Hi Doctor, I am 21 with temples that are starting to recede.
All them men on both sides of my family suffer from the exact same pattern of baldness, Norwood III A.
Does this mean it is inevitable for me to suffer the same fate? If so, is there any way a surgeon would transplant hairs from my donor area to cover this region even though I haven’t had significant hairless?
I desire this to prevent ever having to go through a “bald period”
It’s not guaranteed that you’ll get that same pattern, but the odds are certainly not in your favor based upon what you are saying. Hair loss can skip generations. Any surgeon that would transplant hairs into that area in a 21 year old without significant balding occurring is probably a crook and will be doing you more of a disservice than anything else, because the evolution of hair loss is not 100% predictable.
So for starters, you run the risk of shock loss (meaning you’ll just lose hairs around the recipient area) after a transplant, leaving you possibly worse off than you started. And most important, you never should have preventative hair transplant surgery, as your future hair loss pattern is not a guarantee.
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