Synthetic Hair Implants for Female Hair Loss?

You need to know why you are having hair loss or anything you do may make it worse.  Synthetic hair can cause scarring, infection, and further hair loss.  While searching for an instant result, you may end up with a life long problem.

Synthetic hair implants are not FDA approved. They entail high risks of infection and other complications since they are a foreign substance that is likely to be rejected by your body.

Synthetic hair fibers are obviously not able to grow. So if they should ever break off, not much can be done to replace these hairs.


Most patients who have had these implants have not had very good long term experiences.

 30 years ago my partner and I treated 50-100 patients with infection of the scalp secondary to synthetic implants. Not only that but the fibers usually break after time. 

The last patient that I saw with synthetic hair implants from another country, had 100 cm squared of scalp loss. We placed a balloon expander for 3 months and were able to advance the normal hair 10 cm to cover the defect. The hair needed to be drilled from the skull as it had worked its way into the outer table of bone. As far as I know, these implants are not legal in the USA.

I imagine the cost is around a dollar per hair fibre. Although banned in the USA, synthetic hair fibres are available for use in the rest of the worldIm sure there are people who are very happy with them, but like other doctors in this thread I have also see many problems of infection and inflammation. Even without this, last I checked around 30% of the hairs break off every year and need replacing. If you insist on doing this, you may want to treat a small area as a test first to see how you react to it.