Many people dread losing their hair and would do anything to prevent it. However, they feel there is little to do to prevent such loss. They couldn’t be more wrong. Dermatology Augusta may help you either prevent losing your hair or may be able to help restore some of the hair you have lost.

Not all hair loss is caused by heredity. In many cases there may be a simple and treatable reason why you are losing hair and dermatology can diagnosis the cause of hair loss and offer effective treatments. Of course there are times when your hair is simply lost and there is no getting it back in these cases your dermatologist may be able to offer solutions that will give you back at least some of your hair. With dermatology you can have hair restoration surgery, hair transplants, scalp reductions and scalp extenders and tissue expanders.

Restoration surgery involves grafting hair to bald spots. Hair restoration surgery works best on patients with limited hair loss due to burns or injury and those with well defined baldness or small areas of thinning hair.

Hair transplants consist of taking strips of scalp from sites where your hair is growing well and transplanting them to balding areas. It takes about 6 months before the transplanted hair to take on a normal appearance.

Scalp reductions is a procedure where part or all of the balding scalp is removed and the rest of the scalp with growing healthy hair is then pulled together and sutured.

Scalp extenders and tissue expander are inserted under the scalp for about 3 to 4 weeks to stretch the areas of hair growing scalp. This procedure is often used in conjunction with scalp reductions to increase the area of hair growing scalp.

When choosing a dermatology Augusta for surgical hair implants or other procedures for replacing hair make sure to choose someone that specializes in such procedures and has an excellent reputation for doing exceptional work. Since you will be living with the results of the these type of surgeries and treatments for the rest of your life you are going to want to make sure that the person performing the surgery or implants is a skilled professional. There should be a list of dermatologists in your area along with their specialties to give you a great place to start.

There are many reasons that you could be losing hair and your Augusta dermatologist is the best person to diagnosis the reasons for your hair loss and present you with the best available treatment options. It’s good to know that such options exist and that help may just be a phone call away.