Hair Loss Surgery: When To Think About It

By Author: Salvatore Andrea
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If you are suffering from hair loss, cosmetic surgeries like hair transplant may seem a boon. But hair loss surgery should not be your first choice; there are many reasons why a person may lose his hair. Sometimes, the hair loss might be due to some other physiological reasons like lack of iron or stress and not serious conditions like male pattern baldness.

That is why, you should be aware of the following points before you start looking up for clinics that specializes in advance hair loss treatments like hair transplant.

· First of all, doctors don’t think it is advisable for young patients, especially those who are under 30 to go for hair transplant surgery. The reason is that, if you start young, then you won’t have enough “donor hair” for your surgeon to work on in future if your baldness still progresses over time, as is with the case of male pattern baldness. “Donor hair” is that patch of hair on your head which still has hair follicles and is generally found on both sides of the head with patients suffering from this particular problem. These patches are ...
... used to coax hair to grow in the bald part of the head.
· So if you are young, the first priority of the doctors of the hair transplant clinic you visit should be the preserving of the rest of the hair from falling out. For that, they need to know about your family history and will monitor your hair loss over a period of time. Medication may be prescribed to see if that helps.
· That is why it is best for patients in their early 30’s suffering from progressive male pattern baldness which does not respond to medication, to go for hair loss surgery. Such patients have the best chance of having a full head of hair for a long time.