Some More Information on Hair Loss
Hair loss is a natural part of the body’s process of renewal. Men, women and children can all be affected and many millions worldwide are, but the list of reasons for this occurrence is very long. The correct term for hair loss 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. Exposure to chemicals or cosmetics, hormonal imbalance, stress, anxiety and mental tension are some of the other causes. Please note that if your hair follicles are undamaged then there is a good chance that your condition may only be temporary; it is only when the follicles are damaged that the problem can become permanent. Surprisingly, women account for nearly 4 in every 10 sufferers in America today; so it is not, as commonly thought, a male problem.
Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. 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. Pregnant women are sometimes susceptible to some hair loss often lasting until after the child is born. Approximately 30 million women in the United States experience female pattern, hereditary baldness.
A relatively new treatment is to surgically restore hair for sufferers of 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. 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. 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.
Cosmetic Therapies cover a broad spectrum of treatments but hair transplant therapy, although lying within this same field, has aspects that are completely different to other forms of cosmetic surgery. Fortunately, the science of hair loss and hair restoration is constantly advancing, so if you do not respond to other medical treatments, surgical hair restoration may be the only truly permanent solution to baldness.
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