Scientists and surprisingly in this case, a nano-scale materials engineer shows people that hair conditioning is indeed beneficial to our hair for all the things we do to our hair tends to take away some of the natural oils that the human body creates. They act as natural lubricants preventing them from scraping each other ruining them forever. Scientists have seen under the Scanning-Electron-Microscope (one hell of an expensive microscope) that shows how effective conditioners can be in protecting the hair and how they can be quite ineffective in coating the whole hair to properly protect it. Read more »
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments on May 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
The inner ear has millions of tiny hairs that allows us to sense vibrations interpreted as hearing by the brain. Scientists have been able to succeed in growing the said tiny hairs and may soon be able to do the same with the hair on your scalp which in Caucasians is known to affect 7 in 10 adults in their middle ages. There are even genetic abnormalities that leads to premature graying of the hair follicles but it seems that it is more of a color issue rather than a sign of hair loss. Read more »
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments, Information on April 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Everybody thinks that hair loss on the head is quite more for issues regarding the looks of ones face yet they fail to realize a more sinister effect of losing hair, hearing. If one doesn’t know of the fact that our hearing is based on minute hair follicles that lines the inner ear, detecting vibrations our brain interprets and we call hearing, so both are very much related. A loss of hair on top can result in a loss of hair on the inside making hearing an undesirable side-effect of the hair loss problem. Read more »
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Hair transplantation is one of the options for people who have thinning hair or hair loss.
If a you decide on undergoing the procedure, you should first consult a skilled and specially trained/educated hair restoration surgeon. The surgeon should carefully examine the person’s scalp. The patient’s preferences and expectations of the treatments and procedures are laid out during the consultation. Potential risks and complications should also be discussed with your doctor in order to allay the patient’s anxieties and fears. It is also advisable to research and ask around to have a knowledge or background about the treatments or procedures you are planning to have.
Because of the associated high costs, coupled with the risks and complications, it is best to plan your hair transplant surgery properly in order to achieve natural looking hair.
Filed under: Hair Treatments on February 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Many experts are stressing the importance of overall health when it comes to hair loss which can be influenced by stress. As we all know, certain diseases such as diabetes, lung cancer and others that have bearing on the immunity system of the body have a profound influence on whether hair loss becomes prominent or not. Exercise tends to keep the body fit and can also release stress, lowering chances of having to get hair transplants.
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Filed under: General, Hair Care on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Many people react critically with respect to the results of their hair transplant procedures. More so when they place frantic calls to their hair implant doctors saying their procedure has failed due to hair falling from the transplanted follicles. Well, these are the result of ill information for after a transplant procedure, there is expected hair fallout from the transferred follicles due to the trauma of transplant. The process of getting them to start growing hair may begin with this shedding episode with the visible part falling off but the actual follicle stays under the skin invisible to the naked eye. After a few months, a successful implant procedure should start growing new hair thus making itself visible. No process ensures success and of the several transplanted, many follicles may fail. Thinking of shaving your head after a procedure, don’t count on it for the scars would sure be visible.
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Information on December 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Many people believe they can tell how bald they will become by looking at their close relatives. In reality, there is no way to obtain an accurate picture of future balding by examining a family tree. Far too many genetic variables come into play to accurately predict whether someone will develop male pattern baldness, and if he does how extensive it will be. Considering a transplant must determine whether his expectations are realistic or not. If someone has a few small areas to repair, it is possible to fill the entire area, but if someone’s balding is advanced, it will probably not have enough hair to donate to fill in all of the areas. It must be remembered that we are rearranging hair, not creating new hair. On occasion, the high levels of expectation regarding the amount of hair they will need to be happy, that they should probably purchase a hairpiece instead of a transplant.
Filed under: Information on November 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
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To some degree of hair loss before the age of 50, it has been reported that 3 out of 5 men are affected. Women are not excused either and 1 in 4 experience thinning hair. They become more susceptible after menopause.
For health maintenance, hair doesn’t play a vital function. It is often seen as our “crown glory.” It is affiliated with youth, beauty, vitality and confidence which wish we can hold on to as we grow older. It is an important building block for self-esteem and self-confidence. Hair loss can chip away our self-image and self defeating depression that can creep on us without noticing it.
In a time in which hair loss can be completely defeated, some men or women choose to take a proactive approach to solving it. The 5 mainstream treatments are Minoxidil, Finasteride, Dutasteride, Surgery and hair transplant. In combination with any of the these treatment option, hair transplants are an effective tool for reversing hair loss.
Filed under: Information on October 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Hair loss in men or women can contribute to the appearance of looking older than their age. Some consider hair as the integral part of their personality and losing hair disturbs their overall sense of well being. And for women, hair is nothing less than the symbol of their femininity. Hair loss affects many people and most of them get disappointed with the hair loss treatment that they try out. This is because most people are overwhelmed by the large number of hair re-growth treatments and products available and they fail to select the right one for them. What is distressing about hair loss treatments is that the vast majority of people are overanxious to do something about it as quickly as possible. So much so that, they do not even try to find out the cause of their hair loss before looking for a remedy. Hair loss could be hereditary or it could result from stress, medication, erratic food habits, chemicals used for dyeing/ bleaching the hair, the environment and so on.
Hair transplant is one way to solve baldness and can be very impressive; it is a surgical removal of hair from a certain area of the scalp and its relocation to a bald or thinned area. Hair transplantation is a procedure in which the surgeon removes areas of hair-bearing scalp from the back or sides of the head and reattaches these sections to the balding areas. The familiar term for this technique is ‘grafting’. The newly relocated hairs should now grow from what was previously a bald spot. Each graft contains a different amount of hair, some may have only two hairs and others could have forty. This technique is the most popular of surgical hair additions, even though you may need to have multiple sessions to get the look that you want. The thicker the hair you want the more sessions you may require. Prices will vary greatly depending on your needs.
Filed under: Hair Treatments on September 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving skin with hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to the bald or balding parts (the recipient site). It is primarily used to treat male baldness pattern where the skin grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding are transplanted to bald scalp. However, it is also used to restore eye lashes, eye brows, beard hair, and even used to fill in scars caused by accidents and surgery such as face lifts and previous hair transplants. Hair transplantation differs from skin grafting because of skin grafts contain almost all of the epidermis and dermis surrounding the hair follicle, and that many tiny grafts are transplanted rather than a single strip of skin.Its main usage as a treatment for baldness is controversial and is heavily debated among surgeons, medical doctors, dermatologists and patients, especially on the internet.
Filed under: Body Hair, General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments, Information, Trends on August 9th, 2008 | No Comments »