Avanços em reabilitaçäo: a utilizaçäo de prótese capilar como superaçäo da alopecia provocada pela quimioterapia / Advance in rehabilitation: the utilization of hair prosthesis alopecia as induced for chemotherapy

RESUMO

This report shows as hair rehabilitation has been developed in West of Sao Paulo, Brazil, by a group of professionals involved with fair, body and beauty care. Hair rehabilitation is mainly indicated to women who underwent to chemotherapy. They are submitted to psychological and physical evaluation, before hair prosthesis is performed, and they are also stimulated to take care of their body and face. Hair prosthesis is fixed, made with human hair, and can be washed and arranged. It is applied before hair-loss and taken out after hair is sufficiently grown to descontinued its use. By that way, women, men and children have not show themselves hair-less, during and after chemotherapy or cranial radiotherapy.