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  • Hair Loss - Treatment Overview

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Some people choose to treat hair loss with medicines or surgery, such as hair transplantation. Others choose to wear hairpieces (wigs or toupees) or use different methods of hair styling (dyeing or combing). The approach you use depen

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  • Hair Loss - Home Treatment

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Home treatment for hair loss includes hair care and hairstyling techniques that may help you cover thinning or bald spots on the scalp. This may be easier for women because inherited hair loss (androgenetic alopecia), causes a general thi

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  • Hair Loss - Medications

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Medicines for hair loss can slow thinning of hair and increase coverage of the scalp by growing new hair and enlarging existing hairs. But they need to be taken continuously. If the medicines are stopped, any hair that has grown in w

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  • Hair Loss - Surgery

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Surgery to cover bald areas of the scalp may be used to treat hair loss. If successful, surgery may be a permanent treatment for hair loss.

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  • Hair Loss - Other Treatment

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Other treatment for hair loss includes:

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  • Minoxidil for hair loss

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    It is unclear how minoxidil affects hair growth. Minoxidil appears to increase hair follicles and increase the diameter of hair shafts.

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  • Hair transplantation surgery

    Article
    06/17/08, Healthwise

    Hair transplantation surgery involves moving scalp hair and hair follicles from an area with a lot of hair to an area with thinning hair or baldness. Single strands of hair, multiple strands of hair, or long and thin strips containing

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  • Chemical peel

    Article
    08/04/08, Healthwise

    In a chemical peel, a chemical solution is applied to the skin and allowed to soak in. Over the next 1 to 14 days, depending on how deeply the chemical penetrated the skin, the skin peels off. This procedure destroys parts of the skin in

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  • Malathion (topical)

    Drug
    09/17/04, Healthwise

    Do not use malathion to treat an infant. The scalp of an infant is thin and may absorb more malathion, which could be dangerous. Malathion is not approved for use by children younger than 6 years of age. Malathion should only be used to treat a child

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  • Laser treatment for varicose veins

    Article
    02/11/08, Healthwise

    A laser is a highly focused beam of light. A doctor can use a laser to treat varicose veins. Laser heat damages a vein, which makes scar tissue form. This scar tissue closes the vein. A closed vein loses its source of blood and di

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