Your Hair, Frozen in Time! Hair Banking Makes It Possible
If you could preserve healthy hair follicles now to use when thinning starts later, would you take a short, minimally invasive procedure to do it? That is exactly what Hair Banking through HairClone® makes possible. This innovative approach, beginning in the UK with expansion to clinical partners in the US has now expanded further to a new cell culture facility in Guatemala.
While hair cloning treatments are still in development, banking follicles now ensure that your hair is preserved at its healthiest state, essentially freezing it in time. This means in the coming years, when regenerative therapies are ready, your follicles could behave as if they were collected yesterday, offering possibilities that have never existed before in hair restoration.
The procedure itself is quick, precise, and minimally invasive. Under local anesthesia, Dr. Lopresti removes 120 single follicular units by follicular unit excision. Recovery is fast and once harvested, the follicles are sent to HairClone®’s secure tissue bank, where they are cryopreserved and evaluated for viability. When regenerative treatments are ready, these banked follicles could be used to rejuvenate thinning hair or, in the longer term, generate entirely new follicles.
“What we are doing with HairClone® is not just preserving hair it is preserving options,” Dr. Lopresti explains. “It is about taking your own cells, expanding them in a lab, and giving your hair a second or even third life. This is science meeting foresight, and the possibilities are exciting.”
Banking follicles today offer numerous advantages. It preserves the healthiest version of your hair, allows multiple treatments from a single procedure, and ensures that you are among the first to benefit from future regenerative therapies.
The science behind HairClone® is extraordinary. Decades of research have established methods to safely extract follicles, cryopreserve them, and isolate the cells responsible for hair growth. HairClone® is actively developing techniques to expand these cells in culture, rejuvenate miniaturizing follicles, and eventually create brand new hair follicles. “We are not just talking about hair transplants anymore,” Dr. Lopresti notes. “We are talking about the next frontier in hair regeneration, something that could redefine the way people think about hair.”
This revolutionary and advanced concept at Leonard Hair Transplant Associates gives patients the option to protect their natural hair while keeping the door open to future cutting-edge regenerative treatments
For those who want to stay ahead, looking good today while planning for tomorrow, Hair Banking through HairClone® is the ultimate power move. It is minimally invasive, science-driven, and future-ready. “This is not just about hair,” Dr. Lopresti emphasizes. “It is about control, choice, and investing in your own confidence for the long term.”