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I this sense I mean having a donor persons healthy head of hair and scalp transplanted to your own head.
There have been several successful face transplants carried out recently so I am presuming that it would be possible to do.
I'm sure there would be many willing to pay to undertake such an operation.
Do you think it will ever happen and/or become acceptable to donate or use someone else's head of hair?
By donate I mean after death.. [
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Hi madmadman,
unfortunately, even a 'simple' scalp transplant from a HLA compatible donor would force the recipient to a lifelong immunosuppressive treatment to avoid graft rejection.
Together with all the well known side effects (infections, EBV-lymphomas, etc.).
Baldness is much much better, believe
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http://springfield.news-leader.com/lifestyle/health/20050510-Uncoveringtheba.html
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