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What Are All of the Options for Men Who Want a Lower Hairline/lower Forehead?

I am a male who has always had a high hairline and high forehead and it has always bothered me. What are your suggestions?

8 Doctor Answers | Asked by nick00001234 in New York
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Lowerint your Hairline

The forehead procedure that is the best for you will ultimately depend on how much skin laxity you have, the hairline position that you desire, and the types of incisions/scarring that is acceptable to you. There are many methods for performing a browlift or forehead lift including an endoscopic browlift (through tiny incisions with the assistance of telescopes) , bicoronal forehead lift (extensive incision from ear to ear across the top of the head) and a tricophytic or hairline browlift.... more
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Option for forehead reduction

Thank you for your question. You have several options, from hair transplant to scalp advancement. You need to be seen by a plastic surgeon to determine which procedure is appropriate for you.
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Hair Transplants For Male Hairline

Lowering the male hairline is a difficult challenge. All surgical options such as a scalp advancement or transposition flaps involve scars which is always precarious in the unstable male hairline. The safest choice is hair transplantation since it lacks visible frontal scars. But it must done well to have a natural appearing result.

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Male with high hairline

Depending on your age, balding pattern and family history, hair transplantation may be the best option. Whether or not you are a candidate would depend on these and many other factors that can only be determined on physical examination and discussion.
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Strongly advise approaching this carefully. Even more caution needed if you are under 40.

Hair grafting is very simple in concept but very difficult in execution. Having a well meaning surgeon remove forehead skin along the hairline may lower your hair line or it may not. What will be the case is the your hair line will never be the same again. Even if the incision heals perfectly, there will be compression of the hairline which will look either unnatural or very unnatural. For this reason micro grafting may be a better solution. However, it is... more
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What Are All of the Options for Men Who Want a Lower Hairline/lower Forehead?

Hair transplants along the frontal hairline is the least invasive and makes the most sense to me...if you have the donor hairs to do it correctly.
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High forehead

Depending on age and position of the eyebrow. If there is a need for eyebrow lift then one can do a brow lift through an incision infront of the hairline. If there is no need for brow lift then hair transplan is the best option
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Options for Hairline Lowering in Men

Hair transplants, the Fleming-Mayer flap, or scalp advancement in a patient without male pattern baldness are the medical choices for lowering the male hairline. Consult with a surgeon who uses all techniques to determine what is best for you.
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