I was born with an extremely large forehead, will I still be a suitable candidate for hair transplant surgery? (photos)

If you were born with a large forehead, you can consider hair transplant or hair line lowering as an option.  You would need an examination to understand if you would be a candidate.

Hairline lowering for the high hairline is something that we develop more than 35 years ago. I feel based on that experience that the number 1 Best Way of doing this is with the Irregular Trichophytic incision. This procedure is much cheaper and faster in achieving a much better and denser hairline then can be done with hair transplantation. If the scalp is too tight a tissue expander is used to create more elasticity for more advancement.Using this technology you can have your hairline advanced as far as you would like whether it's 1 inch or more. Make sure you see someone very familiar using these techniques and look at their resulting scar to evaluate this procedure.

There are two approaches to treating females with prominent foreheads.  The first is a surgical technique whereby the forehead is shortened by brining the whole hairline down.  This is know as a hairline lowering procedure.  Transplantation is another option.   The amount of transplantation that can be used to lower the hairline depends on the quality and amount of donor hair (hair from the back of your head) which will be used in the transplanted area.  Manytimes a combination of both techniques are used.  The results tend to be very impressive.

You can do hair transplant to lower your hair line. In the hands of an experienced hair transplant specialist, hair line can be reconstructed and look very natural.  

The hairline lowering procedure is done to move the existing frontal scalp hair lower to establish a new hairline and reduce the height of the forehead. Transplants can be done to lower the hairline but normal uniform density cannot be achieved with this approach.

My treatment of choice is surgical advancement of the hairline usually termed "hairline lowering or forehead reduction".  One has to have good hair at the hairline and adequate scalp flexibility. It is not unusual to reduce the height of the forehead by 3cm in a one stage operation and have a near immediate result. With a two stage process involving 6-12 weeks of scalp expansion a much greater amount of forehead reduction can be done. 

First you need to see a doctor and find out if you are a candidate based upon many attributes that the doctor will determine during a history and physical examination of you and your scalp. There are two types of procedures for
lowering a woman’s hairline. One, is a surgical excision of the upper forehead
followed by the downward advancement of the hairline up to an inch from where
it was prior to the surgery. To accomplish this, the entire scalp from the
frontal hairline to the very back of the crown, is lifted up and pulled
forward. When this is done by an experienced surgeon, the hairline can often be
advanced about 2/3rd – 1 inch if there is enough looseness when this lifting
process is done. This procedure is often complete in one surgical session;
however, it may not address receded corners of the hairline if the corner
recession is significant. A great advantage of this surgical approach is the
immediate impact of the procedure on hairline location with healing usually complete
in a week or so. Sometimes this procedure produces a scar in front of the
hairline, and if this is this is the case, a hair transplant in front of the
hairline can address the scar. If there is corner rounding that is not
addressed by the surgical lowering, then hair transplants can address this very
well. Hair transplants take 7-8 months to fully grow out.

The second type of hairline lower procedure is
done through hair transplantation. The number of sessions varies by the
thickness of the hair. For women with other than fine hair, they might do this
in a single session. With finer hair, it often takes two sessions. The time to
see the impact of a hairline lowering hair transplant procedure is 7-8 months
and if a second session is required, it will take another 7-8 months to wait
for full growth. See web-references below for four excellent sets of photos of
this process on four women.