Author: Dr. William Rassman

Your age has a lot to do with the drug decision. IF you are over 35, drugs are less important to hold on to your existing hair with a hair transplant. If you are 26, the existing hair is under threat of loss if your pattern is more advanced and you have not lost the hair that you are going to lose yet. These younger people do better on finasteride with a hair transplant because it holds on to the existing hair and prevents shock loss, which is a side effect common in men in their 20s who get a hair transplant.

Does wearing a baseball cap every day or using a wig increase a man’s chances of going bald?

No, balding comes from within the scalp, from the genes that initiate each hair to grow. Even wearing a baseball hat for years and never taking it off and all you will have is a scaling, dirty full head of hair if your genetics are not ‘balding genetics’.

Just be patient. By the 8th month you can expect to see 90 percent of the growth from your hair transplant. Some people don’t start growing until the 4th or 5th month. When it starts, it grows out at a rate of about 1/2 inch per month. You are hopefully, one of these later bloomers.

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i shave my widows peak every other day i really do not like it. what will happen to me in the future and is it fine if i keep shaving it everyday? what should i do help. also if i try growing it back it looks very ugly what should i do?

If you don’t like your widows peak, I suppose you can shave it (as you are doing now). In the long term, you will have to continue to shave it since shaving is not permanent. I have seen some patients laser off the widows peak. I have also seen someone who lasered off the widows peak and regretting their decision later on in life. That person came to see me for a hair transplant to get their widows peak back. My wife had a widow’s peak and she hated it and she was thinning in the corners. We transplanted her corners and lowered the hairline enough to incorporate the widow’s peak. She is now very happy with a lower, more rounded hairline as she had when she was younger. No more widow’s peak.

The widow’s peak is never present in very young children. As aging starts, at any age above 5 or 6, if the hairline rises, it may leave behind a midline, pointed tuft of hair which is what we call the widow’s peak. The point on the widow’s peak is always located at the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow. So the presence of a widow’s peak (a poor term) reflect the point where the hairline was, and the area around it reflects a faded youthful hairline. 83% of women over the age of 40, have a widow’s peak which means that their overall hairline has moved upward, enlarging their forehead, something that most women dislike. When I tried to find famous women who kept their juvnile hairline, it was not east considering that 83% have hairline loss; however, Catherine Zeta Jones was more the exception, see here: I believe that this hairline is exactly where it was when she was 8 years old.

Another beautiful actress who shows her widow’s peak along with the evident recession of the hairline on the sides of the widow’s peak, leaving the widow’s peak as the last remnant of where the midline hairline was. The hair is combed over the right side only showing the left.

It seems that there is some secret to actual exposure to sunlight that supplements of Vitamin D does not give you. “In a study of 30,000 Swedish women recruited in 1990 and questioned about their sun-seeking behavior found that the more they had sunbathed, the less likely they were to have died 20 years later. In fact those who did the most sunbathing were hlf as likely to be dead as those who had avoid the sun entirely” said Rishard Weller in New Scientist June 13.

“Other research backs this up. Another Scandinavian study of 40,000 women found that those who went on the most sunbathing holidays were least likely to have died 15 years later…. We have been so distracted by what we see – skin cancer – and have forgotten what maters most. Vitamin D is often used as a euphemism for “healthy sunlight”, but an increasing number of supplementation studies show that the benefits of sunlight cannot all be put down ti it. ”

It also seems that people with pale skin and sun exposure get the worst cancers of the skin such as melanomas, while those with tan skin, get less aggressive skin cancers.