synthetic hair implants-fatal???
terry
a japanese company that has marketed this controversial procedure for many
years, has now approached my transplant surgeon with the pitch that they
have spent many millions of dollars on product developement and they now
claim to have eliminated all problems.
my understanding is that this type of procedure was banned by the FDA some
years ago due to recurring infections and the body's rejection of the
artificial implant fibre.
however i also had in mind that i had read reports, somewhere on the web,
of such procedures having caused death in a few people.
as i am assisting my surgeon in evaluating this so called new technology i
would like to be able to locate the site that gave the information relating
to the deaths.
does anybody know the URL of any site that has this info or indeed any info
in relation to artificial hair implants?
thanks in advance for any input
terry
Farrel
implant anything into the the skin that will not ultimately be rejected by
the body.
Besides its still an artifical fiber and will undoubtably break or look
unatural after a few years, even if its not rejected it will still have to
be replaced, causing scarring etc.
Why screw around with this artifical crap when in a few years you will be
able to implant cultured hairs that are 100% natural.
Those Nido implants caused severe infection in many people, I almost had one
done and lucky for me I didnt have enough money at the time.
Farrel
terry <TERR...@BIGPOND.COM> wrote in message
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BCgrad94
in your estimation, when do you think the the people in the United States will
be able to implant cultured hairs that are 100 percent natural?
Niall
I had a synthetic hair fibre implant performed about 6 years ago - roughly
2,500 fibres. NEVER, EVER HAVE THIS DONE. It is the single sorriest act I've
ever performed in my entire life. I still suffer from infections from the
fibres today. This takes the form of small pimples on my scalp which are
extremely sore and kinda ruin my self-confidence. I don't care what the
manufacturer says about the elimination of problems, it's bullshit. There is a
constant maintenance schedule for fibre implants (about every 4-6 weeks) where
you return to a clinic for your scalp to be cleansed. This "cleansing" is
basically where the staff scrape all the "crud" that's built up around the
wounds left by the implants. They wash your hair with a medicated shampoo and
then pick off the scabs/sores with a tweezers.
As other posters have stated the fibres do begin to look unnatural after a
short while and many of them will break off leaving a "root" in your scalp. It
takes years for these "roots" to work their way out of your scalp and I still
have a few dozen left in mine many years later. The infections became so bad
that I resorted to using a tweezers to remove the fibres which involved quite a
bit of bleeding and scarring. The reason I started to remove the fibres is
because they were actually causing more hairloss in the regions where they were
implanted. I don't know if this was due to the infections or whatever but it
was very, very noticeable.
My older brother (I'm 26 now, he's 40) had the same procedure and had the exact
same results. I wish to God I had just shaved my head and never had the fibres
implanted. I had to wait 4 years for my scalp to be "presentable" enough to go
ahead and shave off the remainder of my own hair.
Sorry if this post sounds harsh but I'd hate to think of one other guy in the
world having to suffer what I did with these bloody (literally) fibres.
Niall
terry wrote:
> a japanese company that has marketed this controversial procedure for many
> years, has now approached my transplant surgeon with the pitch that they
> have spent many millions of dollars on product developement and they now
> claim to have eliminated all problems.
>
> my understanding is that this type of procedure was banned by the FDA some
> years ago due to recurring infections and the body's rejection of the
> artificial implant fibre.
> however i also had in mind that i had read reports, somewhere on the web,
> of such procedures having caused death in a few people.
>
> as i am assisting my surgeon in evaluating this so called new technology i
> would like to be able to locate the site that gave the information relating
> to the deaths.
>
> does anybody know the URL of any site that has this info or indeed any info
> in relation to artificial hair implants?
>
> thanks in advance for any input
>
> terry
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I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where
morphine is as of yet undiscovered.
http://indigo.ie/~fionn
Senility. What's tha... wait who am I again?
Toupmaster
2,500 fibres. NEVER, EVER HAVE THIS DONE. It is the single sorriest act I've
>ever performed in my entire life. I still suffer from infections from the
fibres today.<<<
FIONN, I was wondering if you could tell me where or what doctors are
performing these synthetic transplants? I was under the impression that they
had been deemed illegal to do in most all places in the USA. Except New Jersey
possibly... seems all the wierd hair procedures that are illegal or
unacceptible in the rest of the world are still done in New Jersey.
Frank Senatra was one who tried the syn implants and had horrible results
trying to maintain them, just like yourself. He had a lot of them done for
awhile, basicaly really screwed up his scalp.
ca...@diva.com
Why screw around with this artifical crap when in a few years you will be
able to implant cultured hairs that are 100% natural.
What makes you say this Farrel. Their is no proof that
this is going to work.
Farrel wrote:
> I would not touch this procedure, its extemely difficult to successfully
> implant anything into the the skin that will not ultimately be rejected by
> the body.
>
> Besides its still an artifical fiber and will undoubtably break or look
> unatural after a few years, even if its not rejected it will still have to
> be replaced, causing scarring etc.
>
>
>
> Those Nido implants caused severe infection in many people, I almost had one
> done and lucky for me I didnt have enough money at the time.
>
> Farrel
>
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