Although perhaps not desirable, hair loss is quite normal. There are too many reasons to list here as causes for but be assured it affects many, many millions of men, women and children around the world. The medical term for hair loss is Alopecia. Androgenic Alopecia may not be a term you have heard but it accounts for nearly ninety five out of one hundred cases of hair loss in men; it is usually referred to as Androgenic Alopecia, and it’s hereditary.
Moderate hair loss on the other hand which is obviously rarer may simply be a matter of adjusting your diet. Exposure to chemicals or cosmetics, hormonal imbalance, stress, anxiety and mental tension are some of the other causes. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return. Often considered as a purely male problem, in America women actually make up forty percent of people that suffer with some form of the condition.
Many women’s hair loss may be caused by a thyroid condition which seems to affect them more often later in life. Globally, nearly 40 percent of women by age 60 will have experienced some form of the condition. During and after a pregnancy is another time when women may experience a hair loss problem. Approximately 30 million women in the United States experience female pattern, hereditary baldness.
Surgical hair restoration is the ultimate solution for permanent hair loss restoration but is comparatively a new treatment approach. 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. Hair transplants have become the most popular form of hair restoration treatment for men with the entire procedure done under local anesthetic and on an out-patient basis. However, hair restoration is also not only for men any more, hair transplants for women are also achievable today and is a frequent choice of women who have scarring from previous surgery, notably from facelifts.
The best result you can go for is to try and recapture how you originally looked when you have hair transplant surgery and not attempt to change your appearance. Existing medical conditions could cause problems so these must be sorted out before any hair transplant treatment is considered. Hair restoration therapy comes under the general umbrella of cosmetic surgery but aspects of it are completely different form other cosmetic treatments. Although the field of hair restoration treatment continues to move forward with new discoveries, there is no guarantee that any will work for you and surgical hair transplants might be your only option to solving your hair loss problem.
