It is natural to lose hair and is part of the body’s way to renew itself. Men, women and children can all be affected and many millions worldwide are, but the list of reasons for this occurrence is very long. If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence is Alopecia. The most common type of hair loss in men is genetic; known as male pattern baldness, it affects close to 95 percent of males.
If your hair loss is more moderate, however, it’s possible your nutrition and diet have a something to do with it. Other reasons are quite natural and you may be aware of a surrounding problem such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance, but others such as exposure to chemicals or cosmetics may not be so obvious. It is worth noting that only conditions that damage the follicles can make the loss permanent. Often mistakenly thought to be a strictly male disease, women actually make up forty percent of American sufferers.
The main difference between the sexes is that women will more than likely lose their hair later in life and it is often attributable to thyroid problems. Globally, nearly 40 percent of women by age 60 will have experienced some form of the condition. Another period where women may suffer some hair loss that is not age related is during and after pregnancy. In America approximately thirty million women suffer from female pattern, hereditary baldness at some point in their lives.
A relatively new treatment is to surgically restore hair for sufferers of permanent hair loss. The treatment uses a technique to transplant hair follicles from a healthy area of the scalp to an area where the follicles are dead. The process only requires local anesthesia and is carried out on an out-patient basis but has become one of the most regular forms of hair restoration for men. It is now possible for women to have hair transplants like men and is becoming increasingly popular for those women keen to hide scars from previous facelift surgery.
Remember that the best outcome of hair restoration is to restore your appearance insofar as possible, not change it to make you look like someone else. Before hair restoration is undertaken, the patient’s whole-body status must be considered and any underlying health problems addressed. Hair restoration therapy comes under the general umbrella of cosmetic surgery but aspects of it are completely different form other cosmetic treatments. If all other hair treatment therapies have failed then it’s possible that a surgical hair transplant might be the only permanent solution available for your hair loss condition.
