Hair transplants have been a very effective weapon in the baldness treatment arsenal of men for decades. It was actually in the 1950’s that h is
procedure was first tried, with not too great a success, and it has been improving every year since. Now a days, if a man wants to be sure he will be able to re-grow hair in his bald spot he has hair transplantation surgery. Female hair transplant surgery has not been as successful for one very important reason.
When a man loses his hair it is most likely the cause of male pattern baldness which has the medical term Androgenic Alopecia. This is a genetically based problem that can be passed from either the mother’s or the father’s side of the family. Like the common name implies, the man will have bald spots in certain patterns on his head. Usually, the loss is localized at the hair line above the forehead and at the vertex or crown of the head. There is rarely any substantial hair thinning at the posterior or back of the head. This means there is usually an area of thick hair growth which can be used as a donation site for the hair transplants. This is not the case for females.
Although women also suffer from Androgenic Alopecia, they tend to have thinning over their entire scalp instead of in set patterns like a man. This makes hair transplant women surgeries less effective because there are no areas with thick growth left in which to use as hair follicle donation sites. If you remove hair from one area of the scalp for transplantation in another it just makes the original that much more thinner.
There is a new procedure that can help to alleviate the hair thinning problem though. Follicular Unit Extraction now allows hair restoration surgeons to transplant body hairs into the scalp. These hairs work well as fillers for the scalp and they are not susceptible to loss due to the original problem. It is well worth your time to look into this procedure if you are tired of wearing a wig or a hat everywhere you go.
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