Yes, you have a mature male hairline with very early corner recession. The best way to treat this is with Finasteride
Even this Class 6 pattern of balding which appears older than most young men, show a response to microneedling, minoxidil and finasteride. I suspect that if he continues with this, the results may get even better. Very impressive early growth.
I have some bald areas that makes me comb hair. I’m start thinking about hair transplant. But, is there a sense of doing this? I mean, did you notice that women start paying attention to you more? Or nothing has changed, and there are no visible changes?
Hair transplants give you back your hair so the proper question is “does hair make you more attractive to women?” I personally think that if you feel better about yourself, it tends to project to others. I think that society tends to lean against balding and many women feel that that balding is some stigma. I remember producing a video a while back and going to the beach to interview many people about balding prejudices. One 22 year old woman said that she didn’t like balding men because they were old. When I asked her if someone her age was bald, she reiterated: “Didn’t you just hear me, I don’t like older men!” I got that on video and used it in some of my older work.
I also had a radio show that covered many subjects. One day on talk radio, I did a show on balding. A man called and told me that he was the Vice President of sales and that he has found that bald men can’t be trusted. He also said he was bald but was the exception to the rule because he was trustworthy. This shows prejudices of people against balding men. It’s wrong, but it’s out there. In a review of Presidential candidates since Kennedy, all of the presidents have hair yet 50% of men have balding. The conclusion of Men’s Fitness Magazine was that the public trusted men with hair and not balding men as much. It may be just enough of an edge to win. Today we have to candidates that had manipulated their hair with surgical procedures: (a) Joe Biden had hair transplant and (b) Donald Trump (it has all been said before and his hair is a major focus on his character).
What is the cost of buying and maintaining one? And also how does it work, does anyone here have any kind of experience with it?
Good hair systems over a 5 year period will cost you more than a hair transplant. You have to have more than one and they wear out every year or two. You have to wash them often, wash your hair and remove the glues, change them as you have hair cuts, etc. I wrote this back in 2011: https://baldingblog.com/repost-my-hair-system-cost-me-over-16000-in-5-years/
This is a fantastic result from the combination of minoxidil and dermarolling with just one year of treatment
The results are early on finasteride after 6 months but you can not only see more terminal hairs, but new hairs growing in front of the hairline that will grow out.
A good transplanted hairline will have a transition zone created in front of the larger grafts (2-3 hairs each) so that there is an easy gradation from forehead to thicker hair. This picture shows the absence of a transition zone and hair lined up like soldiers, not a random normal placement of the grafts. In addition, the transplant is not aligned to the forelock so it was poorly planned. This surgery was done recently by another clinic.
This chart shows that the longer an elderly man takes finasteride, the less the risk of prostate cancer over a 20 year time-frame. Like everything in medicine, there are always disputes, but less people die of prostate cancer if they are on finasteride.
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I have been a long time fin user and recent Dutasteride user for the last few months. I’ve already spoken to the guy that’s done my dysport for years about trying oral minoxidil. I’m not interested in using it topically and have read some really encouraging and really recent literature lately on low dose oral Min for MAA. Is this a reasonable option?
Oral minoxidil can be very effective and is a good alternative to finasteride
What does your scar look like and what length can you hide it under? Like I usually get cut 3 on the sides and back, I have dark hair.
I had three hair transplants with strip surgeries. I can cut my hair to a one cut, and have no visible scar. Most people get just a line scar but 5% do get wider scars easily treated with Scalp Micropigmentation or wearing your hair slightly longer. Half of the hair transplants we do are with strip and the other half is with FUE and few patients complain of the scar as we are now using staples for the closures and they remain in for 3 weeks until the wound is healed. A minor inconvenience, I am told.
This is most likely Alopecia Areata. See a doctor and get treated as it can be reversed.
This after photo shows that in some men, finasteride can reverse frontal hair loss. This man was on the drug for one year
A picture is worth 1000 words. Would you like her to design your hairline?
I wouldn’t have been proud to claim this as my work! I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
This photo shows a subtle change in the hair line over 2 years
