Should You Consider Hair Implantation To Deal With Thinning Problems
Thinning hair and hair loss in women used to be something that was not talked about in polite company. That is, if a woman was experiencing a problem with her hair the fact was supposed to be kept under wraps, literally. The only choice she had to deal with this problem was to buy a wig and pretend like everything was OK.
This is no longer acceptable for today’s women because they do not want to be tied down to sitting around worrying about whether or not their wig is going to fall off. They want to be out there living life and doing things their mothers and grandmothers only dreamt of.
Will Hair Implantation Help You
Hair implantation has been used for male hair loss since the 1950’s. Most of the results in the early years were not very acceptable but new techniques kept being devised and by the 1990’s a technique called direct hair implants was developed which made it possible to transplant individual hairs. This gave much better results than the old method of removing slivers of scalp from one area and then sewing them in another.
When women start to lose their hair it can happen in two distinct ways. First, they will see thinning over their entire scalp. This problem does not lend itself to hair implantation techniques because there is no area with thick hair left to act as a donor site. The second problem, patches of balding, can be dealt with effectively because hair shafts from unaffected areas can easily be transplanted into the thinning areas thus giving the appearance of a full head of hair again.
The first step to determine if you are a good candidate for this type of hair implant surgery is for you to talk to your primary care physician and ask for a referral to a hair clinic. Your doctor can help you make the correct choices.