Alternative hair treatments
Non-surgical options to stabilise hair loss, protect your existing hair and support the best possible result.
Explore the treatments
Occasionally the desired results are not achievable due to lack of donor supply. In such cases, we discuss the best possible outcomes achievable and any ways to optimise the native hair growth.
Sometimes a hair transplant is not suitable for you at this time, but requires some preliminary treatments to improve the quality of the native hairs or to stabilise the hair loss and reverse any miniaturised follicles as much as possible. There are a range of treatments that can help with this, namely the following:
- Hair loss prevention / stabilisation medications
- Exosomes
- PRP
- LLLT — Laser therapy
- Supplements
- TrichoTest — Fagron
- Biopsy
When treatment comes before surgery
Not every case of hair loss is a case for surgery, and not every case that ends in surgery should start there. If your loss is still actively progressing, if the hair around the thinning area is miniaturising, or if something reversible is driving it, treating that first protects the result of any transplant that follows — and occasionally removes the need for one.
This matters most in diffuse thinning, where the donor area itself may be affected, and in younger patients whose pattern has not settled. Placing grafts into a scalp that is still losing native hair across the board produces a result that looks worse each year, not better.
What these treatments can realistically do
- Slow or stabilise hereditary hair loss — finasteride, or alternatives in selected cases
- Prolong the growth phase and thicken hair that is still active — minoxidil
- Support the scalp around a transplant — PRP, exosomes, laser therapy
- Correct a reversible cause — a deficiency, a thyroid problem, a medication effect
- Give you a measurable baseline before deciding on surgery — TrichoTest, biopsy, photographic monitoring
What none of them do is create a follicle where the follicle is gone. That is what a transplant is for; the treatments above protect what you still have.
How they fit alongside a transplant
For most patients the honest plan is both, in the right order: diagnose first, stabilise what can be stabilised, then transplant into a scalp whose behaviour we can predict. After surgery the same medical therapy protects the native hair around the grafts — which is what keeps a good result looking natural in ten years rather than isolated.
Which of these belong in your plan, and which are not worth your money, is a decision we make together at the free hair analysis, with the reasoning written down.