Hair Transplant Surgery

Question: What is the difference between hair loss in males vs females? Are they different?

Answer: Yes, there is a difference between hair loss or baldness patterns in males and females.

While men experience “male pattern baldness” which results in hair loss around the sides and top/back of the head, women experience diffuse hair loss, which involves general thinning of hair across the scalp. The front hairline is usually unaffected in women, unlike majority of men who experience a receeding hairline.

Men have DHT resistant areas on the back and sides of the scalp, and it is these stable areas which provide hair for successful transplantation. A woman’s hair is not affected by DHT.

Though its true that less women become bald like men, but its equally true that women lose hair or get thinner hair with age. And the rarer something is, the more acute it feels, and that is why women get great stress with loss of hair — at least based on our observations so far — and this is true across cultures.

Good news is that Hair Transplant for Women is very much possible! And often, women make great patients because of the even balding pattern in women compared to the uneven balding pattern in men.

Women also candidates for hair replacement surgery, but the age of loss onset is much later, and the loss is more diffuse.

Before starting on a surgical course of treatment, a plan must be discussed that includes a patient’s expectations, the type of procedures that will be used in each area of hair loss, the number of surgeries necessary to accomplish the desired effect and the way expanding hair loss will be treated in the areas not yet noticeable. Women will see the progression of baldness at the crown and front.

Androgenetic alopecia is generally hereditary . Women are not immune either and 1 in 4 will experience thinning hair. After menopause, women become even more susceptible.

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