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Hair Transplant or Topical Treatment?
my mom is 45 years old and has a dreadfully thin crown area. does she need a transplant or should she try to work with a derm for a more topical treatment?
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lluvyanna
in new york , new york
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Surgical and Non-surgical Treatment of Female Hairloss
A good physical examination and lab tests including hormone levels would be the first step in evaluating female hair loss. Although I've never seen good results with topical treatment, there is little risk except the economic gamble. A transplant surgeon will make recommendations re hair replacement after determining the extent of loss and the quality of the donor area.
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Surgical versus Non-surgical Treatment
Your mother has typical hair loss seen in women. If your mom has been working with her dermatologist using topical treatments for 6 -12 months without improvement then surgery would improve her results dramatically. She must be healthy and willing to undergo surgery.
Dr. ES
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She needs to see an endocrinologist first for hair loss in the female.
She needs to find out if there is a medical condition causing her hair loss from an endocrinologist. If this is negative she can try rogaine, but I have never seen good before after photos of good results. Hair transplants may not give her enough hair to justify the cost and she may prefer extensions.
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This may not be a clearcut case of female pattern baldness
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