Hair loss has significant impacts on men's mental health says hair restoration Los Angeles specialist. Balding is a known cause of anxiety in younger male patients who are involved with an active social life. The rate of depression is reported to be higher in bald men compared with their normal counterparts (1, 2 and 3). Negative impacts of hair loss are reported and are obvious to all Beverly Hills hair transplant surgeons and medical staff involved with hair restoration. Negative effects of hair loss on self-esteem and self-image is also reported and seen on a daily basis among hair loss patients. We also know that hair loss impacts some men's sex lives and their stability with regard to career choices.

Despite solid evidence in the published literature regarding the psychological impact of hair loss, the corrective effect of medical and surgical hair restoration has never been studied. Observing drastic changes in patient's lives, we were motivated to look into the psychological impact of hair restoration on different aspects of patients' life. We performed a questionnaire based questioned at new hair institute.

We used the indexes of psychological variables that were previously studied comparing balding and non-balding men. We focused in on eight major criteria that have been reported and documented as variables associated with hair loss in the literature. We collected a subset of them in our pilot study. Included were questions regarding the general level of happiness, energy level, feeling of youthfulness, anxiety level, self confidence, outlook on the future, and impact on their sex life.

Our initial study on the psychology of hair loss included the patients who had their first hair loss treatment Los Angeles between one to three years prior to the time of our research, so they could have seen the final results of their hair transplant surgery with a fresh memory of their condition prior to their hair restoration procedure. We used the most recent years to have a uniform group in terms of the technique of the surgery we used.

We limited the study to male patients with androgenetic alopecia. According to hair loss treatment Beverly Hills, patients had exclusively follicular unit transplants that reflected our standard of care for that period. Comparison of patients' before and after surgery condition in eight different criteria including level of happiness, energy level, anxiety level, youthfulness, self esteem, impact on sex life and career were done. Patients had significant improvements in all eight criteria regardless of their stage of baldness or their age.

Patients who experienced hair loss at an early age while involved in an active social life were more prone to the negative side effects of balding and appeared to benefit most from hair restoration procedures. These patients' negative outlook seemed to reverse after surgery. Our next step is going to be performing a similar study on a larger scale with providing incentives to the patients who respond to our questionnaires to increase the response rate a validity of the study.

Hair loss should be recognized more as a disease that needs special care and attention. Establishing the relationship between hair loss and its psychological consequences and the positive effect of hair transplant in improving those conditions might even help hair loss patients to get insurance coverage for their hair restoration procedure in the future.