How Hair Restoration Works

Once upon a time, baldness was something that you would be forced to live with as a man or forced to cover up with a wig were you female – and doctors have estimated that a fifth of all women will undergo some kind of hair loss. Men who were tired of bearing their receding hairlines started to wear toupees. Some of them were very obviously toupees, which led them to be the butt of many jokes. However, this is no longer the case.

Causes
You may have heard that baldness is due to wearing hats too often or being deficient in vitamins, but neither of these is the case. Additionally, you cannot look at your maternal relatives and determine whether or not you are going to go bald. You cannot preventing balding by stroking your hair hundreds of time per day and if you have not lost any hair by forty, you still can lose it later in life.

This is because baldness, otherwise known as alopecia, is due to aging, family history and hormonal changes. Other causes may include:

• Physical Stress. Illness, surgery, rapid change in weight, anemia.
• Emotional Stress. The death of a family member, mental illness.
• Abnormalities. Specifically in the thyroid.
• Medications. Excess dosages of vitamin A, blood pressure medications, medications for gout.
• Hormonal Changes. Birth control pills, pregnancy, menopause.

Hair Restoration
One way to resolve baldness occurring in a person is by hair transplantation. This requires removing some of the scalp that still produces hair and putting them on top of the slits where your balding is occurring. This is usually above the scalp. This procedure is performed by many clinics and physicians all over the world, and it does not involve adding new hair – the skin and hair are simply moved.

There may be many sessions for surgery needed in order to get more fullness and it is recommended to wait several months in between each session. As such, you may have to wait upwards of two years before the final result shows.

Your hair color and texture ultimately depends on how much cover will be necessary. You will get better coverage from coarse, light colored hair rather than dark and fine hair.

Prior to the actual surgery, the area will be trimmed such that it is easier to take out the grafts. Both the areas of donor and reception will have local anesthetic applied to them, and it is usually the kind dentists use as well. For punch grafts, a special tube might be used that has sharp carbon steel on it. This will allow the doctor to punch out a round graft, ensuring the transplant grows in a natural direction without any negative repercussions.

Other kinds of grafts will involve a scalpel to replace parts of hairy scalp, which are then cut into several sections and placed into the slits or holes on the scalp. Your doctor might put in small bits of saline solution while he or she is taking the grafts so that your scalp retains the strength of skin that is proper and necessary for it.

Stitches are used to seal the scalp, with one stick per punch site. You will most likely have a small scar in a straight line, concealed by the hair that surrounds it. The grafts will have been placed about three millimeters apart from one another so that you can maintain a healthy circulation in your scalp. Subsequent sessions will involve filling out spaces.