I have male baldness 3 vertex type, have been using Minoxidil 10% last 6 months no result.
Is transplant the only cure?
Thank you for your question!
You submitted a photo and you described male pattern hair loss of the 3 vertex type and
you want to know if hair transplant is your only option.
Well, I’m happy to report to you that it’s not your only option.
With a little background, I’m a board certified cosmetic surgeon.
I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.
I’ve specialized in hair restoration surgery for many years but in the past several years,
we’ve actually developed an alternative treatment called hair Regeneration which has
turned out to be quite an effective way to treat hair loss in particularly people who
still have existing hair.
You know, if someone is bald, they want hair placed where they don’t have hair.
Hair transplant is still the only option.
But in someone like yourself where you are thinning, Hair Regeneration which is our concept
that we developed combining a material called Acellular matrix originally designed for wound
healing, combined that with platelet-rich plasma and using a specific method that we
developed by treating hundreds of patients around the world for so many years, we have
a certain protocol that has turned out to be close to a 100% effective for male pattern
hair loss.
What we do is actually an injection.
It’s a treatment that takes less than 2 hours to perform and we follow our patients
very closely.
And our data supports the efficacy of this treatment.
Basically, what we’ve learned is that the early we catch somebody, the better off they
are because the more hairs that we can save, the more volume we can get back.
But even people who are more of like a Norwood 3-4 have had a lot of regrowth and we have
been very impressed with the results.
Now, we’ve actually scaled and developed a company called Trichostem® Hair Regeneration
where our mission is to bring this treatment closer to many people.
We’re honored a privileged to give patients who come to us from all over the world for
this treatment but we want to make it more accessible.
There is a technique, this formulation and we want to ensure a certain level of quality
but you can see that the results are quite impressive.
And in most cases, depending on the level of hair loss, we’ve actually been able to
demonstrate that the injection without surgery can exceed the results of two hair transplant
surgeries.
So interestingly, it’s a fraction of cost, fraction of the down time and the results
can be quite impressive and it avoids the downward spiral of you will of a patient who
is particularly of the younger like the early 20s, 20s to 30s who have an onset of hair
loss who, if they were to do transplant, will eventually run out of donor area and may not
have enough coverage.
With this injection, we are able to restore a lot of volume.
We have 5 years of data which show longevity.
A discussion about this and relationship to hair physiology is conceivable that someone
may need to do this injection every 3-5 years but in the big picture of choice, getting
an injection every 3-5 years to keep your hair nice and thick is a heck a lot easier
and more desirable than getting a transplant every few years until you run out of donor
area.
So I think we are able to answer that question that hair transplant is not your only option.
Hair Regeneration is something that you should certainly investigate.
More than ever, we are very enthusiastic about helping people with hair loss and it has made
a big difference for patients who come to us.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!