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Articles » Health-&-Fitness » Hair-Loss >> View Article
By: ReviewMedic
Hair loss is a natural part of the body\'s process of renewal. 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. If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence 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.

If your hair loss is more moderate, however, it\'s possible your nutrition and diet have a something to do with it. There are other reasons though, some of which you may know including: mental tension, stress, hormonal imbalance or perhaps an over exposure to chemicals or cosmetics. 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.

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. 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. Approximately 30 million women in the United States experience female pattern, hereditary baldness.

Surgical hair restoration is the ultimate solution for permanent hair loss restoration but is comparatively a new treatment approach. Hair follicles that are healthy and undamaged are taken from the scalp and transplanted to an area where the follicles have been damaged for whatever reason. 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. Many women are now deciding on hair transplant surgery as a method to hide scarring cause by facelifts for example.

It is important to try and keep your appearance as close as possible to your original when having hair transplant therapy and not try to look like someone else. Health considerations should be taken into account and addressed before hair transplant treatment is carried out on anyone. 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. New hair restoration techniques are being discovered all the time but if you have not found success then perhaps hair transplant therapy might be your only course of action for your hair loss.
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