What are some Hair Replacement and Hair Restoration methods?

Question: What are some hair replacement and hair restoration methods?

Answer: Hair replacement and hair restoration proceedures can enhance your appearance and your self-confidence. Essentially there are three different approaches, medication, surgery, and topical covering.

Medication:

Minoxidil is the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for regrowing hair. As an effective hair restoration option, minoxidil must be used twice a day and it works better on those who are younger and whose hair loss is recent. It must be used for life or any regrown hair will fall out. On most occasions only those people losing hair on the crown, not in front, are candidates for regrowth.

Those studies show that 26 percent of men between 18 and 49 using this method of hair restoration reported moderate to dense hair regrowth after four months of Rogaine treatment. An additional 33 percent had minimal hair regrowth. Almost 20 percent of women between 18 and 45 had moderate regrowth, while an additional 40 percent showed minimal regrowth. An itchy scalp can be a side affect of the monoxidil found in rogaine.

Surgery:

Surgical procedures, include hair transplantation and scalp reduction. Transplantation involves moving hair from densely covered sites on the sides or back of the head to bald areas of the scalp. Todays surgeons have learned to create a much more natural-looking hair line, using scalpels to cut either small slits or holes in the scalp to receive transplanted hair. skilled surgeons–are getting more eye-pleasing results.Some surgeons still use larger round plugs of 3 to 9 hairs. Line grafts, the shifting of strips of nine to 12 hairs, are common, too.

In some extreme cases where there is a large amount of balding area to cover, surgeons might recomend scalp reduction: the surgical removal of large sections of a bald scalp. Extenders and expanders, elastic devices placed under the skin to stretch the hair-bearing scalp regions on the side of the head, have been used as a complement to reduction surgery.

 

Another surgical method is the flap technique, which rotates hair-bearing scalp areas from the sides or moves those areas from the back forward. The flap technique has the highest complication rate, though, Bleeding, scarring and infection can occur from surgery. But advances, such as knowing what size flap to use and how to enhance blood supply to the region, have cut down on the visibility of scars.

Women generally are not good candidates for hair replacement techniques because their hair loss is usally diffuse through out the head not allowing for good donor sites, making transplantation impractical for them.
Topical Covering:

Finally there is the hair piece or the over the counter cosmetic hair thickeners. Many of these products seem to thicken hair by coating it with chemicals called polymers. Hair has a negative charge, and the polymers’ positive charge causes the polymers to adhere to the hair shaft, says Charles Fox, a Fair Lawn, N.J., consultant to the cosmetics industry. That results in better hair manageability and shine, he says. The hair also retains moisture, causing the shaft to swell and its diameter to expand slightly.

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