Postings in the category Skin & Hair

Wiener Bezirksblatt: When Cells Heal

New treatments with stem cells Medicine | Stem cells are regarded as a hope for new therapies in medicine. Their application is already standard in the treatment of leukemia. For many years the use of fat and its components for health and beauty are at the center of the Viennese doctor DDr. Karl-Georg Heinrich. He treats […]

Hair Loss Treatment: Stem Cells or PRP?

A patient wants to know regarding the problem hair loss in men: What is better against androgenic alopecia? PRP or stem cell treatments? What is the reason for the price difference between both hair treatments? Autologous stem cells are more effective, but this treatment also requires greater effort. That’s why it is more expensive. As […]

Stem Cell Therapy for Hair Loss: Study Confirms Effect

As you know as a reader of my blog we are working with stem cell therapies to treat hair loss in our clinic in Vienna for quite some time and could therewith already achieve very encouraging results. A new study from the US now confirms that men and women with thin hair can nourish hope […]

Thick Eyebrows and Full Hair with Growth Factors and Stem Cells

Bushy brows à la Cara Delevingne: Treatment with growth factors and stem cells stimulates hair growth Vienna (2015-11-18) — Up to now it was considered to be particularly feminine to pluck eyebrows and keep them as thin as possible. Now top model Cara Delevingne sets a trend with her bushy eyebrows. Those who plucked their […]

How Are the Stem Cells Used for Many Therapies Obtained?

A patient asks regarding therapies with stem cells: I am interested in a stem cell treatment. Can you please tell me how the stem cells are obtained? Stem cells needed for our treatments are isolated from the patient’s own fat. At the beginning of the desired treatment it is therefore necessary to do a liposuction, […]

Which Stem Cell Therapies Are Allowed Within the EU?

A patient asks about therapies with stem cells: I have heard from the media that not all of the theoretically possible types of stem cell therapies are allowed or permitted in Germany, is that right? Yes, this information is correct. Within the EU – and therewith also in Germany – there are only treatments allowed […]

Scar Revision of Acne Scars with Stem Cells

An Arabian patient with skin problems asks us by e-mail: I am having severe acne scarring on both cheeks and the last doctor I visited said that my skin is of very poor quality and it is not recommended to have surgery or strong laser therapy like CO2. He said that the only possible solution […]

Hair Loss: Stem Cells Can Help

Recently we did a treatment against hair loss. The young man suffers a lot from the fact that he begins to lose hair over the past years, like his father. He travelled to Vienna from Switzerland just for the therapy. Treatment with stem cells begins with a liposuction, in which a small amount of the […]

Stem Cell Banking: Precaution for the Future

Our body fat contains so-called stem cells whose regenerative potential is currently investigated in many studies worldwide. Regenerative stem cell therapies have the potential to regenerate weakened tissues and organs and could be used in the treatment of many diseases which are caused by weakness of organs and tissues in the future. Stem cell therapy […]

Scar Removal and Scar Revision Using Stem Cells

A patient asks by e-mail about stem cell application in scar revision surgery: Can you remove an unsightly scar on my knee by using stem cells? Most unsightly scars, like the one on the patient’s knee, have to be surgically revised, which means that the scar tissue has to be cut out. Stem cells can […]