Finasteride Frontal Study

Hello;

I read your blog from time to time and I remember you saying that propecia doesn’t really work in the frontal area. As someone who is hoping for regrowth in the front that’s a gloomy assessment. However there are a few studies that offer hope, here is one and if you google search “finasteride frontal study” you’ll find more.

Finasteride in the treatment of men with frontal male pattern hair loss — “RESULTS: There was a significant increase in hair count in the frontal scalp of finasteride-treated patients”

From what I am understanding, it doesn’t work in on the temples but it’s common to see results in the frontal area as well as the back. As someone who is on 1/4 Proscar every other day I can tell you I am seeing some regrowth nearing month 3 now and I am hopeful that by month 6 I will have achieved even more. Also, for what it’s worth…not a single side effect.

I know that finasteride does slow or stop frontal hair loss. With regard to regrowth, in many men who have visual frontal balding, the degree of growth in my experience has been less than enough to produce hair that can be combed. I have had hundreds of patients on finasteride, and although a very small subset of them have grown enough hair to see a difference in the hairline, most have not. The drug will work the same on any hair follicle that is undergoing genetic hair loss, but the frontal area is often ahead in its balding (more so than the crown), so maybe the failure to see substantial grown in the frontal area reflects where the balding is by region. All I can report is what I see in my patient population and although I have seen remarkable frontal hair growth in some, the percentage of patients who show it is very small.