Lasers for Treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia: An In-Depth Analysis

    February 2025 in “ Lasers in Medical Science ”
    Aditya K. Gupta, Daniel Taylor, Keyvan Nouri
    Studysummary This review discusses low-level laser therapy and fractional laser therapies as alternative treatments for androgenetic alopecia, but reports limited evidence of their efficacy due to small sample sizes and potential study biases.
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