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What Are Hair Transplant Procedures for Treating Male Alopecia?
Are the options for men the same as women for alopecia? What options are there for limiting the visible scars?
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The use of follicular unit grafts works well for both men and women.
Transplanting hair in the natural units that they grow gives natural results no matter what density is desired in men. Placement of these grafts in a natural manner is critical. Sometimes in order to achieve greater density more than one procedure is needed.In my opinion follicular unit grafting is superior to any other hair reconstruction technique because of the ability to recreate a natural growth pattern. The scars in the donor area may be small (500 microns) dots scattered over the back...
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Hair Transplant Procedures
Treatments for male pattern baldness include Rogaine, Propecia, and hair transplant, to name a few. These options are also available for women, typically with the exclusion of Propecia. Not all of them are equally as effective and can work better in some people than in others. Before hair transplant, women should also always be evaluated by a dermatologist for treatable causes of hair loss like anemia and thyroid disease.
As far as surgical procedures that limit scarring,...
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Women and Hair Transplants
Hair transplants depend on the pattern of baldness or thinning and the extent and not as much on the gender of the patient. In general, there is more medical therapy for men then women but there are many new options for problems that tend to be more specific to women making transplants a very natural and well tolerated procedure for women. The extent and type of hair thinning will, in part, determine how and where the hair to be moved is harvested. ...
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Hair transplant is one option
There are many options for female hair restoration, but hair transplantation is becoming a very popular solution for many types of female balding.
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Hair Transplant Procedures for Male Alopecia
The two basic procedures for treating male alopecia are hair transplants and the Fleming/Mayer flap .Adjunctive procedures include scalp reductions and various small flaps. Treatment of hair loss does not depend on gender, but rather the pattern and extent of alopecia.
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What Are Hair Transplant Procedures for Treating Male Alopecia?
The options for hair loss are hair transplants, scalp reductions and scalp flaps. each have their pros and cons and use in either women or men depending on the type of balding pattern, hair density and desired coverage.
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Hair transplant options
There appear to be 2 questions to deal with in this correspondence. Transplant options may be different for men versus women depending on the type of hair loss or hair pattern. If the problem is similar, that is progressive hair loss with a male pattering (women get it too), then the similar options are follicular unit grafts harvested by strip or FUE methods. Transposition flaps and scalp reductions are rarely done for routine pattern baldness situations...
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Options for treating male pattern baldness.
Options for treating male pattern baldness are3 basically only 2. Hair transplants where you transfer hair by grafting "blades of grass" from one part of the head to another. This involves multiple treatments and takes 1 year for the hair to grow to combing length.
The other way is The Fleming-Mayer Flap. This involves moving an entire "piece of sod" from the same area as above. But that area is finished and needs no further work. When the flap is transfered it...
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