Hair loss, no matter how undesirable, is inevitable and quite natural. Men, women and children can all be affected and many millions worldwide are, but the list of reasons for this occurrence is very long. Alopecia is the general medical term for hair loss of any type. The most common type of hair loss in men is genetic; known as male pattern baldness, it affects close to 95 percent of males.
Some people only loss a small amount of hair and this is often down to a poor diet and is worth checking with you specialist. Other reasons can the result of hormonal imbalance, stress or mental tension, chemicals or perhaps a cosmetic reaction. Permanent loss usually occurs when the hair follicles themselves are damaged. It is not, surprisingly, purely the domain of men as many people think; in a America for example, up to forty in every hundred cases are women.
Many women’s hair loss may be caused by a thyroid condition which seems to affect them more often later in life. By the time they reach sixty, forty percent of women around the world will have experienced loss of some form or another. However, many women experience hair loss during and after pregnancy. Also surprisingly, it is not only men that suffer with hereditary baldness because in the USA, around 30 million women also suffer problem.
A new but a treatment that is becoming increasingly popular is surgical hair restoration; it is considered the ultimate solution for those who suffer with permanent hair loss. Hair follicles that are healthy and undamaged are taken from the scalp and transplanted to an area where the follicles have been damaged for whatever reason. The process only requires local anesthesia and is carried out on an out-patient basis but has become one of the most regular forms of hair restoration for men. It is now possible for women to have hair transplants like men and is becoming increasingly popular for those women keen to hide scars from previous facelift surgery.
When you are having hair transplant therapy it may be tempting to try and change your appearance but the best course of action is to try and stay as much like your original appearance. Health considerations should be taken into account and addressed before hair transplant treatment is carried out on anyone. Even though hair restoration is a cosmetic procedure, aspects involved are different from other forms of cosmetic surgeries. Surgical hair transplant therapy might be your only solution if all other methods have failed despite the fact that discoveries in this field of hair loss continue to advance.
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