Although perhaps not desirable, hair loss is quite normal. Men, women and children can all be affected and many millions worldwide are, but the list of reasons for this occurrence is very long. The correct term for hair loss is Alopecia. The most common type of hair loss in men is genetic; known as male pattern baldness, it affects close to 95 percent of males.

What most people don’t know that is if your hair loss is only moderate, it may be that your eating habits are causing the problem and your diet needs to be assessed. The reason for your condition may be at your work place if you deal with chemicals or cosmetics but some others may as a consequence of personal situations such as stress, mental tension or a hormonal imbalance. If your problem has not caused any damage to hair follicles themselves then there is a good chance that the hair will return. It is not, surprisingly, purely the domain of men as many people think; in a America for example, up to forty in every hundred cases are women.

Many women’s hair loss may be caused by a thyroid condition which seems to affect them more often later in life. Although the number of women sufferers in the USA may seem high this figure equates around the world and by the time a woman reaches sixty, she has a forty percent chance of having a problem. Another period where women may suffer some hair loss that is not age related is during and after pregnancy. In the USA for example, around thirty million women suffer from female pattern hereditary baldness, something that is normally considered a male problem.

The best solution if you have permanent hair loss is to have it surgically restored and although a relatively new treatment has achieved considerable success. The treatment uses a technique to transplant hair follicles from a healthy area of the scalp to an area where the follicles are dead. Now the most common hair transplant treatment for men, it is carried out as an out-patient basis under local anesthetic. Facelift surgery can often leave scarring so many women are using the same hair transplant treatment that men are to disguise these scars; or when they have lost their hair for other reasons.

When you are having hair transplant therapy it may be tempting to try and change your appearance but the best course of action is to try and stay as much like your original appearance. For a person planning on having hair transplant surgery, all current health issues must be cleared up before any treatment can commence. Even though hair restoration is a cosmetic procedure, aspects involved are different from other forms of cosmetic surgeries. If all other hair treatment therapies have failed then it’s possible that a surgical hair transplant might be the only permanent solution available for your hair loss condition.