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Although perhaps not desirable, hair loss is quite normal. There are too many reasons to list here as causes for but be assured it affects many, many millions of men, women and children around the world. If you loss your hair, the correct medical term for this occurrence is Alopecia. The most common type of hair loss is called male pattern baldness and is responsible for nearly 95 percent of cases in men; it is also hereditary.

However, it may be that your diet needs attending to if your hair loss is only moderate. Other reasons are quite natural and you may be aware of a surrounding problem such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance, but others such as exposure to chemicals or cosmetics may not be so obvious. No matter what the reason, it is worth remembering that it is only if the hair follicles are damaged that can make the condition permanent. Often considered as a purely male problem, in America women actually make up forty percent of people that suffer with some form of the condition.

In fact, hair loss is also common among women as they age although with women a thyroid condition is one of the more common causes. By the age of sixty, four out of every ten women in the world will have experienced some loss. However, many women experience hair loss during and after pregnancy. In the USA for example, around thirty million women suffer from female pattern hereditary baldness, something that is normally considered a male problem.

A relatively new treatment is to surgically restore hair for sufferers of permanent hair loss. Hair follicles that are healthy and undamaged are taken from the scalp and transplanted to an area where the follicles have been damaged for whatever reason. Now the most common hair transplant treatment for men, it is carried out as an out-patient basis under local anesthetic. It is now possible for women to have hair transplants like men and is becoming increasingly popular for those women keen to hide scars from previous facelift surgery.

Remember that the best outcome of hair restoration is to restore your appearance insofar as possible, not change it to make you look like someone else. A consideration before any hair transplant surgery is commenced is the physical and mental wellbeing of the recipient. Although hair restoration is considered a cosmetic treatment, there are different aspects involved it and must not be confused with other types of cosmetic procedure. Although the field of hair restoration treatment continues to move forward with new discoveries, there is no guarantee that any will work for you and surgical hair transplants might be your only option to solving your hair loss problem.

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