Losing Crown Hair While Maintaining a Juvenile Hairline?
Hello Dr. Rassman,
Is it possible to start balding in the vertex area and scalp area while still maintaining a juvenile hairline? I noticed that I still have hair under my furrowed brow, but the overall thickness of my scalp hair has dramatically decreased. I am 22 years of age.
Thank you.
Yes! You can start balding from the vertex (crown) area while maintaining a juvenile hairline. Those patients are a subset of the normal Norwood hair loss patterns with a persistent frontal hairline.
In rare instances, someone with this type of hair loss may even continue to have his juvenile hairline for the rest of his life, even though his crown has become bald.
That’s what happened to me, very slowly. That’s why I never noticed hair loss until 3 years ago, at age 50. Now the frontal hairline has receded a bit. When I went for a hair transplant consult the doc wrote, “NW3V -NW5V?”….not exactly sure how to describe it. None of those NW illustrations really seem to fit.