Atlanta Dermatologists

Hair Transplant for Women

Can a woman with severe hair loss get hair transplants?  How long can the hair be?  THANK YOU

Not every hair loss patient is a good candidate for hair transplant surgery, especially in women where there are many variable causes for hair loss. However, as long as there is an adequate donor region from which to harvest the hair, you could be a candidate for hair transplant surgery. Before surgery, though, it’s important to schedule an appointment with a board certified dermatologist who specializes in hair loss conditions to determine the cause of your hair loss. While your hair loss may be caused by female pattern baldness, it could also be the result of hormonal changes caused by thyroid abnormalities, menopause or birth control pills, physical stress from surgery, illness, anemia, rapid weight loss, emotional stress, and medications. By determining the exact cause of your baldness, your dermatologist can determine if hair transplant surgery is the best treatment option for your case.

Ashley R. Curtis, MD

Atlanta Dermatologic Surgeon

Anything to Help Hair Loss on a 26-year-old Woman?

I am 26 year old women and my hair started falling for 2+years now, I can see my scalp now what should I do? Is there any homemade medicine or anything I can use to improve it because now when I put my palm on my scalp I don't feel I have lots of hair and its hard to style it?

To determine how to treat your hair loss, you’ll first need to schedule an appointment with a dermatologist who specializes in hair loss and hair restoration to determine the cause. The hair loss could be caused by a variety of factors such as female pattern baldness or could be a symptom of a health issue or medication you may be taking. Once the cause of the thinning is pin-pointed, your dermatologist can recommend treatment options.

Depending on the cause of your hair loss, it is most likely that a homemade remedy will not be effective in restoring your hair. For some women, topical treatments like Rogaine® may postpone further hair loss and even restore hair in some patients. Others may need more intensive measures to restore their hair’s fullness. Hair replacement surgery through microscope-assisted follicular grafting works by transplanting hair from a non-balding donor area to the area of hair loss to help restore hair’s fullness and coverage. However, because not every person experiencing hair loss is a good candidate for hair restoration surgery, it is essential to first determine the cause of hair loss.

Ashley R. Curtis, MD

Atlanta Dermatologic Surgeon

How Does a Hair Transplant Work?

I assume hair tranplant surgery is indeed that, surgery. But what are the steps that you go through during hair transplantation?

During a hair transplant, a strip of skin is taken from the donor region over the ears which extends to the central back of the scalp. Then, if a follicular unit technique is used, the physician surgically separates individual follicular unit grafts from this tissue with the use of a sophisticated binocular microscope. The grafts are then transplanted into tiny custom-sized incisions in bald or thinning areas of the scalp.

The single-haired grafts are used to recreate a frontal hairline, while the two and three, four -haired grafts are placed behind the singles, and so on. Because the hair is kept in its natural follicular units, it grows in the recipient areas in the most natural way possible. These individual follicular units provide a soft, natural look.  During the follicular unit extraction session there is no strip but the individual follicles are extracted one by one.

Edmond Griffin, MD

Atlanta Dermatologic Surgeon