Hair Transplant: Q&A
Ask a QuestionDo All Women with Hair Loss Actually Qualify for a Hair Transplant?
It appears that hair loss transplants are easier for men than for women. What are the reasons? What would be a reason that a woman would not qualify? Age? taking certain medications?
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Hair transplant in women
Women can certainly be candidates for hair transplantation but there are some factors that make it very important to individually assess a woman interested in the procedure.
In most men, a diagnosis of hereditary thinning is obvious from the pattern of hair loss and duration. In women, the typical pattern of hair loss in hereditary thinning can be mimicked by other conditions such as telogen effluvium and alopecia areata (which would not do well with hair transplantation). In...
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Women and Hair Transplant
Not all women qualify for hair transplant, nor do all men, for that matter. To undergo hair transplant you must have enough donor hair to supply a satisfactory result. Women with excessive scalp thinning may become candidates for body hair transplant. Other disqualifiers are anesthesia allergies, blood clotting abnormalities, and scarring tendency.
Prior to ever undergoing hair transplant, women should be evaluated by a dermatologist for treatable causes of hair loss, such as...
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Most are good candidates
Of the women that I see in consultation, about 80% are good candidates for hair transplant, only 20% of the women may not have sufficient acceptable donor site for at least one small session of 800-1200FuE (grafts).
Acceptable donor is hair that is judged to be permanent and that lies in the area of the scalp considered to be the donor area for males.
Although many of the women we see have more then one such session available in their donor area,if even one procedure is carried out...
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Hair loss and hair transplants for women
The most common reason for hair loss in women is thyroid disease or another medical disorder. Only a limited percent of women are candidates for hair transplant. The good candidates have a strong family history of male pattern baldness and tend to be bald on top with thick excellent donor hair in back. If a person has diffuse, thin hair everywhere they are not a good candidate. About 15% of my hair transplant patients are women but they must be good candidates.
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Hair Transplant in Women
In general, women do not follow the same predictable hair loss tendencies as men do and often have different causes of hair loss then men. If a patient has diffuse thinning then it can be hard to find areas to take the hair from that aren't noticeable. However, more and more there are creative ways to get around these issues to get great, very natural results. Good luck!
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Women's Hair Loss and Hair Transplants in Women
Women experience hair loss for a number of reasons including genetics, hormones, medications, stress, pregnancy, illness, etc. The difference, however, is that men experience mainly pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia), which produces a more predictable hair-loss pattern remedied with hair transplant surgery and prevented by well described medications. One requirement of hair transplant surgery is an adequate donor region from which follicular grafts can be taken for transplant into...
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Do All Women with Hair Loss Actually Qualify for a Hair Transplant?
No actually. A defined area of loss is the best situation for results. Generalized thinning is not the best situation for transplants. Also, active autoimmune hair loss is no indication for transplants.
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Women hair transplants
Hair transplants in women are becoming much more popular. The most popular reason in my practice for hair transplants in women is thinning of the hair along the frontal hairline due to a variety of reasons.
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Do all women with hairloss qualify for a hair transplant?
Not all women with hairloss qualify for a hair transplant, but many do. The most important factor with hairloss in women is to determine the cause. Women are goog candidates when they have hairloss in certain areas and not diffusely. A full consultation with a hair transplant surgeon will help determine your best options.
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Hair transplants for women.
In general, hair transplants are done on men with pattern baldness so they will not look bald. We never give them more hair. We only move a diminishing supply of donor hair to an area of increasing demand as baldness increases. Sometimes a relatively small amount of hair transplanted into a strategic area gives a natural looking ,but sometimes thin, result.
With women, the problem is often that hair is thinning and the problem is throughout the scalp. Sometimes , with certai patterns of...
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