Hair loss is a natural part of the body’s process of renewal. The list of all the possible causes is exceedingly long but it is a common problem that affects millions of men, women, and children. The correct term for hair loss is Alopecia. Androgenic Alopecia may not be a term you have heard but it accounts for nearly ninety five out of one hundred cases of hair loss in men; it is usually referred to as Androgenic Alopecia, and it’s hereditary.

Moderate hair loss on the other hand which is obviously rarer may simply be a matter of adjusting your diet. Other reasons can the result of hormonal imbalance, stress or mental tension, chemicals or perhaps a cosmetic reaction. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return. It is not, surprisingly, purely the domain of men as many people think; in a America for example, up to forty in every hundred cases are women.

Hair loss is in fact more common with women as they age but it is often caused by a thyroid problem. Although the number of women sufferers in the USA may seem high this figure equates around the world and by the time a woman reaches sixty, she has a forty percent chance of having a problem. Some women also have a hair loss problem when they are pregnant; often lasting many months after the child is born. In America approximately thirty million women suffer from female pattern, hereditary baldness at some point in their lives.

People who suffer with permanent hair loss now have a relatively new but popular treatment called surgical hair restoration which is considered to be the ultimate solution to an increasing problem. Simply put, it is the transplantation of healthy hair follicles from one area of the scalp to another. Now the most common hair transplant treatment for men, it is carried out as an out-patient basis under local anesthetic. Many women are now deciding on hair transplant surgery as a method to hide scarring cause by facelifts for example.

The best result you can go for is to try and recapture how you originally looked when you have hair transplant surgery and not attempt to change your appearance. Health considerations should be taken into account and addressed before hair transplant treatment is carried out on anyone. Although hair restoration is considered a cosmetic treatment, there are different aspects involved it and must not be confused with other types of cosmetic procedure. Surgical hair transplant therapy might be your only solution if all other methods have failed despite the fact that discoveries in this field of hair loss continue to advance.