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It may not be what we want but hair loss is quite a normal bodily function. Men, women and children can all be affected and many millions worldwide are, but the list of reasons for this occurrence is very long. 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. Exposure to chemicals or cosmetics, hormonal imbalance, stress, anxiety and mental tension are some of the other causes. It is worth noting that only conditions that damage the follicles can make the loss permanent. Often mistakenly thought to be a strictly male disease, women actually make up forty percent of American sufferers.

Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. It is not just in America where four in every ten women will suffer from it because this is a global figure for women by the time they reach sixty. During and after a pregnancy is another time when women may experience a hair loss problem. In America approximately thirty million women suffer from female pattern, hereditary baldness at some point in their lives.

A relatively new treatment is to surgically restore hair for sufferers of permanent hair loss. The treatment uses a technique to transplant hair follicles from a healthy area of the scalp to an area where the follicles are dead. The process only requires local anesthesia and is carried out on an out-patient basis but has become one of the most regular forms of hair restoration for men. Many women are now deciding on hair transplant surgery as a method to hide scarring cause by facelifts for example.

When you are having hair transplant therapy it may be tempting to try and change your appearance but the best course of action is to try and stay as much like your original appearance. Before hair restoration is undertaken, the patient’s whole-body status must be considered and any underlying health problems addressed. Cosmetic Therapies cover a broad spectrum of treatments but hair transplant therapy, although lying within this same field, has aspects that are completely different to other forms of cosmetic surgery. New hair restoration techniques are being discovered all the time but if you have not found success then perhaps hair transplant therapy might be your only course of action for your hair loss.