Hair Transplant: Q&A
Ask a Question24F; Am I a Good Candidate For Hair Transplant? I Have Had Thin Hair From Birth.
Can a 24 Year Old Girl Be a Good Candidate for the Surgery...i Have Thin Hair Right from Birth...can There Be Some Improvement?
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Female Hair Restoration
In general, diffuse scalp thinning is not an indication for being able to achieve a good result from a hair transplant. In my experience, I have found that laser light therapy can help thicken existing hairs, and secondarily the vitamin biotin may be helpful as well.
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Female Hair Transplant candidate
It really depends on your donor site. If you have an area that the hair is adequately thick, using a FUE (follicular unit extraction) machine such as Neograft is a safe approach. The hair units can then be grafted into the thinning regions such as the visible anterrior hairline or a part in the hair that appears thin. If your entire head is very thin hair and you don't have a good donor site, then unfortunately hair grafting may not be your best option, but topical...
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Female Candidate for Hair Transplant
Normally, a female candidate for hair transplant needs to have thinning in a concentrated area so that there is a sufficient donor supply (the back and sides of the scalp). For female pattern baldness this is a diffuse thinning across the top of the scalp, or for traction alopecia the loss is concentrated at the hairline. If you have noticeably thin hair over your entire scalp, you may not have an adequate donor zone. However, this can only be assessed in person. Thus, I advise you to seek...
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Thin hair candidate for transplant?
If your hair is thin all over since birth you are probably not a candidate for a hair transplant. However, if you only have thinning around the top and front, hair transplantation may be a possibility for you. I would recommend you getting a professional opinion from a doctor that deals with hair loss.
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Thin hair since birth.
From the information you have given, it is unlikely that har transplantation could give significant improvement unless your thinness is only at the front and top of your scalp. You hold see a specialist to be sure.
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