Men and women who lose their hair, are either expe­ri­enc­ing hair thin­ning, com­plete bald­ing, or in most cases suf­fer­ing from a genetic con­di­tion known as andro­ge­netic alope­cia. This is pre­pon­der­ance for los­ing one’s hair on cer­tain areas of the scalp that is passed from one gen­er­a­tion to the next. It used to be believed that the bald­ing prob­lem was only passed down through the mother’s genes but that is no longer true. Now we know that this form of hair loss, or alope­cia, is not deter­mined by one par­ent or the other.

Andro­ge­netic alope­cia, also known as pat­tern bald­ness or pat­tern hair loss, is caused by a sit­u­a­tion that actu­ally stops the hair fol­li­cles from pro­duc­ing hair shaft mate­r­ial. The fol­li­cle can be thought of as the hair fac­to­ries in one’s body. The fol­li­cle is con­nected to the blood sup­ply which pro­vides it with oxy­gen and nutri­ents which are essen­tial for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of hair. When pat­tern bald­ness is active a hor­monal metabo­lite known as DHT is pro­duced in the body and even­tu­ally makes its way to hair fol­li­cle. The DHT bonds to the hair fol­li­cles and causes a dis­rup­tion in the pro­duc­tion of hair mate­r­ial. Nor­mally a hair fol­li­cle will pro­duce hair in a cycli­cal man­ner. It goes through growth and rest stages that can last sev­eral months. The DHT short­ens the growth phase of the fol­li­cle to the point that it can no longer pro­duce a healthy hair shaft and the shaft falls out. If not treated quickly, the pat­tern bald­ness will ren­der the fol­li­cle com­pletely ineffective.

The best hair restora­tion sys­tem involves deal­ing with the affect of DHT and also trans­plant­ing new hair fol­li­cles into the balded area. There are two hair loss treat­ment drugs that have been approved by the US FDA and have proved effec­tive at slow­ing down the loss of hair but they will not do much to re-energize the fol­li­cles that have stopped pro­duc­ing so these hair fol­li­cles must be replaced. Of the two drugs only one, Minox­i­dil, is approved for both men and females. This is a top­i­cal solu­tion that is applied to the scalp and helps to allow the hair fol­li­cles to con­tinue to pro­duce as needed. The sec­ond drug, Finas­teride, is only pre­scribed for men as it can cause birth defects. This drug actu­ally works to limit the amount of DHT that is pro­duced in the body. Hair restora­tion doc­tors will usu­ally use one or both of these drugs to keep what hair there is still grow­ing along with hair implan­ta­tion to pro­vide replace­ment hair fol­li­cles for the bald­ing that has already occurred.

The part of the sys­tem that causes the high­est hair restora­tion costs is the implan­ta­tions. Thus if a per­son can start the treat­ments early to save what hair they still have the hair restora­tion price will be much lower. As is usu­ally the case, the sooner a prob­lem is addressed the cheaper it is to deal with.  Apply­ing the cor­rect hair replace­ment sys­tems can get you the head of hair you deserve. Start today to deter­mine your path to a full head of hair.

While the loss of hair from the scalp- hair thin­ning, male pat­tern bald­ness, a reced­ing hair­line, and alope­cia– is a very com­mon and frus­trat­ing prob­lem among both men and women, some indi­vid­u­als suf­fer from loss of over­all body hair. There are five main causes of body hair loss– skin con­di­tions, hor­monal dis­or­ders, med­ica­tions and other med­ical ill­nesses, stress, and diet. Cer­tain skin con­di­tions, such as eczema, pso­ri­a­sis, der­mati­tis, skin injury, and burns, cause dam­age to the hair fol­li­cles and sur­round­ing cells mak­ing hair growth impos­si­ble. In some of these instances, espe­cially in the case of severe skin burns, the cell dam­age can be irre­versible so the body hair loss is also permanent.

Aside from hor­monal dis­or­ders and skin injury, cer­tain other med­ical ill­ness can lead to loss of body hair. Can­cer, dis­eases that affect the immune sys­tem, and con­di­tions that dis­rupt organ func­tion can all cause tem­po­rary lapses in the nat­ural hair growth process. In most cases the body hair loss is restricted to one or two areas most affected by the dis­ease or ill­ness, but in some cases the hair loss can be seen all over the body.

Because there are so many dif­fer­ent rea­sons that you may be los­ing the hair all over your body it is imper­a­tive that you see a doc­tor at the first sign of this hair loss. If the hair loss is a result of an under­ly­ing med­ical con­di­tion it is impor­tant that you receive treat­ment for the dis­ease not just the hair loss.

Hair restora­tion pro­ce­dures have changed in the decades since they were first done. The ear­lier meth­ods of using hair plugs were not accept­able to soci­ety. Hair trans­plant patients appeared to have doll like hair. Now hair trans­plants are more nat­ural look­ing due to the inno­v­a­tive meth­ods being used, such as micro grafting.

In gen­eral, most hair trans­plant surg­eries today involve micro graft­ing. Micro grafts hold about 1–3 or four hair fol­li­cles. Older style hair grafts often held on aver­age a dozen hair fol­li­cles. These new micro grafts are only pos­si­ble because skilled sur­geons have refined their method of extract­ing them.

Micro grafts are use­ful in hair trans­plant surgery because they can give the hair a quite nat­ural appear­ance. The hair emerges from the scalp in the most nat­ural way, with the same num­ber of hairs that nature intended. If the pro­ce­dure is done cor­rectly, no one can tell the difference.

Pre­vi­ously, when hair plugs were used, doc­tors did the hair trans­plant surg­eries much dif­fer­ently. They used an instru­ment called a trephine to cut cir­cu­lar grafts from 2mm to 5mm in diam­e­ter. These plugs were inserted into the bald­ing area.

Finally, the micro grafts will be fin­ished by being divided into indi­vid­ual grafts by using a stere­omi­cro­scope. The sur­gi­cal team will make a vari­ety of grafts from eight-shaft mini grafts to one or two shaft micro grafts. These will be moved dur­ing hair trans­plant to the recip­i­ent sites so that the hair will have a nat­ural hair­line with full­ness on top.

Cost is never the same with hair restora­tion, there are many fac­tors that influ­ence the cost.

The cost of a hair trans­plant is per­son­al­ized for each patient based on the goals they wish to achieve. We take detailed fac­tors into con­sid­er­a­tion with each patient, there­fore in using this per­sonal approach each patient receives exactly what they wish to achieve while mak­ing a very valu­able invest­ment as well. Impor­tant fac­tors we must con­sider are such as, the size of the area that needs to be trans­planted, the degree of hair loss, and the amount of thick­ness you wish to achieve ect. We spare no expense in our goal of main­tain­ing our rep­u­ta­tion as “THE BEST” that is why we ask our patients to con­sider not the “COST PER GRAFT” but the COST PER GRAFT THAT GROWS.  The bot­tom line is value, and that is what you get at Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion - VALUE is where the EXPERTISE is.

The side effects a patient expe­ri­ences after hav­ing a hair trans­plant are very nor­mal and should not be of any con­cern. Nor­mal side effects are as fol­lowed. One very nor­mal side effect after hair restora­tion is shed­ding. The hair fol­li­cles go through the “Tel­o­gen phase” which is the phase where the hair falls out. After a few months the hair goes through the “Ana­gen phase” this is the time where the trans­planted hair begins to grow. Itch­ing of the wounds is nor­mal in every sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure as well as numb­ness but is gen­er­ally tem­po­rary and will return back to how it has been prior to the pro­ce­dure. Cyst are also a very com­mon side effect after a hair trans­plant pro­ce­dure, they appear like small pim­ples on the scalp and gen­er­ally go away in a few weeks. Our patients com­monly recover very quickly when fol­low­ing the post-op instruc­tions and never expe­ri­ence complications.

There are a lot of health issues that start to occur when you have Hypothy­roidism. The prob­lem that causes the most con­cern is hair loss.

Hypothy­roidism can cause many prob­lems; one of the most com­mon prob­lems is hair loss. The sever­ity of hair loss varies, it may be as small as the hair thin­ning, to large chunks of hair falling out, or it could be just a change of tex­ture mak­ing it become dry, brit­tle and coarse. Hav­ing hypothy­roidism under con­trol is the first step towards pre­vent­ing hair loss. Luck­ily it is very easy to treat; there are many med­ica­tions that restore the thy­roid gland func­tion. How­ever, treat­ment of the hypothy­roidism may not always result in re-growth of the hair. Here are a few ways to stop hair loss with hypothy­roidism before it hap­pens. Make sure it’s not your thy­roid drug. If your are tak­ing lavothy­roxin (i.e., Syn­throis) as your thy­roid hor­mone replace­ment, and still los­ing hair you should talk to your Doc­tor about alter­na­tive med­i­cines if in fact the med­ica­tion is the cause of your hair loss. Exces­sive hair loss may be a side effect of Syn­throid. Not being at the right TSH or not tak­ing the right drugs can cause hair loss so it is very impor­tant to be prop­erly treated. Nat­ural herbs are an alter­na­tive to med­ica­tion that aids in hair loss pre­ven­tion, the fol­low­ing vit­a­mins are an exam­ple of a few.

Argi­nine

Cys­teine

Green Tea

Polysor­bate 80

Prog­es­terone

Saw pal­metto

Tri­chosac­caride

Vit­a­min b6

Zinc

After receiv­ing hair restora­tion shed­ding may occur and this often wor­ries the patients, when actu­ally it is very nor­mal and your hair will grow back.Typically, the major­ity of the newly trans­planted hairs will fall out within the first 2 to 4 weeks. This is per­fectly nor­mal and patients should be informed prior to their pro­ce­dure that shed­ding is com­mon, and should not be a cause of any con­cern. It must be under­stood that although, the trans­planted hair falls out the fol­li­cle is still at the root and will start to sprout in 3 to 4 months. There are ways to min­i­mize the effects of post-operative shed­ding. The best way to min­i­mize this effect is with med­ica­tion, Prope­cia reverses the minia­tur­iza­tion process which will decrease shedding.

Accord­ing to the online� Med­ical Libary, 25% of men show signs of bald­ness by age 30 and two thirds by age 60. Hair Loss affects toughly 40 % of men thats why men are start­ing to take action with hair­trans­plan­taion when there is even a slight sign of bald­ing.� The most dra­matic area to lose hair is the frontal area (hair line). This tends to cause a man to look bald even with only a slight loss of hair. The num­ber of young men start­ing treat­ment with prope­cia and hair restora­tion is increas­ing. It is com­mon for men with min­i­mal hair loss to seek a sur­gi­cal hair trans­plant. Most men with frontal hair loss are excel­lent can­di­dates for fol­lic­u­lar hair transplants.

For most men with male pat­tern bald­ness, frontal hair loss is the most com­mon. This is char­ac­ter­ized by a front to back pro­gres­sion of hair loss. For most men there is gen­er­ally more lim­ited hair loss in the�crown, even with advanced hair loss, the hair loss moves back until with many it causes bald­ness from the front to the crown, leav­ing the sides and back of the head pro­duc­ing a fair amount of hair. Direc­tion of hair growth enables cov­er­age of the area imme­di­ately in front of it and to the side to give the most nat­ural appearance.