Why Are You So Anti-LaserComb?
I have been reading through the blog and reading your posts on Low Level Laser Therapy (the laser comb). What I am not understanding is why you are so against it? If it has FDA approval, double blinded clinical trials, and is backed by many hair restoration doctors why do you disapprove?
It does NOT have FDA approval. It has FDA clearance for marketing, and the product was grandfathered in. We haven’t seen lasers work as claimed anywhere and on anyone that could be said to be objective. I’ve written about this topic many times before.
Further reading can be found here.
We should always (especially doctors) be skeptical about the efficacy of treatments until there is objective, scientific evidence supporting it. I’ll never forget reading an article in a national newspaper in the UK about a man who was reversing his male pattern baldness by rubbing compost on his hair. I dread to think if some traumatized hair loss sufferers then rushed out to their garden and dived in to a compost heap.
Gotta correct Dr. Rassman’s statement.
”It does NOT have FDA approval. It has FDA clearance for marketing…”
The Hairmax lasercomb has FDA clearance for ‘EFFICACY.’ That means it works. It also means that Lexington International can LEGALLY say that the Hairmax lasercomb can grow hair on certain individuals WITHOUT getting busted by the FDA.
I wonder why you keep leaving that point out whenever you talk about LLLT???
Now..HOW effective it is, is up for debate but along with minoxidil and finisteride, The Hairmax lasercomb is now one of three treatments approved(drugs)/cleared(devices) for hair loss and again can LEGALLY market it as such.
To Benjamin…your compost analogy is ridiculous. Last time I checked the FDA hadn’t approved compost for hair regrowth as it has the Hairmax Lasercomb.
According to the Hairmax.com site, they have FDA clearance for marketing.
Yes, they also have it for marketing but they also state this:
FDA CLEARS THE HAIRMAX LASERCOMB FOR THE PROMOTION OF HAIR GROWTH
and
The HairMax Advanced 7, Lux 9, and the Professional 12 models are indicated to treat Androgenetic Alopecia, and promote hair growth in males who have Norwood Hamilton Classifications of IIa to V and in females who have Ludwig (Savin) I-4, II-1, II-2, or frontal patterns of hair loss and who both have Fitzpatrick Skin Types I to IV.
Now….Lexington would be in deep trouble if the above statements were fabricated.
Bottom line, they can legally say that it can grow hair.