BALDNESS (The truth about its treatment)

Baldness in 90% of cases in men and women is of genetic-homonal origin, so hair follicles are genetically marked to fall, in the presence of masculine hormone DHT in blood.

For that reason the topical treatments (of external application) the only thing that do is to slow down the falling process since they do not neutralize the original cause of the problem.

The first product that fullfills the requirements to neutralize the cause is finasteride (PROPECIA), since it lows in blood the level of circulating masculine hormone (DHT) stopping this way the process of fall in certain cases. Could be a very usefull tool for us.

This effect, if it appears, can be reversed three weeks after the suspention of the intake of the product.

Thats why the only efective treatment without any side effects is the hair transplantation, whose result is definitive and for all forever.

MICROGRAFT: Small piece of full scalp skin that includes from 1-3 hair follicle.

MINIGRAFT: Small piece of full scalp skin that includes from 3-5 hair follicles.

STANDARD GRAFT: 5 o more hair follicles.

DONOR SITE: It is the area in the scalp that goes from one ear to the other one trough the occipital region, that is not marked (generically or hormonally) to be affected by baldness.

This is what hair transplant surgeons should consider their "hair bank" that usually goes from 60 to 100 square centimeters (25/40 square inches).

This area can be used only once because it would not reproduce. Usually it takes from 2 to 4 surgical sessions to use all of it.

It is interesting to know that the total amount of scalp in the human being is 400 square centimeters (160 square inches).

HAIR DENSITY: It is the number of hairs you can count in each square centimeter. This varies from 120 to 220 hairs with an average range of 160. So if we multiply 90 square centimeters of donor site X 160 we are going to obtain 14.400 hairs, that is the "hair bank" for our transplant surgeries.

IMPORTANT: The total number of hairs in a normal human head is 100.000.

FOLLICULAR UNIT: Taking a look to the scalp with a magnification loop or lens it is easy to notice thta hair emerges in groups of 1, specially 2, 3 and 4 hairs. This way of appearing in the outside is preserved inside as an anatomical unit.

A FOLLICULAR UNIT IS A MICROSCOPIC GROUP OF HAIRS THAT NATURALLY GROW TOGETHER

SO IF WE MAKE THE DISECTION OF OUR MICRO-MINIGRAFTS UNDER MAGNIFICATION WE CAN PRESERVE THE FOLLICULAR UNITS, OPTIMIZING THE DONOR SITE AND ACHIEVING A BETTER DENSITY.