I realize that there is officially no such thing as a Norwood 8.

But ever since I have started researching hair transplants, I have been very observant of men's hair, particularily older men's hair.

I am always looking for signs of donor thinning, so I can try to picture how much hair could be taken and how a strip scar would look.

I have been doing this for years and after looking at thousands scalps, I have concluded that in VERY VERY rare instances, men lose hair past the Norwood 7 pattern, which is why I say that I believe a Norwood 8 pattern exists.

What does this NW8 pattern look like? It is basically a NW7 but with additional thinning on the top and bottom of the pattern.

Norwood 8, as rare as they are, are NOT hair transplant candidates....not even close. The most extreme NW8 appeared to have lost 90% of his hair, 20% more than is present in your average NW7.

i have seen a man with a very very thin amount of hair in the back of his head.. about an inch wide.. the rest was gone.

I suppose that would classify as a NW 8

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I think that there may be rare Norwood 8 patients out there. I have been doing hair transplants for 10 years and have not seen one in my office.

In my 47 years of life, I do recall seeing a couple of older men who had a narrow, thin fringe of hair in the back with no hair on the sides of their head but if course I did not have the chance to examine them to see if there were other causes. There are also rare men who have diffuse unpatterned hair loss (DUPA).

I am a believer in cautious planning but I don't think men should worry that they could go on to develop unpatterned hair loss or a Norwood 8 pattern unless there are already signs. If Norwood 8 exists, Norwood 8 and DUPA would both be quite rare for men.

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Cam Simmons MD ABHRS
Canadian Hair Transplant Centre,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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