If your hair is shedding, and you have been traveling the internet nonstop to find a comprehensive, informative guide, you’ve found it. There are many hair loss treatments that can correct almost any type of hair loss. Hair loss treatments fall into two main categories: surgical and non-surgical. There are treatments for permanent hair loss and others for temporary hair loss.
Surgical Hair Loss Treatments
1- Hair Transplants
Hair transplants in Turkey are suitable for permanent hair loss only. They are very successful and provide very natural results. What happens in the procedure is that surgeons take some of the hair from your healthy regions and put them in bald areas. Technically, they remove the entire follicular unit, not only the hair.
The risks in a hair transplant are very minimal. There are more novel techniques and other old ones such as FUT. Click here to learn more about hair transplants.
Candidates For Hair Transplants
As is the case with anything that is good to be true, hair transplantation has its limitations. Unfortunately, the treatment is not for all kinds of alopecia.
Conditions that hair transplants can reverse include the followings:
- Pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia)
- Permanent traction alopecia (hair loss due to styling)
- Hair loss due to burns or injuries
Non-surgical Hair Loss Treatments
2- Minoxidil
Minoxidil is a solution that can come as a lotion or shampoo. For optimal results, apply it twice daily to your scalp. How minoxidil recovers hair loss is not clear. But some data suggests that medicine encourages circulation around hair follicles. Which gives them access to oxygen and nutrients for growth.
But, the medication has its side effects. You need to discuss the risks with your doctor before starting. For one, mishandling minoxidil increases body hair growth. Secondly, they may cause scalp irritation.
You should resume treatment daily to keep the results. If you stop treatment, your hair will begin shedding in two weeks.
Candidates For Minoxidil
Non-advanced male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness. The treatment MAY have a good effect on people with alopecia areata.
3- PRP Hair Therapy
PRP therapy is the vogue of the medical field. Aside from it being the closest to magic, the treatment has applications in various departments in medicine. From joint therapy to hair loss and all that is in between. The characteristics of this treatment are awe-inspiring, from the beginning of the process to its ending.
PRP therapy uses your own blood to draw growth factors from in it and re-inject them back into your scalp. To elaborate, your blood contains plasma, growth factors, white blood cells, and red blood cells. What we want to extract for our purpose is growth factors such as VEGF. In order to achieve this, a technician will draw blood from your arm the standard why. Then place it in a centrifuge to separate platelet-rich plasma from the rest of the blood contents and re-injects it into your scalp.
Platelet-rich plasma contains a generous variety of growth factors such as the influential VEGF. VEGF plays the most significant role in determining hair growth. And according to research, people who suffer hair loss have depleted numbers of VEGF. In another study, researchers found that by inhibiting VEGF, hair growth stops entirely.
By injecting VEGF along with essential growth factors back into your scalp, they will begin to stimulate hair growth. They do so by prolonging the anagen phase and terminating the telogen phase. Since PRP makes use of your own cells, there are no risks of complications or an immune attack.
The perks of PRP therapy is that it does not have to be taken daily for the rest of your life. Instead, depending on the degree of your hair loss you can opt for a session per month 1 or 8 times per year.
Candidates For PRP Hair Therapy
- Men with recent androgenic alopecia
- Women with androgenic alopecia
- People with alopecia areata
- Cicatricial alopecia.
In summary
Hair loss treatments range from surgical to non-surgical. While hair transplantation is the only permanent solution, it is not for everyone. However, that does not mean that it is game over for those who do not fit the description. The second most successful treatment is PRP therapy as it has no side effects. With Finasteride and Minoxidil you have to apply or take the products daily. Moreover, the two come at a cost that only you can determine its worth.
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