Would You Restore a Mature Hairline to a Juvenile One?
Greetings, Doctor. I’d like to ask a couple of questions if I may!
How unique can hairlines be, in your experience? Can the hairline position at a young age predict hair loss?
How do you feel about restoring a juvenile hairline, if the person that comes to you has a perfectly fine mature hairline?
I’m asking this because most of the pictures from the hair transplants I’d seen on your website and others have had people’s hairlines restored to a ‘mature hairline’ and not a juvenile one. Am I wrong?
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer!
Many men into their 30s have juvenile hairline. For example, Ronald Reagan had one for his entire life (see photo at right)… and he was well past 35 years old at the time he died.
If a man developed a mature hairline and had no signs of balding (with good measurements), I might restore the juvenile hairline if I thought the patient was mature and level-headed. I have rarely restored the juvenile hairline, but I have repaired some that have had erosion and an incomplete migration to the mature hairline.
I would like to have my mature hairline lowered only about one seventh of an inch, but I’m a bit concerned if aging would make such a partial restoration on me look as if maturation of my hairline had been interrupted at some stage, and if those who are educated (regarding the tip-of-the-nose-to-chin measurement method) will be able to tell from photos that I probably had had a transplant, if I choose to have a less-than-complete restoration of the juvenile hairline, all the way down. I fear a partial restoration would look less natural than a complete restoration, though I must admit I’m not visually familiar with the phenomenon of “incomplete migration”.