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Alternatives to Hair Replacement Not as Plentiful as Surgery
There are many alternatives to hair replacement surgery: hairpieces, wigs, hats and creative updos for women. There are also topical medications such as the popular Rogaine for both men and women which uses a combination of vitamins and key amino acid., However, this is mostly for people who want to fill in the thinning spots versus someone who is balding or has missing patches of hair.
Another alternative to hair replacement surgery passes on the prescription drugs and uses low light lasers which contain no side effects and uses red light energy to generate new hair growth. This method does take a while to see results and is mainly used for thinning hair over a balding spot. The low light laser technique also has a take-home style kit that resembles a curling iron that a person can use on themselves daily as a maintenance treatment or to help continually grow hair in the thinning spots.
The only hair replacement that is permanent is a hair transplant, which men often choose over women although it is a procedure done on both sexes. Hair transplantation includes flap surgery, tissue expansion as well as the actual hair transplant procedures.
Flap surgery on the scalp is where a piece of a person’s scalp, where good hair is growing, is cut out and swung over to a place where a balding spot has been cut out and sewn into place. This does leave some thinning hair in the back but places growing hair in the front where it is more noticeable.
Tissue expansion surgery consists of placing tiny balloon like expanders underneath the scalp where hair growth is abundant – usually along sides or the backup scale. The tissue expanders cause the hair-bearing scalp to gradually expand. Then when the hair has stretched enough, it is surgically placed over the balding areas.
Other hair replacement surgeries consist of hair plugs in which the surgeon removes strands of hair from the donor site, which is usually in the back or the side of the scalp, and then individually placed them into the hair shafts hoping they will take hold and re-grow in their new, transplanted section of the scalp.
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