YavrumKurt

Yeah. You guys are right, I have recently been looking at some photos from when I was really young, and in this awkward family photo, my hair is flopping over the side of my face on the right side. I never paid any attention to my hairline up until my hair was falling out. :confused: So I am going to post some photos as soon as I can order a battery charger for my camera, which should be in a week or two. Thanks for the comments, I'd also be curious as to what other people might think, sans photos. Because the idea is interesting. Also, for the record, I had about 1300 grafts.

Hi there, I recently had a transplant (August), and I am just wondering how come the doctor I went to decided to angle the hair *down on the left *right on the front *back on the right. So that my hairline in the front swirls from left to right, I have never seen anything like this on anybody else, and I am wondering what the reason a doctor would opt to do this is.

I remember four years ago when I had my first hair transplant, all the doctors I spoke with were very optimistic of a new technique for transplanting that would somehow revolutionize the field of medicine. Two transplants later, I am still looking for a bigger and better options. I am even considering going to China, because of their greater willingness to experiment. So, what happened? Was it the bust in the economy that made all the research take a nosedive? The newest articles are all saying things like; "Study Links Baldness To Stem Cells" "Scientists work on perking up dormant follicles" "Cause for male baldness found" What happened? Why is the current research so much less optimistic than five-six years back? Is it because stem cells weren't being researched, and people were hopeful of the end of the ban?

This lower density has proven to be problematic upon styling my hair, because no matter how I do my hair it doesn't look natural Combing back: Hair looks fine, but in contrast to my native hair, the transplanted hair looks substantially flatter, as a natural consequence of the lower density. The transplanted hair goes straight back, whereas the native hair goes up and back, due to the resistance the extra density causes. So I have some flat hair surrounded by some unruly dense native hair. Styling up: Trying to compensate for the difference in the slope just emphasizes the see-through nature of the transplanted hair. If I try to flatten my native hair, and give some volume to the transplanted hair, so the ends of the native and transplanted hair are all resting in approximately the same plane, it looks very thin at the front and sides. Then you can see where my real hair actually starts, through the hair. Coming forward: This seems to work the best, but it looks like I am wearing a wig at some point. Because the length I have to keep it to maintain the illusion makes me feel like Justin Bieber, which I really do not like. Combing to the side: The part is really wide at the bottom, and then suddenly very thin where my native hair starts. Out of the question. A nice number 4: At one point I thought this was the best option, but after seeing a picture of myself in the sun, I felt ill. It was just as you would think. Very dense; 80+ follicles/cm2, and a stark contrast to 35-50/cm2. No blending. Suggestions?

I guess this is my point; what is the reason that we are so pessimistic about options in the future? I know cloning won't be around today or tomorrow, but what about a decade or 15 years?

I'd rather not.

When I was in high school, a doctor prescribed me Accutane, which cured my acne, but a year after stopping, I lost massive amounts of hair. From about a Norwood 0 or 1 to something equivalent to a Norwood 3 in less than a year, when I was 17. About five years ago, I had a hair transplant in California of 1000 when I was 22 years old, after starting Propecia when I was 20. I have had zero hair loss since I started Propecia years ago. About a year ago, I had a second hair transplant of 300 to fill in the area where I felt it was unnaturally thin. My major concern is this: For young guys like me, how come doctors are so reluctant to fill in the areas the put hair in? I - for one - have massively thick hair everywhere except where they have replaced it, where it is "more than half the level of the original density", which to me looks somewhat obvious. Another problem is that the hairline looks a bit unnatural, like a Norwood 3 with really curvey vertices.I have noticed that the majority of natural hairlines are somewhat angularly shaped, and more guys than you'd think have a widow's peak, even if it is VERY slight; to the tune of a couple dozen hairs even descending toward the forehead. OK. So, why are doctors so afraid to give younger guys a hairline that is more age-appropriate? I feel like I am always using hairstyles of men who are 40 years older than me. Aren't doctors cautiously optimistic that by the time I really start going really bald that there will be new treatments available? I feel like I am too young to play this game so conservatively, I would prefer to look young while I am young, not have a young face with old hair. Thoughts?