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. Although there are a number of fancy names for types of hair loss, the correct medical term is Alopecia. Androgenic Alopecia may not be a term you have heard but it accounts for nearly ninety five out of one hundred cases of hair loss in men; it is usually referred to as Androgenic Alopecia, and it’s hereditary.
However, it may be that your diet needs attending to if your hair loss is only moderate. Exposure to chemicals or cosmetics, hormonal imbalance, stress, anxiety and mental tension are some of the other causes. Permanent loss usually occurs when the hair follicles themselves are damaged. Surprisingly, women account for nearly 4 in every 10 sufferers in America today; so it is not, as commonly thought, a male problem.
In fact, hair loss is also common among women as they age although with women a thyroid condition is one of the more common causes. It is not just in America where four in every ten women will suffer from it because this is a global figure for women by the time they reach sixty. Some women also have a hair loss problem when they are pregnant; often lasting many months after the child is born. If you always thought that patterned hereditary baldness was a male problem then you will be surprised to learn that in America approximately 30 million women also suffer from this condition.
People who suffer with permanent hair loss now have a relatively new but popular treatment called surgical hair restoration which is considered to be the ultimate solution to an increasing problem. It involves the process of transplanting hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another. 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 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. Health considerations should be taken into account and addressed before hair transplant treatment is carried out on anyone. While cosmetic surgery does include hair restoration as one of its sub-fields, this is a different form of cosmetic treatment available. Surgical hair transplant therapy might be your only solution if all other methods have failed despite the fact that discoveries in this field of hair loss continue to advance.