It is natural to lose hair and is part of the body’s way to renew itself. There are many reasons why a person can lose hair but the problem is extremely common an untold millions of people are affected by it worldwide. The medical term for hair loss 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.
What most people don’t know that is if your hair loss is only moderate, it may be that your eating habits are causing the problem and your diet needs to be assessed. The reason for your condition may be at your work place if you deal with chemicals or cosmetics but some others may as a consequence of personal situations such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance. Permanent loss usually occurs when the hair follicles themselves are damaged. Often mistakenly thought to be a strictly male disease, women actually make up forty percent of American sufferers.
Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. By the age of sixty, four out of every ten women in the world will have experienced some loss. However, many women experience hair loss during and after pregnancy. In America approximately thirty million women suffer from female pattern, hereditary baldness at some point in their lives.
The best solution if you have permanent hair loss is to have it surgically restored and although a relatively new treatment has achieved considerable success. 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 whole hair transplant procedure is carried out on an out-patient basis under local anesthetic and is becoming the most routinely used form of treatment for males. It is now possible for women to enjoy this hair restoration treatment that men have been using but it is becoming popular for women who also wish to hide some scarring caused by previous facelifts.
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. While cosmetic surgery does include hair restoration as one of its sub-fields, this is a different form of cosmetic treatment available. Although the field of hair restoration treatment continues to move forward with new discoveries, there is no guarantee that any will work for you and surgical hair transplants might be your only option to solving your hair loss problem.