Hair transplant in Houston

Baldness, also known as alopecia, is a very abundant problem seen in both men an women, even if the first are much more prone to suffer any kind of this disease. This means a gradual loss in hair be it complete or partially. For those that have any type of baldness, there are several methods they can go to, one of them being the most efective, which is the hair graft in Houston or hair transplant. Hair graft supposes a surgery in which the area affected by baldness is replaced with a donor area from the same patient, in which the hair follicles are exchanged do the growth in places where it didn’t occur anymore is now stimulated.

There are many factor to consider when practicing hair graft surgery in Houston, as is the patient’s age, the state and the density of their hair in both the donor area and the area to be treated, and some other important points. Firstly, the reasons that cause alopecia in both genders must be known:

• Age: One of the signs of aging is the appearance of white hairs, shown because of the loss of melanin in the hair. Likewise, the protein fibers that constitute the hair diminish in size as they also loose pigment, so the once thick and dark hair may gradually become in a thin white one.
• Stress: It can cause up to three typed of alopecia, be it by emotional of physical stress. It usually does not cause a permanent hair loss, but it can turn into a cronic problem if not treated, so the best way to prevent it is to control big amounts of stress.
• Bad nutrition: Know as alopecia by nutritional deficit, it is caused by the lack of vitamins and proteins in a diet, so that the hair cannot is unable of producing new hairs the same way.  Because of this, to have healthy hair,  the consumption of proteins, fruits, and specific foods like fish and black chocolate is recommended.
• Weight loss: If a person loses a large amount of weight really fast, which usually goes hand in hand with the alreat mentioned not adequate diet, this can generate baldness, as it is added intense, constant exercise, specially those that invilce strenght, which consume the protein from the body and cause sweating that increases the grease in the hair and, with that, the falling of it.
• Carelessness in hair trearment: This can appear if a person mistreats the hair for too long, with habits such as tying the hair with too much tension too often, causing alopecia by traction. It also occurs due to the use of hair dyes which weaken hair fibers.
• Diseases: Besides alopecia being an individual disorder, it can also be a symptom or consequence of other. People with diabetes can experiment baldness due to the high levels of glucose, interrupting the blood’s adequate flow. It can also appear in people that suffer from lupus, ailment in which the hair turns thinner and is lost in strands. Besides, the medicines and treatments of this diseases can cause alopecia, naming some like antidepressants, contraceptives, beta blockers, anti-inflammatories, and others; and also treatments like chemotherapy, which is known for causing even total hair loss, and radiotherapies in the head, where the quantity of the hair lost depends on the intensity of the administered radiation.

In women, alopecia can appear due to a couple of reasons:

• Pregnancy: Even when, during pregnancy, hormones that promote hair growth are abundant, once the woman reaches the post-partum phase, this hormones significantly decrease, and the scalp is weakened. Alopecia after pregnancy is very common and is seen in a big part of women that have given birth.
• Menopause: During this stage, the hair’s life cycle becomes shorter, anf the organism starts releasing bigger quantities of masculine hormones, known as androgenic hormones, which greatly influence in the loss of hair.

In men, alopecia is much more common than in women, and is mainly generated by the genetic predisposition they may have. If a man has a direct relative that suffers from baldness, in most cases he will eventually develop it too when he reaches a certain age. Besides, they show large amounts of androgenic hormones which can increase or accelerate the loss.

Any of these reasons can start alopecia,  so the next step is determine the specific type of baldness that a person is suffering from. Among the types of alopecia we find:

• Androgenic alopecia: It is known as the most common type of alopecia and with the most cases existing, 90% of them in people younger than 21 and 50% in people older than 40 being androgenic alopecia. To distinguish the alopecia, we noted that it is characterized by a general loss of density, changing the thickness of the hairs. However, the hair does fall, forming a shape called “M” or “horseshoe” in men. In women, the most common cases stay in a loss of density. The cause of this type of alopecia lays in a high presence of masculine hormones, which can happen due to the mentioned genetic predisposition, giving it the name of hereditary alopecia as well.
• Alopecia areata: Differently than androgenic alopecia, this one is not hereditary, making it unlikely to find another family member with the same condition. The people who suffer from this affliction will notice an inflammed scalp with patches surrounding it that grow slowly. It usually appears in people younger than 20 years old.
• Telogen effluvium: Also known as difuse alopecia, it is characterized by thin hair that breaks easily, along with not having any type of pattern or patches to define it. The hair loses strenght, falling and not growing back afterwards, making it impossible to generate new hairs that replace the ones before.  Is mostly seen in quemotherapy patients and similar treatments, and also in people with bad nutrition.
• Scarring hair loss: It is the type of alopecia that carries the most consequences. The cause of it are usually other diseases, which damage and destroy the scalp and hair follicles by inmflammation, peeling, redness and pain, being impossible to regenerate te hairs, stopping the hair from growing.
• Fibrosin alopecia: This type of alopecia’s evolution is one of the slowest, as years can go by without showing visible signs. The hair becomes weaker in the frontal and side areas of the scalp. It is lostly seen in women during menopause.

Other types of baldness that deserve to be named are trichotillomania, a nervous disorder where the person removes the hair by strands; traumatic alopecia, which is caused by really tense hairstyles; baldness by fungus which cause inffections; and folliculitis, where the hair follicles get so swollen they are destroyed and the hair cannot grow back.

Just like some types of alopecia can be cured with treatments if they are diagnosed in time, or even preventing the causes shown before, many times the only solution lays in hair grafs in Houston, solution that guarantees betterment even in the most drastic cases. A person who decides to undergo this microsurgical operation will go to the surgeon with the correct diagnosis, so that he can begin the procedure.