When I was 23/24 I was stable on meds (just fin) w/ receded corners > had a consult > was adv to wait > wait til’ mid 30s > mindset didn’t change, hair loss hadn’t changed > consult again > 1800 fue grafts > wish I had surgery earlier
As a 23 yr old male having crown and receding hair line like grade 2-3 I would want to look atleast like. 30 yr old now rather than wating to be 35 or40 and having hair transplant when many people will be bald and I would've settled in life I see getting hair transplant with meds to build my self confidence in short term and ready to be bald in my 30s or 40 s. I just can't imagine being bald or having a norwood 3 in my teenage prime years
Great topic to cover guys. Along these same lines, in terms of the predictability of hair loss (which should really be the crux of hair transplantation), obviously it is much more difficult to determine the final pattern of hair loss in a younger patient and the guessing game becomes a bit easier as the patients age increases; is there a threshold at which point you can say the patient has probably reached a point where you are (relatively) confident as a surgeon that you are comfortable the patient will keep a certain amount of hair? For example, if your average man gets to a certain point (i.e. a Norwood 3 / vertex) by a certain age, it is (relatively) unlikely that they are going to progress to a proper slick Norwood 6 or 7 by the time they are of advanced age? I appreciate everyone is unique but I guess I am looking for your own experience of what you think is typical after a certain age. Thanks in advance…
Is FUT+FUE combination surgery in patient with less donor area in back of the head a good idea ? Make a video on graph wastage in FUT and FUE. thank you.
Am I the only one who couldn't understand the cons? I miss the drawing board. I think the first doc was convincing until he said he wants a HT but hasn't been on meds, does this even happen in real life?
Made perfect sense to me. Doctor on the left was roleplaying as a 21 year old with recession seeking a hair transplant, explained how much it was impacting them and that they want a transplant purely from an emotional perspective (as opposed to coming from a practical/rational perspective). 4:08 is important because in the roleplay the 21 year old explicitly said they're very worried about taking medication and reluctantly said they may be willing to try some. There's 2 core things here that really don't make the person a good candidate to receive a transplant. 1: Transplants are not an ideal first line of intervention for hair loss. In order to sustain the results from a transplant, it's usually recommended that medication is taken (e.g. finasteride) for as long as the person wants to sustain the results. The transplant itself does nothing to mitigate or slow down the process of hair loss, it is merely a cosmetic cover. Imagine you have a lawn with grass that is diseased and the grass begins dying from front to back. Hypothetically you get insecure and want to stop the issue and make it look good again. You get a bucket of grass clippings from the lawnmower and begin throwing grass over the patches of dead grass to cover it and make it look healthy again (the equivalent to a hair transplant) - however, because you did nothing to treat the diseased grass, the dead grass continues to spread more and more where you end up endlessly chasing your tail trying to cover up spots from your lawnmower clippings until you eventually have no lawnmower clippings left, and instead are left with a lawn with botchy grass clippings from where you've tried previously covering up dead grass. The same thing applies with hair transplants, except imagine you can't "cure" the diseased grass (the hair loss), you can only try to prevent the dead grass from spreading further through (often daily) medication. In addition to all of this, you want to know that the patient would respond ok to the medication in the first place and not have any significant side-effects, especially when they can potentially be on it for future decades as a long commitment. 2: At only age 21 young they are so early into their overall hair loss. The likelihood of them losing more hair as they continue to age into their later 20s and older, especially if they are not on medication, is almost a guarantee. If you get a transplant this young to restore the hairline for example, the areas with hair loss will get filled in with the transplant hair - and that hair may well stay in tact, but chances are that the natural hair behind that area will likely continue to recede further back and will end up looking really bizarre that the person has a filled in hairline but then a huge area behind that where they've experienced hair loss. This is why it's much better to wait until the person is in late 20s or so because by that stage it is much easier to see what their overall hair loss pattern will be like, and that way you can help them achieve a much better look because the surgeon would have a much better indication of what areas of their head require to be covered with transplant hair, as well as how much transplant hair. This is why the doctors in the vid were warning against going to a clinic that carelessly accepts someone in this scenario for a hair transplant, they're setting up the patient for failure by not informing them of the risks. Hope this helps. Best practice as they say is to first stabilize the hair loss to ideally prevent further loss, and this can only be done through pharmaceutical intervention. Once the patient is stable on the right medication and dosage for them, then it's much more realistic to look into getting a hair transplant.
When I was 23/24 I was stable on meds (just fin) w/ receded corners > had a consult > was adv to wait > wait til’ mid 30s > mindset didn’t change, hair loss hadn’t changed > consult again > 1800 fue grafts > wish I had surgery earlier
Not it's best to do transplant late after 28, because hairloss will become stable at that time
How successful are hair transplants for women [pre and post-menopausal age groups]?
As a 23 yr old male having crown and receding hair line like grade 2-3 I would want to look atleast like. 30 yr old now rather than wating to be 35 or40 and having hair transplant when many people will be bald and I would've settled in life I see getting hair transplant with meds to build my self confidence in short term and ready to be bald in my 30s or 40 s. I just can't imagine being bald or having a norwood 3 in my teenage prime years
Good to see you guys. Can you have a successful hair transplant if you might have retrograde alopecia?
Great topic to cover guys. Along these same lines, in terms of the predictability of hair loss (which should really be the crux of hair transplantation), obviously it is much more difficult to determine the final pattern of hair loss in a younger patient and the guessing game becomes a bit easier as the patients age increases; is there a threshold at which point you can say the patient has probably reached a point where you are (relatively) confident as a surgeon that you are comfortable the patient will keep a certain amount of hair? For example, if your average man gets to a certain point (i.e. a Norwood 3 / vertex) by a certain age, it is (relatively) unlikely that they are going to progress to a proper slick Norwood 6 or 7 by the time they are of advanced age? I appreciate everyone is unique but I guess I am looking for your own experience of what you think is typical after a certain age. Thanks in advance…
If I am a norwood 3 can I revese my hair line and crown with meds alone?
Is FUT+FUE combination surgery in patient with less donor area in back of the head a good idea ? Make a video on graph wastage in FUT and FUE. thank you.
Am I the only one who couldn't understand the cons? I miss the drawing board. I think the first doc was convincing until he said he wants a HT but hasn't been on meds, does this even happen in real life?
Yes. There are people that don't want to be a finastride because of "side effects"
I made a comment about how disinformative this video was but it was deleted. They provided no insightful information besides 'don't do it'.
Made perfect sense to me. Doctor on the left was roleplaying as a 21 year old with recession seeking a hair transplant, explained how much it was impacting them and that they want a transplant purely from an emotional perspective (as opposed to coming from a practical/rational perspective). 4:08 is important because in the roleplay the 21 year old explicitly said they're very worried about taking medication and reluctantly said they may be willing to try some. There's 2 core things here that really don't make the person a good candidate to receive a transplant.
1: Transplants are not an ideal first line of intervention for hair loss. In order to sustain the results from a transplant, it's usually recommended that medication is taken (e.g. finasteride) for as long as the person wants to sustain the results. The transplant itself does nothing to mitigate or slow down the process of hair loss, it is merely a cosmetic cover. Imagine you have a lawn with grass that is diseased and the grass begins dying from front to back. Hypothetically you get insecure and want to stop the issue and make it look good again. You get a bucket of grass clippings from the lawnmower and begin throwing grass over the patches of dead grass to cover it and make it look healthy again (the equivalent to a hair transplant) - however, because you did nothing to treat the diseased grass, the dead grass continues to spread more and more where you end up endlessly chasing your tail trying to cover up spots from your lawnmower clippings until you eventually have no lawnmower clippings left, and instead are left with a lawn with botchy grass clippings from where you've tried previously covering up dead grass. The same thing applies with hair transplants, except imagine you can't "cure" the diseased grass (the hair loss), you can only try to prevent the dead grass from spreading further through (often daily) medication. In addition to all of this, you want to know that the patient would respond ok to the medication in the first place and not have any significant side-effects, especially when they can potentially be on it for future decades as a long commitment.
2: At only age 21 young they are so early into their overall hair loss. The likelihood of them losing more hair as they continue to age into their later 20s and older, especially if they are not on medication, is almost a guarantee. If you get a transplant this young to restore the hairline for example, the areas with hair loss will get filled in with the transplant hair - and that hair may well stay in tact, but chances are that the natural hair behind that area will likely continue to recede further back and will end up looking really bizarre that the person has a filled in hairline but then a huge area behind that where they've experienced hair loss. This is why it's much better to wait until the person is in late 20s or so because by that stage it is much easier to see what their overall hair loss pattern will be like, and that way you can help them achieve a much better look because the surgeon would have a much better indication of what areas of their head require to be covered with transplant hair, as well as how much transplant hair.
This is why the doctors in the vid were warning against going to a clinic that carelessly accepts someone in this scenario for a hair transplant, they're setting up the patient for failure by not informing them of the risks.
Hope this helps. Best practice as they say is to first stabilize the hair loss to ideally prevent further loss, and this can only be done through pharmaceutical intervention. Once the patient is stable on the right medication and dosage for them, then it's much more realistic to look into getting a hair transplant.
There would be no need for surgery if young people took finasteride right away. At 20 or so. Anyway as soon as possible