Hair grafting for scarless healing

[Mio]

Hi. I've recently been studying the importance of hair in wound healing. If there is hair in a wound it prevents scarring. The hair itself acts like a biofactory of enzymes and proteins that promotes regeneration. Only hair bearing wounds attract fat cells which also further contributes to healing and regeneration.

How can we leverage this in hair transplant surgery?

After an FUE or FUT the wound is left with the grafts removed/harvested. It will therefore heal as a non hair bearing area. Proven in the literature to heal slower and with significantly more fibrosis. 

Many doctors offer body hair transplant into the old scars, but what would happen if we took body hair and transplanted them to the donor are immediately post op? This way the wound will heal like a skin bearing area. And reduce scaring. Potentially even regenerating hair follicles due to organ regeneration and tissue memory.

This has been done with grafting of hair follicles into chronic ulcers that did not heal, and open wounds that didn't heal. And they saw "remarkable" regeneration of healthy tissue.

I don't think this has ever been tried before by transplanting hair from the body to a wound on the scalp though.

[Mio]

@DrTBarghouthi @Dr Blake Bloxham @Dr Bisanga 

[Nw7HPE]

Do you by any chance have the study links or paper about presence of hair and lack of scarring ?

[Mio]

15 hours ago, Kashnw7hope said:

Do you by any chance have the study links or paper about presence of hair and lack of scarring ?

This is an article published in the ISHRS newspaper 

«Given the abundant body of evidence indicating that the main cellular machinery that fuels the wound healing process resides in hair follicles, why not use such machinery in clinical practice as a therapeutic weapon to stimulate the healing of chronic ulcers?»

https://www.ishrs-htforum.org/content/23/2/41