| ss="MsoNormal" style="text-align: | | | | woman loses hair, part of her cultural identification as |
| justify;">There’s something about female hair | | | | a woman is falling away. |
| loss that seems to add a second stigma, almost, to | | | | So — what can be done about it? These |
| the already considerable pain of encroaching baldness. | | | | days, fortunately, quite a lot. In the past, dealing with |
| In part, that’s probably a simple factor of the | | | | hair loss in a man or a woman was possible up to a |
| rarity of female baldness — it’s far less | | | | point, but usually futile because it looked so unnatural. |
| likely for a woman to go naturally bald than for a | | | | Modern treatments for hair loss can produce a quite |
| man. That, in turn, is a function of the known cause | | | | convincing head of hair — particularly when the |
| of all natural hair loss, which is an excess of a male | | | | patient opts for FT, or Follicular Transfer, a mild |
| hormone in the scalp. Obviously, men are more likely | | | | surgery based technique that encourages individually |
| to have this hormone in abundance because they are | | | | implanted hair to grow on a balding site. Female hair |
| male. When a woman finds herself going bald, | | | | loss is as likely to receive successful treatment in this |
| it’s more of a shock simply because it | | | | vein as male hair loss — and the success rate |
| doesn’t happen so much. | | | | in men, to date, has been astonishing. |
| Female hair loss also, obviously, suffers from a | | | | Where previous methods of hair replacement pretty |
| cultural connotation. For centuries, women in Western | | | | much relied on an extremely painful skin grafting |
| and Eastern cultures have been identified by the | | | | procedure (actual areas of skin, with hair still growing |
| lushness and length of their hair. Try thinking of a | | | | in it, were culled and implanted), FT removes living |
| legend, fable or old story in which a central female | | | | hairs from a donor area and implants them individually |
| character does not have long, luscious hair, and | | | | in the natural skin of the bald spot. The idea is that |
| you’ll see what we mean. There’s a | | | | each hair should be chosen for the way in which it |
| reason Rapunzel had masses of golden hair; just as | | | | grows — the closer its direction, on the natural |
| there’s a reason that, until recently, | | | | site, to the desired direction on the bald site; the |
| sweethearts in Western cultures would routinely | | | | better it is as a candidate. |
| carry a lock of the loved female’s hair with | | | | Because female hair loss is caused by the exact |
| them wherever they went. No wonder, then, that | | | | same thing as male hair loss, and because FT works |
| female hair loss, when it happens, carries such a | | | | so well on men, there is no reason to suppose that it |
| freight of shock and embarrassment with it. When a | | | | can’t work on women. Indeed, to date there |
| man loses hair, he is not losing anything culturally | | | | has been every success with females undergoing the |
| associated with manliness or manhood. When a | | | | treatment. |
