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Hair Transplant: A Success or a Failure?

Hair loss has been a common concern for many people, being victims of current fast paced life style. The common hair loss issues, right from thinning of hair shafts to visibly bald scalp have been more dramatic, irrespective of gender categorization. Stress, hormonal fluctuations, vitamin and protein deficiency as well as steroidal medicines, are typically encountered to be the leading offenders for increasing evidences of hair fall. In this regard, conventional medicine has suggested many topical applications like creams, oils, live ons, etc. But people were more inclined towards other surgical options like hair transplant surgery, with the assumption of it, having higher success rate. However, in defining the percentage of success rates of hair transplants, it would be first necessary to understand, how rate of success may be linked with the possible outcome. Apparently, a transplant procedure with only visible growth of smaller fraction of transplanted hair follicles, can mere

PRP and its benefits to prevent Hair Loss

Can anyone spell out the difference between getting older and getting old? If you are decoding both these phrases with no common difference, and thinking that both of them can be used randomly at any age past the age of speech acquisitions; then you probably are just playing with the words, without understanding the true essence. Although, many times no real difference is intended, there is a difference between both the phrases. As getting older, in deeper context can be accepting the emotional and physical changes, your body has to undergo and be very vigilant with your health checks and other body changes. Speaking about other body changes, your hair will have early impact of you becoming older; as in, it will start shedding out with increasing number, with the passage of each year. On the contrary, being the most primary beauty attribute, many men and women are getting more concern about their hair loss. This concern may ultimately add on to more load to their pockets for many c

Bald and Beautiful: No More True!

There was a time, when many western beauties used to flaunt a completely shaved off, bald hairstyle; with a great courage and super high confidence. Although, in case of some of the traditional countries, like India; hardly any one dares to take the plunge! As apparently, philosophy, history and even religion; all are found to be indirectly supporting the fact that hair has been a reflection of person’s self-esteem; which has been symbolized throughout the time, as noted herewith confirming that the “bald and beautiful is no longer tending”! Protection & Femininity Since the ancient days, wherein we were identified as cavemen, hair had a strong advantage of protecting both the scalp and skull, from extreme weather conditions, foreign attackers, etc. irrespective of gender. Moreover, women were purposely growing their hair, with the perception for being them to be useful for their newborns to hold onto! Earlier, long hair can be held tight by new born as a rope, for being clo

Which one is your Baldness Spy?

Have you recently observed a big, black, fuzzy ball of your precious hair on the hair brush? Is receding hair line, obviously visible in your latest picture? If the answer to these question is positive; then your chances of getting bald are more. However, many of you must be wondering, in spite of taking all the possible precautions; what went wrong in causing this extensive hair fall? In this regard, the below mentioned list of top causes, associated with hair damage, hair loss and baldness , would be helping you to fix up the issue. Family History Hair fall and its most obvious link up with family history of the victim; is being discussed and confirmed quite commonly. Many reports and statistical data certify this association, through unmasking different active gene regions, especially on chromosome 20 that are responsible for baldness, at least for more than 80%. Hair Styling Tools Studies indicate that although treatments like blow drying, straightening as well as curling,

PRP and its Hair Loss Benefits

There have been many important developments in the world of prolotherapy, during the last couple of years. A recent experimental research has apparently warranted a new post on the subject, which is evidently suggesting that PRP injections coupled with stem cells can double up the speedy growth of hair than PRP injections alone. But many of us still are not able to differentiate between the two and hence the current write up has been intended to provide a brief explanation about its effectiveness. PRP or a platelet rich plasma is an enriched fraction of the blood with suspended platelets, WBC’s and RBC’s. Platelets have been identified to secrete number of good growth factors, that are certainly responsible for stimulating hair growth, when injected into the scalp. However, the research has further suggested that not all PRP can have the same impact on hair growth; in fact, hair loss , can be stopped only if more sophisticated and upgraded technology is been incorporated, wherei