When to Opt For a Female Hair Transplant

Female hair loss is caused by a number of things. It can be triggered by an over production of a male antigen (a type of hormone) called DHT; or it can be the natural result of any number of environmental and body-stress events. Before deciding to have a female hair transplant it is extremely important that you exhaust diagnostic techniques to the point where you are certain why the hair loss has taken place.
To diagnose a woman with hair loss caused by things like dieting or by vacillating hormone levels due to pregnancy or the menopause would be to negate the effectiveness of female hair transplant as a treatment. The correct treatment in hair loss cases, where levels of nutrition or temporarily spiralling hormone levels are to blame, is to wait for the nutrition or the hormones to restore a balance in the woman’s body. At this point the hair is likely to grow back.
If a woman does require a hair transplant, she can get it in any good hair loss clinic. Modern hair transplant surgery is much less obvious than its predecessor: it uses tiny strips of hair and skin, rather than large tracts, which mean a natural hairline can be achieved. It also means recovery time is quicker and pain is diminished because the female hair transplant operation is no longer harvesting large sections of skin and hair all in one go.
Modern hair transplants either use very small (one to four units of hair) transplant patches or medium sized ones. The medium sized transplant patch or multi follicular unit graft contains between 3 and 6 hairs.
Hair grafts are selected for their natural growth direction – so every hair, once transplanted, should grow in the direction that the missing hair used to grow in. The female hair transplant typically takes between 10 and 16 weeks to show its full effects.
First, the grafts will grow crusts, which are soon shed. Then the hair follicles resume their normal growth cycle. Generally speaking, between two and three procedures are performed to minimise the impact of doing it all at once.
A female hair transplant normally takes between two and four hours. It is performed under local anaesthetic and the patient is considered as an outpatient. A scalpel is used to cut tiny slits in the donor area, from which skin and hair are extracted. The wounds created are closed with minute stitches.
Following hair transplant surgery, it is possible that women may experience numbness in the donor area. This numbness is completely normal and may last for as long as six or eight months. Occasionally, patients will experience a swelling in the balding area, which occurs a few days after surgery and lasts for three to four days.

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