Why Don’t More People Just Get Hair Transplants?

hi!

I’m wondering….

Lots of men are slowly getting bald mostly in front areas. In some stage of a life they usually develop “high forehead”. It’s unfortunately a normal course of events for majority of us.

I’m talking about mild baldness classified II to III or IIa to IIIa by Norwood Classes…

So my question is: why don’t these men simply transplant their hair from back to front. As I understood it lasts forever(if I presume that back hair is not sensitive to DHT)

I suppose looking long term it’s safer solution(using chemicals for 10 years might have some consequneces in 30years) and might be even cheaper.

So where is the trick/hoax that people don’t decide for it and instead of this possibility using drugs?

The answer is not clear. Changing people’s attitudes is a difficult task. Adoption of plastic surgery for vanity purposes is believed by many to be a feminine thing, not a manly thing. If you are going to embark upon a hair transplant solution it requires that:

1. you recognize that you have a problem in the first place and want to do something about it
2. will not be embarrassed for doing it (the old transplant plugs failed this test and the people are still walking around advertising an obsolete technology that scares most new people)
3. get the education you need to make an informed decision (few people understand how easy it is to make a bad decision by being impulsive and not doing your shopping).

Did you know that wigs are more expensive than transplants, yet many people use them and avoid the “painful” perception that transplants can always be detected? Most wigs are detected and women make a game of it, trying to pick out those with wigs vs normal hair.

Over and over again, I find the occasional patient who hides the hair transplant from their brother, mother, and significant other. That is just how good they can be. The balding problem is widespread, because 50% of men will have some clinical balding by the time they reach the age of 45, yet less than 1% of men with balding ever start the research process for the transplant option and I suspect that it is less than half of them that go forward with a hait transplant. Tackling the hair transplant option seems to have some negative stigma associated with it. Of course, we all know that the man’s man is not vain about his hair loss, right?