The final countdown to launch

After 10 months of researching, planning and implementing we are now only days away from being able to offer full consultations to customers about our new laser hair restoration service. We told the local Press about it in April 2011 and we have had posters in the windows of the salon for months now. The laser room is ready, the administration is ready and I am ready. All we need now are the products from the USA and we can start.

The hair restoration process has four parts:

1. Blocking DHT:  We all produce testosterone, both men and women but men in much larger amounts. In men, testosterone gives us our male characteristics, our frame, our muscles, hairy chests and beards etc but it is also used for another important function. An enzyme called 5-Alpha reductase converts testosterone to Dihydratestosterone (DHT) in the prostate gland to give us men our sexual function. DHT will lock in to receptors in the prostate to give us our sexual ability but we also have DHT receptors in the papillae or base of the hair on the crown of our scalps. Any excess DHT that is not being used for sexual function will lock on to the base of those hairs on the scalp and begin the process of slowing down the cell division that enables our hairs to grow. This process is called hair miniaturisation.


We combat miniaturisation with Scripts DHT Blocker and Complete Nutrition.

2. Scalp therapy:  All hairs have sebaceous glands which secrete and oily substance called sebum which lubricates and protects the hair. When a hair suffers miniaturisation it grows slightly smaller on each growth cycle until it is just a tiny fine hair in a large follicle. To prevent dirt, foreign bodies and bacteria from entering the follicle the sebaceous glands produce enough sebum to plug the follicle for protection. This in turn further inhibits the hairs growth because the sebum hardens into a crusty plug around the hair in the follicle.

We break up and dissolve this 'Sebum plug' with Scripts Scalp Therapy so that it can easily be washed away.


 3. Scripts DHT Blocking Bio-Therapy Shampoo: A Cleanser that creates thicker, fuller, great looking hair, safely and without risk. Unlike almost all other commonly used hair and scalp cleansing products, Scripts Shampoo has been scientifically formulated without DEA and SLS as part of its active ingredients.

We clear the way so that the continuing therapy can penetrate down to the hair root.
  
4. Maximising the growth potential: Next we apply Maximum Growth Therapy to the scalp. (MGT) is a unique formula designed to help stop hair loss using 11 topical DHT blockers and nutrients. MGT is designed to provide the hair with protein building nutrients and B vitamins directly to the hair follicle to help with hair growth. MGT has a proven vasodilator (Biotin) which improves blood flow assisting the vitamins in revitalizing the condition of the hair and scalp. Additionally, it relieves the scalp of dryness and encourages thick healthy hair.

Apply MGT to the scalp to maximise the growth potential.

Before Hair Restoration there was Hair loss

I have experienced hair loss. Almost certainly from the age of 18 my front hair line began to change shape but at the time, in the 70's, I had long hair which flopped over my brow onto my face and the receding hairline was hidden. I had lots of hair, as did many young men and I didn't really notice my hairline and it didn't bother me anyway. In my early thirties I started having my hair cut at home by a mobile hairdresser and I remember her telling me that my hair was beginning to thin.

At that time I looked at my dad and thought, "He's lost it on top, I suppose I'll go the same way". Interestingly my younger brother (The middle of three) started losing his hair at a younger age than me and yet our youngest brother still has a good head of hair even now that he's into his forties, so what's going on here? Many people believe that they have inherited their head of hair from their father but in fact men should look to their mother's father for a true picture for it is believed that the genes for hair loss are carried down the maternal line.

Our DNA determines the number of hair follicles that we are born with and it is impossible to increase the number of follicles on the scalp as we grow older.

Hair growth is regulated by the dermal papilla, a structure located at the base of the hair follicle. The dermal papilla regulates which phase of the growth cycle a follicle is in at any one time. During the growth phase, rapid cell division takes place above the dermal papilla at the matrix. The dividing cells are pushed upwards from the follicle's base where they harden and undergo pigmentation, a process known as keratinisation. Keratinised cells form the hair shaft and exit the epidermis, appearing to the naked eye as hair.

What happens at puberty?

Hair will grow thick and strong up to puberty, when levels of testosterone in the body increase. At this time, hair is the thickest and strongest that it will ever be. Testosterone is converted into Dihydratestosterone (DHT) by an enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase. DHT that is not required by the sex organs for normal function may bind to DHT receptors located on the dermal papillae on the crown of the head. This process disrupts the hair growth cycle, resulting inthe reduction of cell division in the matrix and a decrease in the production of keratinised cells, which in turn produces a shorter, thinner hair shaft. Consequently the hair follicle miniaturises and shifts back into the resting phase, giving rise to the term 'male and female pattern hair loss' - a condition referred to by medics as Androgenetic Alopecia.

75% of men and 35% of women are affected by hair-loss.