Senior Member aaron1234 Posted July 6, 2009 Senior Member Share Posted July 6, 2009 Robert McNamara died today. I always was intrigued by his hair loss pattern. As an adult man, it appeared he had his hairline intact with no visible balding. But it looks like he went from a NW1 to a NW7 in just a couple of years. Here are some comparison shots. This kind of balding scares the s*** out of me. Dr. G: 1,000 grafts (FUT) 2008 Dr. Paul Shapiro: 2,348 grafts (FUT) 2009 ~ 1,999 grafts (FUT) 2011 ~ 300 grafts (Scar Reduction) 2013 Dr. Konior: 771 grafts (FUT) 2015 ~ 558 grafts (FUT) 2017 ~ 1,124 grafts (FUE) 2020 My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member aaron1234 Posted July 6, 2009 Author Senior Member Share Posted July 6, 2009 Robert McNamara died today. I always was intrigued by his hair loss pattern. As an adult man, it appeared he had his hairline intact with no visible balding. But it looks like he went from a NW1 to a NW7 in just a couple of years. Here are some comparison shots. This kind of balding scares the s*** out of me. Dr. G: 1,000 grafts (FUT) 2008 Dr. Paul Shapiro: 2,348 grafts (FUT) 2009 ~ 1,999 grafts (FUT) 2011 ~ 300 grafts (Scar Reduction) 2013 Dr. Konior: 771 grafts (FUT) 2015 ~ 558 grafts (FUT) 2017 ~ 1,124 grafts (FUE) 2020 My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member aaron1234 Posted July 6, 2009 Author Senior Member Share Posted July 6, 2009 His other pic. Dr. G: 1,000 grafts (FUT) 2008 Dr. Paul Shapiro: 2,348 grafts (FUT) 2009 ~ 1,999 grafts (FUT) 2011 ~ 300 grafts (Scar Reduction) 2013 Dr. Konior: 771 grafts (FUT) 2015 ~ 558 grafts (FUT) 2017 ~ 1,124 grafts (FUE) 2020 My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Marvin Posted July 7, 2009 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2009 Going from a NW1 to an NW7 in your 40's beats the hell out of going from an NW1 to an NW7 in your 20's. I'd trade up to McNamara's genes any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member MrJobi Posted July 7, 2009 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2009 No doubt these 2 pics are quite some years apart. Let's remember the values at 40 are a bit different at 70 JOBI 1417 FUT - Dr. True 1476 FUT - Dr. True 2124 FUT - Dr. True 604 FUE - Dr. True My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor. Total - 5621 FU's uncut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Marvin Posted July 7, 2009 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2009 Also, I don't know about you guys, but once I have gray hair I don't think I'll really care about being bald. For some reason, baldness looks more passable on a guy with gray hair. Maybe its because a lot more people are bald at that age. Or maybe its because the white hair blends in with the scalp, while colored hair contrasts with it. Unfortunately, gray is a good 30 years away for me, while NW6 is more like 7-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member aaron1234 Posted July 7, 2009 Author Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2009 What if McNamara had a transplant done in his forties? Not plugs, but the state of the art HT that many doctors here are not performing on a daily basis. Dr. G: 1,000 grafts (FUT) 2008 Dr. Paul Shapiro: 2,348 grafts (FUT) 2009 ~ 1,999 grafts (FUT) 2011 ~ 300 grafts (Scar Reduction) 2013 Dr. Konior: 771 grafts (FUT) 2015 ~ 558 grafts (FUT) 2017 ~ 1,124 grafts (FUE) 2020 My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member TC17 Posted July 7, 2009 Senior Member Share Posted July 7, 2009 aaron1234, I totally understand where you're coming from. Anyone who is not concerned with Secretary McNamara's hair loss pattern is either very confident in medicine and his family history, or very foolish. I do not think that losing your hair so severely so late in life is common, but it is possible. Odds are good that if he had undergone a transplant at age 50 or 60 his scar would have been very visible, and a majority of the transplanted hairs would have fallen out. I personally believe that the reason this topic has received so few responses is because nobody likes to be reminded of the downside of anything. Nobody likes a critic, a Negative Nancy, or a cynic, but hair transplantation carries future risks that even the best of doctors cannot predict. This is merely a visual reminder of what may happen in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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