Author: Dr. William Rassman

At your age, you might find that you could lose some of your existing native hair following the transplant. From the pictures, I see a low crown balding area which suggests that you might develop an advanced balding pattern in the long term. The use of the drug finasteride reduces this risk, but balding in men is progressive. Ask your doctor where your balding pattern might end up. Find out what your donor density is, so that some calculations of your reserve donor hair can be made now, before you start your transplants. Keep the hair transplants to the frontal area only, because if it goes into the crown, then you will be caught in a conundrum with patches of hair transplants in the front and in the crown will leaving you not normal looking. These steps will be the best approach to minimizing the risk of getting into multiple hair transplant surgeries as you lose more hair, which you should expect to happen. Your goal should be that just a single surgery will stand on its own and that is why I am suggesting that you only transplant the frontal area at this time.

Is it worth getting a HT? from tressless

It is very difficult to tell from this photo if you are receding or developing a maturing hairline. The best way to determine this is to lift your eyebrows so that your forehead wrinkles and the hairline should be no higher than one finger breath above the highest wrinkle. If this is the case, maybe your hairline is maturing.

This is a common finding in some women, although it is more common as women get older. I have treated many of these women with a hair transplant to put back the rounded hairlines typical of the female hairline. You should be look at my an expert to make sure that you don’t have an autoimmune disease like Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia. a diagnosis that is easy to make when your doctor is skilled in the examination of a female hairline

I am 24 years old and I’ve been experiencing some hair loss for the last three or four years. I’ve noticed it when I shower I’ll end with about 30-40 hairs on my hands, and there will be about 10-20 others on the pillow when I wake up. I’m kinda worried about this since it didn’t happen before and I am not through a period major stress, I didn’t make any changes in my diet either. I will see a dermatologist as soon as possible but I don’t know if I should make a big deal about it or not, since I can run my hand through my dry hair or pull it and there won’t be any hairs on it afterwards.

Some extra info: my dad isn’t bald but has a receding hairline and started experiencing hair loss when he was about 40 or so. It is summer where I live, I add this because I understand hair loss can vary depending on the season.

You should see a good doctor and find out exactly how much hair you are losing with the HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/ ). The point is to find out if you are really losing hair, how much you are losing and lost and what to do to stop it. This test establishes a metric on the loss so that in a year after you may have started treating it, you will know if you are gaining of losing ground.

Should I get a HT ? Im 23 i used minoxidil for 2 years and did nothing just stopped the shedding so what you advice me to do ?

If you have thinning along the sides and back of your head as well as elsewhere (thinning on front and top), there is a condition we published called Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia (DUPA) which requires a doctor to make the diagnosis with a hand microscope showing miniaturization in the sides and back of the head hair.This is a difficult problem to treat and people like you who have DUPA are not candidates for hair transplantation.

If you have thinning and possibly PCOS, treatments like Scalp Micropigmentation works very well to make your hair look fuller: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/gallery/smp-for-women/

Past three months my hair loss has been really bad. I’ve checked my blood for problems with my thyriod, iron and hormones with a doctor and my blood work turned out ok. It is all okay, so I’m assuming it might be genetic since it is in my family on my father’s side. My mother and sister don’t have this problem.

Female genetic hair loss can usually be seen on the female side of the family (mother, aunt, grandmother, sister) but not always and your male connections with balding really don’t count. When the diagnosis is not clear, the problem of thinning impacts the social life of the woman. We have been using Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP) for many of these women with great results and although the hair loss may not have been diagnosed, the fullness comes as a result of the SMP process (https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/smp-for-women/)

Since it is difficult to tell, find a doctor who has the HAIRCHECK instrument and then you will know for sure (see here: https://baldingblog.com/follow-haircheck-test-5-years/)