Should I Lower My Hairline with Transplants or Just Bulk Up the Existing?

Hi Dr Rassman,

I recently visited a very reputable hair transplant surgeon. I am a 33 year old with Norwood 2 recession. My hairline has receded at the sides of the hairline and slightly at the temples. The surgeon recommended that instead of straightening off the hairline and transplanting hair to the temple that due to chances of further recession it would be more beneficial to bulk out the line of the current hairline, totalling 800 grafts/20cm. He was adamant that this would produce the most natural looking results, whereas bringing the hairline further forward would leave open the danger of having a gap between transplanted hair and any hair that further receded (both in the hairline and temple regions; i thought that he was using the danger of further recession as an unnecessary reason. Am i best to follow his advice or go with the look i would like?

In essence he is recommending this type of procedure: link

when i would he more inclined to go with this: link

I am generally not inclined to perform preventive hair transplantation and given the borderline nature of your desires, I would have to evaluate you to determine if your goals are reasonable or not. You must remember that once you start the process, you are committed for life to following back the balding if and when it should progress.

I’d need to see photos of your head at the very least before getting any kind of idea of the best way to go about creating a hairline for you. Unfortunately, I can not answer your question from the photo examples you supplied.