Info about Baldness
New Procedure Offers Hair Implants For Women
It is unfortunate, but women have been left in the dust when it comes to research into hair restoration to deal with balding and hair thinning problems. It is almost like nobody realized that women suffer from pattern baldness problems almost as much as men do, but it is true. 40% of all hair loss cases occur in women which shows the importance of finding solutions to hair loss for women.
Men have been able to utilize hair transplantation as a way to get hair growing in a bald spot since the 1950’s. Granted, the first results were not that great with the hair growth looking like the poor guy had stuck his finger in a light socket, but over the next couple of decades the procedures were refined to the point that hair transplants today are basically unnoticeable versus natural hair. Hair restoration surgeons have been able to utilize micro-surgical techniques to implant the hair follicles in a way that matches the growth of the surrounding natural hair perfectly.
Women have not been able to use the standard hair transplant procedures because they tend to have thinning hair over the entire scalp instead of localized patches of baldness like men. Now, though, hair replacement for women is possible with a new technique that allows for the manipulation of individual hair follicles instead of strips of scalp for the donation. The method has been perfected on men but it is now being utilized for the particular problems of female pattern baldness. Direct hair implantation is a method whereby the surgeon, using a specially designed medical instrument, removes individual hair follicles and all the support structure without cutting into the skin. This means that body hair replacement is now possible for filling in thinning areas on the scalp.
The body hairs are not the same texture as the scalp hair, they are usually darker and more coarse, but they do work well to fill in with the natural scalp. If you are having thinning problems then talk to your doctor about direct hair implants.