If I Have My Hairline Corners Transplanted Now and then Go Bald, Will I Just Have 2 Horns of Hair?
Hi, I am 19 years old. I noticed my hairline receding at the corners about one year ago. I have met my doctor and was prescribed Finasteride and he also suggested that I take Minoxidil and Nizorol shampoo. I am about to start my treatment in the next week.
I am planning to have a hair transplant on the corner recession next year but I am worried that the effects of the medical treatment might wear off in a couple of years. Therefore I would lose the hair on the top of my head, leaving two horns of hair where I will have had transplanted.
Do you think that the medical treatment will lose it’s effectiveness within ten years? And if so do you predict that we will have other treatments by then? What do you suggest I do? Leave the temples as they are? Or go ahead and have the transplant and deal with the next problem when and if it comes.
Thank you for your help.
About 7 years ago, I saw a 21 year old man from the UK who had a hair transplant when he was 17 years old to his frontal hairline corners (when he only had hair loss in those areas), and eventually became completely bald to a Norwood class 6 pattern. He was left with 2 triangles of hair at the front of his head. It was terrible looking, and his transplant surgeon never addressed a Master Plan or recognized that this 17 year old had early signs of a Norwood 6 pattern loss. I always stress lifelong planning and goals, so you need a good diagnosis by an honest doctor to assess your future hair loss pattern and plan your treatment options so that you’re not left with a couple of “hair horns”.
Everyone is different and if you are losing hair at 19 years old you should find a good hair transplant surgeon to discuss medication as well as surgical options… or a combination of both. The medication might work well for over a decade, but I really have no way to know for sure.
You need to know where the earliest signs of balding are appearing with good bulk measurements made throughout the scalp for predictive purposes. Then you can follow that yearly and see a trend. Only then can you build a Master Plan that will hopefully carry you through the entire process as you age.
I’m not clear on this – if there is likely to be an advanced balding pattern eventually then should the receded hairline corners not be transplanted ever?
I have receded corners which i hate and looking at my family history then I will probably go quite bald eventually. For now i have maybe a very small amount of thinning at the crown (which has not changed in years) and the receding hairline which has got thinner. I would LOVE to have my hairline restored – i would feel so much more confident as a result.
At 19 with only mild corner recession you’d have to consider if this is just a maturing hairline anyway. Most doctors are simply not aware of this and treat any change in hairline as MPB. I’ve had a number of friends commit to propecia and minoxidil treatment for nothing more than the normal maturing hairline which stabilised within a few years and never changed again.
Basically you need to see a doctor who is a genuine hair specialist and can give a good indication of what your hair is likely to do, what medication might help and how much donor hair you have to cover multiple transplants (if needed) as you age and bald further.