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Considering Hair Transplant Surgery

Have you noticed that too many hairs are left behind in your sink or hair brush lately? On average, people lose approximately 100 hairs from their head everyday. However, it is alarming when the number increases to the point that you no longer recognize the person in the mirror. Excessive hair loss or baldness is caused by various factors, some of which are controllable while others are not.

What triggers baldness and hair loss?
Heredity is one cause for baldness. If hair loss occurs in your family, you may inherit that trait. This type of hair loss usually happens over time when hair becomes patchy, or is simply diffused. When a hair falls out, its life has ended. One individual hair exists for an average time of 4.5 to 5 years with an average populous (per head) of 100,000 hairs. It is replaced by a new hair over a span of 6 months. Hair loss is generally attributed to the body’s inability to replace the dead hairs during the specified period. Hair loss can also be attributed to disease or sickness. If you are seeking a solution to your hair loss woes, hair transplant surgery might be the answer for you.

Other causes of temporary hair loss include:

• Disease
• Poor nutrition
• Drugs / Medications
• Medical treatments
• Recent high fever or severe flu
• Surgery
• Childbirth
• Hair treatments
• Scalp infection

At what age can one consider hair transplant surgery?
If hair loss runs in your family, there is a good chance that the problem will be passed on to you. The process can begin at any age; it is not a problem that is reserved for older people. Hair loss before the age of 21 can be traumatic as sentiments of psychological and emotional vulnerability can play havoc on a person’s self-esteem making them feel less attractive, and even disfigured.

When considering hair transplant surgery, it is best to wait till twenty-five years of age or when an individual is experiencing serious hair loss. It is also imperative to remember that hair transplant surgery is not a hair loss prevention technique. It is a way of replacing hair that has fallen out in an effort to relieve the hardships of dealing with baldness and all the related stigmas.

Who fits the bill for hair transplant surgery?
Individuals who have well-defined, clearly established areas or patterns of baldness while other places on their head have healthy dense coverage of hair are good candidates for hair transplant surgery. Hair that is transplanted in the frontal region of the skull generally offers the best results; however, all areas of one’s head can be surgically treated. If your hair loss is so severe that it has left you almost completely bald, you may not be a good candidate for hair transplant surgery, but one can only be sure by submitting to an examination by a dermatologic surgeon. His assessment will determine whether or not you will benefit from hair transplant surgery.

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