A Complete Guide to Hair Loss

Hair loss, no matter how undesirable, is inevitable and quite natural. 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. Alopecia is the general medical term for hair loss of any type. Male pattern hair loss is the most common form, representing close to 95 percent of all cases in men; and due to a hereditary condition: Androgenic Alopecia.

Moderate hair loss on the other hand which is obviously rarer may simply be a matter of adjusting your diet. The reason for your condition may be at your work place if you deal with chemicals or cosmetics but some others may as a consequence of personal situations such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance. 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.

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. Some women also have a hair loss problem when they are pregnant; often lasting many months after the child is born. Approximately 30 million women in the United States experience female pattern, hereditary baldness.

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. Simply put, it is the transplantation of healthy hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another. 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.

Remember that the best outcome of hair restoration is to restore your appearance insofar as possible, not change it to make you look like someone else. For a person planning on having hair transplant surgery, all current health issues must be cleared up before any treatment can commence. While cosmetic surgery does include hair restoration as one of its sub-fields, this is a different form of cosmetic treatment available. If all other hair treatment therapies have failed then it’s possible that a surgical hair transplant might be the only permanent solution available for your hair loss condition.