Cases when replacement hair is the only solution

Baldness has many forms, but the most common one, which affects the biggest number of people, is androgenic alopecia, mostly known as the male pattern baldness. This form of baldness consists of progressive thinning of the hairs followed by their definitive falling. There are treatments such as pills, creams, oils and other ointments which claim to cure alopecia and reverse the baldness, but in reality there are many cases when all these baldness remedies are simply inefficient. Finasteride and minoxidil are only two of the clinically proven baldness treatments which are supposed to work in all cases of alopecia, but they actually don’t always give the expected results.

Another baldness treatment is the low-level laser hair treatment, like the therapy done with Hairmax Lasercomb, which has been accepted by the FDA as effective in the submitted claims, therefore legal.

Hair replacement should be thoroughly considered and discussed with the surgeon prior to the surgery itself, because it is possible that the end result doesn’t match the patient’s expectations.All hair replacement techniques use your own hair, so there’s a must that you have strong, viable hairs, in some of your scalp area (at the back, or on the sides). Depending on the degree of change needed, hair replacement procedures may go from simple mini-grafts, micro-grafts, or slit grafts in easier cases, tissue expansion, flaps or scalp reduction, in more complicated cases, where replacement hair is supposed to cover a significant area of the scalp.

Replacement Hair: Can it Come From Other Sources?

The best solution for hair implants is that patient’s own hairs are used. The replacement hairs are taken from healthy zones and implanted on the regions affected by baldness. Besides the biological aspect, there are also cosmetic considerations for using a person’s own hair for replacements, in order to match the color, the hair consistency and the hair texture.

Should you consider replacement hair for yourself, you have to speak with a hair surgeon who is the only one entitled to give you pertinent advice for your particular case of baldness. Don’t ignore the fact that hair replacement is a surgery, so you’ll have to endure the post-operator recovery therapy, which would have implications on your social schedule.