In contrast to male pattern hair loss, female hair loss is much less well understood and more difficult to treat. Nevertheless, the same principles apply: if a woman has a sufficient supply of permanent hair, she can have hair moved to a new location and it will be permanent there.
Female pattern hair loss is typically classified according to the Ludwig Scale below. Women with loss corresponding to one of the examples on the chart are often good candidates for hair transplantation. Of course, the more conservative the pattern of loss, the better the possible result. What is not shown on the chart is the example of a woman with global thinning. Women with this type of loss are usually not very good candidates for transplantation because they are thinning in their donor area. In other words, their donor hair is not really permanent hair. If it were transplanted, some of the transplanted hair would thin as well.
