HAIR TRANSPLANT
Causes
There are many causes of hair loss. It is normal for the average person to loss 50 to 70 hairs a day on ones head. This is nothing to worry about because a new hair will normally grow from the same hair root.
The major causes of permanent hair loss are heredity and age.
Other causes include :
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Trauma caused by intensive blow dryer abuse and stressing the hair root by having the hair in constant tension. “Pony tail or Pig tail” style can cause this abuse.
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Drug treatment for some illnesses
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High fever
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Radiation or chemotherapy
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Infections
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Toxic (nicotine, drugs, abuse of alcoholic beverages, formaldehyde)
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Nutritional and metabolic deficiencies
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Skin diseases (Areata Alopecia, Seborrheic)
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Misused hair treatments or abused prescriptions
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Smoking or Drug abuse
It is common for clients to exhibit a combination of above-mentioned risk factors. This combined with having a genetically programmed hair loss schedule will cause a gradual thinning of ones hair.
It is important to understand the complete medical background of the client in order to design a treatment program that is as individual as each client is. Once medical and scalp assessment is made the group give a honest and complete evaluation as to hair transplant options.
Indications
The hair-by-hair transplantation microsurgery technique is appropriate for both Men and Women:
MEN
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All stages of androgenetic hair loss from small regions to extensive baldness.
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Hair failure (or lack of) may be corrected in the axillar, genital, pectoral mustache and beard regions.
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Procedures to cover scars due to accidents, burning, tattoo removal or past poor surgery techniques.
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Unsatisfactory results performed by less skilled transplant surgeons that produced “doll hair”.
WOMEN
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Lack of eyebrows.
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Hair losses due to continuous depletion, accidental burning flocculate and other dermatologic pathologies, congenital absence to tattoo hiding.
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Hair failure in the female genital region due to cesarean scars.
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Hair failure due to plastic surgery, scars due to accidents, infections, tumors and burns.
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Replace hair in sections after face-lift surgery.
Classification
According to the Norwood-Hamilton Classification there are 7 classes of male progressive baldness.
Unlike men who lose practically all their hair following a "pattern," many women lose hair diffusely. Various types of female hair loss are identified in the Ludwig-Savin Classification.