The average cost in the United States is from $8.00 down to a more manageable $3.00 per implant. That price may vary with the volume and amount of treatments that may be required to complete the treatment procedure. There are also some precautionary procedures that are taken to avoid the many complications during the surgery process itself. Like steering away from alcoholic beverages and other compounds in food and drinks that may cause bleeding and infections. Pre-operative processes can have a topical or local anesthetic administered after which the scalp is shampooed and washed with an anti-bacterial solution.
After the operation, it must be ensured that the graft area is kept clean but in case of bleeding and itching, a visit to the doctor should immediately be conducted to prevent complications such as infection that can result in failure of the transplant.
Filed under: Body Hair, General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments on February 13th, 2010 | No Comments »
The first hair loss treatments involved mere spray able materials that you sprayed on your top to cover up the ever widening gap in between your hair follicles. They were hailed as miracles for balding men got to go out on the town as if they were years younger. Then came scalp transplant where surgeons cut a swatch of scalp along with the live hair follicles and transplanted them onto where they were needed most. That lost appeal due to the scarring that occurred as the would heals. Then came individual hair follicle transplants where the scalp along with the live hair were individually taken out in what’s called a plug and transplanted onto the area in need of repair. All these treatments along with some internal drugs that were discovered that stimulated the hair follicles to grow faster are now on the market for you to choose from. Some even discovered that the shampoo used on horses, stimulated good hair growth and developed into a fad that many did try. HORSES??????? The lengths people would go for that healthy hair!
Filed under: Hair Treatments, Information, Trends on January 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
by: Christine Zafra
Psoriasis is a skin disease characterized by itchy red blotches that appear on the skin. This disease is not only limited to the skin on your body but, it can also appear on your scalp. So, what do you do with itchy skin? You normally scratch it. If you have psoriasis on the scalp, chances are, you’re going to scratch your head most of the time; and if you do, hair loss will most likely happen. If you have flakes on your scalp, make sure you don’t pick on it as this will only worsen the case. A dermatologist (not any doctor) will most likely cure your disease, so go see one before it is too late.
Photo taken from http://www.skintreat.net
Filed under: Information on December 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
by: Christine Zafra
If you think only men are the victims of this dreaded hair loss, you are definitely wrong. The world is in fact fair because even women too experience this (although only a number of them). Almost 20 million American women admitted that they experienced such hair loss and this is in fact horror to them since women are vain about their physical appearance.
Hair loss in women normally occurs after the menopausal stage. This is normal since your body does not anymore produce the same hormones like before. A study shows that women who have curly hair tend to lose more hair than those with straight hair since the former is much drier than the latter.
Photo taken from http://www.farjo.net
Filed under: Information on November 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
There is growing evidence that drug manufacturers are jumping into the lifestyle drugs due to increasing interest and spending in the said products. May they be in terms of sexual enhancement, receding hairlines, ever widening bellies and more, drug companies are into high gear to find the next breakthroughs at breakneck speeds. This might be too dangerous for us consumers for though these drugs have the approval of the FDA, they still have a lot to prove themselves for. Clinical trials under real-life conditions is one and like the ever worsening rap being garnered by Fluoride which was hailed as a miracle for the promotion of healthy teeth, studies in the future may find them to have adverse effects. The fast paced development and trials of drugs is due to the billions of dollars the beauty industry is worth and these firms know it. Getting a miracle drug that offers miracle fixes is not the answer for the holistic approach is still the cure. Having an obese person takes Alli while maintaining current eating and lifestyle would be counterproductive, even compounding medical problems. There should be ample time and pressure on the FDA to release drugs for approval should not be entertained for the lives of people are at stake and there is no compromising that.
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments, Trends on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Many of the known drugs used for treating hair loss are in their early stages and have been breakthroughs that were released onto the market without proper long term studies of their effects. When trying to choose the best medication to take, first of all, be sure to talk thoroughly with your hair doctor to allow you to get the most information about a treatment before you do get it. Better yet, you can go online and get the latest news and other information regarding medication which is usually released by the US FDA. These drugs have to be approved and tested by the said branch of government to be sure they are safe for use on humans. If one aims to treat some form of hair loss that is attributed to genetics, then the battle may be lost from the beginning for this type is hard-coded into your genes and there might be no other alternative for you but to accept the utter truth that you will be loosing your hair (or parts of it) in due time.
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments on September 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
New studies show that the problem associated with hair loss has little to do with the actual hair follicles dying off rather the unequal shift of more active to more inactive ones. Expanding on this, it has been found that hair follicles themselves do not die off rather they shift into producing more transparent hairs as they go into their resting phase in the later stages of life. Many men and women experience hair loss and do attribute the incidence of such hair maladies to age. Others blame genetics which is true but a more direct explanation would be that the hair factories like all the human body’s cells undergo aging and start to slow down in time. Bald people fail to notice it but they actually still have hairs on their shiny tops that are rather short and transparent void of any pigmentation. Medical intervention with internal medicine and other surgical treatments are available and have offered better results than a few years back getting high success rates and better results that look all too natural.
Filed under: Body Hair, General on August 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
As with the previous post, most possible treatment for he balding scourge is being seen as the new discoveries that are being made through cellular biology with the use of stem cells. They are truly wondrous cells for they are responsible for the development of the many cells of the body, able to turn into any human cell with the right chemical signals. These molecules that gives these very cells their map, should we call it that, on what or how they are to develop and as we all know, there are a couple of thousand types of cells from those that make blood, kill invaders and more.
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments, Information on July 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
Success has been attained in a limited group of children who are suffering from alopecia areata, a condition that has children suffering from mild to total hair loss even at a young age. This has been known to cause a lot of issues with these suffering children who tend to shun friends and the public due to fear of being ridiculed and often live hidden from public view. For these children however, there has been some success with a limited study that has these sufferers infused with their very stem cells that has managed to reverse some of it’s effects. The study though is quite premature and with a limited group, further studies with a larger group may be needed for a more realistic amount of data for it to become a true cure for the childhood disease.
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments, Information on June 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 average cost in the United States is from $8.00 down to a more manageable $3.00 per implant. That price may vary with the volume and amount of treatments that may be required to complete the treatment procedure. There are also some precautionary procedures that are taken to avoid the many complications during the surgery process itself. Like steering away from alcoholic beverages and other compounds in food and drinks that may cause bleeding and infections. Pre-operative processes can have a topical or local anesthetic administered after which the scalp is shampooed and washed with an anti-bacterial solution.
