Hi All,

I'm new here so my apologies if I've broken protocol. I've been reading forums like this on and off for ... wow it's been a long time now at least 4-5 years.

My question is regarding Forehead Reduction. I've seen a few people questioning it on here, but the response is usually quite negative. I believe it's a good thing, and I wish more people would take the same approach with FUE or Strip. Although, I feel a lot of the negativity stems from lack of knowledge on the subject.

Regarding Forehead Reduction, here's my logic:
If you have a high & receded forehead you could have a HT... Let's say you wanted to lower your hairline 2cm... with a 15 cm hairline, you would theoretically need 3000 graphs to attain 100/cm2.

Or you could get a Forehead Reduction, and small number of graphs to conceal the scar.

I'm pretty sure a Forehead Reduction would be less expensive, you would be saving your graphs for future loss, the result would be immediate.

Now the arguments I hear against Male Forehead Reduction is that when you lose more hair the scar will become visible. But if you have a ht in conjunction with the forehead reduction, you could place hairs in and in front of the scar thus concealing the scar.

You would still have to worry about future loss, but that's the case with either option. At least with the forehead reduction, you haven't depleted your donor.

Comments?

Can you provide any examples of aesthetically pleasing results of this procedure?

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http://www.kabaker.com/Hair_Line_Lowering-1_01.html

Or google : forehead reduction surgery

It is mostly performed on women, because of MPB. There is a scar at the hairline, but perhaps it would be concealable with fue.

I think the end result looks pretty weird for many of those patients, especially the males.

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The guy on that website looked way better before the forehead reduction surgery. All the pics look weird, I'd rather have a massive forhead or be bald than do that.

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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Many of those patients look better in the before photos. That should not be the case with ANY cosmetic procedure.

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I have to be honest, the results aren't bad. I'm a little shocked, because I was instantly very leery of this post. I think the guy looks better after the forehead reduction. He kind of became a punk rocker in one session. I'm still leery, but the pictures are intriguing.

Quoting my own quote, one serious caveat would be to see how these people look when they're 50. It's definitely along the lines of a facelift, but for some reason instead of pulling the face back, the hair is being pulled forward. There's no way in a million years I'd ever consider it, but some of the pics are hard to judge since they seem to have been taken almost immediately after surgery (or at least, I hope so).

Alright, one more comment before bed. I was just looking at the rest of the website, and not surprisingly the guy is offering scalp reductions. I'd have sworn that was a taboo procedure today (UncJim, if you're out there), so all things considered I would personally stay away from this doctor.

Now I'm off to bed, wifey is calling. Last comment, Kabaker is recommended by this site, but truthfully based on a lot of his available procedures I would think he would not have passed the test. In addition to scalp reductions, he's also offering juri flaps. I'm not sure what to think anymore, but I remember those 2 procedures being considered very old and dangerous approaches, and very much along the lines of big punch grafts. UncJim would definitely have an opinion, but I'm afraid that I'm now walking in dangerous territory by criticizing a site-sponsored doc.