Will The 'cure' Be Affordable To The Masses?
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I don't believe a cure would ever be released. Pharmaceutical companies make customers, not cures. If a cure was discovered, there goes hair transplant's, propecia, rogaine, the countless other snake oil products out there. Can't see this happening.
Well a drug in the last couple years came out that almost cures hepatitis C. About 1000 a pill or about 100 grand for the 12 weeks to cure it. So male pattern baldness being a cosmetic, and more involved than a pill for any cure since your going to need surgery of some kind to implant the hairs. I think 100 grand bare minimum but probably more like 150 or 200 grand.
Prices going down? Doesnt always happen even if demand drops. Propecia prices never dropped until generics came out to create competition.
Prices going down? Doesnt always happen even if demand drops. Propecia prices never dropped until generics came out to create competition.
i dunno, i would 'think' the manufacturer of 'the cure for baldness' wouldnt give a sh*t about rogaine, etc. and they would actually WANT that markets business. Therefore if ya price it affordable, more can afford it. We're talkin MILLIONS of men worldwide. Compared to a select few rich dudes...
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Doesn't really work that way though. Pharma companies don't give a sh*t about the dermatologists or hair transplant surgeons. They care about making money and that is it. If they can create a multi-billion dollar drug, they damn well are going to create it. The issue is I don't think they're ever going to find an actual cure for hair loss.
A cure for hair loss isn't going to be some cheap pill. It is going to probably be something stem cell related and is going to cost a fortune. It will cost the companies selling these services a lot of money, so there is no possible way they could sell it to you cheap. It most definitely will not be affordable to most, at least not for a long time. I think affordable better treatments will come out, but nothing that significant.
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I know that's a common belief and it does hold some truth, however, with communication and social media spreading news fast and creating democratic voices for "cures" to our ills, I believe there will be resolutions to hair loss sooner rather than later.
LED lightbulbs are now common place because they're 90% more efficient than tungsten or halogen. Electric vehicles are due to take over from petrol vehicles within the next decade.
The traditional light bulb and the oil industry are simply being competed out of existence and the same will happen with hair transplants, propecia and Regaine when a cure arrives.
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It's not up to pharmaceuticals to either have a cure or withhold a cure. If someone finds a cure (Tsuji/Riken in this case) and they want to run clinical trials to make it a commercial treatment, some pharmaceutical like Pfizer will have nothing to say about it.
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dude what companies have you got most faith in at the moment?
im balding pretty fast man, i cant hold out much longer.
you hopeful by 2020 we'll all be saved?
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Well there's a TON of projects in the pipeline; Tsuji, Replicel, Histogen, Follica, Samumed, Kythera, Tissuse... I'm probably forgetting one as well.
I'm fairly confident SOMETHING will be out before then. Histogen was supposed to be out THIS YEAR in Mexico. That got pushed back until 2018 at the earliest. We'll see.
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Ok forget what I said about Pharma companies, IF a cure is developed, is this even going to be affordable to the average person? If not, it may not be deemed worthwhile financially if the costs of production outweigh what people can afford. Not to sound so negative about a cure, but been hearing about "cures" for decades now and something has always happened, either companies have gone bankrupt or just seemed to abandon what they were doing for whatever reason. It's always been a case of "the cure is just 5 years away", you can only hear that so many times before becoming very cynical about it.
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I've grown up on George Carlin, so I know exactly how and why you feel cynical.
Will it be affordable? Eventually almost certainly yes. But I think the price is going to depend on how much work is involved. Personally, I think the rates for hair transplant docs are ridiculous; it's about 8 hours of work and they can charge you about 10 grand (I'm spitballing of course but those cases do happen).
There was a treatment somewhere for arthritis or something, or something to do with cartilage, I dont remember. In any case, the procedure was VERY similiar to Replicels and the costs for that were 'only' a few grand or less. As per Replicel, I do recall them saying it'd be a very competitive price to a hair transplant.
Personally, I don't think any of these new treatments can cross the $20,000 mark, that's pretty much the highest price for a hair transplant which is HASCI and their claims of regeneration are dubious... although they do an excellent job on the minimal scarring from the donor area. In any case, I think that if you can afford an hair transplant, you shouldn't worry too much.
For stuff like Follica and Histogen, I think the prices will be rather cheap (relatively). For Replicel and Tsuji, I think the costs will be much higher but not out of reach for most of us.
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