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Should I Get a Hair Transplant? (photo)
Ive been facing the issue of hairloss since 18 years old. Im now 21 and was just wondering if I should get a hair transplant. I will provide the pictures of my hairloss progression over one year. Im guessing Im somewhre between norwood 4-4.5.
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Strategic hair transplant at front, saving your existing hair behind it
Hi, I'm Dr. Gary Hitzig, Dr. Prasad's associate specializing in hair loss treatment.
Many years ago, we always did hair transplants in younger people because we felt it was something that was really bothering them emotionally. What we didn’t realize was the rapidity and the extent of progression of hair loss when somebody’s losing hair in their early 20’s or late teens. This is something that can go quickly to a class 7 where they’re losing hair at the sides. If you don’t plan...
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Hair Transplant at a Young Age
At such a young age, I do not recommend a hair transplant, instead advise patients such as yourself to consider Propecia, possibly Rogaine, and laser light therapy, all of which seem to have some benefit in slowing down male pattern hair loss.
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Hair Restoration Surgery
From your pictures and the progression of your hair loss, you may be a good candidate for hair restoration surgery. First, it’s important to determine the cause of your hair loss and if you have adequate donor sites for harvesting grafts. This should be discussed during a consultation with a hair loss specialist/hair replacement surgeon. It’s important to note that hair restoration surgery does not stop the balding process and further preventative measures such as Rogaine (Minoxidil) and...
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Hair Transplant at a Young Age
You are quite young to have such advanced hair loss, and it appears you are likely to progress to NW 6 or NW 7. If you were to undergo hair transplant now, you will probably need at least one more surgery later on to keep up with the continuing loss of hair. Otherwise, you will develop an odd-looking growth pattern. If you do decide to pursue hair transplant now, definitely use follicular unit extraction in order to minimize scarring and preserve donor hair for the future.
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Transplant needed
You are an excellent candidate for a hair transplant. You have good donor hair, and quality and color are not a problem. In my office we do only scarless follicular extraction unit trechnique with a mechanized system to speed the proccess. This means no transplant scar and a rapid recovery . All hair work is then designed and graft holes placed by myself. This ensures that you get the fastest, best, and most undetectable transplant work possible.
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Young patient losing hair
Your hair loss is rapidly progressing but you do have a large amount of donor. Our practice does Follicular Unit Extraction, or FUE, in order to minimize the donor site morbidity and the recovery without any scar in the back. This allows you to have multiple procedures over a lifetime if your hair loss continues to progress. You also don't want to go in front of your current hairline so if you continue to lose hair, you won't have grafts in front of an area of hair loss
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It is best to start hair transplantation before the full hairline is lost
You are indeed progressing rapidly and are like to repeat your father's pattern. In my opinion, after doing hair restoration for 38 years, there is always enough donor hair to maintain the frontal hairline, so when frontal hair loss begins at a young age it is always possible to keep that frontal hairline looking good. Starting before it is all lost allows a much more natural look, as the current hair gives excellent guidance regarding angles and direction and hides the grafts as they are...
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Youing balding male
I t appears that you will be very bald. With transplantion done at your age and repeated after some years, along with the taking of hair sparing medicines, you could have a non bald appearance for many years and perhaps for your lifetime. You cannot have the appearance of a youthfull full head of hair in my opinion. A hairpiece can do this
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FUE restoration
It looks like you are progressing quickly. If you do a restoration at this point it is important not to get too aggressive and to realize you will probably have to do more procedures in the future. Some people do a few larger procedures later in life, others choose many smaller procedures starting earlier in life. It all depends on how you want to approach it.
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