Many famous footballers and cricketers seem to be opting for hair-thickening treatments. Can there be anything in it?
Amelia Hill guardian.co.uk,
What is it with sportsmen and their enthusiasm for hair-thickening treatments? Ryan Giggs was yesterday photographed leaving a hair clinic with a grin on his face and a “progress report” clutched in his hand.
Giggs’s scalp is just the latest to be collected by the follicle-regenerating industry. Cricketers Graham Gooch, Michael Vaughan and Shane Warne have admitted putting their faith in “hair regeneration” regimes costing between £6,000 and £10,000, as has rugby player Austin Healey. Wayne Rooney is also thought to have undergone hair-replacement treatment – aged just 24.
Giggs’s treatment of choice is, apparently, a weekly 40-minute laser therapy said to help regrow hair follicles, a special shampoo and a “liquid regrowth” formula rubbed into the scalp twice a day.
Vaughan opted for a more expensive option: a £10,000, “strand by strand” replacement of thinning hair with “farmed” Russian hair that is woven in over several treatments.
Such operations do not necessarily deliver all they promise. The Advanced Hair Studio (AHS) – salon of choice for the above-mentioned sports stars – has twice been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority. Last year, it banned an AHS advert that featured Warne and Gooch, ruling that the AHS had misleadingly implied their treatment could stop hair loss or cause hair to regrow.
Dr Andrew Messenger, a consultant dermatologist at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, advises those suffering male-pattern baldness to beware of private clinics making extravagant claims. “Nothing can bring back hair on bald areas, and even the two medicines that are known to be effective in treating male-patten baldness – finasteride and minoxidil – can only bring about a 5-15% increase in hair density where growth is still occurring.”
Instead, Messenger makes a plea for understanding. “I think the only way to stop those people who sail close to the legal wind with their claims for hair regeneration is to persuade society to look more kindly on male-pattern baldness.”
For someone who has just started to lose their hair, hairloss products like Vitastim and Biostim may be the idea solution. These hair loss products are approved and are proven to stop hair loss and regrow hair.
Other natural hair loss treatments that contain herbs like Saw Palmetto to help eliminate DHT are also available. Topical hair loss products like Biostim offer help for hairloss sufferers with no side effects associated with hair loss drugs.
Since there are a lot of hair loss scams consumers are advised to research carefully and not just buy any product purely based on testimonials on the internet. There are thousands of phony “hair loss cures” that to little to nothing to stop hairloss or regrow lost hair.
People with long term hair loss who are severely bald usually have very little success with hair loss products and are best suited to hair transplants or to non-surgical hair replacement or hair systems to conceal their baldness. Alternatively shaving ones head is also an option for men these days.
A hair transplant or surgical hair restoration is a procedure where follicles are surgically removed from one part of the scalp or body and transplanted to another part of the scalp where the area is balding.
Hair Transplant surgery is like all cosmetic procedure where a result is permanent . Its important to research a hair transplant doctor and all the pros and cons of hair transplantation before deciding to have any surgery done.
Our web site enables you to have a live online consultation with hair transplant surgeons to evaluate your hair loss consultation as to see if hair transplants are an option for you.
Reading other people’s hairtransplant questions and answers are also helpful as they may be useful in your search for information about surgical hair restoration.
Another excellent source is information presented by hair transplant doctors at medical conferences which outlines new hair transplant techniques like FUE and body hair transplantation.
Posted by Gary Heron, on May 6th, 2010, under TRICHOLOGIST
Are you as a man or women suffering from hair loss or thinning hair? If so do not feel alone, thousands of hair loss sufferers exist in every town, city and in every country around the world
A diagnoses from a hair loss professional or trichologist is always recommended before embarking on any hair loss treatment or surgical hair restoration procedure. The Hair Centre of Trichology is a good places to find a trichologist who can evaluate your hair loss condition.
The first thing you need to to is to lean more about the causes of hairloss also collectively known as Alopecia. Male Pattern Baldness or MPB is the most common type of hair loss afflicting most men at some point in their life.
If you are losing your hair in the traditional male pattern you can evaluate your own hair loss pattern by consulting one of our trichologists.
If you are a woman losing your hair then you can check the female hairloss scales that determine the level of diffuse hair loss that you may have.
