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

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

Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS, FACS · Answer

A hairline incision forehead lift will lower your hairline but leave a scar which can be camouflaged with micro hair grafts. Hair Grafts by themselves can also lower your hairline.

Benjamin Caughlin, MD, FACS · Answer

In men the best option is typically to lower the hair line with hair transplant. A lot comes into play though with this decision. Balding? Receding hairline? Family history? Goal of new hairline? Brow position.It is a complicated issue and a facial analysis is required for a recommendation.Hope this helps.Best of luck,DrC

Anil R. Shah, MD · Answer

Hello, surgery is an option. It is hard to find doctors for forehead lowering since they need to be experts in 2 areas.  First of all, doctors need to be experts in facial plastic surgery or plastic surgery to lift up the scalp area and advanced along the forehead.  The galea is released during this.  A key component is hiding the scar along the border of the scalp.
The second component is being an expert in hair transplantation.  The hairline is lowered and the scar is camouflaged through hair transplants. 
Look for a surgeon specializing both plastic surgery of the face and who does hair transplants.
Best, Anil Shah

Kevin Ende, MD · Answer

Most men who want their hairline lowered are currently seeking hair transplant procedures in my practice, but a hairline lowering surgery can be appropriate in certain situations.  I would need to see pictures to help further answer your question.

Ross A. Clevens, MD, FACS · Answer

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. (hidden along the hairline. Each of these techniques achieves a similar result through the brow and the forehead in terms of smoothing of lines and gentle elevation of the brows.

	The key difference is in how they affect your hairline. The Bicoronal (ear to ear) browlift elevates or pulls your hairline back, raising the frontal hairline by up to one inch. The Endoscopic lift has minimal effect of the position of the hairline. The tricophytic or hairline browlift can be used to adjust the hairline, usually lowering it to address a receding hairline or widow's peaks in the temporal hairline.
	 
	Best of luck!
	
	Dr. Clevens

Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD · Answer

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 possible to make some distinctly unnatural hairlines with even micrographs. The best hair grafters are artful and place the grafts in a very random way that can look very natural.

Moneer Jaibaji, MD · Answer

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.

Barry L. Eppley, MD, DMD · Answer

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.

Samir Shureih, MD · Answer

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

Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD FACS (retired) · Answer

Depending on your age, balding pattern and family history, hair transplantation may be the better option if they can accept a conservative 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. I have performed forehead reduction procedure on young men who had extenuating circumstance such a such as occupation as modeling or acting or someone who feels they cannot function well unless they get this type of work done. Early results are quite dramatic. And, whether or not the hair recedes with age and exposes the scar is impossible to predict. Men who have this procedure should have support from those close to them.

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