6000 donor available, good hair characteristics BUT good chance I will go to NW7. If I get 2000 in the frontal 1/3rd now will the remaining 4000 donor be enough for me to still have a natuaral look if I did reach NW7? I don't care if I have a thin crown, just as long as I don't look like I've had a HT.

What do you guys think?

Depends how bald you are and how old you are. Obviously if you are under 30 your HT doctor has too seriously plan for your future and make sure you are left with spare donor hair.

Hopefully with the help of propecia you wont have to think about that for a while. Also i'm sure that in the next 10 to 15 years there will be a lot of further developments such as hair cloning and this wont be an issue anymore. Lets hope...

you will have a very thin crown if you go NW7... 6000 is just not enough IMO.. if your front third is BALD 2000 grafts will provide a thin result more than likely.. obv how you style it will be key.. your best look will probably be the comb back look... something to consider also is if you go NW7 your hairloss may drop a bit on your sides, resulting in a tuft of transplaned hair up top and unclosed temples if you do not want to look like you had work done it will require a skilled doc and more valuble donor to close your temples to your sides...

and im sure that you cannot POSSIBLY be sure of this im also sure that ANYONE.....ANYONE who makes a decision on a transplant with the believe that a future 'cure' like treatment will come soon enough to save the rest of their hair is putting themselves in a bad spot

within 20 years im SURE there will be a cure for AIDS, and since they have decent treatments that allow me to live MANY MANY years with it F**K it!!! no more comdoms for me.. eh? eh?.... whos with me!!....................anyone......... hello??

1.go for a very skilled surgeon and tell him your goals man.
2.cover up your frontal and mid scalp and dont think much about the crown because "crown is like a well" which requires a lot of hairs .
3.another way is that if you have a thin crown then you can always cover it with some good concealers.

How old are you? Would you consider posting some pictures? Who told you that you have 6000 donor available?

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Interesting question. I agree with many of the points made in response

1. Concealers can make a big difference in thinning or thin areas but not on totally bald areas.
2. There may be improvements especially with cloning in the future but it is wiser to regard this as a bonus if it happens not something inevitable as lost my swagger illustrated.
3. Propecia can definitely delay further loss for the vast majority of people.

I would like to add as well that I found it helpful to visualise the different sections of the scalp. Doing this enables you to think through which ones are required for a cosmetic improvement now. It also allows you to think which ones would have to have donors in reserve to cover any further loss as in the missing temples described by lost my swagger.

This is a graft calculator provided by the site which is the type of thing I mean. I actually made some rough measurements myself and did the calculations on a piece of paper but the effect was similar. The only thing I would say is that the calculator here may not fully help you to appreciate how the sides could go from a NW6 to a NW7. I would say the model is closer to a 6.
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Some docs can rebuild a "frontal forelock", that looks like a natural forelock of hair on an otherwise very bald man. The idea is not to create a real hairline, but to frame the face, so that he is not slick bald, and that there is more focus on the face.


If you are going to be a NW7, I would absolutel not get a standard (or even receded) hairline planted. You will end up with an island on top disconnected from the rest.


Check out Beehner, he specializes in this.

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Chops,
Generally speaking one needs 1000 grafts per level on the NW scale, so if you go to NW7, you will need 7000 grafts.

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Thanks everyone for your comments amd thoughts.


Do you mean 6000 is not enough to provide a natural result, for soemone who ends up as NW7? I'm fine with thinness and a thin crown as long as it looks natural.

Unfortunately my hair naturally points forward in a flat direction hence the comb back lookdoesn't work for me.

I'm 33. Sorry camera is currently not working.


Good advice. How many grafts do you think a NW7 can use on the crown? I'm only a NW4 at the moment, but just wondering but just wondering if the crown did start tro open what the max no. is that I should sensibly throw at it.

So what alternative are you suggetsing or are you stating that if a nw4 thinks they will go to nw7 then they shouldn't get a ht full stop?

I guess the sides dropping is the biggest worry. I mean there are some ol men out there who have the tinies little ring of nw7.