PERMANENT HAIR LOSS, by Rodolfo Valentin
The answer to permanent hair loss lies in the surgical specialty of natural looking hair transplants. Using micro and mini grafts, one to four hairs are transplanted at a time. Older techniques involved punching out larger, circular clamps that gave transplant patients a strange tufted look at the hairline, as if their heads had been carelessly landscaped.
Now experienced surgeons are performing split grafts sliding tiny groups of hairs along a slit instead of a circular clump, so that the transplanted hairs grow in more natural looking paterns, a solution for hair loss.
By literally slicing out a large section of a balding scalp and stretching and sewing the remaining flaps back together–a procedure known as scalp reduction– doctors can also significantly reduce the area in need of transplanting. Some advisers say that the technology is now so good that they can even satisfy a client’s special request.
These cut and paste, approaches to a healthy head of hair are a little frightening to contemplate, but they have revolutionized hair transplants. The ability to move single hairs has particularly helped women, who tend toward a diffuse thinning of the hair rather than the bald patches or receding hairlines experienced by men. These days, a good transplant, performed by an experienced doctor, can be almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing. And, painful as the procedure sounds, most people are back at work the next day.
Some men who have had hair transplants notice that for the first year or so their hair just doesn’t quite look like their hair. Instead of being shiny and straight, it is dull and wavy. Dermatologists, gazing through high-powered microscopes, have discovered why the hair freaked out:trauma. The transplanted hair goes through a kind of shock.
The surface of the hair before transplantation shows olderly, overlapping cuticular cells that retain oils from the scalp and reflect light. But once a hair follicle has been removed and prepared for transplantation, it is a different story. The cells fall into a chaotic jumble, evidence of damage to the surface of the hair shaft. This hair is not only lustreless but also likely to curl. Within a year, however, the folicle takes root in its new location and returns to its former straight, flowing appearance. Meanwhile, a conditioner is recommended.
For men with chronic or acute hair loss due to sebaceous condition, there is and essential old complex call Phytopolleine that stimulates the hair bulb at the root as it regulates the sebaceous gland. The condition must be diagnosed and the remedy applied only by a physician.
Rodolfo Valentin is a NYC hairstylist named Top Hair Colorist by NYC Guide, winner of Best of Citysearch. Article Source: