Hair Implants Guide

It is possible to get a full head of hair again if you are having problems with balding and hair loss. You don’t have to look ten to fifteen years older than you really are. You don’t have to look old, tired and haggard ever again because of your bald spot. You can enjoy the hair of your youth and get back into the game once again.

If you are just starting to have hair thinning problems then you can look into one of the two FDA approved drugs that treat hair loss. If you are a man then you can take Finasteride which is usually sold as Propecia. This drug is only prescribed for men because it has some possibilities of birth defects so women are not even allowed to touch the tablets in case they get ingest the drug through their skin. There are also some side effects in men including low sex drive which kind of makes having more hair on your head a waste of time (if you know what I mean).

The other possibility is Minoxidil which is approved for both men and women. Men generally use a 5% solution and women a 2% solution. This is a topical agent that is rubbed into your scalp twice a day. It appears from clinical trials that this drug is effective as providing some hair protection in about 50% of the men in the test. These are great not great numbers so lets look at a 100% solution.

Hair implants have been used for over 50 years to treat balding and hair loss problems and they are really the Cadillac treatment because they work so well. This is really the only proven method to get a full head of hair once your hair follicles (that’s the roots which have the sebaceous gland, the adventitial sheath and all the supportive nervous system and blood supply tissues) have stop producing keratin which is the protein based material that hair is constructed of. The hair follicles will not come back to life once they have been rendered ineffective because they tend to be covered with fibrotic material due to the effects of the androgenic alopecia which is the condition most men and women suffer from.

Originally, hair implants for men were not very effective because the micro-surgical techniques needed to actually transplant hair units was not available. This meant the surgeon was forced to cut out a plug of scalp from the back of the head and then implant this plug into an incision made in the scalp at the bald spot. As you can imagine this meant the patients had a few groups of hairs sticking out in every which way.

This has all changed now with the advent of the follicular unit extraction method of hair restoration. This process allows for the manipulation of individual hair units instead of large chunks of scalp.

The follicular unit method also allows the hair clinic to offer hair implants for women which not possible before due to how a woman tends to lose her hair. Whether you are a man or a women it is possible to get a full head of hair again. You don’t have to be embarrassed by your thinning hair or the bald spot on your head. Make the commitment to learn more about this procedure today and enjoy the hair of your youth again.