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| Before hair transplant surgery came along, how | | | | into the scalp of the hair loss patient. Great care |
| did men deal with their hair loss? For centuries, | | | | is taken to angle the hair properly, to give a |
| men have been losing their hair to genetics, age | | | | natural frontal hairline to the patient and to give |
| and inevitability. For centuries, men have tried to | | | | what will become good coverage of the scalp. |
| disguise their hair loss with powdered wigs, | | | | The hair harvested from this back area of the |
| toupees and, more recently, removable hair | | | | scalp for follicular hair transplant surgery is not |
| systems that adhere to the scalp with special | | | | prone to the same genetic problems as the hair in |
| adhesive. Why all the worry about hair loss? | | | | the frontal areas. These harvested hairs are |
| Because feeling good is looking good and a healthy | | | | predetermined to keep growing, just as they |
| head of hair is intertwined, psychologically, to our | | | | would at the back of a man’s head |
| feeling of well-being. | | | | throughout his life. Once hair transplant surgery is |
| Why do thousands of men each year choose hair | | | | complete, the hair that is visible will shed or fall |
| transplant surgery as a way to solve their hair | | | | off. But the root that is still in the scalp will be |
| loss? Because we feel better when the person | | | | settling in to grow. Within six months, a new head |
| we see in the mirror is the person we still expect | | | | of hair will grow where no hair was before. Hair |
| to see. When our hair goes, so does a chunk of | | | | transplant surgery is a viable solution to hair loss. |
| our self-worth. And while modern technology has | | | | While men’s hair transplant surgery is |
| made amazing breakthroughs in disguising the | | | | more common, women, too, suffer from hair loss |
| problem of hair loss, these solutions are not ever | | | | and can benefit from hair transplant surgery. |
| going to be like the real thing; the one important | | | | Women tend to lose their hair in an all-over |
| thing you get when you choose hair transplant | | | | pattern instead of the typical pattern baldness |
| surgery: your own hair growing back on your | | | | men experience. Often, hair becomes extremely |
| head. | | | | thin, because hair stops growing back once it falls |
| To understand hair transplant surgery, you have | | | | out. Dihydrotestosterone can affect women in |
| to understand the answer to the question: Why | | | | this same way as men, but other factors, such |
| does hair fall out? In the case of men, genes | | | | as chemical over-treatment, and tension Alopecia |
| predetermine which areas will thin and bald | | | | due to over-styling are more common in women |
| eventually. Hormones— particularly DHT | | | | who suffer from hair loss. |
| (dihydrotestosterone) that can shrink the hair | | | | Gina Reyes underwent treatment for breast |
| follicles and weaken them until they fall out for | | | | cancer with radiation and chemotherapy. Her hair |
| good — are a significant cause of hair loss. | | | | fell out, as expected, but unlike others who |
| More accurately, once weakened this way, hair | | | | regrew their hair, Gina’s hair never came |
| fails to regrow to replace the one that has fallen | | | | back as thick as it had been before. Her recovery |
| out in the natural shedding process. Thus if more | | | | was difficult, made worse by how she felt when |
| fall out than regrow, baldness will ensue. | | | | she looked in the mirror. She tried everything to |
| We’ve all seen the results of the early and | | | | cover her hair loss condition, but finally settled on |
| awful attempts at hair transplant surgery with | | | | hair transplant surgery. Her recovery was |
| hair plugs, which resulted in a scalp that | | | | relatively easy and within a month the hair |
| looked more like the surface of a brush, not at all | | | | transplanted into her scalp shed. But then, the |
| natural looking. Unscrupulous hair loss clinics even | | | | roots began to grow and Gina’s hair began |
| performed dangerous hair transplant surgeries by | | | | to look like it used to look. Within a year, she had |
| sewing a hairpiece directly onto men’s | | | | a new head of hair and her chemo treatments no |
| scalps. Never a good idea. Both of these | | | | longer stared at her in the mirror whenever she |
| procedures are now a thing of the past. For good | | | | looked at it. No more will she have to worry |
| reason men became suspicious of hair transplant | | | | about hair systems that adhere to her scalp, or |
| surgery at that time. | | | | needing to shave what hair she has left to apply |
| However, in the past ten to fifteen years, | | | | it. No more wigs that don’t breathe in the |
| amazing technological breakthroughs have | | | | heat. The hair from her hair transplant surgery is |
| improved the way hair replacement surgery is | | | | real, growing hair. |
| performed. One type of hair transplant surgery is | | | | If you’re suffering from hair loss and |
| called Follicular hair transplant surgery, which utilizes | | | | you’ve tried the other hair loss solutions |
| micro-surgical techniques and the hair loss | | | | only to feel like you’re wearing someone |
| patient’s own hair, harvested from an area | | | | else’s hair, consider going to a hair |
| at the back of his head. One to two strands of | | | | transplant surgery clinic to see if you are a |
| hair at a time are individually implanted into the | | | | candidate for hair transplant surgery. The cost is |
| area of the scalp that requires hair. By the end of | | | | relatively high, but financing is usually available. |
| the hair transplant surgery, thousands of such | | | | |