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Facial Hair?

I am 29 year old white male and cannot grow facial hair. Is there something I can do besides a facial hair transplant or rubbing rogaine on my face every night? How is it that a transgender that was born a female are able to grow natural looking facial hair. I can grow a little under my chin (about 40 hairs) but nowhere else. I really need help. Thank You.

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Stimulating Facial Hair Growth

Facial hair transplant and Rogaine are the two most effective treatments for beard growth. Hormones (the origin of the problem, due to genetics) can have dangerous side effects, unfortunately. Transgender (female to male conversion) could experience regeneration of dormant follicles in the facial area from extraneous androgenic hormone use, because the dormancy of the hair was caused by the influence of female hormones and suppression of male hormone effects. In your case, you are... more

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Hormones, genetics, and many other factors can affect the rate of facial hair growth

Hormones, genetics, and many other factors can affect the rate of facial hair growth. Rogaine® (Minoxidil) is an effective treatment for hair loss, but it’s necessary to discuss with a board certified dermatologist who specializes in hair restoration to determine if this or an alternate treatment would be best for your situation. Generally hormone replacement is the cause for facial hair in a transgender individual. However, this is not something that we would recommend for a male in your... more

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Facial Hair Growth / Beard Transplant

Transgender females to males take testosterone, but I have performed beard transplants on several FTM transgender patients with success. Similarly, I regularly - on average once or twice weekly - perform beard transplants on men seeking thicker beards.

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Hair loss & growth is in the genes

Actually Rogaine might help; give it six to twelve months. if you are genetically programmed to have minimal facial hair, your follicles have a minimal response to the hormonal signal telling the follicle to produce a strong terminal hair. Rogaine works by a different pathway.

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