Is my hairline to far back?

[Sean]

If you just had surgery any swelling remaining can also through you off in both a good way or negative way since it doesn't help you see things clearly for a couple of days. However, from the pictures I honestly can't tell where your existing hairs were razored and where the grafts were placed in your native zones. The iphone isn't the best when it comes to showing it unless you do a close up and mark or indicate those areas between native hairs and transplanted hairs.

You said 3000 grafts so I am assuming based on the area covered it may have been placed with a decent amount of density. Do you know the density and hair groupings placed or area covered in cm? Did you address your concerns with hairline placement in previous emails or talks prior to meeting the doctor? Did they say they can lower your hairline to address your concern initially? When your razored down native hair is grown back, then analyze the distance between the placement within days because you will have a temporary outline that will enable you to see how far the doctor positioned your hairline from those native points.

I know firsthand what you mean with the forhead thing and also the desire and hope everything looks proportional in the end without looking too conservative or making the forhead look distinct in accordance to hair restoration or styling goals in the end.

I don't know the full extent of your hair loss or norwood level but from the photos you have posted at this point, it obviously looks like a conservative approach whether that is something you wanted or are concerned about now, but again, it could be you just had surgery which can be throwing it off a little bit due to post op temporary swelling. If you can possibly do a frontal side by side before and after surgery comparison, that would help give you an opinion from a restoration member more accurately. I am sure your doctor has preop pics as most doctors take them for their own records, so you can request them and put them up as comparison points like I did. Then take photos every few days or month to month to compare the changes for your own record as well. Hope you get what you wanted in the end and wish you the best.

No point in stressing over things like that at this point though. Just take good care of yourself with the post op care.

[Ghost]

Hello, thanks for the information.

I did have surgery about 50 days ago, i dont know if thats fairly recent yet or not?

When I originally sent my photo he had me go through the assistant, and his assistant who was great spoke to the dr. I drew out an outline and sent them a much better photo from a friends camera which was better, i wanted to realistically consider what i wanted to spend where i wanted hair and consider his comments about density and making it to strong, I also had someone take the photo which was much better quality then what i posted.It was basically exactly what he did, almost perfect except my hairline I drew on my head was just a half centimeter more forward where i had it, to the point where the cowlick was. So its not a big change and its 90 percent what i thought out, but I did suggest it be slightly more forward and he felt it was best where it ended up and would give me a nice hairline. More forward and he said it would look to feminine and just didnt think it would look right on me. Maybe he also looked at my old photo which I sent and noticed I never had much of a hairline.

Im hoping it turns out good, and it should he is a coalition member and I liked his work. Im hoping once it comes in it will add volume and lower.

As for the hair on the front sides, he shaved and transplanted into the frontal sides, he said he wanted to do the whole area even where i had hair should i loose it so the transplant holds up, that area i noticed is just sprouting now and is coming in first. but its not really noticeable unless i take a mirror to it.

Maybe im making to much out of it, i actually measured where the hairline I would have liked would go to, and where it ended up, and its not much at all, actually just under half centimeter slightly. So maybe im being overly picky.

[RodG]

Hi,

If you measuring your hairline I definitely think that you are overing thinking this. The surgeons recommended on this forum are very experienced and you need to trust your doctor. If your that concerned telephone the clinic.

Cheers Rod

[AdamAJ]

if i understand this right...usually its about 4 fingers from the top of your eyebrows that the hairline should be placed

[Ghost]

Originally Posted by RodG

Hi,

If you measuring your hairline I definitely think that you are overing thinking this. The surgeons recommended on this forum are very experienced and you need to trust your doctor. If your that concerned telephone the clinic.

Cheers Rod

No i somewhat agree, but I only measured it because I was just trying to quantify the difference in where i suggested it be, and where he put it as I did not know how else to explain the difference or describe it over a forum.

I am probably over thinking it, i should probably wait a number of months to see yet how it looks with some actual hair, and not just bald scalp.

[Mickey85]

Originally Posted by AdamAJ

if i understand this right...usually its about 4 fingers from the top of your eyebrows that the hairline should be placed

I think that is being very liberal unless the patient has little loss and an abundance of donor hair.

[richie48]

Mate it looks fine , I agree with the posters above .

you are young , you have lost alot of hair already , any good doc was always going to go on the side of caution .

Mate let it grow out , maybe an 1-2 inches , stick some wax in it , make look funky , like yer ........ I've lost a bit of hair but I'm cool with it look , and go rock the new "maturing" hairline , pull some chicks and have confidence in the work , your new hairline will look fine bud .


good luck
richie

[Ghost]

I think your right.

And thats my plan as well.

These first few months are killing me but I am going to let it grow out in the front and style it and take good care of it when it does come in. Even though I have had a somewhat back or receded hairline all my life, it never really bothered me because I had a decent amount of hair to play with grow out and style. Maybe i shouldnt even be complaining considering its not like i had a deep hairline ever in my life. Even that younger picture of me is about where its always been or not to far off and my friends always suggested i have had a receding hairline since they knew me in grade 7. Didnt bother me though when I had hair Hopefully those days are back again where i can joke about my hair.