NCT04341363

Follicular Revival in Androgenic Alopecia: Evaluating Use of Micro-needling

Follicular Revival in Treatment-resistant Alopecia Areata: Evaluating Use of Micro-needling

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The intent of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of microneedling through use of a professional tattoo machine in hair regrowth in patients with androgenic alopecia (AGA) over up to 6 treatments (6 months).

Detailed description

Proposed is an open label trial of tattoo machine microneedling in ten patients with androgenic alopecia. Ten healthy male patients older than 18 years will undergo 6 microneedling sessions. Over the course of six months, subjects will undergo up to six treatment sessions (one session every 30 day). Patients will be evaluated at 8 visits over 8 months with the first visit for screening purposes.

Conditions

• Androgenic Alopecia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Tattoo machine	A SOL Nova Device (brand) tattoo machine will be used to stimulate hair regrowth.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-09
• Primary completion: 2022-05-02
• Completion: 2022-05-02
• First posted: 2020-04-10
• Last updated: 2023-06-18
• Results posted: 2023-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study