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Article: The Bald Truth About Hair Loss; Watch out for vitamin formulas, lotions and potions: Experts say treating baldness take lots of patience and money -- and there's still no panacea.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 2, 2001
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If you're lucky enough to have hair growing from your scalp, rest
assured that it is growing rapidly -- at an average rate of one
millimeter every three days. If you're unlucky enough to be losing
it, your expenses to treat balding could grow rapidly instead -- to
around $100 a month. But even with the expensive combination drug
therapy that many medical experts consider best, you're more likely
to merely prevent or retard further hair loss than to regrow hair.
And whatever benefits you gain from these drugs will last only for as
long as you keep taking them.
Conventional practitioners insist that the vast majority of
advertised products that claim to fight male-pattern baldness -- from ...