How far do you think treatments will come in 10 years?

[Autumn Sundown]

Do you think the pills will get stronger and they will be able to regrow all the hair you've lost?
I've heard of a procedure where they clone one hair and fill in where hair is missing. Do you think this could potentially become a reality?
What else do you think they could come up with in 10 years time? Do you think baldness will be a thing of the past by that point?

I think it's exciting to think about. Hairloss treatments have come far in the past 10 years, I would love to see what they can come up with in another 10. :woot:

 

[s.a.f]

Hairloss treatments have come far in the past 10 years, I would love to see what they can come up with in another 10. :woot:

Have they? :dunno:
I dont think we'll see a decent cure for at least another 20+ yrs.
Maybe they'll discover some more effective ways of halting/slowing it down but as far as regrowth goes I think we'll still be in the same position.

 

[Boondock]

I think we may have one or two new treatments, some of which may help regrow hair in some individuals. I don't think we'll have the "cure", the stem-cell hair multiplication everyone talks about.

In the last 10 years, by the way, there have been barely any advancements that have got round to being marketed. Nothing significant has happened since propecia IMO.

 

[cuebald]

Nothing has appeared on the market that is any good in the past 10 years. (apart from hair transplant's - hair transplant's have improved a lot I will agree)

Read the posts from 1999 on the older boards or on alt.baldspot where people are wondering what will happen - it's hilarious.

"By 2010 we'll all have HM so we won't have to bother with finasteride and minoxidil"
"I don't care how bald I go now because I know in 10 years we'll have HM"
"I predict we'll have a pill or lotion we take once and it'll protect our hair forever"

come 2010 and we've got?

I can't really see any new drugs being on the market in 2020.
We're at the limits of what we can do by inhibiting DHT, and inhibiting DHT will give you the "feminizing" effects no matter what method you use of inhibiting it.

Our only hope apart from HM is that somebody discovers another mechanism of baldness (e.g. exactly how DHT causes follicles to shrink) and can inhibit that. Then we can have a medicine that is much better at stopping male pattern baldness, and leaves our DHT levels intact.

That I think will be the next medication for baldness - I can see it maybe being in the pipeline in 2020, but not on the market.

HM could go either way. I'm not convinced I'll see it in 2020 at the moment.

A miracle cure for me would be some kind of gene resequencing that programs your scalp to make follicles the same way it does as in body hair. Maybe 2040 :laugh:

 

[Leon S Habsburg]

I think our knowledge of male pattern baldness will improve, and a few products will come on to the market, but they will products you take to supplement your hairloss regimen, nothing as big as propecia.

As mentioned hair transplant's have improved alot, and I think this will continue...In 10 -15 years I predict that soon they have way to do transplants with unlimited donor, by cloning and growing hair that can then be transplanted. This I think will be the biggest breakthrough, following this full on HM or regenerating the hair follicles without surgery will follow, but take another 20 years or so.

The HM will come in bits, not as a full package.

 

[toocoolforhair]

cuebald is right. alt.baldspot makes for very interesting reading. Basically it was the same situation 10+ years ago. My prediction is I will not see a cure in my lifetime (I'm 23 and hope to live a long life). However, I do believe we'll see more acceptance of bald people. In the 90s buzzcuts and shaved heads were still quite uncommon, but now they are almost the norm for balding people.

 

[s.a.f]

I think hair transplant's have reached their peak.

 

[wesleyBelgium]

in a few years asc-j9 foam will be out to break down the receptors on our hairfollikels , so we can let our dht-levels come normal again and have a produkt that does the job good without sides...

but still it will be to hold what you have... no regrowth...

the real haircure will take longer... fda test and so on...