Hair Restoration and Replacement

Hands down the absolute best method to replace the lost hair in your bald spots is to have a hair restoration procedure performed. This is a surgical method that involves transplanting your living hair from a donor area on your scalp, usually at the back of the head, to the bald spot on top. This method has many positive attributes including the fact that the transplanted hair looks very natural when the surgeon uses micro-grafting techniques. Also it is long lasting, hair that is transplanted in this method will continue to grow for many years to come which means your balding problems will be almost completely over.

The down side to hair transplant procedures are their costs. You can easily spend several thousand dollars on this method of hair loss treatment. The reason it is so expensive is that it really is a surgery and it takes a very skilled professional with a full staff and clinic setting in order to accomplish to transplantation. There is no such thing as non-surgical hair transplant programs or non-surgical hair grafting.

The only type of non-surgical hair replacement available is to purchase a hair replacement system also known as a toupee. These got a real bad name about 30 years ago due to the many comedic movies that showed men with toupees in a bad light. It seems the hair pieces were always falling off at the wrong time or getting blown off by the wind. This has all changed now with the new adhesive systems in use but toupee sales are still only about 10% of what they were at their peak.

If you are interested in a hair loss treatment that attacks the problem causes of male pattern baldness then you should look into two drugs that have been approved by the FDA. Finasteride is a drug that is taken orally. It actually helps to limit the amount DHT, the hormonal substance that causes the hair follicles to stop producing, and thus slow down hair loss. Most of the time if you are already bald it won’t do much to help you though.

The other drug is Minoxidil which is usually sold under the brand name Rogaine. Minoxidil is applied to the scalp as a liquid. When absorbed into the scalp it helps to protect the hair follicles from the DHT and also will have limited ability to reinvigorate some of the follicles that have stopped producing hair.

If you are looking for a way to grow hair in your bald spot I would recommend surgical hair restoration first. If you can’t afford the best then I would recommend the other remedies I wrote about above. Hair restoration is a tricky subject but it can be understood by gaining enough information.