Hair diseases affect many people with a significant effect on their psychology.
Alopecia is defined as any form of hair loss, whether reversible or permanent.
The most common form of alopecia is androgenic alopecia, which occurs in both men and women.
Treatment in the early stages can either delay or even prevent its progression.
Periodic hair loss may accompany systemic diseases (e.g. thyroid diseases, anemia, etc.) or other conditions (stress, pregnancy, diet, etc.)
Other forms of autoimmune alopecia, such as alopecia areata, are manifested by localized hair loss and require immediate treatment due to of the unpredictability of their course.
Finally, there is a less frequent group, the scarring alopecias, where the therapeutic intervention must be immediate, as here there is irreversible hair loss.
Common causes of alopecia areata can be autoimmune diseases that often have the scalp as their first site of manifestation.
The Fotofinder digital trichorizogram that we have in our clinic is the newest non-invasive method of diagnosing alopecia, which photographs and analyzes in computer software the findings of the examination in order to make a safe assessment of the patient’s progress and more effective treatment of the disease.
