Women always have a more challenging situation to face than men when it comes to re-growing their hair in their bald spots or areas with thinning hair. Hair implants are very simple to implement with men. All that is needed is to remove a strip of scalp from the posterior of the head and then suture it up with incisions. Each hair follicle is then removed from this strip of scalp, carefully cleaned, and then prepared for implantation into the bald spot. It is a very uncomplicated and basic procedure since men usually have abundant hair growth at the posterior section of their heads, even if the crown area is totally bald or the hairline above the forehead is receding. This is a very effective hair replacement system.

On the other hand, women are not as fortunate as men. A man affected by male pattern baldness will usually see his hair thin on his crown or above his forehead while the rest of the hair still grows healthily. A woman who has female pattern baldness can never predict where the bald spot may possibly develop. Aside from this, the woman will usually suffer from hair thinning all over her head along with the developed bald spots. That’s why there is no viable area of the scalp that can be used as a good donor area. The required number of hair shafts per centimeter would not permit it.

Because of development in the science of hair restoration, this dilemma about hair implants has been revolutionized with the introduction of a method of womens hair restoration called follicular unit extraction. This developed method does not need a healthy donor area of thick hair. As an alternative, the procedure removes individual hair follicles from other parts of the body and these become the implants for the balding area. Thus, a woman who is experiencing hair thinning can have implants using her own hair. The surgeon just has to consider several areas that can become donor areas. The most important thing to consider is where to get each hair follicle so that the patient can look like she has a full head of hair. After the individual follicles have been determined, the surgeon continues the procedure by removing the follicles one by one using a tool specifically designed for the method. The wound made from the procedure is small and pin prick like and it will be gone after a few days.

Once the follicles are taken and prepped, the surgeon then transplants these hair units into the balding area and they make sure that they match the direction of the hair surrounding the area. This new method can utilize the hair from other body parts to become filler hairs. These coarser hairs are not advisable to be implanted for the hairline above the forehead but they can increase the volume of the hair if implanted into the inner scalp.

At last, women have a hair restoration procedure where they can use their own hair as implants instead of relying on donor hair from another human donor or on artificial hair shafts. Women can achieve the same improved looks that only men had the privilege of for several decades because of hair implants.