Your biggest enemy is the progressive nature of balding that comes about from genetic male patterned hair loss. What will happen in the next 5 or so years is probably that you will continue losing hair in the pattern that you inherited from your parents and grandparents. Your looks show early balding now, but this is the time to meet with a good doctor who can make the correct diagnosis and start you on the drug finasteride, which is highly effective at stopping progressive balding and possibly reversing it in men of your age. Get Bulk Measurements of your hair to determine where your present balding is now, and then after you go on the medications, such measurements will tell if the treatment is working within a year or so. If you are developing a more advanced balding pattern which the Bulk Measurements will show over a one year time frame, then you and your doctor need to develop a MASTER PLAN and that Master Plan might have transplants as an option. With early balding, I would not rush to hair transplants if the drug alone will solve the problem and you will know this within a year.When you finally are old enough to warrant a hair transplant, you can grow dreds if you wish.