Laser Hair Therapy Study from ISHRS Meeting

I was flipping through the current Nov/Dec issue of the Hair Transplant Forum International (a print newsletter for the hair transplant industry) and wanted to share something I read. Dr. Paco Jimenez, the co-editor of the Forum, reviewed three oral presentations from the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) meeting in Boston a couple months back. His brief review of Dr. Hugh Rushton’s presentation on the efficacy of the laser hair comb therapy caught my attention.

Dr. Jimenez writes, “In this study Dr. Rushton found no differences between the laser treated side and the control side regarding length, density, and diameter of the hairs. The interesting aspect of this study is that I believe it to be the first well-designed blinded study I have come across in which the methods used for hair analysis and the hair counting could not be called into question.”

It is important to call a spade a spade and with good science behind it, that is the best we can do.