I Don’t Care About Future Hair Loss, I Want a Transplant Now!

i am a 19 yr old male, almost 20, and since i was 16 my hair has receded near the temple points. my hair line now resembles a narrow V. i style my hair in a way that gives me a youthful look and it covers it well, however i am wanting to get a transplant so that i may have a beautiful hairline. doctors have told me that i am too young but i dont care, if i get the hairline reconstructed and the rest of the hair continues receding, so long as i have a real hairline i dont mind wearing a hairpeice if it comes to that…what do u think?

If you are losing this much hair at such a young age, it is not a good sign. There is a risk that you may go on to lose all of your hair before you are 30 years old. Despite what you may think, you will still care how you look like when you are 30 years old (or 40, 50, even 80 years old for that matter). You have to accept the fact that hair transplant surgery in itself is not a complete solution to your problem. What I mean by that is you will never look like or have the “beautiful” hair you had when you were 16 years old. Just as your face will change, your body weight will change, and you will constantly adapt to different styles and looks over your lifetime. The same goes for your hair. As you lose more hair you will adapt and change your hair style to make it look full.

While hair transplant surgery can certainly address the balding and receding hairline, you have to think about how you may look like with more hair loss and think about the worst case scenario. This is what we mean when we often talk about the Master Plan involved when a patient decides to have a hair transplant surgery.

If you are sure you will go bald and you are totally fine with wearing a hair piece, then surgery to the front hairline and front area of the scalp can be a good compromise to give a full and natural look that blends in with a hair piece. But until you are 100% sure of this, I would wait. Surgery at such a young age can precipitate accelerated “shock hair loss” from the trauma of the surgery itself and your existing hairs will fall out faster than they otherwise would’ve and you will end up looking worse.