Hair loss, no matter how undesirable, is inevitable and quite natural. There are too many reasons to list here as causes for hair loss 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% 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 a lot of chemicals or cosmetics, hormonal imbalance, stress, anxiety and mental tension are some of the other causes of hair loss. No matter what the reason, it is worth remembering that it is only if the hair follicles are damaged that can make the hair loss permanent.
Most people believe that it is primarily women that suffer with hair loss but women actually account for forty percent of hair loss sufferers in the USA. The chances are a women will lose hair are increased as they age may be attributable to a thyroid condition. Although the number of women hair loss sufferers in the USA may seem high this figure equates around the world and by the time a woman reaches sixty, she has a forty percent chance of having a hair loss problem. Some women also have a hair loss problem when they are pregnant; often lasting some time after the child is born. Also surprisingly, it is not only men that suffer with hereditary baldness because in the USA, around 30 million women also suffer this hereditary problem.
People who suffer with permanent hair loss now have a relatively new but popular treatment called surgical hair restoration which is considered to be the ultimate solution. The treatment uses a technique to transplant hair follicles from a healthy area of the scalp to an area where the follicles are dead. Today hair transplant surgical hair restoration is an out-patient procedure requiring only local anaesthesia and is becoming one of the most popular procedures for men today.
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 appearance and not to attempt to look like someone else. Existing medical conditions could cause problems so these must be sorted out before any hair transplant treatment is considered.
Even though hair restoration is a cosmetic procedure, aspects involved are different from other forms of cosmetic surgeries. 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.