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.

Hair Transplant Surgery is the only permanent solution to hair loss. While there are many good and effective short-term medication options it is still hair transplant surgery that remains the gold standard in dealing with hair loss.

Hair transplant surgery is a skin grafting process that relocates hair to bald spots. Tissue expansion surgery is a two-part surgery that takes place over time. Hair transplant surgery is a one day procedure that is done under local anesthesia.

Hair transplantation involves surgically moving skin containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding from one part of the body (the donor site) to bald or balding parts (the recipient site). Hair transplant surgery is also used for eyebrow hair. An eyebrow hair transplant procedure, however, is very different from the other hair transplant procedure for the head or scalp.

Hair transplant surgery is a surgical procedure, and can often return to work within a couple of days. Hair transplant surgery is virtually pain free. With today’s refined procedures, the minislits are very small and will heal within 5 to 7 days.

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