Treating Hair Loss in Men

Hair is one of the important factors to beautify the appearance of women as well as men. However, not everyone is lucky to stay with this factor for the entire life. Today, men as well as women are suffering from the condition called alopecia. Alopecia is a medical term used for hair loss or baldness. All hairs that grow on different part of our body have a life expectancy of three to six years. A normal hair passes through three stages during its life cycle, growing, resting and falling-out phase. At any point of time, some hairs are in the phase of growing, some are in resting phase and rests of them are in falling-out phase. Once the hair enters in the resting phase, it sheds out after the period of two to three months. It is considered as absolutely normal, if 50-100 hairs shed everyday. After the shedding period, new hairs grow on the site and the growing cycle starts again. Scalp hairs grow about one-half inch a month. As a person grows old, the rate of hair growth also slows down.


Causes of Hair Loss 


Essentially, hair loss is considered as a genetic problem. People with hair loss or baldness are found to regrow the hairs at the sites where they lose hairs as a result of shedding. Increase hair shedding is a result of number of factors. Some of the common reasons behind hair shedding are poor nutrition, age, hormones and genes. Certain illnesses or diseases are also associated with the hair loss such as low thyroid hormone levels, anemia, lupus and cancer. It has also been found that medications such as chemotherapy, chemicals and radiation treatment are also responsible for causing baldness or hair loss. Concisely, hair loss can occur as a result of combination of following:

• Hormonal changes
• Family history of baldness
• Trauma, stress
• Burns
• Aging
  

Hair loss in early life can result in severe baldness in future. Hence, one shall try to avoid the causes of hair loss by taking necessary preventive measures and treatments in the early stages.


Treatments for hair loss 


Statistic shows that two out of every three men and one in five women suffer from hair loss. Heredity is the major cause of baldness in men while hormonal changes such as menopause can cause hair loss in women. There are number of hair replacement techniques available for hair loss. However, hair replacement surgery is not of so much use to people who suffer from total baldness. There are four foremost types of hair replacement techniques which include:


Tissue expansion 


Tissue expansion is a technique that makes use of a device called tissue expander. This device is placed underneath a hair-bearing area that is located next to a bald area. Tissue expander helps in causing the skin to grow new skin cells, which occurs after several weeks. Another operation is performed to place the newly expanded skin over the adjacent bald spot. 


Hair transplantation 


Hair transplantation is a unique way of preventing hair loss. The surgeon removes small pieces of healthy hair-bearing scalp and grafts it on the bald or thinning area. 


Flap surgery 


Flap surgery is especially useful for the one who have large balding areas. During this procedure, a portion of bald area is removed and a flap of the hair-bearing skin is placed on to the bald area. 


Scalp reduction 


Scalp reduction is a special technique which is performed in order to cover the bald areas at the top and the back of head.