FUE, Hair Cloning, and Propecia

Hello, and thank you for this wonderful blog!

Now, down to the point. I’m an 18 year old experiencing slight SLIGHT recession. I went to my Dermatologist and was put on Propecia and Regaine to control and halt hairloss. I understand that with time, these medications will eventually stop working. Now, the question is, in your professional opinion, do you think that I will be one of those lucky ones who can benefit from future hairloss treatments such as Hair cloning, or will FUE still be my future hairloss friend? I have no problem with FUE, as I live so close to your office to have the procedures done. My only quarrel with it is the success rate and donor patch areas. Can you see any advancements in 5-10 years, such as Hair Cloning and Gene Therapy?

It’s not that the medications will stop working — it’s that your body tries to fight the meds. So usually around 5+ years of taking finasteride, some people will report that they’re seeing a little more hair loss than they’d been used to, but its not that case for everyone. I’ve got patients that have been taking finasteride for a decade and their hair still looks great.

As for FUE, with our latest FUE advancement (FUE2), we’ve eliminated the problems that most doctors will experience with the technique.. which is what lead to poor success rates. Check out www.newhair.com/fue2 for more on that.

Hair cloning is still in its infancy. There are some people that were saying 5 years ago that we’d be seeing cloning available by now, and that is obviously not the case. I couldn’t really speculate on the availability of cloning a decade from now. I hope it does work, but hoping for things and seeing the reality are two very different things. Personally, I think it will take more than 10 years because of FDA issues in releasing any advancement that may come up.