Hair Restoration and Replacement

There are many remedies and treatments available to combat hair loss and balding issues. Surgical hair restoration is an extreme method that works very well to get hair growing in the balding region of the head once again. In reality, most non-surgical hair restoration methods have success at slowing or stopping hair loss but once the hair has fallen out they can’t do much to re-grow the hair. The reason for this is really quite simple once you understand what make hair restoration necessary in the first place.

In general, the majority of hair loss problems are caused by one condition. This condition is genetic, which means it is passed down from your ancestors, and it can be derived from either the mother’s or the father’s side of the family. The name of this condition is androgenic alopecia which is commonly referred to as male pattern baldness or female pattern hair loss. When a person loses his or her hair because of pattern baldness the hair roots (follicles) actually stop producing the material that builds hair shafts. This substance, called keratin, is what your hair is predominately made of and when the follicles stop producing it of course your hair stops growing and it falls out.

There are some other causes of hair falling out such as stress, poor diet, and medical procedures. Even new mothers can experience thinning hair due to hormonal changes. But all of these possibilities cause only a small percentage of the cases of hair thinning and balding. Most of the reason people lose hair is because of androgenic alopecia.

Once the hair follicles have been rendered ineffective by the condition they generally will not be able to produce hair material ever again. Sometimes certain treatments can revitalize a few hair follicles but the majority of the time the roots are basically dead. Therefore, the only way to get hair growing again is to implant hair follicles that are still growing.

For men, an interesting aspect of male pattern baldness is that the hair loss is localized at the top of the head. The sides and rear portions are usually not affected. This gives ample numbers of hair follicles that can be transplanted. Surgical hair restoration is basically removing hair follicles from this donor area and implanting them into the balding spot.

Surgical Hair Restoration Cost

This procedure is not cheap but considering it is about the only possible way to regrow hair once it falls out the results do seem worth the cost. In general, you can expect to pay from a few thousand to upwards of twenty thousand dollars as the cost of surgical hair restoration. One of the nice things is the fact that it is a one time charge. You don’t have to continue to pay for treatments month after month. Instead you just pay the original fee and then you can enjoy your new hair for years to come.

Surgical hair restoration for women is more difficult than for men. Men, as noted above, generally have localized hair loss. Women tend to thinning hair over their entire head which does not provide a good donor area. Thus hair restoration for women must rely on hair from other parts of the body. These hairs are more coarse than the scalp hair so they are noticeable on the hair line but they work very well as filler.

Surgical hair restoration is very effective at giving you back your full head of hair once the baldness has taken a hold. You would be surprised at the number of famous men who have had this surgical procedure.