Can’t Take Finasteride, Follow-Up

I want to reference: Can’t Take Finasteride, But Is a Hair Transplant Still an Option?

Dr Rassman,

Thank you for answering my original enquiry. Whilst i understand that one your goals is to protect patients from over enthusiasm for a HT. But is a HT something you would do on a 22yr old male who can’t take finestaride. I ask this before one fly’s across the globe to see you for a consultaion.

Thank You

I can not tell you for certain that I would do a hair transplant on you without knowing your donor density and doing a miniaturization study to determine (if possible) what your projected hair loss is.  Knowing your supply and demand potential and your density and laxity, I would then make a decision on a hair transplant on you. So if you can’t or won’t take Propecia (finasteride 1mg), it does not 100% rule you out, but I first need to make that assessment.

We can arrange a call after I receive good photos of you and base some of this evaluation at the time of a telephone consultation.  To setup the telephone consultation with my office, you can fill out our handy web form and you’ll be contacted via email to complete the setup.