With hair loss becom­ing a com­mon cause of con­cern amongst mil­lions of peo­ple across the world, every year a large num­ber of med­ica­tions, herbs, spices, nutri­tional sup­ple­ments, oils, sham­poos etc comes up in the mar­ket each claim­ing itself to be the panacea for hair loss. Each year, men suf­fer­ing from hair loss spend bil­lions of dol­lars in an attempt to treat their hair loss. Unfor­tu­nately, a large per­cent­age of all prod­ucts being mar­keted in the less than eth­i­cal hair loss treat­ment indus­try are com­pletely inef­fec­tive for the major­ity of those who use them.

If you are going bald you should seri­ously con­sider hair loss med­ica­tion treat­ments to halt or even reverse your hair loss. While there is no cure for hair loss drugs can often stop or even reverse alope­cia aer­ate in most peo­ple. Med­ica­tion for treat­ing hair loss slows thin­ning of the hair and increases cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs.

Types of Med­ica­tions for Hair loss Treatment

Today there are two FDA approved med­ica­tions for hair growth – minox­i­dil which is sold over the counter as Rogaine, for both men and women, and Finas­teride, a pre­scrip­tion pill sold as Prope­cia, for men only. Two other drugs have been recently approved for hair growth and include a high-estrogen oral con­tra­cep­tive and Aldac­tone (How­ever, these two med­ica­tions are only for women due to their fem­i­niz­ing side effects.

Both these med­ica­tions slow thin­ning of the hair and increase cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs. How­ever, the effec­tive­ness of finas­teride or minox­i­dil depends on your age and the loca­tion of hair loss. These med­ica­tions do not work for every­one, and you should not expect to re-grow a full head of hair.

Graft­Cyte improves the heal­ing process after a hair trans­plant in sev­eral ways.

                                                      Effect of Graft­cyte on Growth Trans­planted Hair

                                                        (0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = mod­er­ate, 3 = extensive)

It is used as a post – oper­a­tive reg­i­men, it aids in faster heal­ing of the trans­plants and ear­lier regrowth of the hair. Graft­Cyte is a cop­per – pep­tide prod­uct, when a Graft­Cyte dress­ing is placed on the trans­planted grafts it enhances heal­ing of the fol­li­cle shaft. It also results in less post – oper­a­tive shed­ding along with more imme­di­ate hair growth. Some patients can expe­ri­ence new hair growth in 6 weeks, ver­sus the nor­mal 10 to 14 weeks when not using Graft­Cyte. The amount of weeks a patient expe­ri­ences crust­ing is greatly decreased from the nor­mal 10 to 14 days to just 5 days.  Patients have even reported that the use of Graft­Cyte made their hair have greater body, shine and texture.

After receiv­ing hair restora­tion shed­ding may occur and this often wor­ries the patients, when actu­ally it is very nor­mal and your hair will grow back.Typically, the major­ity of the newly trans­planted hairs will fall out within the first 2 to 4 weeks. This is per­fectly nor­mal and patients should be informed prior to their pro­ce­dure that shed­ding is com­mon, and should not be a cause of any con­cern. It must be under­stood that although, the trans­planted hair falls out the fol­li­cle is still at the root and will start to sprout in 3 to 4 months. There are ways to min­i­mize the effects of post-operative shed­ding. The best way to min­i­mize this effect is with med­ica­tion, Prope­cia reverses the minia­tur­iza­tion process which will decrease shedding.