Porcaro Hair Restoration
1943 SE Port St. Lucie Blvd.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952
Phone: (772) 337-1717
Fax: (772) 337-1737

Hair Loss in Women

For many women, hair loss requires a

genetic predisposition. In essence, hair follicles are predestined to thin and ultimately stop generating a hair, resulting in loss.

Women experiencing hair loss should seek evaluation as soon as possible. The sooner the diagnosis for the hair loss is made the sooner treatment may be started and the hair loss process arrested.

John Porcaro, MD recommends that women, especially women under the age of 40, have their primary physician test for iron deficiency, thyroid abnormalities or hormonal imbalance, as those conditions can cause hair loss in women.

Women often thin behind their well preserved frontal hairline or have diffuse thinning all over the scalp.

Hair loss in women is most often very gradual, with the rate accelerating after pregnancy and at menopause. Hair loss in women is more often cyclical than in men, with seasonal changes that reverse themselves, and it is more easily affected by hormonal changes, medical conditions, and external factors.

The management of women with hair loss requires significant expertise in both diagnosis and treatment.

For those women in whom surgical hair restoration is indicated, special surgical skills are required to achieve the best results. It is a mistake to assume that hair loss in women can be treated the same way as in men.

John Porcaro, MD performs ultra refined follicular unit transplantation to the scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes and also corrects hair loss after face lift surgery, for natural results that are unrecognizable as transplants.

Other options in the treatment of hair loss in women involve the use of low level laser and Minixidil.

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