There are many options you can try if you are having hair thinning and balding issues that will help you to retain hair that is being lost. This is especially true if you are suffering from Androgenetic Alopecis or pattern hair loss. This is the most common form of hair loss in men, about 95% of the cases are caused by this, and many women also suffer from this genetic condition.
When men develop this problem it is known as male pattern baldness. As the name implies, the hair loss is found in a particular pattern. Usually a man will have hair loss at the forehead hair line, top of the scalp and crown area. This leaves very good hair growth at the posterior of the head. This thick hair growth allows for a superb donor area for the cosmetic surgeon to harvest hair follicles to place into the balding areas. Any hairs removed from this area are not noticed because of the natural lay of the other hairs.
This combination of localized balding areas and a good donation site make hair implants very practical for treating male hair loss. In fact, once a man experiences bald spots this is the method of choice for getting hair to grow once again. Due to the causes of male pattern baldness, the hair follicles in the affected area, once they stop producing keratin (hair shaft material), will not begin production again.
Hair Implants For Women
Hair implants for women can be very effective if the woman has the same condition as described for men above. Bald spots or patches and an area of good hair growth that can be used as a donor site. Usually, though, a woman suffering from female pattern baldness actually does not have patches of baldness but, instead, has thinning of hair over the entire scalp. This means there is generally not a very good donation area on the head to be used for hair implants. Also, since the problematic hair loss is over the entire scalp, there is not a small area to be treated.
One method that can help women in this situation is to have hairs from other areas of the body transplanted into the scalp as fillers. This method, known as follicular unit extraction, actually allows the woman to have a fuller head of hair even if the thinning is all encompassing. The body hairs are usually courser than the hair found on the head so they don’t work well at all for hair lines as they are too noticeable. But as filler they do a very good job.
Finding a clinic that specializes in the hair implant for women procedures can be difficult, but if you continue to look at your options on the web and locally I am sure you will find one that will give very good results.