It often comes as a surprise to hair transplant patients that only their own hair can be transplanted, which is known as autologous transplant. While we call the hair being transplanted, “donor hair” or “donor follicles,” the donor is you. It typically comes from areas of the scalp that are resistant to DHT – usually the back of the scalp. The reason is your body would reject hair transplanted from another person, unless immunosuppressant drugs – which can have dangerous side effects – are used.So, it came as quite a surprise to see a story out of South Korea about researchers successfully transplanting hair from another person, known as allogeneic transplant, without using an immunosuppressant. According to the story, “
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