The French Scientific Association Against Alopecia (ASFCA/FSAAA)

Hair loss meets specific criteria to be considered an excessive loss. Daily, a so-called normal hair can lose between 40 and 100 hairs without it being abnormally high. One day of shampoo, this loss can go up to 300 hairs.

The presence of hair in abundance on a pillow on waking or in the shower tray are clues to suspect abnormally rapid hair loss.

This loss of hair must be evaluated correctly, a simple test of traction carried out by a trained doctor makes it possible to confirm the tendency to the fall of your hair.

There are many medically treatable diseases or causes that may be responsible for a hair loss, and the diagnosis of androgenetic alopecia corresponding to a physiological hair loss related to a particular sensitivity of your hair should be laid only in case there is no argument for any other cause of hair loss.

That's why it's important to have medical advice for any hair loss.

Even when hair loss is proven, visible, it is important to be able to benefit from medical advice to be able to eliminate any pathological or treatable cause of this loss.

When areas of your skull are visible through your hair, it is important to be able to quantify the areas affected and assess the various parameters of hair quality.

The collection of this information makes it possible to follow the evolution of the loss, and to judge objectively the effectiveness of a treatment against hair loss.

All of our member physicians are trained to collect the same data about hair quality, in order to be able to reproduce and compare these measurements over time. The data collected are about surfaces, hair densities, hair thickness, and are reliable to follow evolution of your hair.

When diagnosis of androgenetic alopecia is made, it is important to be able to offer effective and durable treatments as soon as possible. It is recognized that all treatments that can be offered to you can only slow down the evolution of hair loss, and in no case allow to return several years back a hair that has already declined significantly.

There are several possibilities of treatments against alopecia, whether drugs, injections or hair transplants, each treatment is specific and must be adapted to your needs.

Before any treatment, the initial state of the hair must be evaluated and documented by a strict and reproducible method in order to evaluate an evolution over time.

Then we must offer you a treatment adapted to your constraints and your desires. All of our members are committed to offer their patients only treatments that have proven their effectiveness and their safety.

Finally monitoring of effectiveness and tolerance of treatment is the most important point since all treatments against hair loss can only be considered in the long term.

The data collection about your hair is our main priority. We train a group of doctors to perform standardized assessments to allow everyone to access reliable and accurate data of hair density, measured surfaces, hair thickness.

We refuse to include irrelevant data such as the amount of sebum present on the surface of the scalp, the number of dandruff per square centimeter or other such elements since no scientific study has shown any relationship between these elements and hair loss, and that these elements are often the support of marketing arguments intended to sell you cosmetic products.

When we talk about hair transplant, we often hear about the number of grafts taken and reimplanted without really being able to estimate if this number is coherent with the need that you present. Our assessments enable our doctors trained in this method to be able to define precisely:

• the surface to be re-planted,
• the surface that can be taken,
• the thickness of the hair taken,
• and that of the hair still present on the area to be re-implanted.

All these data can give you a precise idea:

• the relevance of a number of plugins announced when drawing up a quote,
• rendering in terms of density of implantation of a zone according to the number of grafts to be taken,
• the number of grafts that can be removed without significantly damaging your donor area.

This will allow you to have a precise opinion of the various treatments that will be proposed to you when you approach the various actors of the hair transplant market.