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Dutasteride or Propecia? Many male hair loss sufferers are asking themselves this question before they decide on their hair loss pill. Dutasteride and Propecia (finasteride) are both antiandrogens, so they  both work by the same mode of action but dutasteride is supposed to be more powerful from the two in reducing serum levels of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) than finasteride because it is a dual 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor. However, finasteride alone seems to be powerful enough as it reduces the serum levels of DHT by 90%. Propecia (finasteride) has been approved for treating hair loss in the US in the late 1990s and since then it has been accepted as a hair loss pill in many other countries of the world. Dutasteride has completed phase III clinical trials as a treatment for male pattern baldness recently and results are pending. They are largely expected to show that dutasteride is a more potent hair regrowth treatment than Propecia and many believe that dutasteride will prove to be more effective especially in the frontal area of the scalp. The main weakness of dutasteride is the fact that it stays in human body for much longer than finasteride although preliminary study results showed its side effects to be no more severe than those from finasteride. Dutasteride is the main active substance of Avodart, the drug used to treat enlarged prostates, and you can therefore buy generic Avodart in many existing online pharmacies already now. Dutasteride, though not yet approved in the US for treating hair loss, has been already approved for such purpose in some other countries.