Hair Loss Treatment: What Are the Options?
The good news for people suffering from male pattern baldness is that there are several treatment options available them to treat baldness, which was once considered incurable. The best among them is surgical transplants like FUE that do not have any side effects on patients. However, the bad news is that hair transplants are too expensive to afford for a common man.
However, hair loss surgeries are gaining popularity despite the higher costs. Patients in the near future may be lucky to get possible hair loss solutions that can end baldness forever. Hair transplants though have already grown as “gold mine” to hair surgeons across the world.
Currently the cost of one hair transplant operation may cost more than $10,000, if done in countries like the United States and most European countries. The same treatment may be available for about one fourth of the cost in some of the foreign countries like India. While in most part of the U.S. a single follicular hair transplant costs between 3 to 8 U.S. dollars, in India you may get the same for about 1 to 1.5 dollars.
An increasing number of patients are now opting for Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) as opposed to the traditional strip method. While strip method is considered cheaper than FUE, it has its own disadvantages too. Individuals undergoing traditional (strip method) will have to bear with the long scar on the back side of the scalp, perhaps the entire lifetime.
FUE, on the other hand, does not involve surgical
removal of strip of hair, so patients do not suffer from the long scars.
However the treatment is comparatively expensive. The average cost of
FUT in India is $1 approximately per root while that of FUE is about $3
to $8.
The latest hair loss treatments are stem cell-assisted therapy. Recently Business Week reported about a study that could possibly lead to the utilization of stem cell from one’s own body to treat alopecia. Researchers think that common baldness could have its root in a newly identified stem cell defect which short-circuits the process by which hair follicle stem cells turn into hair-producing progenitor cell.
The research has found that bald and haired tissue contains equivalent amounts of preserved stem cells, which give rise to progenitor cells. Bald tissue, however, did not contain the normal amount of progenitor cells, suggesting a malfunction in the normal behavior of hair follicle stem cells. The fact that
stem cells themselves are not destroyed but rather are malfunctioning makes the treatment possible, the report said.
Meanwhile Recoverup claims it now offers a new ethical, safe and effective long-lasting stem cell hair regeneration treatment to hair loss. The process involves taking stem cells from your own body and transforming them into enduring new hair. Watch a YouTube video here.
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