Alopecia can affect your entire body or simply your scalp, and it can be transient or permanent. It might be caused by inheritance, hormonal changes, medical issues, or just ageing. Men are more likely than women to lose hair on their heads.

Excessive hair loss from the scalp is commonly referred to as baldness. The most prevalent cause of baldness is hereditary hair loss as people become older. Some people may rather leave their hair loss untreated and unnoticed. Hairstyles, cosmetics, caps, and scarves may be used to conceal it. Others choose for one of the various treatments to prevent additional hair loss or to restore hair growth.

When is this recommended?

Signs and symptoms of hair loss may include:

• Gradual thinning of the hair on top of the head. This is the most prevalent form of hair loss, which occurs as individuals become older. Hair begins to recede near the hairline on the forehead in males. In most cases, women’s hair has a broadening of the part. A receding hairline is an increasingly frequent hair loss trend in elderly women (frontal fibrosing alopecia).
• Bald areas that are round or spotty. On the scalp, beard, and brows, some people lose hair in circular or spotty bald areas. Before the hair falls out, your skin may feel uncomfortable or unpleasant.
• Sudden hair thinning. Hair might loosen as a result of a physical or mental trauma. When combing or washing your hair, or even after light pulling, a few strands of hair may fall out. Hair thinning is common with this form of hair loss, although it is only temporary.
• Hair loss all over the body. Hair loss can occur as a result of some medical diseases and treatments, such as chemotherapy for cancer. Hair normally regrows on its own.
• Scaling patches that extend throughout the scalp. This is a ringworm symptom. Broken hair, redness, swelling, and leaking are all possible symptoms.

What is the Procedure?

• Grafting is an outpatient operation done in the office of a dermatologist.
• Micro-grafts have just one to two hairs per graft, whereas slit grafts have four to ten, and punch grafts have ten to fifteen.
• For relaxation and comfort, a local anaesthetic is administered into the scalp, and sedation is given if needed.
• A disc-shaped part of the hair-bearing scalp is removed from the rear of the head by the dermatologist. The surgeon next cuts the excised scalp into tiny segments with varied quantities of hair in each transplant to produce a modest thickening and “natural” appearance.
• Each session involves the transplantation of 100 to 1,000 hair-bearing segments.

What are the advantages?

• ELIMINATES BALDNESS
• NATURAL-LOOKING HAIRLINE
• IMPROVES YOUR SELF-ESTEEM AND APPEARANCE
• LOW-MAINTENANCE HAIR CARE
• COST-EFFECTIVE SURGERY