The hair transplant operation has reached a new level of excellence in the last decade and has become more comfortable for patients. Although men come to mind when it comes to hair transplant, there is a great interest in this treatment among women in need. So why do women experience hair loss and how is hair transplant applied to women?
There may be various reasons behind hair loss in women. Some of these are inadequate nutrition, stress or hormonal imbalances. For women, their hair is very important in terms of their appearance. Therefore, when there is an excessive loss, it can affect the person both aesthetically and psychologically. Women can also have hair transplant when there is a hair loss or an opening in the crown area resulting in the regression of the forehead line of the hair due to androgenic alopecia, known as male pattern hair loss.
The hair to be transplanted with the FUE method is collected and planted one by one in the areas where hair loss occurs, resulting in an aesthetically beautiful appearance. Sometimes, hair transplantation can be scary for women, because it is thought that the hair would be scraped as in hair transplantation procedures for men. However, for women, it is not necessary to scrape all of their hair and cause any changes in terms of appearance. That is why, we only open a window in the nape area, letting the longer hairs to cover the area. From this window, the grafts are extracted instead of shaving the head fully. For this reason, hair transplantation is frequently preferred by women.
At the end of the hair transplantation session for women, the patient can return to her home. The patients who come back to the clinic for dressing the next day start washing their hair as described on the third day. It is normal to see swelling on the forehead, redness and crusting in the area where the harvest has been made and transplanted in the first week, but this situation disappears soon and the patient can return to normal social, work and physical activities.