Taking a Blended Approach to Treating Hair Loss

Sonal Choudhary, MD, a Dermatopathologist and Dermatologist, and the Director of the Integrative Dermatology and Skincare Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA, continues her conversation with Apple Bodemer, MD, a Dermatologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, about integrative approaches to hair loss and how they can be used with traditional therapies.

Among the highlights:

Vigorous scalp massage may help treat androgenic alopecia, but it's not a cure-all.

Red-light therapies can be effective, but not all devices are created equally.

Home microneedling with a stamp can also be a useful adjunctive therapy for some types of hair loss.

Platelet-rich plasma injections work best when overall health is optimized.