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In cases of men’s baldness, hair transplantation, or grafting, is a commonly used surgical procedure which aids the process of hair restoration. The technique consists of the replacement of skin with intact follicles from a place, resistant to male hair loss, to the affected area. This method of hair transplantation is usually a response to pattern baldness in men, with many small drafts being transplanted to the recipient site, rather than a single strip of skin.
Besides with scalps, the procedure has been successful in restoring eyebrows and eyelashes. The practice of grafting in such cases of baldness has been around for over 50 years. It should be noted that its evolution has been truly remarkable. The process used to include the transplantation of much thicker clumps of hairs while the procedure was more painful and the results - unsatisfactory. A breakthrough development came in the form of “mini-grafting” of five to eleven hairs.
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Hair Loss and Self-Esteem |
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For centuries already, and particularly in our modern society, a full head of hear is one of the foremost symbols of beauty, youth, health, power, and influence. TV and magazine ads abound with people whose attractiveness is frequently associated with shiny, tick, and bouncy hair. In today’s world, good looks are inescapably linked to success while images of perfect individuals with amazing bodies and hair relentlessly and mercilessly bombard the consumer.
For this reason, thinning hair and baldness are often terrifying for men while for women, and young professionals, they can equal a slow death. Falling hair is also devastating for young and middle-aged people alike, meaning loneliness and endless teasing from teenagers and feelings of growing older and loosing sex-appeal for the adults. For many people experiencing hair loss, life becomes a huge challenge - most face every new day with the horror of looking in the mirror and thoughts that their masculinity or femininity is “substandard.”
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Along with heredity, stress is probably one of the most common factors for hair loss. Many people, especially professional soldiers and other people with highly stressful jobs, have reported loosing a significant amount of hair as a result of a single stressful event. A young UK soldier serving in Iraq said that he lost all of his body hair after a close combat mission in 2005, and the man is bald and completely hairless to this day.
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Temporal Factors for Hair Loss |
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 There are various opinions, when discussing the causes of hair loss. Whereas genetics and healthy diet are uniformly considered as the major determinants, temporal factors are not as commonly acknowledged. Some doctors claim that hair loss is not affected by seasonal changes. The scientific explanation is that the hair cycle in men is asynchronous, meaning that they shed their hair at the same rate during the whole period of around 36 months, in which a hair goes through the growing, resting and shedding phases. Humans loose approximately a hundred hairs every day, and healthy organisms replace them with new ones. In cases of hair loss this pattern is broken. On the other hand, animals have synchronous hair loss cycle. They molt every year in the spring, when their hair is in resting, and in the autumn, when the growth commences.
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