Will My Hair Transplant Look Natural?

Dr.Rassman, I am 25/yom, with significant thinning in my frontal hairline, and temples. I was taking propecia but stopped because of the side effects, and I heard it doesn’t work for receeding hairlines. I have consulted a Hair transplant doctor here in michigan, and he says their are some miniaturized follicles, but at the same time it may be too early to get work done, because of future hair loss. I can’t stand waking up everyday and finding new balding and thinning areas, it’s killing my self esteem. They did reccomend 600 grafts if I decided, which I am seriously considering. But will it look natural? Will it cause other natural hairs to fall out? And should I be taking propecia? Please help sir, I would be so grateful. Thanks so much.

I cannot make a diagnosis or give a second medical opinion via the internet, because I am limited to your description and I have not examined you in person. When a doctor says “it may be too early to get work done”, you might want to let his words ‘sink in’ and consider this as reasonable advice. If the doctor makes his living doing hair transplants, then if that doctor did not want to sell you a transplant, it should add a bit more value to the recommendation to hold off doing a transplant. As a general rule, before you consider a hair transplant, you and your doctor should review the Master Plan for your furture hair loss and your expectations with the various options. After both you and your doctor are in agreement to have drug therapy (such as Propecia) or undergo a hair transplant, then you can work from that plan. At the hands of a good hair transplant surgeon with good planning, a hair transplant should look natural and undetectable to anyone looking at it. I have many patients whose transplants looked so good that they could have even fool my trained eye.