I continue to shed and have some more questions

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

How long after a hair has been shed should you see the regrowth come through? Is telogen effluvium common in men or is it nearly always MPB? Is fin useful to prevent hair shedding?

Some simple answers: (1) telegen effluvium is rare in men, (2) young men with hair loss usually have male pattern balding and (3) finasteride is not useful in telogen effluvium. Please, for your future hair health and looks, seen a competent expert in the hair field.

Does hair transplant make you more attractive to women?

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

I have some bald areas that makes me comb hair. I’m start thinking about hair transplant. But, is there a sense of doing this? I mean, did you notice that women start paying attention to you more? Or nothing has changed, and there are no visible changes?

Hair transplants give you back your hair so the proper question is “does hair make you more attractive to women?” I personally think that if you feel better about yourself, it tends to project to others.  I think that society tends to lean against balding and many women feel that that balding is some stigma. I remember producing a video a while back and going to the beach to interview many people about balding prejudices. One 22 year old woman said that she didn’t like balding men because they were old. When I asked her if someone her age was bald, she reiterated: “Didn’t you just hear me, I don’t like older men!” I got that on video and used it in some of my older work.
I also had a radio show that covered many subjects. One day on talk radio, I did a show on balding. A man called and told me that he was the Vice President of sales and that he has found that bald men can’t be trusted. He also said he was bald but was the exception to the rule because he was trustworthy. This shows prejudices of people against balding men. It’s wrong, but it’s out there. In a review of Presidential candidates since Kennedy, all of the presidents have hair yet 50% of men have balding.  The conclusion of Men’s Fitness Magazine was that the public trusted men with hair and not balding men as much.  It may be just enough of an edge to win.  Today we have to candidates that had manipulated their hair with surgical procedures:  (a) Joe Biden had hair transplant and (b) Donald Trump (it has all been said before and his hair is a major focus on his character).

What is the cost of a hair system?

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

What is the cost of buying and maintaining one? And also how does it work, does anyone here have any kind of experience with it?

Good hair systems over a 5 year period will cost you more than a hair transplant. You have to have more than one and they wear out every year or two.  You have to wash them often, wash your hair and remove the glues, change them as you have hair cuts, etc.  I wrote this back in 2011: https://baldingblog.com/repost-my-hair-system-cost-me-over-16000-in-5-years/

You shouldn’t see the grafts!

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

A good transplanted hairline will have a transition zone created in front of the larger grafts (2-3 hairs each) so that there is an easy gradation from forehead to thicker hair. This picture shows the absence of a transition zone and hair lined up like soldiers, not a random normal placement of the grafts. In addition, the transplant is not aligned to the forelock so it was poorly planned. This surgery was done recently by another clinic.