Hair Restoration and Replacement

When you are discussing hair replacement costs you need to understand you may be talking about two distinctly different way of dealing with hair loss. You could be talking about a hair replacement system or you could be referring to hair restoration replacement surgery. The costs associated with these two possibilities can be and are very different. Determining which direction you want to go with your hair loss treatment will help you to decide your hair replacement costs.

The first method, buying a hair replacement system, throws a few people off until they realize what you are talking about. The old name for a hair replacement system is a toupee or hair piece. The manufacturers of this product knew they had a problem when the toupee kept being referred to in the comedy movies. It seems like for a while every comedy movie had a scene where some poor guy had his toupee come off and land in his soup or get blown off in a wind storm.

It got so bad that people started to chuckle as soon as they heard the name. The term hair replacement system has no bad connotations associated with it so it does not make people laugh and they take the system serious. The cost of hair replacement for one of the new hair pieces will range from about $400 to several thousand, depending on who does the work.

If you are speaking of hair restoration replacement then you are talking about a lot more money but you get a new head of hair that will continue to grow for years to come. This procedure is also known as hair implantation and hair transplantation. Basically, a hair restoration surgeon removes some living hair follicles from the back of your head and places them into the bald spot. This hair restoration procedure is not very time consuming any more and can usually be done in one day at the doctor’s office. The hair replacement surgery cost is based on per graft charge and the number of grafts that are used. The individual hair graft charge is usually between $3 and $7. Most people require about a thousand to two thousand grafts.

As you can see, hair replacement costs vary based on which method you choose. The hair system is cheap and easy but it has draw backs like it is not real. The hair restoration surgery is expensive but you get hair for years to come.