Are hair Implants A Good Choice

If you want to treat your baldness there are only a few techniques that have truly been shown to give good results. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration has accepted only two hair regrowth medications. But the success rates are not great with either of these. One is about 50% and the other one 75%. The only treatment that offers anywhere near a full success rate is hair implants or hair restoration.

This is a surgical procedure that actually removes hair from the part of the scalp that is not bald and inserts those follicles into the bald patches. Hair implants look natural and offer a great solution to hair loss no matter how large the bald spot. This method works as long as you have sections of your scalp with hair still growing. This is a problem with hair implants for women because they tend to have thinning hair. This is opposed to men who usually have male pattern baldness or bald spots.

Most people with male pattern baldness experience hair loss at the crown of the head and the front. Very rarely is hair lost at the back of the head. Usually this means a portion of the scalp can be used as a donor area. In the implant procedure a surgeon or members of his or her staff remove sections of scalp from this hair covered portion. Narrow slits are usually made in the scalp which can be easily sown together. The hair units are then prepared for insertion in the bald spot.

The surgeon makes small incisions or holes in the bald section and then inserts the follicles in groups of one to three. This allows the implants to look natural. The skilled surgeon can also insert the hair in a way that allows it to lay in the direction of the natural growing hair for a look that is not noticeable. In fact, when preformed by a highly trained plastic surgeon, the results look completely natural even upon fairly close inspection of the scalp.

Hair implants, or hair plugs as they are also known, are becoming the method of choice for treating baldness. If you have a bald spot they are quick and long lasting. The cost of hair plugs is really not that great when you consider there is very little after procedure cost. Also, there is no fear of the hair falling off like a toupee’. Unlike drugs, there are very few side effects. Hair plugs work great to treat male pattern baldness.

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This post was written by hair_loss on July 2, 2009

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