Category: Hair Loss Causes

(female) I have been getting my eyebrows waxed for a number of years and never had a problem with my eyebrows before. As I was recently getting my eyebrows done, I noticed a bald spot. What could have caused this?

One of the most common causes of loss of eyebrow hair is waxing. Sometime other conditions such as alopecia areata appears as a bald spot in the eyebrow. You should get a dermatologist to look you over.

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I recently came across this website which belongs to an individual who claims to have halted and reversed his own hair loss through a variety of scalp excercises and developing certain facial muscles.

I would love to hear your views on this issue as I haven’t been able to find the topic on the blog. Do these exercises have any scientific bearing at all?

With regards to my own hair loss, I’m 21 and I noticed a small thinning area in the crown about a year ago and have been taking finasteride for about 10 months.

In this time, I’m sure that the number of hairs I’m losing daily has slowed down, however I haven’t seen a visible result as of yet. I’ve let my hair grow quite long (3-4 inches) for the last 2 months. Is it possible that when I get my hair cut shorter, I may see the benefits more clearly as the newer hair will have grown back thicker? (I hope that makes sense!)

Keep up the great work!

I personally can not believe that hair loss can be reversed with such exercises. I haven’t read anything that shows scalp massage or exercise would have any regrowth benefit, aside from theories like this. The site you reference quotes a “current textbook” that links scalp tightness to male pattern baldness, but it doesn’t provide author names or even a title. Certainly, it will not hurt to try these methods (besides time spent avoiding proven treatment methods in favor of this), but I don’t see any actual science here.

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I have lost most of my hair because of exercise. I stopped exercise for couple of months & retrieved almost 30% of my hair loss. but the problem is I am a fitness professional and cant live without a workout but as soon as I start my workout which includes weight training I start losing my hair. can anybody help me? whats the relation between exercise & hair fall? if you see, most of the body builders are bald but why?????

There is no connection to exercise and hair loss unless you have a telogen effluvium that is caused by stress. Are you stressed when you exercise with your clients? Even this scenario is far fetched. I would have to examine you and take a careful history to understand your problem better. I would be venturing a guess without knowing more.

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Dr. Rassman,
I actually asked a question on this site before. I’ve been using Rogaine Foam since September 2007, on the back of my head and the hairline. I was 15 then.

My hair was always somewhat thick, and soft. My hairline had been receding and a dermatologist also said that I had a growing bald spot on the back of my head, based on pictures he took. It worked fine, and in January the dermatologist was actually amazed at the results, especially in the bald spot which was practically eliminated by new, albeit smaller hairs.

Now it’s July 2008, almost 10 months later, and my hair has turned from consistently straight and thick to almost two different hairstyles: the back and sides have all become black, and curly. Really curly. And the rest has become thin and weak and lighter than before. My hairline is straight, but right in the center the hair is especially thin and it looks almost liek a second bald spot.

Whereas when I started, no one could notice the bald spot in the back of my head (although some pointed out a receding hairline), everyone can tell that the hair in the front is thinner than normal.

What’s wrong with my hair?

I would need to examine you to understand the variety of problems you are showing in your hair. I’m sorry, but in your case I simply can’t provide much without seeing the problem in person. It sounds like you haven’t seen your dermatologist since January — I’d setup another appointment for a follow-up.

Hi Doctor,

Just a quick question. My cousins and I are curious about the likelihood of us inheriting our fathers’ hair. Our curiosity was piqued after we (all three of us) had sebaceous cysts removed from our scalps in the last year. My father and uncle have also had cysts removed from their heads several times over the decades. Despite the presence of all this sebum (I understand an over-production is related to high-levels of DHT), and the not-so-clinical removal scars, the two men have full heads of jet-black hair – not bad for guys in their seventies!

What we’re asking: we’ve obviously inherited the oily scalps. Is there any relationship between this and a resistance to the effects of DHT with regard to hairloss. I’m 26 and have the same hair-colour and widows-peak hairline as my father. My cousins are in their early thirties and similarly show no sign of baldness. Just curious. Thanks.

These are probably related to different genes, but your probability of inheriting it from the male side of the family may be reasonably expected. I don’t know of any way to tell for sure, so you may just have to wait it out.

Dr. Rassaman

I’ve never posted on this site before so i’ll try to make this question as understandable as i can.

Im a 33 yr. old male who up until about the age of 25 had a female type looking hairline that grew straight up and backwards very close to my eyebrows like a wall of hair,and hair on the sides of my head in front of the temples that grew very close to my eyebrows that came up to meet my unusually low and thick hairline.However i never liked having a hairline that low and that thick,and quite frankly i never liked that it grew straight up and backwards.It just didnt compliment my face at all.I hated it.The hair behind my hairline grows what seems to be almost straight forward in comparison to the hairline which grew straight back.

When my hairline matured and receded along with the sides leaving only the forward growing (yet thick and still full head looking)hair left it totally changed the way my face looked for the better i was in heaven.But now that hair behind the hairline is starting to recede and thin out badly.

My question is is it possible to receive a hair transplant that only replaces the forward growing hair that was originally behind the hairline and the hair on the temporal area only rather than having to have a full thick straight up and back growing looking hairlne???

I ask this because as foremontioned i never looked good with that full thick straight up and back growing looking hairline and i always force combed my hairline forward and i want to be able to only have that hair back that naturally falls forward and not that straight back and low;wall of hair hairline.All of the hairline transplants photos i’ve seen all look like the Dr. tries to give you back that straight up growing looking hairline when you were a teen which never suited me.But i never find someone whos transplant looks like the hair naturally falls forward without that thick straight up wall of hair hairline…………. Is this possible to achieve at this point in time Dr.????

Thank you for your time,it’s very much appreciated.

Men with window’s peaks or even the juvenile hairline may have hair that does not point in the normal forward direction. I have never seen it as a problem for the hairline reconstruction, but I would be hesitant to make a comment about your unusual hairline without examining you personally. When I do a hair transplant in the frontal hairline, the hair is placed pointing forward parallel to the floor and when I go back further, that angle increases upward slightly. If some of the hair is sticking up, I might conclude that the hairs that point up will just follow the ‘crowd’ of the thick transplant hair and be outweighed.

I’d have to either see you in person or if you have access to a video camera and can upload the video somewhere like Youtube, that’d be a great way for me to see your hair (make sure the lighting is good).

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My daughter has recently recovered from head fungus. The spot where the fungus was is bald. I would like to know if the hair will grow back?

It seems the fungus was serious enough to cause hair loss. I would give it a good 6 months to a year before the hair grows back. Generally, it should grow back if the underlying infection has been treated.

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Hey Dr. Rassman,

I like your site and all the time you devote to it to help the readers. I have a little bit of miniaturization going on at my temples (I’m 20). I went and saw a hair transplant doctor and he explained to me the process of the “mature hairline” (although he didn’t call it that). He also said that sometimes hair can miniaturize and then come back again (de-miniaturize) healthy on its own in young men as they grow. I was just wondering what your professional opinion was on this statement. Would you agree? Have you seen that happen? Thanks for your time.

Generally when miniaturization occurs in men, it is permanent if it is associated with genetic hair loss. If the miniaturization is part of the maturing hairline, then this too should be permanent. Miniaturization caused by DHT and genetic balding will not reverse on its own, but may reverse with finasteride (Propecia). I do not believe that there is spontaneous reversal of miniaturization in the genetic process, at least not in most of the miniaturization seen in men. With regard to women and miniaturization, the same rule may apply, but we unfortunately do not have enough information to make certain one way or the other.

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