cheesy77

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I noticed some recent pics of Wayne's hair and he is seriously thinning at the crown. Must have forgotten to put on his concealers after the long flight. There's also this article below from when he was photographed after a hair cut, again without concealers. It looks pretty clear to me that all he has on top now is the transplanted hair and he'd be a full norwood 6. This suggests he's either not on propecia or its not worked for him at all, beacause according to his patient profile at the Harley Street Hair Clinic he was NW3 prior to his first procedure and it did look like his crown was ok. I personally still think he looks better than he would have without any work done. Wayne Rooney reveals fresh bald patch as he steps out for a hair cut | Mail Online

Just a side issue, but I'm curious as to where people derive this figure that 'millions of men take propecia'. From reports online it is evident that Merck's sales of propecia typically rank somewhere between $350-500 million per year. At the upper end this is about 290million pounds. I am from the UK, where propecia costs upwards of 300 pounds per year on prescription. I presume costs are not too disimilar across the world. Therefore, by my maths skills that roughly equals 1 million men who use branded propecia globally. I also realise that there are alternatives, that some use Proscar or Dutusteride, but surely these are not in huge numbers because it is arguably unlikely they'd even know about this alternative unless they visit forums such as these. I'd estimate that the total number of people using some form of fin for hair loss could be as low as 2 million worldwide. I'd be very surprised if its any more than 3-4 million. When you consider that hundreds of millions of men are balding worldwide, this is a tiny proportion. Does anybody have any alternative figures? Just curious as to why people always say these meds are used by millions and millions.