Regrow Your Hair With Hair Implants

If you want to treat your baldness there are only a few techniques that have truly been shown to give good results. Despite other claims, the US FDA has only accepted two medications for the treatment of hair loss. Neither one of these has near a 100% success rate. One is about 50% effective and the other one is less than 75%. The only treatment that offers anywhere near a full success rate is hair implants or hair restoration.

This is a surgical procedure that actually removes hair from the part of the scalp that is not bald and inserts those follicles into the bald patches. Hair implants give a great alternative to baldness and give you a full head of hair. This method works as long as you have sections of your scalp with hair still growing. This is a problem with hair implants for women because they tend to have thinning hair. This is opposed to men who usually have male pattern baldness or bald spots.

Most of the time hair loss from male pattern baldness occurs on the front of the head and the crown. Very rarely is hair lost at the back of the head. This means there is a donor area that can be used for transplanting. In the implant procedure a surgeon or members of his or her staff remove sections of scalp from this hair covered portion. Usually the surgeon makes narrow slits in the scalp so they can be sown together easily. The hair follicles are next cleaned and prepared to be inserted in the bald area.

The surgeon makes small incisions or holes in the bald section and then inserts the follicles in groups of one to three. This helps the hair with natural placement. The skilled surgeon can also insert the hair in a way that allows it to lay in the direction of the natural growing hair for a look that is not noticeable. In fact, the surgeon can give results that are very hard to detect.

Hair implants, or hair plugs as they are also known, are becoming the method of choice for treating baldness. If you have a bald spot they are quick and long lasting. The cost of hair plugs is really not that great when you consider there is very little after procedure cost. Also, there is no fear of the hair falling off like a toupee’. There also are very few side effects unlike drugs. Hair plugs are very effective for treating male pattern baldness.