What is Hair Attrition?

If you’ve considering having a hair transplant it’s important that you have a solid understanding of what is going to occur during the procedure as well as how your new transplanted grafts will look after it’s complete.

Most hair transplant clinics will supply you with a good overview and possibly even some video for you to watch to strengthen your understanding of the procedure. One of the problems that can occur during a transplant is Hair attrition.

This is something I wasn’t personally all that familiar with until I read a post at wegrowhair.com’s blog.

Hair attrition is basically the death of some of the hairs to be transplants. According to the post this happens more often in longer surgeries (i.e. 6 hours + ). When the hair is removed and stays removed for such a long time without nutrients from your body or oxygen it can “die off” as the post puts it.

This is of no fault of anyones and it just happens, but it’s important to understand especially ahead of time before the procedure is completed.

Hair transplants probably the most guaranteed method of experiencing new hair growth, while some hair loss treatments can be questionable. If you’re not yet at the level where a transplant is required we suggest you start some sort of hair loss treatment regiment to help keep the hair you have. A quality shampoo for hair loss can work well to block DHT and reduce further hair loss.

Here’s the original article I read at WeGrowHair.com