Dr. Amy Collins has spent over 15 years treating hair loss as a board-certified dermatologist. She’s performed hundreds of hair restoration procedures—many costing patients anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000—and has seen just about every so-called “regrowth miracle” come and go.
Most don’t work.
But last month, something happened in her clinic that stopped her in her tracks.
A longtime patient being treated for male pattern thinning walked in for a routine follow-up—only this time, his hairline looked completely different. Areas that had been visibly thinning were now filled in with thick, healthy hair. His confidence was unmistakable.
“My first thought was that he’d gone somewhere else for a transplant,” Dr. Collins admits.
“The results looked that dramatic.”
When she asked him what procedure he’d had done, his answer shocked her.
He hadn’t had surgery at all.
Instead, he reached into his bag and pulled out a small device that looked like a baseball cap. He told her he’d been using it just 12 minutes a day at home.
“I was stunned,” Dr. Collins says.
“The improvement was better than what I typically see after a $10,000 hair transplant.”
And Dr. Collins isn’t the only specialist raising an eyebrow.
Dermatologists across the country are now warning patients that most hair regrowth products do nothing—but this at-home light therapy is showing visible change in weeks, and it’s making many traditional treatments look outdated.
