I Was Born with a Permanent Bald Spot (with Photo)
Hi,
I was born with a permanent bald spot that will not regrow hair. I’m sorry that the photo is not high quality, it is near the back of my head to the side.
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Was there a question for me? I don’t know why you have this bald spot, whether it was indeed from birth or perhaps a trauma to the scalp in your childhood that you don’t remember. But if there’s no hair that you remember growing there, I would agree that it is more than likely permanent.
If you can live with it, let it be. If you want to address it, please give my office a call at 800-NEW-HAIR. We can fix it with a limited hair transplant or Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP). As it is a smaller spot, SMP would likely work well to eliminate the contrast between skin and hair color (plus the results would be immediate, as it is not a surgical procedure).
I have the same spot on the very top of my head in the back. I don’t notice it unless I take a mirror to check it out and I believe it is only visible when my hair is wet. I fell on cement steps trying to dive into a kiddie pool when I was 7. I hit my head. My father was a medic. He felt it didn’t need stitches and he cleaned it up. I sometimes wonder if the spot is from that. I’ve never tried for regrowth. And no one has ever pointed it out to me. Good luck.
This is a common complaint from a trauma on the head from a fall. In fact, my oldest son had such an event and I elected not to suture it up. That was a mistake on my part. So as an adult, I did a small, very small hair transplant and now the bald spot it gone.
Dr. Rassman