Are they effective: Hair Mesotherapy or PRP Treatment or Stem Cell Treatment?

[Shubham23]

I am 21 and suffering from hair loss. I am in Norwood 3-4. Maybe? Most of the doctors in my country, India are suggesting to go for treatment like PRP, Mesotherapy and they heavily advertise with great effectiveness and great before and after pictures. They say Minoxidil and finasteride are very common and every one is doing it. And they claim such treatment has more success rate. Really??:innocent::innocent:

I visited a few trichologist for my concern and most of the doctors are insisting to go for such needle based treatments. They perform Mesotherapy by injecting cocktail vitamins, zinc, biotin, minoxidil, finasteride, azeliac acid and many other things. They say it will not only it will stop hairloss but also improve the existing hair on scalp. Are they really effective in controlling and halting the hair loss and Male Pattern Baldnes. Or is this a good source for minting money for them.

The treatment cost here in my country is ranging from $300 to $450. Mesotherapy starting from 300$ and stem cell treatment being the expensive of all.Should I go for such treatment in future.


Please share your views and experience on these treatment. Even if you anything about them.

Thanks. :notworthy

 

[GoldenMane]

There is very little compelling evidence that PRP does anything for male pattern baldness. It's expensive, and at the very best, not as effective as finasteride and minoxidil, and at worst, it does nothing. No effective stem cell treatments have been developed yet, anyone advertising stem cell therapy now is probably a scam artist. Mesotherapy may promote a healthy scalp, but it will not fight the cause of male pattern baldness.

Basically, none of those treatments target the cause of male pattern baldness (DHT or PGD2), therefore none of these treatments are likely to work, Just stick with minoxidil and finasteride, save your money for a hair transplant or Histogen treatments.

 

[yannick43]

Got 2 PRP on the scalp and it did nothing.

 

[parisienne]

[h=1]Mesotherapy using Dutasteride-Containing Solution in Male Pattern Hair Loss: a Controlled Pilot Study[/h]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266163407_Mesotherapy_using_Dutasteride-Containing_Solution_in_Male_Pattern_Hair_Loss_a_Controlled_Pilot_Study

[h=1]Mesotherapy using dutasteride-containing preparation in treatment of female pattern hair loss: photographic, morphometric and ultrustructural evaluation.[/h]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22486925

Nothing more for the moment. It seems that a lot of derms that do mesotherapy are using snake oils components such as biotin. But I think that the method in itself is interesting when effective molecules are used.

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Parrisiene, share the info you know about this topic here please.

I am interested in this topic too, my brother told me that he found an interview with some celebrity who said mesotherapy was the only thing rhar worked for him. I remember it was an older guy. Will try to find out from my brother who it was.

If dutasteride for example is shot with injections into the dermarolled scalp, don't you think it can still go systemic? Does DHT freely circulate looking for places to bind itself or it's produced and used locally in the different parts of the body?

If the dutasteride is injected I don't see why dermarolling could be useful ?
And I could be wrong but I think it's produced locally.

 

[nidhi]

PRP therapy is very helpful in hair loss problem. People who are suffering from very much hair loss problem and do not want to go for Hair Transplant then they can choose PRP Treatment.