Trichology treats the scalp and hair as medical territory rather than cosmetic. It covers pattern hair loss, sudden shedding, thinning after illness or childbirth, dandruff and scalp inflammation, patchy loss and breakage. At Lumora, the cause is established before anything is started.

Hair Loss Is A Symptom Not A Diagnosis

Hair falls for very different reasons. Inherited pattern loss thins gradually along the parting or the crown. Shedding that begins two or three months after a fever, a surgery, a pregnancy or a period of severe dieting is a different mechanism altogether, and it usually recovers.

Then there is loss driven by something else entirely — thyroid imbalance, low iron, an inflamed or infected scalp, tight styling over years, or patchy loss with a clean edge. Each of these answers to a different treatment, and none of them answers to the same serum.

A consultation at Lumora examines the scalp itself, not only the hairline. We look at the pattern of loss, the condition of the skin beneath, the density at the crown against the sides, and how long it has been happening. Where the history points to it, blood investigations are advised before treatment rather than after.

Keeping Hair Is Easier Than Regrowing It

This is the part most people learn too late. A follicle that has thinned can be thickened again. A follicle that has closed cannot be reopened, by any treatment at any price.

Which is why the first goal of every plan we write is to hold what is still there. Growth-factor and microneedling procedures, scalp treatment for inflammation and dandruff, and medical management where it is indicated all work best on ground that has not yet been lost.

Hair moves slowly, and it is honest to say so. Shedding often continues for the first few weeks of treatment before it settles. Density is judged at four to six months, not at four to six weeks, because that is simply how long a hair cycle takes.

Pattern loss is also managed rather than finished — the tendency remains, so results are held with maintenance. Book a consultation at Lumora in New Town to find out why your hair is falling before you spend another year treating the wrong cause.