Getting hair implants has been a common procedure for men who are suffering from male pattern baldness for several years.
With the old technology, the outcome of this procedure was quite unpleasant since the procedure did not yet allow for the individual placement of hair follicles.
Instead, the old technology would remove a patch of scalp where healthy hair resides and this patch was then grafted to the areas of the scalp where thinning or balding occurred.
The outcomes of these methods were often unpleasant.
Try imagining a man with a bunch of hair that sticks up in every direction.
This was often the result of the old method since the surgeon was not working with individual hair follicles.
The procedure back then was called hair plug surgery and, literally, it could make it look like someone had hair plugged into his balding scalp.
A lot of people thought that the method only made men appear worse and that they should have opted to just remain bald.
It was in the 1990's when the procedures for micro-transplantation were perfected for usage with hair implanting.
The new micro-transplantation technique is the reason why hair follicles can be individually manipulated and implanted to specific portions of the scalp where male pattern baldness is visible.
A good surgeon should be able to put the hair follicles in groups of up to three shafts which is the natural way hair grows.
The surgeon should also be able to place them in the same direction of the hair that surrounds it.
The process always seems so natural that it's often times impossible to tell whether one has hair implants or not.
However, this technique could not help women with baldness and hair thinning problems until recently.
Since women experience losing hair over the entire area of the head, the required healthy patch of scalp that could be used as a donor area is usually unavailable.
Thus, the micro-surgical procedure could hardly be applied to women with female pattern baldness.
Further refinement of the techniques now allow for the transplantation of body hair to the scalp.
At present, further development of micro-implantation techniques that does not need a healthy patch of scalp hair for donor follicles has given women the opportunity to also undergo this procedure.
A woman with female pattern baldness, or baldness due to trauma on the head, can also have attractive implants of hair that can cover the balding area.
Any one, even women, who are experiencing hair loss and have bald spots, should consider taking a look into this great method.