Active Hair Loss

Have you ever wondered how some actors seem to mysteriously grow hair on their head between one movie and the next?  You see them on the big screen and it is obvious they have a receding hair line or a bald spot on the crown of their head.  Then you see them in another movie a year later and their head is covered in hair.  For years the only answer to this dilemma was they had purchased a toupee or hair piece.  In fact, for years this is exactly what happened.  Some of the most famous actors in history wore toupees and they swore everyone around them to secrecy.

Now there is a much better solution to hair loss in men.  Actually, for about 95% of the men who suffer balding or hair thinning problems, the cause is Androgenic Alopecia. Hair plugs have proven themselves to be the most effective treatment for this genetic condition.  When a man experiences the effects of this medical condition he will lose hair at the hair line above the forehead and at the crown of the head.  You will rarely, if ever, see hair loss at the back of the head.  This means there is good hair growth in this posterior sections which lends itself to transplantation.

Hair plugs for men are also called hair grafts.  The hair restoration surgeon will remove hair follicles (hair roots) with their support structures and then implant them into the balding area.  These transplanted follicles will then grow new hair shafts for years to come.  Since these follicles were immune to Androgenic alopecia they will not stop growing like the natural hair follicles in the bald area did.

If you want to replace the hair you lost, then hair plugs or hair grafts should be high up on your list of possible solutions.  They are expensive but you never have to worry about hair growth remedies and treatments again.

Hair plugs is a term that is not used much anymore.  Generally, you will hear the term hair implants or hair transplants when people describe this hair restoration procedure.  Hair plugs was actually an apt term when this medical technique was first used for two reasons.  Now, the procedures doctors used are so far removed from the idea of a plug that it is really a misnomer to use this term.

In the 1950’s, when hair transplants were first being used in this country, the surgeon would actually remove a round plug of scalp which still had good hair growth.  This was taken from the posterior area of the head because men suffering from male pattern baldness do not generally lose their hair here.  This plug would contain between ten and fifteen hairs which were still growing.  The surgeon would next make an incision in the bald area of the scalp and insert this plug.  He (surgeons at this time were almost always men) would then sew the plug in.  It was a bloody, messy procedure which required quite a bit of recuperation time and left scaring.  Also, the resulting hair growth did look like the tufts of hair that are plugged into a cheap doll’s head.  Thus the two reasons this name stuck.

Fast forward fifty years and we now have a procedure that is cleaner, neater, and leaves no scarring.  Direct hair implantation allows the surgeon to remove individual hair follicles, or natural grouping of two to three, and implant them into the bald area with no incision.  A specially designed medical instrument is used which allows this manipulation.  The surgeon now has complete control over the directional growth of the implanted hair which allows for a very natural look.  Although the name is really a misnomer now, hair plugs do give a man suffering from male pattern baldness his hair back.