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| The Truth About Hair Loss |
By:
je Dunn |
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It is natural to lose hair and is part of the body's way to renew itself. The causes are many and varied but one thing is for sure and that is untold millions of people of all sexes and ages are affected by it worldwide.
If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence is Alopecia. Male pattern hair loss is the most common form, representing close to 95 percent of all cases in men; and due to a hereditary condition: Androgenic Alopecia.
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. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return.
Most people believe that it is primarily men that suffer with the condition but women actually account for forty percent of sufferers in the USA alone.
Many women's hair loss may be caused by a thyroid condition which seems to affect them more often later in life. Globally, nearly 40 percent of women by age 60 will have experienced some form of the condition.
Pregnant women are sometimes susceptible to some hair loss often lasting until after the child is born. 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. Simply put, it is the transplantation of healthy hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another.
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. However, hair restoration is also not only for men any more, hair transplants for women are also achievable today and is a frequent choice of women who have scarring from previous surgery, notably from face lifts.
The best result you can go for is to try and recapture how you originally looked when you have hair transplant surgery and not attempt to change your appearance.
Before hair restoration is undertaken, the patient's whole-body status must be considered and any underlying health problems addressed. Cosmetic Therapies cover a broad spectrum of treatments but hair transplant therapy, although lying within this same field, has aspects that are completely different to other forms of cosmetic surgery.
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. |
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