What Are Dr Rassman’s Guesses About Future Hair Loss Treatments?
Hello doctor,
I am a 28 yr old male. My hair drastically started reducing its density starting two years ago. It is true that you notice you are losing hair when you lose almost half of it. I now keep it shaved and when hair grows out you can tell very well that my hair is much thinner starting from the crown down to the top/front of my head.
I have gone through a substantial amount of literature regarding baldness (you have a very well informed website btw), and although I am very excited about the new age treatments like hair multiplication and cloning (endless supply of donor hair), I am quite aware that all this is at its inception with much more work to be done.
My question to you is this. Since you are a man of science, and you have witnessed it advance in the area of treating baldness since the last two decades, do you believe, taking all the current advancements into consideration, that there will be a breakthrough in 10-15 years? Of course, I know that you cannot be prophetic in the matter but simply what your thoughts are. Because your guess will certainly be better than mine.
I am optimistic of a hair loss breakthrough in 10 to 15 years, but if you asked someone a decade ago, they likely would’ve said the same thing back then. A lot of people are getting tired of hearing the same old “cure in the next 10 years” talk, but I will continue to be optimistic even if that timeframe comes and goes. Baldness isn’t a life threatening illness, but it is a billion dollar business… so as long as people continue to lose hair and there’s a market to end that loss, there will be companies clamoring to come up with the next great treatment. As technology evolves, the concepts that some people came up with that were once considered ludicrous can finally start to become within reality’s reach. Don’t get me wrong — there are still plenty of ridiculous ideas that will never work to treat hair loss. We’ll just have to wait and see and try not to buy into the hype too much, because there’s been far too many letdowns over the years (like that flying car we’ve all been promised).
With respect to the current gold standard in hair restoration technology, hair transplant procedures have come a long way in the last 10-15 years where most doctors are performing the individual hair follicle transplants or follicular unit transplants that give wonderful results with issues that are virtually undetectable.
lol, you are a funny guy Dr.Rassman, you keep saying the 10 year old story at least since your blog began (2005).. you are free to believe the cure is coming or not but dont try to discourage readers by claiming that a cure will always be a dream, you and the rest of hair loss drug companies are the first ones to hate the idea of a cure, as your business will go down, but hey remember there are always doctors and scientists who practice ethical business when it comes to treating people.
Please show me where I said a cure will always be a dream. You’re too eager to criticize me, Ahmed. Like I said, 10 years is a floating timeline. There are setbacks and there are milestones along the way, and I obviously have no control over how fast or slow the technology progresses when it comes to companies I’m not involved with. When cloning or multiplication comes along, who do you think will be the ones doing the procedure? Doctors like us. It’s just going to take a while longer before this becomes a reality.
Ahmed…You’d better go back and read Dr. Rassman’s post again. No where does he say it is a dream. In fact he said that he is hopeful that a cure will be discovered.
My opinion is that there is no Profit in Cures. The profit lies in a 100% effective treatment that needs to be used for as long as you want to keep your hair.
Thank about it. Modern medicine can’t even cure the common cold. And why would they want to??? Billions of dollars are being made off of over the counter drugs that lessen symptoms, make you feel a little better etc etc etc but do nothing to cure!
Mike!
I have heard of a product called Nioxin. I don’t know much about it, just what I could find online (don’t know how much of that is accurate). Any ideas?
I’d say from all that I’ve read, 5-10 yrs for new treatments (follica, histogen, etc) and 10-15 yrs for potential cures (intercytex, anderans, etc)
gotta love the idiots who come on here & criticize the guy who is proivding all of this information free of charge.