Likelihood of a Significant MPB Treatment Breakthrough in the Next Decade?
Hi Doctor,
Thank you for the great blog. I was curious about your big-picture opinion — do you think it is possible/likely that a significant breakthrough in treating MPB will come along in the next decade? I was wondering about your perspective on this, based on your experience and what you hear from colleagues / journals / etc.
We can hope that this will happen. Knowledge is increasing logarithmically, so whatever breakthroughs we have seen in the past 10 years should be 10 times that number. There is work going on in cloning and the financial rewards are certainly there to make the required breakthrough. This means to me that something will happen sooner rather than later. But if I had cancer, I would not wait for a cure while it grew in my body. I would treat it when I made the diagnosis. The same applies to hair transplants — you could wait until it all falls out or you can treat it with drugs (like finasteride) or surgery (like a hair transplant).
almost 2012 and it seems we are no closer to anything that really works.
hair loss sucks!
The good doctor using the same logic that sold so many plug surgeries early on.
Listen to ‘the bald truth’ and you will hear so many guys that wish they could just shave their head, but are hampered by being on the transplant treadmill and lifelong drug treatment.