Hair Transplant Researcher Finding Positive Results in Hair Regeneration for Balding Scalps
Dr. Gary Hitzig finds wound healing powder ACell (MatriStem) suspended in arterial blood plasma shows re-growth in balding patients
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 1, 2010
Gary Hitzig, M. D., a leading hair transplant researcher and surgeon based in New York, has continued to make significant breakthroughs in hair auto-cloning, where healthy hair follicles are copied and reproduced in balding areas of the scalp, and has found a way to significantly increase the rate of hair growth using the ACell wound healing powder MatriStem® MicroMatrix™. Hitzig has also determined that when ACell is properly combined with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and injected into balding areas that have not had surgery the thinning hairs appear to grow more vigorous.
In an upcoming article submitted to the Hair Transplant Forum International, Hitzig states, “Early results in transplant patients (where it is easier to obtain arterial blood from the surgical donor area) have shown that when MatriStem plus spun down arterial blood plasma or PRP are combined and then injected in thinning areas of the scalp that have not previously received a hair transplant, miniaturizing hairs appear to re-grow. The results are still very early, but make sense in light of previous reported PRP injection results.”
Hitzig discovered that if you dissolve the MatriStem powder in an arterial blood serum rich in the patient’s adult stem cells and inject it into the donor area and top of scalp where hair is being transplanted, the powder and blood serum combination acts like a hair growth accelerator and fertilizer. Patients experienced significant hair re-growth in just six to eight months versus 12 months and the wound where donor hair had been taken and transplanted was virtually healed – with little or no signs of a scar within a few weeks versus the several months and more scarring with previous methods.
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“I needed a way to dissolve the MatriStem powder into the donor and transplanted areas on the scalp,” said Dr. Hitzig. “Knowing that our adult stem cells when activated contain properties that allow the body to regenerate original tissue complete with hair follicles made it a perfect solution to dissolve the wound healing powder. I expected it to help re-grow hair, but found its capabilities to accelerate hair growth and wound healing to be a significant and extremely positive breakthrough.”
Hitzig has also discovered that the Acell powder and arterial blood serum combination enabled him to use the new donor hair regrowth (that had previously been used for donor and then regrown) as a donor area once again.
MatriStem MicroMatrix, a product of regenerative medicine innovator, ACell, Inc., is a wound healing powder that promotes healing and tissue growth and has now proven to help regenerate hair in the donor and recipient regions of hair transplant patients. While intended for diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, pressure ulcers, traumatic wounds, second degree burns, surgical wounds (donor sites/grafts) and trauma wounds, Hitzig and Cooley found its properties to offer a broader scope of treatment, including hair cloning.
MatriStem fundamentally changes wound healing by triggering new blood vessel formation at the wound site, as well as providing a favorable substrate for host cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation.
About Gary Hitzig, M. D.
Dr. Gary Hitzig is a board certified hair restoration surgeon in New York City and was one of the first medical doctors to develop a technique to successfully clone hair. He is also the author of Help and Hope for Hair Loss and developed and patented the Hitzig Linear Punch, a collection of extremely sharp disposable surgical punches that make narrow elliptical slots, which are sold to surgeons around the world. Dr. Hitzig has published numerous peer review articles on hair transplant techniques and is a regular presenter at medical hair restoration symposiums around the world. Dr. Hitzig is a member of the American Society of Dermatological Surgery, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery and the American Hair Loss Council. He can be reached at (516) 536-0385 or visit http://www. nyhairloss. com.
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