Medical articles

Female Baldness

The treatment’s evaluation will be personalized by the physician in charge according to the class of alopecia. The causes of female alopecia are more complex than those of male alopecia and they have to be looked into.

Female Androgenetic Alopecia (FAGA)

It is becoming a more frequent clinic problem in women every day. . At present it is said that 25% of white females present FAGA at the age of 35-45 and a 35-40% present FAGA at around 50. This is important taking into account that hair loss has a bigger psychological impact on women than on men.

FEMALE BALDNESS

Female alopecia is caused by a genetic predisposition of the hair follicle with normal levels or with mild or severe androgen level growth.

One of the characteristics of FAGA is that it starts by diffuse hair loss in the parietal and vertical frontal region, in the crown, not involving the frontal hairline. Women do not suffer from total alopecia but their hair grows smaller in diameter, becomes thinner, shorter, making it possible to see the scalp; this is what Ludwig called “Miniaturization”.

Hair Microimplant In Reconstructive Surgery Of The Scalp

INTRODUCTION

Follicle by follicle microimplant is an esthetic surgery performed to repair a cosmetic defect such as male pattern hair loss and to find the solution for androgenetic alopecia. This surgery has been successfully performed during the last decade. New procedures have been developed in the field of reconstructive surgery of the scalp in order to replace or complement the existing ones (hair implants with punch; local flaps, free flaps; tissue expanders, etc). This is why we find it interesting to show how useful this technique could be in various grounds.