Does the hair implants have to be the patient's own hair?

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is it possible to use the strips of hair from a sibling or parent or it has to be the patients hair? Can the genders be different like a sister donate to brother?

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Hair transplant surgery is performed with your own donor hair.  The donor hairs cannot come from your family members or strangers.  The only exception is an identical twin with the exact same genetic make up.  Otherwise your body will reject the transplanted hair.

Greg Williams, FRCS (Plast) · Answer

At the current time, donor hair for strip FUT or FUE has to be genetically identically matched. Like face transplants, full scalp transplants would need lifelong immunosuppressive medication which has serious potential side effects that are likely to outweigh the psychological benefits in an aesthetic case.

Jeff Donovan, MD, PhD · Answer

The hairs for a hair transplant must come from a 100 % identical source: so either the same person of an identical twin.Unfortunately, they can't come from anyone else or the body would reject it.

R. Stephen Mulholland, MD (retired) · Answer

Dear merzad123,

Thank you for your clinical post and a frequently asked
question.  Hair transplantations involve
transplantation of the hair bulb and shaft. 
There are certain markers on the surface of each human cell that make
them unique.  Transplant cells from
another human would be recognized as foreign such as a kidney transplant or
lung transplant and the body would reject these hair transplants
immediately.  The only way this could be
performed without rejection would be the use of immunosuppressant medications,
which have a lot of harmful side effects. 
You may, of course, have an identical twin who could transplant
identically matched hair to you, but if they were identical they would also be
suffering from pattern hair loss.  A
sibling such as a brother that is not identical, sister or parent would not
have HLA identical surface cell markings and would be recognized as foreign and
be rejected.

So, ultimately the only way to undergo hair restoration
transplantation in this day and age is with transplantation from your own
occipital or scalp donor or from your body. 
Body hair such as the chest, back, groin or leg can be used with the FUE
automated NeoGraft and Artas technique or manual FUE.

One day cloning may become possible, but is not practical at
this point in time and the absence of a linear scar makes automated FUE or
robotic FUE a desirable option.

I hope this information has been of some assistance and best
of luck.

For more information, please review the link below.

R. Stephen Mulholland, M.D.

Certified Plastic Surgeon

Yorkville, Toronto

Michael Meshkin, MD - Account Suspended · Answer

You can not use some one else's hair for hair transplant. It has to be from your own hair or your body will reject it . Family members hairs can not be used.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

Hair transplants between people fails unless you have an identical twin, which in that case will work because the genes are identical, otherwise someones hair follicles other than yours, will reject.

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