By Ray Treadwell Laser hair therapy is a relatively new development in the treatment of hair loss for men and women. Lasers have played a huge part in medical procedures for decades, but the cool, low light lasers that are now used in laser hair therapy have only been around for about ten years in [...]
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Hairpieces for Baldness – Toupees and Wigs
If you prefer to dodge the pain, time and cost of surgery, there’s always the old, reliable hairpiece. Obviously, all toupees and wigs are not created equal. Just as the transplant is only as good as the surgeon, the hairpiece is only as good as the person creating it and the materials used. There are [...]
surgery to eliminate baldness – hair transplants
Twenty years ago, many people felt they risked looking like a Cabbage Patch doll if they chose surgery to eliminate baldness. Now, says Carlos Puig, D.O., director of Puig Medical Group, which is headquartered in Houston, better surgical techniques–used by increasingly skilled surgeons–are getting more eye-pleasing results. “When I started in 1973 … it was [...]
Topical minoxidil is the only approved way to regrow hair
Currently, if you want to regrow hair, topical minoxidil is the only approved way to go. As Washenik explains, no one is quite certain how minoxidil, an oral medication originally approved to treat high blood pressure, works to grow hair. To be effective, minoxidil must be used twice a day. It works better on those [...]