Female Pattern Baldness in DFW

Female Pattern Baldness (sometimes termed Androgenetic alopecia) is the diagnosis of Female Pattern Hair loss.  

Most women associate this hair loss with post-menopausal changes, but it can happen at any time, even starting as early as a woman’s late teens and twenties.  It typically takes the form of decreased hair mass on the top of the head but sparing the frontal hairline.

Hair loss can occur in women for reasons other than female pattern baldness, including the following:

• Temporary shedding of hair (telogen effluvium)
• Breaking of hair (from such things as styling treatments and twisting or pulling of hair)
• Patchy areas of total hair loss (alopecia areata — an immune disorder causing temporary hair loss)
• Medications
• Certain skin diseases
• Hormonal abnormalities
• Iron deficiency
• Under-active thyroid
• Vitamin deficiency

Female pattern baldness is usually diagnosed based on the appearance and pattern of hair loss and by ruling out other causes of hair loss. A skin biopsy or other procedures may be used to diagnose medical disorders that cause loss of hair.

Analysis of the hair itself is not accurate for diagnosing nutritional or similar causes of hair loss, although it may reveal substances such as arsenic or lead.

Female pattern baldness is of obvious cosmetic importance but does not indicate a medical disorder, it can affect self-esteem or cause anxiety. The hair loss is usually permanent.

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