
How is hair transplant different for men and women
Hair transplantation is harder and less successful in women. Your doctor should discuss these limitations with you.
Medical and surgical hair transplant professionals acknowledge that male pattern baldness and thinning hair are considerably easier to identify and predict than female pattern baldness and thinning hair. In addition, they all agree on one thing: the most outstanding outcomes begin with the most comprehensive diagnosis of the hair loss or hair thinning problem to evaluate whether or not the patient is a fit for hair transplant surgery.
As a result, we evaluate the donor areas using densitometry and evaluate them under a microscope. We check to see that women have a stable, acceptable donor area; otherwise, the transplanted hair will keep falling out and will degrade in the new location.
Women are more likely to have diffuse thinning all over the head, which means they have no stable donor area. Diffuse female hair loss can be misdiagnosed as having a thinning hair problem due to various hormonal abnormalities, diseases, traumas, and even medications. In these cases a biopsy of a few hair follicles is important to determine whether a transplant will work.
Some hair loss diagnoses, such as traction alopecia or trauma, face-lift scars, and eyebrow restoration, do make women suitable candidates for the procedure.