A head full of beautiful, healthy hair can be a source of pride for many women. After years of beautiful, youthful hair, it can quickly be a source of shock and anxiety to wake up one morning with seemingly more hair on your pillow or in the shower drain than on your head. Female hair loss is a common, yet under-discussed, condition countless women face annually. Luckily, new innovative treatments have made solutions for this condition readily available without the need for drastic surgical treatment.
What Causes Hair Loss?
Daily, people lose about 100 hairs a day and up to 250 on days where they’re heavily handling their hair (like days they are washing or blow drying). For patients with strong and healthy hair growth, these lost strands are usually replaced on a near daily basis, meaning that so long as your growth cycle is left alone, your hair will continue to grow. When the growth pattern is disrupted, hair growth can quickly come to a slowing halt while hair continues to fall out at the same rate as before. This disparity is what causes the appearance of thinning hair, widening parts, and overall female pattern hair loss.
While baldness or hair loss may be traditionally associated with male pattern baldness, female hair loss is a very common condition. Thinning hair at the top of the head, newly appearing bald spots, broadening parts and sudden loosening of hair are all common signs of hair loss countless women face annually.
Like men, women face several risk factors that can disrupt the delicate hair growth cycle. While many may associate hair loss as a side effect of treatments like chemotherapy, more common factors like genetics, hormone fluctuations, stress, and even hair treatments or styles can be equally disruptive to the growth cycle. Furthermore, hair loss isn’t restricted to just the hair on your head – women facing hair loss may also notice their eyebrows, arm hair, and hair elsewhere on the body becoming sparse with age.
Restoring Your Luscious Locks
Today’s hair restoration technology has come a long way from hair plugs and topical hair growth treatments. In recent years, platelet-rich plasma has become a popular option for men and women looking to add volume to sparse hair.
Platelet-rich plasma, also known as PRP, is an innovative treatment in which serum derived from each patient’s blood is used to kickstart the healing process. Originally developed to help with muscle and tendon regrowth as well as injury recovery, recent decades have seen the procedure’s use expand to cosmetic procedures. At Aesthetic Art, PRP has been successfully integrated into facial treatments as an effective, non-surgical skin rejuvenation option that is completely natural.
In the case of hair restoration, regrowth with PRP follows a very similar concept. During the procedure, blood is taken and refined into a hyper-concentrated serum. The solution is then injected into the scalp to stimulate inactive hair follicles responsible for slowing hair growth or development. By targeting the follicles instead of just adding additional plugs or extensions, PRP hair restoration helps encourage natural hair growth and development.
Keep Your Skin Beautiful with Dr. Kato
If you’re tired of pulling out clumps of hair every time you wash or comb your hair, it’s time to explore your long-term treatment options. In Palm Springs, Dr. Kato and her team are here to help you find the perfect hair restoration solution. Call 760-610-5558 today to schedule your consultation and discover how PRP hair injections can help you regain a beautiful head of hair!