Surgical methods are resorted to only when treatment is ineffective, and various tricks, such as masking bald spots with remaining strands, look, at the very least, frivolous.
Physiotherapy as an element of complex therapy for baldness is used quite actively and successfully. In addition to the direct biological effect on hair growth (which is sometimes difficult to explain), the psychological aspect is also important...
Hippocrates also noted that eunuchs do not go bald. Later, Aristotle noted the same fact. In the 1940s, Dr. James Hamilton wrote that baldness can be caused by an excess of male sex hormones in combination with genetic predisposition.
The problem with medical statistics is that they rely on figures obtained from hospitals and clinics, leaving out all those who get sick without going to see a doctor.
There are three types of hair at the edge of the bald spot - cone-shaped, club-shaped and exclamation mark-shaped. The hair that is restored is thin and unpigmented, and only later does it acquire its normal color and structure.
