Has Alopecia Robbed Your Child Of Confidence? What Are Your Options?

If your child suffers from alopecia, a relatively harmless skin condition that can result in extreme and permanent hair loss, you may have already run through the gamut of wigs, scarves, hats, and other aids to help your child gain a more typical appearance, only to find that none of these are completely successful in helping your child avoid stares or rude comments.

Fortunately, advances in hair replacement technology over the past several decades have led to the development of hair replacement imaging software, a software program that can use your child's own unique features to find a hairstyle and sometimes even a hair replacement option that works well for him or her. Read on to learn more about hair replacement imaging and how it may help your child gain back some of the confidence lost to alopecia.  

What is hair replacement imaging?

Hair replacement imaging is often used in conjunction with hair plugs, implants, or other treatments designed to regrow one's natural hair. Through the imaging process, the physician will work with the patient to create an aesthetically-pleasing and desirable look, whether this means lowering one's natural hairline to reduce the prominence of their forehead, moving the hairline at the sides of one's head to better frame the face, or even creating sideburns, goatees, or other styles of facial hair.

While it's unlikely your child will be a good candidate for (or desire) facial hair replacement, he or she may be able to take advantage of other hair replacement options, including hair transplant.

How can the hair replacement imaging process help your child even if a hair transplant isn't a viable option? 

Because of the autoimmune nature of alopecia, it can sometimes be difficult to predict whether the initial hair loss will continue even after hair replacement surgery. If your child's physician is unsure about the potential for success from a surgical procedure, you may be reluctant to put your child through an expensive and potentially painful process only to end up where he or she started. 

However, even if you and your child (in consultation with his or her physician) ultimately decide that hair replacement surgery is unnecessary or isn't likely to achieve the desired result, the use of hair replacement imaging software can help your child try out a wide variety of different looks. Often, especially for children whose hair loss occurred before they began to form memories, this type of software visualization can provide them with their first mental image of themselves with hair.  

To learn more about hair replacement, contact services like Hair Solutions.

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