Medical Hair Prsothesis - A Brief Explanation

If a person experiences hair loss due to a medical condition, whether it's a form of Alopecia, the result of surgery, a condition like lupus, or the side-effects of medical treatments like chemotherapy, they can become emotionally affected by that hair loss in a very debilitating way. Without hair, these people often feel socially immobile and lose confidence in their ability to interact with others. If they're undergoing treatment for a life threatening illness such as cancer at the same time, their psychological state can even inhibit their recovery. At this point, their medically related hair loss should be treated by their doctor.

In many cases, this means the patient will need to wear a wig to conceal their hair loss. But not just any wig will do. Most wigs on the market today are derived from centuries-old designs meant only for wigs worn as a part of fashion. Total realism and undetectability are not a factor in most stock wig designs, and are therefore inadequate to treat a person's medically related hair loss. What these patients really need is a Medical Hair Prosthesis.

A Medical Hair Prosthesis refers specifically to a wig that is designed to look totally natural and convincingly conceal the wearer's hair loss. Just like any other prosthetic device, it should be comfortable to wear, capable of being worn daily, and enable the patient to do many of the things he or she would would be able to do with the real thing. Most stock wigs will not adequately fit this description, and it's time for the medical community and the insurance companies who cover the costs of other prosthetic devices and psychological treatments to accept this.