Info about Baldness
Female Hair Transplants Special Conditions
Did you know that 40% of the people who develop hair thinning and balding problems in the US are women? You wouldn’t know it by the amount of research and development money that is spent on hair loss in this country. Historically, male pattern baldness problems have received almost all the money with female pattern hair loss being ignored. The funny thing is men and women suffer from the exact same genetic condition, androgenic alopecia, so you would think there would be cures for both sexes.
The problem is the difference in the symptoms of this condition. Hair implants for men have been very effective because of how the hair is lost. Men will have balding issues on the top of the head but the hair will continue to grow at the back. This gives a good donor area for the hair to be transplanted from. The hair transplant for women procedure does not work as well because females tend to have thinning hair over their entire head. This leaves no place in which to remove hair follicles which can then be transplanted.
For years it was just assumed that women would not be able enjoy this great hair loss treatment and would be stuck with wearing a wig or scarf. Luckily a new procedure, actually developed on men, may prove to be of some help to women. With the Follicular Unit Extraction method of hair implants the cosmetic surgeon can now manipulate individual hairs. This means he or she can graft hairs from other parts of the body into the thinning scalp. These hairs do not match the scalp hair perfectly but they are good enough to act as fillers. This FUE method now make hair implants for women a reality where before there was no hope.
I would like to continue to see more research done in this field for females as it is a large market.