By the time they're 50, 85-percent of American men will have significant hair loss, says the American Hair Loss Association. Now, an international team of hair restoration doctors is turning to cutting-edge science to grow more hair through cloning. <\/p>\n
Ric Ortega has dealt with hair loss for a while. For him, it's a health concern.<\/p>\n
Ric is considering a hair cloning clinical trial with Dr. Ken Williams. Dr. Williams is working with Hair Clone, a British company that believes it will perfect the science of cloning hair. <\/p>\n
\"The typical candidate would be someone who has had multiple surgeries and can't have any more hair transplantations, but they have lots of areas of balding,\" said Dr. Williams. <\/p>\n
Doctors would harvest 50 hair follicles and send them to a cryopreservation tank in England. Surgeons there would remove the hair shaft from the bulb, which holds cells that control growth. Then, the cells are multiplied, in a special cell culture.<\/p>\n
The trial would cost Ric between $4,000 to $10,000 plus air fare to England, where he'd get his cloned hair. England is the only western country that allows this type of treatment. <\/p>\n
Dr. Williams says hair cloning is the next biggest frontier in hair science. Hair clone hopes to start a small trial in England later this year. The good news is, companies around the world are racing to start hair cloning trials as soon as they can. <\/p>\n
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