Male Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss

What is Male Pattern Baldness:

In male pattern baldness, DHT causes the hair follicle to shed the normal hair and produce thinner, shorter, and colorless hair. This peach fuzz hair makes the scalp look thinner. Overtime the miniaturized hair follicles atrophy and die causing male pattern baldness. In the balding areas there is no peach fuzz hair and the scalp looks tight and shiny. Baldness is an irreversible condition. Once the hair follicle has atrophied it is gone forever. This would be similar to loosing any other body part and since we are not able to reproduce our body parts there is no hair loss product or hair loss remedy that can force the body to produce a new hair follicle. 

Baldness Treatment:

The only successful baldness treatment or hair loss remedy available today is hair transplantation. In hair transplantation the living, DHT resistant hair follicles are extracted from the back of the scalp or the donor area and transplanted in the balding areas. This is a permanent baldness treatment and except in rare occasions the transplanted hair follicles grow normal, thick, and healthy hairs giving the appearance of hair growth and a thicker scalp. 

Depending on the degree of baldness and availability of the hair follicles in the donor area one may need multiple transplant sessions to obtain satisfactory results. The skill and technique of the surgeon is also crucial in the outcome of procedure. A bad hair transplant can look worse than being bald in the first place. 

Although the transplanted hairs are resistant to DHT it may still be necessary to use an anti-DHT solution to prevent further regression of DHT prone hair follicles that may be present in the transplanted areas. 

Future Baldness Treatments:

Hair Cloning: In cases were baldness is severe the donor area may be not contain enough hair follicles to produce a cosmetically acceptable transplantation. For this reason a new technique called hair cloning is being developed to produce hair follicles for transplantation. In this technique one or multiple hair follicles are removed from the scalp and duplicated multiple times in the laboratory to produce the desired number of hair follicles for transplantation into the balding areas of the scalp. Once developed, this cloning technique can have far more reaching benefits including cloning other organs for self organ transplantation.