7 articles
The Norwood-Hamilton scale grades male pattern hair loss from I to VII. Knowing your stage tells you which treatments still work, which trials would have accepted you, and when transplant becomes the realistic conversation.
Topical finasteride lowers serum DHT less than oral but enough to act on the follicle — with a fraction of the systemic exposure. The trial evidence, formulation reality, and who should actually switch.
Hats don't cause baldness, it's not only your mother's side, and plucking a gray hair doesn't grow two. Eleven persistent hair-loss myths, sorted from the actual science.
PRP injections show real benefit in randomized trials — but 'PRP' isn't one standardized thing, the gains need maintenance, and it costs $1,500–6,000 a year. The honest evidence review.
Dutasteride suppresses 90% of scalp DHT vs finasteride's 70% — but it's off-label, more expensive, and has a 5-week half-life. The actual head-to-head comparison and a decision tree.
Why dermatologists now prescribe 0.25–5 mg minoxidil pills for hair loss, the actual dosing ladder, what 1,404 patients tell us about safety, and when LDOM is the wrong call.
FUE leaves dot scars and costs more; FUT leaves a linear scar and yields more grafts per session. Neither stops hair loss. The real comparison, cost reality, and who shouldn't get one.