CLEVELAND -- There is a new way to get a full head of hair.

NewsChannel5's Health reporter Alicia Booth talked with Barbara Marlowe, who was losing her hair, about the new method.

Three years ago, Marlowe's hair was starting to thin.

"Actually, I would feel kind of embarrassed," she said. "I was always very self-conscious of it. I was always playing with my hair and spraying it. My hands were always in my hair. I think all that did was draw attention to it."

After many hair products, stylists and even doctors, Marlowe ended up at Jeffrey Paul's Hair Restoration Center in Rocky River, Booth reported.

Marlowe said she believed her problem was to related menopause.

"They always say 50 is the new 40, but my hormones don't know that," she said.

Paul said Marlowe is a candidate for a relatively new technique, called Micro-Link, which is especially helpful for women and men who are suffering the beginning stages of age-related hair thinning, Booth reported.

"Hair does age. It doesn't fall out, necessarily," Paul said. "It just keeps growing thinner and when it naturally falls out and a new one comes back, it comes back thinner. That's called minaturization."

Micro-Link uses synthetic or Cyber hair, which is attached to the natural hair.

Paul said the hair is an exact duplicate under a microscope. He added that lab testing shows it's better than human hair and it matches the quality of human hair.

Marlowe's journey to thicker hair started with a test run that included specially trained technicians who matched the man-made hair with Marlowe's hair.

A week later Marlowe came back for about 1,200 more strands.

Booth reported a typical session lasts three to four hours, and it often takes several visits to achieve the desired look.

For Marlowe, it took about a month and she calls her transformation a miracle.

She also said she looks better and feels better about herself.

"People would actually come up to me and say, 'Gee, your hair looks so thick. What are you doing differently?' " said. "Because they know that I was always so self-conscious of it -- usually my name and thick hair is never in the same sentence."

Marlowe will have to come back every three to four months for an hour or so to maintain the look and she doesn't have to be careful with her new hair, Paul said.

"Because many times when somebody's got hair loss, they say, 'Don't touch my hair,' " he said. "Now she can just let it be free and let it blow and be comfortable."

Booth reported the hair restoration procedure is about $1,200. To maintain the look, the cost is about $200 a month.