Propecia - Hair Loss Treatment Solution
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Hair loss is a natural part of the body’s process of renewal. 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. The correct term for hair loss is Alopecia. Male pattern hair loss is the most common form, representing close to 95 percent of all cases in men; and due to a hereditary condition: Androgenic Alopecia. Propecia is the brand name of the drug finasteride, also sold as proscar. It’s the first pill approved by the FDA to treat male pattern baldness or hair loss on the top of the head and mid-scalp areas.
If your hair loss is more moderate, however, it’s possible your nutrition and diet have a something to do with it. 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. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return. Most people believe that it is primarily men that suffer with the condition but women actually account for forty percent of sufferers in the USA alone.
Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. By the time they reach sixty, forty percent of women around the world will have experienced loss of some form or another. Some women also have a hair loss problem when they are pregnant; often lasting many months after the child is born. 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. The whole hair transplant procedure is carried out on an out-patient basis under local anesthetic and is becoming the most routinely used form of treatment for males. It is now possible for women to enjoy this hair restoration treatment that men have been using but it is becoming popular for women who also wish to hide some scarring caused by previous face lifts.
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 well being of the recipient. While cosmetic surgery does include hair restoration as one of its sub-fields, this is a different form of cosmetic treatment available. If all other hair treatment therapies have failed then it’s possible that a surgical hair transplant might be the only permanent solution available for your hair loss condition.