Questions about thinning hair
Hi there Dr. Rassman. I’ve been reading the balding blog and think it’s great!
I have a question for the blog. Do thinning areas of the scalp (regardless of what the Norwood pattern is) always eventually thin to the point where that area ends up completely shiny bald and there is no hair left in that area at all? Or can a thinning area thin to a certain degree and then stabilize like that with some hair remaining in the thinning area? So like for a example, would a person with a Norwood 6 pattern always end up completely slick bald? Or can the hair significantly thin in the Norwood 6 pattern but then stabilize with some hair remaining within that pattern?
If a person is thinning in a Class 6 pattern, for example, then if the thinning (when looked at under a hand microscope) has significant miniaturization, then one can expect eventual progression to a full Class 6 pattern; however, if there is just uniform reduction in shaft sizes even in the donor area (again using a hand microscope), then this is a condition called Age Related Thinning.
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