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Who is an ideal candidate for medical hair replacement?


Many people seek treatment for hair loss, and there are several different types of treatment that vary in effectiveness. The effectiveness may depend on a person's expectations and the cause of hair loss. Hair loss that is caused by an illness, medication, or damage to the hair can be treated more effectively than hair loss that is caused by heredity. For these patients, the answer to renewed hair growth can be simply changing certain medications, or taking new medication to stimulate hair growth. For those who have androgenetic alopecia, or male- or female-pattern baldness, medical hair replacement is generally the best cure, as medication often cannot solve this hereditary problem. Generally, the earlier a patient does something to prevent hair loss, the better. This means that ideal patients are those who have only lost a partial amount of hair. If a patient has only lost a partial amount of hair, surgeons can use some of a patient's healthy hair as replacement grafts for the balding areas. Better yet, those who have only recently started balding AND those who have relatively thick hair somewhere on their head are ideal candidates, as surgeons can take more hair grafts from healthy areas without causing unsightly thinning. One can imagine that if a patient is totally bald, it can be rather hard to find samples of hair on the body to look like the normal hair on a human head. Completely bald patients often benefit more from medication or hairpieces.

Posted on May 30, 2004 at 04:56 PM