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What Are the Most Common Reasons For Hair Loss and Balding?

Are you curious as to why you are starting to lose your hair? This article will go over the most common reasons for hair loss and what you can do not only help prevent future hair loss, but also help stimulate new hair growth.

Common Reasons For Hair Loss

Many people who suffer from hair loss have unique medical conditions such as cancer, thyroid disease, and skin disease. Other people can also loose their hair because of a certain medication they are taking, if they are going through chemotherapy or other type of radiation, or because they have been exposed to certain chemicals and toxins. It’s also pretty common for women to start loosing their hair during pregnancy, menopause, or at other times where hormonal and nutritional changes occur.

You may not believe it, but some people start to loose their hair when they are dealing with too much stress. The stress that they deal with is obviously more severe than the everyday stress we may experience (i.e. a horrible car accident, a death in the family, etc.). Read more…

12 Common Mistakes Made During Hair Transplants

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Although follicular unit transplant eliminates many of the shortcomings of older surgical hair restoration techniques, such as a “pluggy” look, a “moth-eaten” donor area or midline scalp reduction scars, poor aesthetic judgment and techniques that compromise graft growth can still lead to problems. Perhaps because follicular unit transplant requires large numbers of grafts (using a significant portion of the donor area at one time), because so many staff members are involved in the process, and because some of the problems of small graft procedures are very difficult to correct, improperly performed follicular unit hair transplantation can pose a greater risk to patients than traditional grafting. The risk is compounded by the fact that many physicians perceive follicular unit transplant as a safe, risk-free procedure and describe it to patients as such.

The remainder of this section will focus on some of the most common mistakes made by follicular unit transplant practitioners, particularly in the areas of planning, hair transplant design and handling large numbers of small grafts. These problems and how they may be avoided are summarized below.

1. Operating on patients that are too young or prior to medical therapy
2. Failing to identify low donor density prior to surgery
3. Failing to identify a tight scalp
4. Harvesting a donor strip that is too wide
5. Placing the donor incision too low or too high
6. Using a multi-bladed knife
7. Crushing grafts during insertion
8. Allowing grafts to dry
9. Placing the frontal hairline too far forward
10. Creating a hairline that is too broad
11. Angling hair in the wrong direction
12. Attempting to cover an area that is too large Read more…

Cause of Female Hair Loss – The Importance of Identifying the Root of the Problem

Most people don’t realize this, but the primary cause of female hair loss is not the same as men. For years and years doctors believed that the primary cause for both men and women was androgenic alopecia (male-pattern baldness). This of course is known to be untrue as far as women are concerned. The cause of female hair loss could be contributed to a number of things, so it is important to identify the root cause of your problem. It is practically impossible to solve a problem if you don’t know what’s causing it.

The term androgenic alopecia is no longer used for women anymore, and the term now used is female pattern hair loss. The first clue that shows us that there is a difference between male and female balding is that the balding pattern is different. For women it is generally around the whole top of the head, but for men it can be on the temple, the crown, and the back of the head. The other difference is that there are many possible reasons for balding in women. It could be a symptom of polycystic ovary syndrome, which is a common hormonal problem that women face. Read more…