Is the Helicoid the preimage of a regular value?

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I am asked to prove or disprove the claim. So far I have tried manipulating the component functions of the usual parametrization, but I get nowhere since all my relations involve dividing some component by another and thus when $x=0$ or $y=0$ everything goes really worng.

Do any of you know how to proceed in such cases.

Thanks in advance.