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    Physical Treatments and Therapies for Androgenetic Alopecia

    June 2024
    Siddhi Bianca Camila Lama, Luis Alfonso Pérez-González, Mehmet A. Kosoglu … ­Daniel ­Ortega‐Quijano
    Studysummary This review discusses various physical therapies for androgenetic alopecia, reporting that low-level laser therapy has the most evidence but highlighting other promising treatments, such as non-ablative lasers and multimodal approaches, that warrant further investigation.
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