Baldness treatment

Baldness treatment is progressing better with modernization, one of the popular baldness treatment is surgical hair replacement. It is an effective baldness treatment, introduce on 1950s and it has a low risk procedure but costly. In this baldness treatment procedure, surgeons remove tiny plugs (grafts) of your hair-bearing skin and transplant them into tiny holes made in your scalp. They take these plugs from the band of hair extending from above your ears around the back of your scalp. During one session, your surgeon may transplant between 60 and 100 hair plugs, each about the diameter of a pencil eraser. Local anesthesia and mild sedation minimize discomfort during surgery. After the treatment, hospitalization usually is unnecessary. Within a few days after the operation, tiny scabs form around each hair graft. When the scabs disappear, the donor hairs usually fall out. New hairs generally start to grow within a few months.

Several genetic factors determine susceptibility to male pattern baldness and the effective baldness treatment. These factors include:

1. Androgen receptor polymorphisms
2. Scalp 5-alpha-reductase levels
3. Androgen receptor density
4. Distribution in the scalp.

It is likely that other factors which contribute to one's susceptibility remain unknown. Daily vigorous aerobic exercise and a diet which is adequate yet more moderate in terms of fat and total calorie intake have been shown to reduce baseline insulin levels as well as baseline total and free testosterone. 

Lower insulin levels and reduced stress both result in raised levels of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG binds to testosterone. Only free testosterone improves muscle growth and insulin sensitivity, but free testosterone can also be converted to the ineffective (regarding insulin sensitivity) DHT. The levels of free androgens and not of total androgens are relevant to the levels of DHT in the scalp and the progression of male pattern baldness. Androgenic alopecia correlates with metabolic syndrome because typically bald men have low testosterone levels (hypogonadism). Medically baldness treatment is to increase androgen levels and improves this condition, demonstrating that androgens do not cause metabolic syndrome. Instead, high insulin levels seem the likely link in the demonstrated correlation between baldness and metabolic syndrome. This reinforces the notion that behaviors which help to keep insulin levels low and reduce chronic inflammation might also help to preserve hair.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has approved only two medications for the baldness treatment that is minoxidil (Rogaine) and finasteride (Propecia). Minoxidil was the first drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia (hair loss). Before that, minoxidil had been used as vasodilator drug prescribed as oral tablet to treat high blood pressure, with side effects that included hair growth and reversal of male baldness. In the 1980s, UpJohn Corporation came out with a topical solution of 2% minoxidil, called Rogaine, for the specific treatment of androgenetic alopecia. Since the 1990s, numerous generic forms of minoxidil have become available to treat hair loss. The popularity hair loss treatment is due to the general preference in the overall population for the cosmetic appearance of a full head of hair

Meanwhile, Finasteride has two main purposes, the treatment of urinary problems in men caused by benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) or enlargement of the prostate gland and the stimulation of new hair growth in men as baldness treatment. Finasteride was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1992 under the trade name Proscar as a treatment for BPH. It received a second FDA approval in December 1997 under the trade name Propecia for the treatment of hair loss in men. 

Who says BALDNESS have no treatment? There is so many ways for baldness treatment.