I Am 21 Years Old Can I Go for Hair Transplant? (photo)

Dear goadfather54There is no age limit as such for a hair transplantation. But people under the age group of 18 years to 80 years usually options for hair transplantation as the symptoms of balding and spot balding occur within this span of life.

A doctor needs to examine you first to make sure you are a surgery candidate with good donor hair. The examination may find that you may be at an increased risk of further hair loss and the surgery may actually make the you look WORSE or require more surgery.

You also have to understand that hair transplant surgery is not a cure and that they will continue to have further hair loss of non-transplanted hairs. You need to have realistic goals and understand what is possible and what is not possible with surgery.

There are two ways to deal with the amount of hair loss in his age. Number one is to address the hair loss. We can slow down, stop and even reverse the hair loss with injections called ACell. This is a form of cloning material that reactivates your adult stem cells which are dormant after you are born and turns them into progenitor cells. It then brings those progenitor cells to the site of injury and restores the progenitor cell protection of the hair follicles from the effects of dihydrotestosterone (DHT). In my practice, we had a lot of success of slowing down, stopping and even in some cases reversing hair loss in young people. In fact, younger people do better with this type of treatment.
The second thing is either to take those injections independently or combine it with Propecia or medication that is FDA approved to see whether we could stop or slow down your hair loss, and possibly reverse it as well. The interesting part is that Propecia blocks the conversion to DHT which is the enemy of the hair follicles. The hair follicles are genetically sensitive and the actual progenitor cells increases the protection of the hair follicles against the DHT. So if the person wants to do both, there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s probably better than either one separately.
If we would go ahead and do a hair transplant on you, we would start on the front of the head and restore a higher hairline so that we can frame your face again. We should also see to it that you get the level of protection from the injections. I thank you very much for your question.