Although perhaps not desirable, hair loss is quite normal. There are many reasons why a person can lose hair but the problem is extremely common an untold millions of people are affected by it worldwide. If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence is Alopecia. 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. Propecia can only be used by men and it is specifically for hair loss on the crown of the head and the mid-scalp area. NewHair Biofactors can be used by men and women and it is effective for hair loss on all areas of the scalp.
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. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return. Often mistakenly thought to be a strictly male disease, women actually make up forty percent of American sufferers.
Many women’s hair loss may be caused by a thyroid condition which seems to affect them more often later in life. By the age of sixty, four out of every ten women in the world will have experienced some loss. During and after a pregnancy is another time when women may experience a hair loss problem. In America approximately thirty million women suffer from female pattern, hereditary baldness at some point in their lives.
A relatively new treatment is to surgically restore hair for sufferers of permanent hair loss. Healthy hair follicles are transplanted from one area of the scalp to an area where the hair follicles have died. The whole hair transplant procedure is carried out on an out-patient basis under local anesthetic and is becoming the most routinely used form of treatment for males. It is now possible for women to enjoy this hair restoration treatment that men have been using but it is becoming popular for women who also wish to hide some scarring caused by previous facelifts.
The most successful hair transplants are those where the recipient tries to maintain his original looks and not to attempt to appear 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.
