Male Pattern Baldness Blog » detect male pattern baldness http://www.malepatternbaldnessblog.com A resource and blog that will help you learn about male pattern baldness. Discover the causes, get solutions and advice. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:30:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Early Detection of Male Pattern Baldness http://www.malepatternbaldnessblog.com/early-detection-of-male-pattern-baldness/ http://www.malepatternbaldnessblog.com/early-detection-of-male-pattern-baldness/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:40:15 +0000 Male Pattern Baldness Writer http://www.malepatternbaldnessblog.com/?p=141 Among men, the most common type of hair loss is Androgenetic Alopecia, which is also known as male pattern baldness. It  typically manifests as a receding hairline and baldness on the crown. Male pattern baldness is estimated to account for 95 per cent of all hair loss in men.

Early detection of male pattern baldness is essential to allow treatments such as Minoxidil to be most effective. By the time hair loss becomes visible to the naked eye, you have already lost 50 per cent of hair density. The process is so slow and gradual that most men miss catching it in the crucial initial stages.

It is recommended that a video microscope test be used to help detect male pattern baldness as early as possible. This test is painless and non-invasive. A video microscope is used to magnify the scalp and its hair follicles up to 200 times to detect thinning. It takes just a few minutes to measure hair thickness and density and predict possible hair loss many years before it actually occurs.

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