How long for a cure?

[muddyball]

With the avdances in hair transplants etc and it becoming more common and accepted, how far off do you think we are of a cure? Im 30 now wonder will I see it in my lifetime?

 

[s.a.f]

HM has been 2 years away since 1999.

 

[muddyball]

Cure maybe not the right term but lets not split "hairs", my point is do you see many advances over the next 5-10 years?

 

[s.a.f]

Nope. :whistle:

 

[Naltima]

It's pretty naive to think that there won't be any advancements in the next 10 or so years, no matter how pessimistic you are. We are too advanced technologically for primitive treatments, hair loss just isn't on the priority list like some other diseases, it will get there eventually.

Scientists have been able to do some amazing things using stem cells and other methods. Are you telling me that 10, 20, or 30 years from now the best treatment for hairloss will still be a guy cutting the back of your head open with a scalpel and transplanting hair to the top of your head? I highly doubt it.

 

[muddyball]

:agree:

 

[s.a.f]

It's pretty naive to think that there won't be any advancements in the next 10 or so years, no matter how pessimistic you are. We are too advanced technologically for primitive treatments, hair loss just isn't on the priority list like some other diseases, it will get there eventually.

Scientists have been able to do some amazing things using stem cells and other methods. Are you telling me that 10, 20, or 30 years from now the best treatment for hairloss will still be a guy cutting the back of your head open with a scalpel and transplanting hair to the top of your head? I highly doubt it.

The question was over the next 5-10 yrs. Not 20 - 30 yrs.
And if you'd asked the question back in the 80's everybody would have told you that there'd be a cure by the year 2000.
The most effective treatments available today are still the big 3 that were invented over 20 yrs ago. Theres been nothing else that really comes close in all that time.
Sure there are plenty of companies out there that claim they have stuff in the pipeline but they've been saying that since the 90's.

I think a cure for wrinkles will probably happen before a m.p.b cure. And even then how long before it becomes available to the average non millionaire.
I'd say we're looking at 20 - 30 yrs which for most of us is too late.

 

[fodandahalf]

Maybe there's just nothing else out there that will help hair loss sufferers. Maybe we've done everything we can. Maybe we'll get better at doing these things. Maybe not. In a way, I reckon a world without baldies would be terrible. I'd miss them. Maybe it'd become a fashion statement- bring back the bald. The best cure for baldness would be a pill that made us not give a sh*t. Not that we shouldn't give said sh*t, baldness is messed up. It'd be pretty cool if everyone woke up bald one day.

 

[fodandahalf]

Priorities (messed up ones but priorities nonetheless) probably play a part. Kind of reminds me of this sketch:

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