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Topical Testosterone Formulation for Chest Hair Growth

This patent was awarded to Edward Dunne Corboy, Jr. of Skokie, IL.

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By: Christine Esposito

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US Patent 11,833,238 B2; Edward Dunne Corboy, Jr. of Skokie, IL has patented a method for promoting and enhancing chest hair growth in an adolescent male or adult male who has a normal level of circulating total serum testosterone (T) androgen hormone and unable to grow chest hair.

The method entails topically administering an effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) to a targeted skin surface area with sparse mature terminal hair growth to promote and enhance growth of mature terminal hair. The male does not have a genetically determined lower level of intracellular 5 alpha reductase and does not have a genetically determined lower number of androgen receptors, according to the patent.

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