• Who is Dr. Edward Settel?
• How Did Dr. Settel Develop His Treatment?
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The late Dr. Edward Settel, the inventor, developer, and research director of the Pilo-Genic System of treatment, a Fellow of the American Academy of family physicians, well known in the field of pharmacology and drug development, practiced internal medicine, geriatrics and experimental pharmacology in New York City for over 35 years. Dr. Settel pioneered the use of tranquilizers in the treatment of senile agitation. One of his publications on this subject won the coveted Mead Award in 1956 for one of two most significant articles published in GP for the previous year. Dr. Settel's scientific exhibitions on hair growth won a blue ribbon in 1975 at an annual convention of a prestigious medical society.

In 1966, Dr. Settel, a family physician whose specialty was geriatrics, was researching a geriatric cream for bed sores and other skin ulcers. He treated a bald 91 year old nursing home patient for a 1 inch scalp ulcer. After the sore healed, three weeks later Dr. Settel noticed a little patch of fine hair, about an inch and a half long.

This discovery led to four years of research and many scalp lotion formulas until he finally developed a product that was submitted to the Food & Drug Administration where it was approved for human testing.

His first lotion contained estradiol and oxandrolone, whose synergistic action stimulated the growth of dormant hair follicles.

He was not the first to try estrogen for male pattern baldness, which was considered to be a hereditary condition related to an excess of testosterone in the scalp tissue. However, Dr. Settel determined that his cream worked where others failed because he used as a vehicle a Mini-Emulsion® whose molecular aggregates were small enough to penetrate the intact skin. Furthermore, he observed that 2.3 percent of the male patients developed swollen and tender breasts. His search for an alternate hair growth stimulant led him to the field of co-enzymes where he unearthed the potential of biotin (a known member of the vitamin B-complex family) to stimulate hair growth in dormant follicles. His findings led him to incorporate biotin with his Mini-Emulsion® delivery system a penetrating vehicle like no other ever, the results were phenominal.This was the beginning of the Pilo-Genic Treatment System.

Stephanie Settel Rosken, daughter of the late Dr. Edward Settel, is now heading the Pilo-Genic organization. She had for many years worked closely with her father helping to run the large office in New York City, where Dr. Settel was then seeing patients with hair loss and balding problems. The Pilo-Genic Mini-Emulsion® products were first used at this office. Subsequently, Pilo-genic had 60 clinics in operation throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stephanie is dedicated to keeping her fathers' dream alive, and in continuing to help the multitude of people world wide in saving their hair and growing hair in those that have had significant hair loss. She is available to answer any questions you might have.

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