Balding Blog

This young man from Reddit showed his grandfather proudly still having hair at the age of 102. It reminded me of my maternal grandfather who had Ronald Reagan’s hair at 102.

These pictures are highly suggestive of value; however, had this man has a HAIRCHECK instrument test, he would have an absolute measurement of the gain or lack of gain from the drug finasteride. This is why I always do a HAIRCHECK test on all of my patients who are put on finasteride, (see here: https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/)

You should add minoxidil and then go another year. Likely, it will make a difference

It is related to my poor dental condition : 7 teeth cured but 1 tooth was so ill that i had an horrible pain it was devitalized IN OCTOBER (i don’t know if this word exists in english but i can’t find any translation) and now i have got an infection below another tooth.

Please tell me. I have no more hair on the vertex just a little on the mid and front scalp but very thin. IN early October, i was very hairy but i was wondering if i was going to be bald because of my very first stage or maybe second of the balding scale.

No one seems to care about me, i’m a 28 y.o. man with no Girlfriend and i didn’t want to go through such a nightmare.

I am not sure how poor dental hygiene or cavities can cause hair loss, but probably wont help in attracting a girlfriend either. Certainly poor health and medical illness (such as “poor dental condition”) can cause stress to your body and thus hair loss; however the most common cause of hair loss in men is genetic balding where you lose the hair is a certain “pattern”. Men in their 20’s often experience this genetic Male Pattern Balding (MPB).

I start to get bald from top of my head. The other areas are staying strong so far. Although the front headline go up a bir, it is not at a level it concerns me much. On the other hand, I have a very thick beard. It is actually more than I like at this point. I want to use this beard to close the balding spot. I don’t really care if the beard will be a bit curly since I don’t plan to have a very long hair. Do you think this would work? What is your experience after a year or more if you had a similar operation? I would like to know what are the results of people who have similar experiences with me.

Scalp hair is the ideal hair for a hair transplant. Beard hair is only used if you run out of scalp hair from overharvesting. Overharvesting reflects poor planning on your doctor’s part. Beard hair, when used, is never used in the leading edge of the hairline because it looks like beard kinky hair.

To avoid this, I always trim off the skin of the grafts prior to the placing of the grafts into the recipient area, but some very small skin edge may still remain despite this. There are creams that dermatologists use to treat melasma that might address this problem. These could be removed with FUE along with the hair associated with it, undoing the beard transplant.

These bumps you are referring to reflect that the grafts were elevated at the time the beard was transplanted and the skin of the graft healed above the level of the surrounding skin . There is nothing much you can do about this.

The skin after a beard transplant takes a few months to become normal as some swelling often remains in the skin and soft tissue of the face. Consider returning to see your doctor if you are concerned.

No, you should not try to remove the scabs at one week or else you will risk pulling out the grafts. I wrote an article on this and it takes 12 days for the grafts to settle. The key is to wash it properly so that the crusts don’t form in the first place.

I had a beard transplant in Turkey, and I can’t go back to my doctor as I am in England. What is wrong with me and what can I do?

You should find a local doctor who will diagnose and treat you. You most likely have an infection (folliculitis) which needs to be drained by a doctor, cultured and then treated with appropriate antibiotics.

The problem with traveling to Turkey is that when complications arise, where do you go? Who is responsible for you? I guess the answer is that you are responsible for yourself and you must take charge of your complications by finding a doctor who is willing to step up and treat you as a human being who requires medical attention.