Hair Loss Treatment

Treatment options
Surgical treatment involving hair transplantation is available from some specialist dermatologists and can be helpful for some men with advanced balding. Non-surgical treatments include lotions and tablets must be used continuously to maintain regrowth, or else regrowth ceases and hair loss will start again.

What you can expect from treatment
In particular, age-related hair loss and inherited forms of hair loss are difficult to reverse, although treatment may prevent further loss. There are also limits to controlling alopecia areata. In many conditions, hair loss or thinning will stabilise and may not progress to baldness.

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Edited by dina_aqua - June 22 2008 at 10:25am

It is easier to prevent the aging and falling out of healthy hairs than to regrow hair in follicles that are already dormant. Finasteride (marketed in the U.S. as Propecia) and minoxidil (marketed in the U.S. as Rogaine, and some places as Regaine) have shown some success in partially reversing loss. In a one one-year study of finesteride, evaluation after one year showed five of 21 subjects (23.8%) had two-grade improvement in MNHS grade on a modified Norwood/Hamilton scale and 12 of 21 subjects (57.1%) had one-grade improvement; the others remained at the same grade.[6] However such treatments are generally ineffective at treating extreme cases of hair loss. [7]

The prospective treatment of hair multiplication/hair cloning, which extracts self-replenishing follicle stem cells, multiplies them many times over in the lab, and microinjects them into the scalp, has been shown to work in mice, and is currently under development, expected by some scientists to be available to the public in 2009-2015. Subsequent versions of the treatment are expected by some scientists to be able to cause these follicle stem cells to simply signal the surrounding hair follicles to rejuvenate.*

I'm in agreement with 'Angeline Jolly', the idea of taking drugs or even worse, having surgery, kinda scares me.
I was looking on the net into research that's been done by respected organizations like NASA on low intensity laser and LED light treatments, and their ability to help skin to heal faster and possibly rejuvenate/regrow hair.
I was skeptical, but one thing is pretty clear: these light treatments do help skin to heal. Not hard to imagine that the benefits to the skin can also extend to the hair growing out of it.
Anyway, I put some links to this research on the site in my signature link below, if you'd like more info.