Im not a huge fan of this look, but I know people with no hair loss who shave the sides of their heads to the skin and then grow out the top a bit. I generally do more of a fade rather than complete shaving, but would consider this look if I don’t have a choice. I don’t know a ton about transplants because I am new to this, but I don’t see why someone couldn’t simply take all the donor hair they have and then put it up top. Other than money, I don’t know why this wouldn’t be a possibility.  Combine SMP with FUE, doesn’t that make sense?

I’m looking at topical, how much is 0.1% fin to mg in tablet. Are there pros and cons to topical fin?

Why are women wigs way more accepted by society and look way better and real than men wigs ?? It’s also much more expensive for a guy to wear a wig rather than a girl . And 90% of men systems look fake

Wigs are very common in African American women because if they have kinky hair, they can’t style it like the fashion models do. The same is for other women who can more easily through on wig for a night out rather than go to the salon to have their hair fixed up.

Men don’t have that luxury to change their hair on the ‘drop of a hat’ and when they wear a hair system, most men have their head shaved, with the wigs fixed on by glues so that they can’t just come off and switch a style.

What makes a hair transplant detectable. I know the freaks I see with those awful plugs, but today these are not done anymore so what must I look for when I am told that the transplant is not detectable. 

There are many distinct reasons for detectability of a hair transplant.

(1) The first is clearly the harshness or the delicacy of the grafts that are placed. If they are not placed as God has grown them (natural groups of one, two, three or four hairs each) and they are not graded (singles in the frontal line only to create a transition zone between the forehead and the beginning of a hairline) then the presence of more than a one hair graft in the frontal hairline can be visually detectable as not soft. Natural looking transplants are soft in appearance.

(2) The rest of what makes hair transplant look like transplants are Location, Location and Location. If a hairline is placed too high, then even if they are put in as discussed (in #1 above) the location calls your attention to the obvious look that something is not right. I am sure that even with good distribution, if hairlines are not placed back in the normal position, they will look abnormal. The rest of the ‘Location’ metaphor relates to the distribution of the supply to the demand area. The doctor must recreate a normal looking pattern that is found in nature. It is Ok to be thin but not imbalanced. So the Location issue must be tied to a MASTER PLAN when a hair transplant is planned and implemented. The art here is tied to the experience of the physician group who can mimic what god has created.

Today, the large old plugs are rarely used (except for the few dinosaurs left from the old days still performing them), but there are still doctors using grafts that are not the natural occurring follicular units that god defined. They come in many names, including slot grafts, mugs, minigrafts or even micrografts that end up transplanting skin along with the hair and therefore creating an abnormal skin surface along with a non-natural occurring anatomy. Today’s Standard of Care is the Follicular Unit which naturally contained between 1-4 hairs each.  Still the axiom remains: Let the buyer beware. I say, do your research and be sure that you are going to get what is represented to you. The most abused term in the hair restoration industry is ˜Totally Natural and Undetectable Results’.

I just decided to take a break from FIN (after 9 months of 1mg/day) and within 4 days of stopping my flaccid penis size has returned back to what it used to be and I am starting to get morning woods again ( I have not had one in forever) with good libido.

I really do not want to take this drug knowing how much it shrunk my penis while I was on it (when soft, erected penis looked about the same but maybe a tad bit thinner) but it helped preventing further hair loss so much smh..

I tried not to think about my penis while I was on it, but not getting morning wood and shrunk penis are definitely side effects, right? After a month break I am thinking of starting back with 1mg eod regimen and hoping I will not get any of these sides..

My last resort would be 0.25mg eod and if this still makes my penis look small and takes away my libido,, I might just give up using this drug.

When you have to trade your sex life for your hair, I tell patients that my advice is forget the hair and focus on your sex life.  Hair transplants can always solve the hair loss problem without a sex drive sacrifice. For other hair loss medications, oral minoxidil works nicely without the sexual side effects of finasteride.  Also, some men use liposomal topical finasteride which is powerful and stays mostly just where you apply it in the scalp and doesn’t go significantly systemic.

I appreciate your helpfulness! Keep in mind a lot of this is performed on rodents and in vitro. However in 2015 there was a study on females that supplemented with fish oil and saw a significant positive impact with a sample size of 100+ if I recall correctly.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25573272/

I have quite a few more but they are quite dense in information but if you’re interested I can show you.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22440736/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14668211/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16304452/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9973380/