Does Early Norwood Class 6 Mean Class 7 is Inevitable?

Norwood 7A question about hairlines.

When i go bald is my hairline pre-determined or does it continually recede my whole life? for example I am 18 and thinning. If i am class 6 by age 25 will i stay that way the rest of my life because that is my determined hairline? or does it just keep receding my whole life until i die.

So if i’m 18 am I going to definatly be class 7? or do i stop where i’m supposed to?

In other words does having an early class 6 mean that 7 is inevitable?

Only about 7% of men develop Norwood Class 7 patterns and most of the Class 6 patterns that are developed will remain Class 6 patterns throughout life. To see all of the Norwood classes, click here.


2008-12-17 13:35:13Does Early Norwood Class 6 Mean Class 7 is Inevitable?

Reddit Post: Homeless man with lots of hair

When the homeless drug addict who eats rat droppings and dumpster meat has a nw0 and no hair loss and you gotta take pharmaceuticals and rub growth juice in your head every night and live in a clean room and he lives under a subway from tressless

Everyone always talks about homeless men with lots of hair, but homeless men with lots of hair are a subset of the population and these same men exist everywhere. You are lucky because you didn’t inherit the balding genes.


2020-11-19 11:33:58Reddit Post: Homeless man with lots of hair

Does finasteride increase the graft survival after a hair transplant?

Yield reports on graft/hair survival after a hair transplant reflect the growth of the recipient hairs in the transplanted grafts. Finasteride has nothing to do with the transplanted grafts as it doesn’t affect them, it just protects the native hair left behind.


2021-01-04 14:48:36Does finasteride increase the graft survival after a hair transplant?

Rejection for Cosmetic Surgery

Do you ever reject a patient for plastic surgery?

I have seen a small number of patients who seemed dissatisfied with so many of their features (inappropriately), that I’ve recommended self-evaluation and/or psychotherapy instead of cosmetic surgery. Some of these patient admit to being harshly criticized by a parent during childhood, and may have severe self-esteem issues that will not be addressed by the cosmetic surgery process. It is important for patients to be mentally sound, able to understand what cosmetic surgery will and will not do for you. I try to probe the person behind the request to understand if what I can do will truly meet the objectives of the patient. This is a difficult process for the plastic surgeon because each patient does not undergo an extensive psychological analysis, so I have to trust the instincts I have developed over the years. I do reject patients who do not have realistic expectations or those who are psychologically imbalanced.

This question was answered in conjunction with Jon Perlman, M.D.


2006-05-25 22:30:34Rejection for Cosmetic Surgery

Does Frontal Hair Loss Respond Differently to Medication Because of Something Other than DHT?

According to clinical studies, finasteride generally works primarily on the vertex, much less well on the midscalp, and not much at all on the front of the head. I’ve seen suggestions that this might be so because the processes that result in frontal hair loss are different than those at work in the crown. (That is, perhaps it’s something other than DHT, or in addition to DHT, that drives hair loss in the frontal and midscalp portions of the head.) Do you think there’s anything to this theory?

From Wikipedia — “in modern science the term ‘theory’, or ‘scientific theory’ is generally understood to refer to a proposed explanation of empirical phenomena, made in a way consistent with scientific method.

Unfortunately, there really isn’t a scientific theory to explain the difference in hair loss in the frontal region and crown of mens’ scalps. Your hypotheses, which are theories that are not considered to have been satisfactorily tested or proven, may have some merit… but I do not know for sure.

In the end, it is genetics that cause male pattern baldness. That much we know. That theory is solid. At this point, I do not know why DHT (for those men who have the genes) affects mostly the crown. For that matter, I do not know why the back of the scalp in men are always spared from balding. Maybe there are other hormones involved.

Removing Scalp Tattoo

I have tried hair systems, weaves and all of these newest innovations in this field. Then I started getting transplants in 1987, with 5 scalp reductions and 7 hair transplant procedures. The more I did, the worse I looked. So I came up with the idea that I could tattoo my scalp and make it look like hair by putting brown dots the color of my dark hair. I then shaved my head. The tattoos were done on my scars as well. For a while they looked OK, but then the brown color started to turn green. Now I have a green head. Do you have a solution for this? Can the tattoo color be returned or can they just be removed? What would you suggest?

I have seen problems like this in the past. Creative people come up with creative answers to problems, but when the solutions fail, the consequences are sometime profound. I have had two such patients: The first had terrible scars that were treated with a balloon insert to stretch the normal scalp so that the tattooed scalp could be removed. The balloon was in inflated 2-3 times each week for 10 weeks before the scar was removed. It worked nicely and he was fortunate to have enough normal scalp to stretch the excised scalp defect. The second patient went through the same thing you did. He did not have a great deal of hair left, but he did have enough to start to cover some of the most prominent balding areas . The bad scars were improved with some scar surgery and the transplants did help. This second patient and his girlfriend were very grateful for the improvement and remain amongst the most happy of my patients. It was an important lesson for me – that working through problems with the patient as a partner with realistic goals, is the best way to make the best out of a bad situation.

Does hard water cause hair loss?

Is there any lived experience, or any study, suggesting that you can experience hair fall if you wash your hair in hard water? I understand hard water as the type of naturally available water from a well or a pond that has a higher level of minerals. I am asking because I saw an ad for a hard water filter for shower heads.

No. Hard water doesn’t cause hair loss. Genes working with your DHT causes hair loss


2021-01-23 10:37:13Does hard water cause hair loss?

Report Summary of the hair loss industry

This report was produced to sell a larger report to businesses interested in the hair loss business segment; nevertheless, I have shown the introductory part of this report because it outlines the various problems that contribute to hair loss. If you look at the post from today called “AS Hairs Grow Longer, they lose their thickness’ just below, you can imagine that this technology can actually tell you what would be the impact of taking supplements as it can track the value of the supplements on your hair as it grows. It would be much less expensive to have a way to measure the value of the supplement rather than take it blindly, spending a lot of money moving from one supplement to another and never knowing it your approach to treating your hair loss is working or not. https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/hair-supplements-market.html


2020-01-03 11:06:34Report Summary of the hair loss industry

Does MPB occur in waves?

Yes, hair loss can come in waves separated by months at times or even years. It can be impacted by your stress and your genetic code


2020-04-19 09:34:16Does MPB occur in waves?

Results early on finasteride 6 months (photo)

The results are early on finasteride after 6 months but you can not only see more terminal hairs, but new hairs growing in front of the hairline that will grow out.


2020-10-02 09:43:41Results early on finasteride 6 months (photo)