Any Way to Determine The Speed of Your Hair Loss?

Dr.Rassman

Is there any way to accurately determine if you are going to be a person with very slow hair loss or a person with fast hair loss?

The reason I ask this is because I went to school with a guy who had slight recession in his temple area but wasn’t really that noticeable. It lasted like that for years and then all of a sudden it picked up and became very noticeable, and then slowed down now (I think) that he is in his early 30’s. Thanks

A good hair doctor can measure the rate of (a) miniaturization of your hair in different areas of your scalp and (b) the changes in hair bulk over time. I use these two approaches to make the diagnosis, and when I put a person on a drug like finasteride, I can see if I was successful at stopping the balding process. It would make little sense to me to use these instruments to follow the loss of hair and the rate of loss without treatment, but it would give you an idea on the speed of your hair loss over time.