Active Hair Loss

Are you a man who is tired of waking up every day to a bald spot on your head that keeps growing larger and larger? Maybe you are a woman who wants to do something about the overall thinning of your hair. Hair implants are a great way to fight both of these problems and to give your head back the hair that it used to have. If you have been considering getting implants then there are a few things that you may want to know and consider before you make your final decision.

If you are someone who has a condition that is common to your gender such as male pattern baldness or females who have overall thinning hair then you are a great candidate for hair implant surgery. Someone who has trouble with losing hair in various parts all over their body may not make a very good candidate.

Hair implant surgery involves taking portions of hair bearing skin and spreading them out throughout your head to give you a natural look. It will take several sessions before you will be able to get the results that you are looking for, so you may have to endure a little bit of pain in order to have a full head of hair again.

There are some side effects that you will want to be aware of if you are interested in getting hair implants. Some of the side effects include swelling of the scalp and bruising around the eyes. This is because of the cutting and stretching that has to be done to your head throughout the procedure. You can expect for all of the side effects to last in their most severe state for about a week or two while the overall pain in the scalp may last for a couple of months, but it will not be very severe.

If you miss your hair and want to have a permanent solution to having a full head again then hair implants will make a great solution for you. You will want to find the best doctor to perform the hair implant procedure on you so that you will not have to worry about any painful permanent mistakes being made. Be sure that you do research and read reviews on this type of surgery before you decide if it is the best route for you to take.

I have just one question. Why is it that men have several different ways to treat their balding problems but for women about the only alternative is to buy a wig or wear a hat. This doesn’t seem fair as hair loss in women is a real and growing problem. In fact, fully 40% of the cases of balding and hair thinning that are reported to physicians are by women and not men. I appears that finally the hair restoration community is taking notice of this problem and moving in the direction of new and powerful ways to treat female hair loss.

One method that has been very successful for men is hair implant surgery. This procedure for scalp baldness was originally developed in the 1950’s with mixed results. But over the years the hair transplantation techniques have been perfected to the point that the hair which is transplanted looks completely natural. Historically, women have not been candidates for this procedure because of the way their hair loss is patterned. For men the lose is usually at the top of the scalp which leaves good hair growth in the back of the head to be used as a donor site. Women, on the other hand, tend to have thinning hair problems over their entire scalp which means there is not an area of good hair growth to be used for donation hair follicles. This fact put a stop to using hair implantation to treat female baldness.

A new medical procedure now makes hair implants for women a reality since it allows for the manipulation of body hair to be removed and then inserted into the balding or thinning areas. This hair is not of the exact texture of scalp hair but that does not seem to be a problem when using the hairs as filler around natural hair. Finally, there is starting to be equality of the sexes around hair loss treatments.