
Dr Satish Bhatia, dermatologist at Lady Ratan Tata Medical and
research Centre, has been treating hair loss patients for over a
year with Autologous Cell Therapy and Platelet-rich plasma
procedure.
He claims to have treated over 100 patients by using
this procedure and considers it as a better alternative to hair
transplants.
The Autologous Cell Therapy is a kind of stem cell therapy where the
patient's own cells are inserted back into the body. Then
hair-growth factors or follicle growth factors are injected in them,
after which the cells are injected into the person's skull. "The
procedure involves injecting the person's own cells into his body.
So there is little chance of rejection or any other
complication," said Dr Bhatia. The same advantage is also applicable
to the platelet-rich plasma procedure where a patient's blood sample
is extracted and the plasma is injected back into his body. The
patient will start to see results two months after the procedure.
Though the success rate for this procedures is not drastically
different from the success rate of hair transplants, they involve
less complications and patients are less likely to have recurring
hair loss. "The success rate is about 70 %. Even among them, many
patients have come back later complaining of hair loss," admits Dr
Bhatia.
The only side effect of cell and plasma therapy is
that the patient could suffer from headache and giddiness. "It has
happened with about 5% of my patients," states Dr Bhatia.
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