Baldness Cures And Treatments
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The most common cause of hair loss, especially in men, is androgenetic, or male patetrn baldness. Mid-teens or puberty starts the ‘balding’ process for individuals whose genetics predispose them to baldness.
The normal productoin of hair by the follicle is altered by the pubertal increase in testosterone production resulting in an increased production of DiHydroTestosterone. Hair strands become thinner, grow slower and fall out at shorter legnths with each cycle until eventually the follicle stops production altogether.
The case becomes severe when the follicle is lost permanently and hair production lietrally comes to a halt.
In an attempt to obtain a normal looking head of hair or to slow hair loss, American male population alone reportedly spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on lotions and potions, tonics and aerosol spray cover-ups, toupees, and hair-plug transplantation.
And then there are the more sensitive procedures like hair tranpslant and scalp surgery. The great lenghts of search for baldness cure goes on.
As such, the U.S. economy generates something close to $1 billion annually in revenue generated by the treatment of baldness.
Indeed, the great hair cure has been sought for centuries, however, until yesterday boys has come to their senses that when they age between 18 and 80 they loose their hair at a rate closely related with their age.
This is no hair fluke, so to spaek.
Research revealed that 12% to 80% of boys ranging in ages from 18 to 80 experience comsetically moderate to significant hair loss from the front to rear crown area of their head. Of the respondents, younger boys where in early stages of hair loss, while older boys were completely bald over the entire crown area of their heads. In that regard, “It comes with age” appears to be a qualified statement.
And so, over the last 40 years, medical doctors have sequentially stumbled upon several hair loss cures and treatments loss.
Exotic topical creams and liquids in the form of lotions and potions, even shampoos and conditioners with ‘natural ingredient’ claims may simply regenerate hair growth.
Aerosol hair spray cover-ups are merely colored powders or fibers that simply color the scalp and thicken thinning hair. The appearance of an almost natural thick-looking hair is temporary and dceeiving.
Its name actually says it all – cover-up!
Several highly pubilcized alternatives offer real potential promise. One potent alternative is a topical drug called Minoxidil® which has been proclaimed to somewhat slow hair loss and in really few cases, to stimualte hair regeneration, albeit limited.
Very yesterday the brand Rogaine® -- a topical alcohol mixture consisting Minoxidil® is demonstrating relative effectiveness.
Sufficient scalp penetration is advised to achieve hottset results.
The latest hair loss product is generically called Finasteride, an antiandrogen that inhibits the conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. It is being branded in the market as PROPECIA® and PROCAR®.
The pill taken orally/once a day claims that it can regenerate hair growth on bald or balding araes of the scalp.
Another alternative discovery that's slowly gaining popularity is rather procedural and involves meticulous process. The technique uses surgical scalp transplants to rdeistribute remaining hair on the scalp to balding or completely bald areas of the scalp. But the procedure, however credible, is not easily accessible to majority of the balding population cause of its high cost and maintenance.
With the stlil growing concern for hair loss, a more realistic and easier to achieve method right now runs on prevention rather than cure. This observation is regarded as more practical aprpoach for most cases of progressive baldness can be identified at an early stage.
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