Hair treatment options for baldness fall into two major categories: those that focus on stopping or mitigating the hair loss, and those whose main focus is on making the effects of baldness less obvious, while not attempting to stop or mitigate the hair loss associated with baldness in the first place.



Naturally, given the choice between the hair treatment options for baldness that focus on stopping the acute hair loss that is characteristic of baldness and hair treatment options that focus on just masking the effects of the baldness, most people would opt for the former (the hair treatment options that attempt to stop the baldness). In practice, however, going for either the hair treatment options that attempt to stop the baldness or the hair treatment options that attempt to mask the effects of the baldness comes with an upside and a downside worth exploring.

Starting with the hair treatment for baldness options that attempt to stop or mitigate the hair loss associated with baldness, it turns out that that upside to them lies in the fact that they attempt to address problem at its very core, rather than just trying to mask the effects of it. For the most part, baldness is caused by imbalances in the male hormones (androgens) that occur in most males with the passage of time, and most hair treatments for baldness that attempt to address the problem at its core try to rectify this hormonal imbalances, in effect stopping the hair loss associated with them. The downside to this approach to hair loss treatment, of course, is that the formulations employed in stopping the hair loss are very potent formulations, which come with the potential for quite obnoxious side effects. It is also noteworthy that any treatment involving ‘tampering' with the various hormones in the body is likely to meet voices of disapproval in the mainstream medical community, as most hormone therapies have been associated with higher incidence of the various cancers.

Of course there are also quite a number of hair treatment options for baldness that attempt to use a nutritional (rather than hormonal) approach to solving the problem, but the success of these tends to be much more modest.

Turning to hair treatment options that attempt to cover up the effects of the hair loss associated with acne (rather than stopping the hair loss) we find treatments like the use of artificial hair, the use of wigs and so on. The upside to these hair treatment options for baldness is in the fact that they typically come at much lower costs than the hair treatment options for baldness that attempt to stop the hair loss from taking place. Additionally, they tend to have lower potential for side effects, compared to the potent pharmaceutical formulations that attempt to stop hair loss from taking place. On the downside though, is the fact that these hair treatment for baldness options don't quite get to reach to the core/root of the problem; and their superficial-ness can be off-putting to some people who prefer to confront problems more comprehensively.