• Acell technology used for scar repair
• Follow progress on the Acell Blog
• Radio interview with Dr. Jones about women’s hair loss

Acell Technology Used for Scar Repair

"This past week I performed a hair transplant using Acell technology, the patient is the subject of the most recent blog, available from my site.

I first heard of Acell four months ago, learned it is a product that has been used in Veterinary medicine for years. Acell provides a basement membrane surface which allows for epithelial cell growth, or more simply skin regeneration. It caught my interest because in veterinary use it not only regenerates skin, but regenerates skin with normal hair follicles. Further, Acell has been approved for wound care in humans, and in patients where it has been used, the hair follicles regenerate as well as the skin. Excessive scarring is a problem all hair restoration surgeons encounter. It is always a concern of the patient, that their donor site scar will be unattractive and visible. I immediately wondered what great things this would do to help repair patients old scars and I couldn’t help but imagine that using Acell in the hair transplant procedure would possibly produce an undetectable scar, and perhaps to even regenerate the donor area.

I decided to find a patient with a wide donor scar and to suture in Acell - if the Acell works with a wide donor scar, it will work with any size scar. The question is whether or not the hair will regenerate as it does in animals or as it does in human wound care on other areas of the body. I was fortunate enough to have the company that makes Acell provide me with some samples, and used the same protocol used for wound care, provided to me by the company. As far as I know this is the first time this has been tried in the scar of a hair transplant patient. The hope is that Acell will work and provide a better option for hair transplant patients with excessive scarring.

Acell Blog

Follow the progress of the first patient with whom Dr. Jones has used Acell in the blog titled “Scar treatment with Acell."

Radio Interview with Dr. Jones about Women’s Hair Loss.

Listen To Dr Jones’ CKLW radio interview about women’s hair loss at: http://www.drrobertjones.com/press.html

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