A Complete Guide To Hair Loss
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. If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence is Alopecia. The most common type of hair loss is called male pattern baldness and is responsible for nearly 95 percent of cases in men; it is also hereditary.
However, it may be that your diet needs attending to if your hair loss is only moderate. Other reasons are quite natural and you may be aware of a surrounding problem such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance, but others such as exposure to chemicals or cosmetics may not be so obvious. It is worth noting that only conditions that damage the follicles can make the loss permanent. 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.
The main difference between the sexes is that women will more than likely lose their hair later in life and it is often attributable to thyroid problems. It is not just in America where four in every ten women will suffer from it because this is a global figure for women by the time they reach sixty. 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. Simply put, it is the transplantation of healthy hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another. Now the most common hair transplant treatment for men, it is carried out as an out-patient basis under local anesthetic. Many women are now deciding on hair transplant surgery as a method to hide scarring cause by facelifts for example.
It is important to try and keep your appearance as close as possible to your original when having hair transplant therapy and not try to look like someone else. 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. New hair restoration techniques are being discovered all the time but if you have not found success then perhaps hair transplant therapy might be your only course of action for your hair loss.
