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Scarring alopecias permanently destroy hair follicles and replace them with scar tissue. Unlike pattern baldness or telogen effluvium, the loss is irreversible — which makes early diagnosis a genuine emergency. Here is how to recognise it, the main types, and why a scalp biopsy is not optional.
The Ludwig scale grades female pattern hair loss in three stages, all sharing one signature: diffuse thinning over the crown with the frontal hairline preserved. Here is how to read your stage, how it compares to the Sinclair and Olsen scales, and what each stage means for treatment.
They are both 'hair loss,' but alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia are almost opposite conditions — autoimmune vs hormonal, sudden patches vs gradual pattern, often reversible vs progressive. Telling them apart is the whole diagnosis, and it changes everything about treatment.
Telogen effluvium is sudden, diffuse hair shedding that follows a trigger by two to three months. It is alarming, common, and — unlike pattern hair loss — almost always reversible. Here is how to recognise it, what causes it, and what actually helps.
The Norwood-Hamilton scale grades male pattern hair loss from I to VII. Knowing your stage tells you which treatments still work, which trials would have accepted you, and when transplant becomes the realistic conversation.
Hats don't cause baldness, it's not only your mother's side, and plucking a gray hair doesn't grow two. Eleven persistent hair-loss myths, sorted from the actual science.
Every hair-loss treatment — minoxidil, finasteride, microneedling, even shedding from stress — is doing something specific to one phase of the hair cycle. Once you see the cycle clearly, the treatment landscape makes sense.
DHT is the hormone that drives androgenetic alopecia — but it doesn't attack all hair the same way. The mechanism, the genetic susceptibility, and what actually happens when finasteride blocks it.