The age gap just seems pretty arbitrary. Not sure if I should wait or just go for it. Thanks!
The issue here if you are 25, is what you have done prior to this time. Have you tried the drug finasteride? What has happened to your hair loss on the drug? This is the type of information I need besides your family history. I don’t want you to wake up one day and hate me if you became very bald one year after I did your hair transplant. I want to know as much as you do.
https://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/world-first-start-up-hairclone-launches-baldness-cure
Of course, when reading this, it is holding on to hair for future cloning when and if it becomes available. Interesting! I know the doctors involved in this project.
I’m a diffuse thinner and if I keep losing all of my hair I’ll be fully bald on top and have hair left on my sides. I’d like to protect my donor hair and prevent it from turning into a dupa situation. So will taking finasteride right now help hair all over the head or no?I do not have dupa. Just diffuse thinning
People either have DUPA or don’t have DUPA. Finasteride has no impact on the donor area, except if you have DUPA. It may reverse some of it in about 50% of patients with DUPA (Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia).
At this point, I doubt Dutasteride would ever be approved for hair loss as the 0.5mg is already generic. Why would a drug company go through expensive trials to get a second indication when the drug is off patent? They would have had to get it approved at the same time as BPH in order for them to make money. For now, people in Canada and the USA or going to have to get it off label or order it online which sucks. Makes it harder to get for most of us.
To get the FDA to approve dutasteride, the company that manufactures it must put in the application, and fight for it. They don’t seem to be interested.
I have very fine donor hair and not enough to cover my bald head. But I have a good beard. My question is, how much beard hair can a doctor extract from the face to use for transplantation? Personally for me I don’t care about my beard hair and I’d be happy to use it all for a transplant. Could that be possible?
There are 30000 beard hairs which have a growth cycle similar to scalp hair (between 2-3 years). Of the 30,000 beard hairs on an average male, the best ones to use are the ones under the chin so it doesn’t look like you had any beard removed, but you should use scalp hair first, especially in the frontal leading edge of the hairline. You can probably get 15,000 hairs from the beard.
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Some people with finasteride induced Gynecomastia find that it continues even after they stop it. Some find it reverse. If it continues, see your family doctor
You spoke about the cardiac problems that could be associated with oral minoxidil in the podcast. Does Topical Minoxidil (5% or 10%) have any adverse cardiac effects associated with short or long term use?
Yes, the higher the dose or topical, the more the absorption and the greater the risk of cardiac side effects. More is not always better.
Hair systems over a 5-10 year period are more expensive than a hair transplant, plus, hair systems pull out the hair you have and make you balder. I wrote this a while ago about hair system costs: https://baldingblog.com/repost-my-hair-system-cost-me-over-16000-in-5-years/
You will know if you have breast pain, swelling or lumps. Then see your doctor.
Yes, You are our ideal hair transplant candidate being over 26 and a clear pattern of Norwood Class 4A balding
This is a wonderful result from 4 months on finasteride + minoxidil with a return of the corner & center hairline shown in both after photos
I was thinking of getting a FUE hair transplant. I was hoping those that have been through it could give some advice on the following. Thanks for your help! How do you know/verify that the specialist delivered on the number of grafts that he charged you for?
How many hair follicles should be in a graft? What is an optimal number of hair transplant procedures done by the specialist? Some I called said they’ve done 50. What is a good baseline?
Does it matter if the specialist is board certified plastic surgeon?
I have spelled it out in great detail in two posts here: https://baldingblog.com/before-selecting-a-hair-transplant-doctor-do-your-homework/ just follow the link
I got 6000 grafts in Turkey and this is what I now look like just 10 months since the surgery. What are my options?
You didn’t show your donor area but I suspect that it is see-through. If that is the case, the only good option is to get Scalp Micro Pigmentation and shave your head as shown here: https://baldingblog.com/smp-scalp-micropigment-patient-talks-about-how-others-were-upset/
Your photos show a maturing hairline, not balding. If you want to find out if you have hair loss behind the hairline, then get a HAIR CHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-and-what-its-value/), and then you will know for sure. The age of 17 is not too young to get finasteride if the HAIR CHECK test showed hair loss behind the hairline.