Does hair matter? In today’s world, where looks matter for everyone, hair plays an important role in ones image and self esteem. Be it for personal or professional gain, external appearance plays an immense role and hairs are one of the parts that reflect the personality of a person. Loss of hair can burden a person with negative perception of self. Hair loss can occur due to various reasons such as stress, excessive use of harmful product on hairs, due to infection etc. Cicatricial alopecia or scarring alopecia is irreversible loss of hair with scarring of surrounding tissue. It can be caused by a diverse group of rare disorders that destroy the hair follicle that replace it with scar tissue, and cause permanent hair loss. …show more content…
Primary: In primary alopecia, the inflammatory process starts in hair follicle causing permanent damage to the follicle. Primary alopecia is again divided into lymphocytic, neutrophilic, mixed and non specific
2. Secondary: The disease starts around the hair follicle and with progession of the disease leads to destruction of hair follicles
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1. Stable:
Stable cicatricial alopecia (SCAs) is secondary to isolated events that cause permanent scarring in a hair-bearing region. Once successfully corrected surgically, there is no need for the constant vigilance that is required after treatment of unstable cicatricial alopecia. Common inciting events resulting in SCA include trauma, burns, infection, radiation, and prior head and facial surgeries.
2. Unstable:
“Unstable” cicatricial alopecia (UCAs) is secondary to disorders that have a tendency to progress and recur intermittently over the course of time.
Management of cicatricial