Real patient results
The first ten weeks looked like nothing was happening
Four scans over eight months, on one patient, on our own equipment. This is the closest thing we have to showing you how the change actually arrives.
63.3 to 74.2
Scalp score out of 100
+10.8 points
Across four scans
3 treatments
Used together, not one alone
This one is different, and we should say so up front
Our other case studies are patients who had exosome therapy on its own, with nothing else alongside it. That makes them easy to describe, because there is only one thing to point at.
This patient is not like that. He had exosome therapy, hair concentrate injections, and he was taking dutasteride. Three things at once, over eight months.
So we cannot tell you which part did the work, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can show you is what a combination looks like when it is measured properly, and something none of our other patients can show, which is how the change arrived over time.
Chapter one: what the first scan found
He came to us in October 2025, in his late twenties, with thinning at the crown and along the front.
His overall scalp score was 62 out of 100. Against the 61,000 men in their twenties the scanner had on record, he ranked 56,365th, putting him in the bottom 8 per cent. The average for men his age is about 75.
Every measure is scored out of 100. Higher is better. The grey line is the average for men aged 20 to 29.
Follicle density at 59 against an average of 77 is the number that stands out. He was not far off average for how much hair he had and how thick it was. What he was short of was follicles actually in play.
Chapter two: what we did
Four sessions of exosome therapy, hair concentrate injections alongside them, and dutasteride throughout. Treatment ran from October 2025 into the summer of 2026.
Dutasteride is a prescription medicine and is not something we would start without assessing whether it is appropriate for you. It is not part of exosome therapy. It is a separate decision, taken separately.
Chapter three: how the change arrived
This is the part worth your attention. We scanned him four times, so instead of a before and an after we have a line.
Grey because this rise is inside our measurement noise. At this point we could not call it a real change.
Re-analysing the same photographs can shift these figures by a point or two, so read the shape rather than the decimals.
At ten weeks he had gained 3.4 points. That is inside the margin where we cannot separate a real change from the scanner’s own variation. If he had stopped there, the honest answer would have been that we could not yet tell whether anything had happened.
He did not stop. The next four months added another 3.8 points, and the four after that added 3.7 more. The gain was roughly steady. It just took until the second scan before it was big enough to be worth anything.
This is the most useful thing on this page, and it is the answer to the question everybody asks at consultation. Not “does it work” but “when will I know”.
The scans, first and last
The crown is where his follicle density was lowest, so it is where the change is easiest to see.
In October there is a lot of visible scalp between the follicles. By June the same patch is a dense mesh of hair. This is the clearest crown comparison in our records.
The front of the scalp shows the same thing more quietly.
We do not have clinic photographs spanning his full course, only from the middle of it, so we have not put a photo pair on this page. The scans cover the whole eight months and the photographs do not, and we would rather show you the one that does.
Chapter four: where he sits among everyone else
His is one of the larger changes in our records, and he is also one of the few who had three things going at once. Every patient we have a before and after scan for is a dot on this chart, whatever they were taking.
The typical improvement is about 7 points. Five people fall inside the shaded band, which means their change was too small for us to call it real. One more got slightly worse.
Worth noting that his ten-week reading would have landed him inside that shaded band. Several of the people in there may simply not have been scanned for long enough yet.
How we measured it, and where the measurement is soft
We use a scalp scanner in clinic called Becon. It takes magnified photographs at set points around the head, then produces a single score out of 100 for the overall condition of the scalp and hair.
It is not a perfect instrument. When we went back through our own records, the same set of photographs re-analysed on different occasions came back up to 4 points apart. So we treat anything under about 4 points as too small to call a real change. That is why his ten-week reading is greyed out above.
His final figure of 10.8 points is well clear of that. The trajectory matters more than any single reading, which is exactly why we scan more than twice.
What this does and does not tell you
It does not tell you that exosome therapy produced this result. He was having three things at once, and there is no way to pull them apart from one person’s record. Anyone who tells you otherwise from data like this is guessing.
What it does tell you is that a combination, measured properly over eight months, moved him from the bottom 8 per cent for his age towards the middle. And that the movement was not visible in the numbers for the first ten weeks.
Hair loss has a lot of causes, and what works for one person may do very little for another. Nobody can look at his numbers and tell you what yours would be.
Want your own starting number?
Every appointment with us starts as a consultation. We look at your scalp, scan it, and talk through what is actually going on before anyone suggests a treatment. If medication is worth considering in your case, that is a separate conversation and a separate decision.
In most cases we can carry out treatment at the same visit if you decide you want to go ahead. The price is quoted in clinic once we have assessed you, because it depends on what you need. Nothing happens without your say-so.
Book a consultationFrequently asked questions
How long before I know whether it is working?
On this patient’s record, the honest answer is about four months. His ten-week scan showed a rise too small to distinguish from the scanner’s own variation. By four months it was clearly real. We would not read much into a first follow-up scan either way, and we will tell you that at the time rather than overselling an early number.
Do I have to take medication as well?
No. Most of the patients in our records had exosome therapy on its own, and our other case studies are all people who took nothing alongside it. Dutasteride is a prescription medicine, it is not suitable for everyone, and it is a separate decision from whether you have exosome therapy. If it comes up at all, it comes up as its own conversation.
So which part actually worked?
We do not know, and this record cannot tell us. He had three things at once over eight months. Separating their effects would need a different kind of study from anything a single clinic’s notes can provide. We have published this case because the timing is genuinely useful, not because it proves anything about any one treatment.
What is the scalp score, and can I see mine?
It is a number out of 100 that our scanner produces from magnified photographs of your scalp taken at several points around your head. Higher is better. You can absolutely see yours. We scan at your first appointment and again as you go, and we will show you the comparison rather than just telling you it looks better.
Are these results typical?
His is at the higher end. Across the 37 patients we have complete before and after scans for, the typical improvement was around 7 points rather than 10.8. Five showed a change too small to count as real, and one got slightly worse. The chart on this page shows all of them.
Is this available on the NHS?
No. Exosome therapy for hair loss is a private treatment and is not available through the NHS. The NHS does provide support for some causes of hair loss, particularly where it is linked to an underlying medical condition, so it is worth speaking to your GP if you have not already. You do not need a GP referral to come and see us.