Why Are Hair Transplants More Expensive For Women?
Hair transplants have been used in the US to treat balding and hair loss for over 50 years. Unfortunately, most of the research and development for this procedure has focused on men and their hair loss problems as opposed to women with hair loss. As can be expected, this has caused a discrepancy in the cost of hair implants for women versus what the charge is for men. When we talk about hair transplants for men and hair transplants for women we are really looking at two different scenarios because of the way the scalp hair responds to the cause of hair loss which is usually the genetic condition known as androgenic alopecia. Androgenic alopecia, also known as male pattern baldness and female pattern hair loss, is caused by certain genes that are passed down from either the mother’s side of the family or the father’s. For years it was thought that the condition only originated in the mother’s family line hence the old wives tale that said, “If your mother’s brothers are bald you will pr
