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Female hair loss? Is it common? What hair replacements options exist?Female hair loss may not be as obvious as male pattern baldness, but with one in five women facing it at some point, hair loss is a problem that's widespread, with both physical and emotional affects. There are ways for women to reduce and even reverse the loss of their locks. More than just buying hairpieces or wigs, there are now medical hair replacement procedures and effective medication available to women. The most common type of female hair loss is for a patient to have an area behind the hairline where there is diffuse thinning extending in a so-called Christmas tree pattern toward the back of the scalp, wider in the front, and then narrowing as it goes towards the back. As long as there are some areas of dense hair left on the scalp, there is a good chance that this pattern of baldness can be treated. The easiest type of pattern to treat is when there is a fairly small oval or round area behind an intact frontal hairline. In such a case, a fairly small hair transplantation procedure may totally correct the problem. Medical treatment works best in women who still have adequate hair density independent of the pattern of hair loss, but their hair has become weaker, finer in texture. The reason for this is that the medical treatment available is able to make hairs courser. Those with thin but adequately dense hair can be treated with these types of medication, and can achieve a great deal of improvement in hair weight or hair volume.
Posted on May 30, 2004 at 04:57 PM
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