hello i am 17 and have a buzzed down hair cut...i have a receeding hairline on my right temple that could look great if I had maybe only about a square ince of total hair transplanted in there...how mnay grafts would that be, and how much $ would that cost to get it done? ne help would be g reat
17 years old..hair transplant may be the solution
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So, you have your inch transplanted. It may work it may not, whichever way it will cost a lot. By the time you're 20 the hair behind it might have receded, what now ?
OK, so you transplant the next bald bit as it appears ...and the next .. and the next.....only thing is that soon you'll run out of donor hair. You then think that the best thing to do would be to shave it down again & have a buzz cut .... but you can't because the back and sides of your head are covered in scarring.
Once you start with transplants you are scarred and you can't go back .
If you look ok with a shaved head you're very lucky - don't pay thousands and thousands to screw that up.
OK, so you transplant the next bald bit as it appears ...and the next .. and the next.....only thing is that soon you'll run out of donor hair. You then think that the best thing to do would be to shave it down again & have a buzz cut .... but you can't because the back and sides of your head are covered in scarring.
Once you start with transplants you are scarred and you can't go back .
If you look ok with a shaved head you're very lucky - don't pay thousands and thousands to screw that up.
I had my first hair transplant when I was 19 (I am 27 now). It was the best decision I had ever made. I started balding when I was 12, started using Rogaine when I was 16 and Propecia when I was 19; none of them worked, well. I wish I would have got my transplant sooner, then I wouldn't have had to go through all that cost of rogiane and propecia, not to mention all the pain of seeing my hairline look like an 80 year old man's and getting teased. The only issue with having a transplant at a young age is you will have to keep up with the hairline if it continues to recede, which is no major issue (usually).. Just have a 500 graft procedure every 5 years 2 or 3 more times.. Many say 17 is too young and maybe it is, but if you talk to anyone who had a professional micrograft procedure at a young age, he or she won't say "Darn, I wish I would have waited until I was 50."
michael barry
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Methinks Tomas is a hair transplant salesman. I dont believe you at all boy. Anyone getting a hair transplant at 19 is setting themselves up for horrible disfigurement. If you were balding that soon, you were going to horseshoe bald like Dr. Phil or Patrick Stewart of Star Trek. Would they have been good hair tranplant candidates? HELL NO THEY WOULDNT AND YOU KNOW IT. They'd have see through knotty hair that wouldve looked horrible.
michael barry said:
Youthinks wrong.. Though it's good to know I have other job qualites.. Anyway, have you ever had a transplant at age 17, 18 ,or 19? If not, then you really can't comment on the matter; all you have is speculation on what it might be like. I have had 4 now, my first one when I was 19. Whether or not you believe me is up to you.
michael barry
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Just imagine if Dr. Phil had had a hair transplant in his 20's. Weve seen his son on TV with him, has decent hair. But its gonna go in the future just like his dads.
People who start balding early in their 20's almost always completely horseshoe bald (and their hippocratic wreaths tend to be thinnish ones when they are in their 60's). You can move hair in a transplant that was going to fall out in your 40's if left where it was, so by donor dominance theory, its going to fall out to where its moved to (i.e. the front of your damned head).
Many ethical Docs wont perform transplants on men under 30. You have to be honest with yourself about how far you baldness will go in your life. You will not be able to buzz your head after a hair transplant because of the big scar line that you'll have afterwards. Ive seen a few former hair transplant's with thinnish frontal hair, but a huge vertex baldspot above hippocratic wreaths that were only a couple of inches wide in the very back (and thin too). These guys, although the transplanted plugs were pretty well done (practically see through thin in good light however) paid alot of money to look like they balded in a really funny way. Kinda feel that they much would have rather just buzzed their heads way back when.
hair transplants can be great for patients who arent going to severely bald, but the prospective patient must be sure that he isnt gonna pull a Patrick Stewart of Star Trek before jumping in and getting surgery. He will be very sad if that happens. Hopefully companies like Intercyclex will be bringing cloning to market in the next 5-10 years and genetic baldness will be defeated forever, but we cant count on that until it happens as we dont know what obstacles mother nature might present in their research.
I hope all who read these forums keep in mind that the salesmen who work for big hair tranplant outfits are always looking for ways to drum up business. They log on to forums, make up phoney names, and post happy stories. They get paid to drum up business ANY WAY THEY CAN. Ive been lied to to my face on many visits to transplant businesses by asking questions that I already knew the answers to. As a young man, they know youre freaking out about impending baldness, they dont care if your screwed for life later on, that just guarantees you will get more surgeries to stave off a ridiculous appearance of bald scalp behind the plugs three or four more times. So that initial 3000$ investment might wind up being 30K over the next 20 years. Ultimately one will run out of donor if they completely horshoe and be forced to spend 1500-2000 a year at hair club for a lousy wig. The ads for the big outfits act as if "everybody's doing this" and offer consolation to the prospective client. Well, no, everybody is not doing this. Bosley has only done 180,000 or so surgeries WORLDWIDE. Most men are waiting and hoping that science will come up with something better and more elegant than simply moving hair from the back to the front. Men who are going to go completely bald would be well advised to do likewise.
People who start balding early in their 20's almost always completely horseshoe bald (and their hippocratic wreaths tend to be thinnish ones when they are in their 60's). You can move hair in a transplant that was going to fall out in your 40's if left where it was, so by donor dominance theory, its going to fall out to where its moved to (i.e. the front of your damned head).
Many ethical Docs wont perform transplants on men under 30. You have to be honest with yourself about how far you baldness will go in your life. You will not be able to buzz your head after a hair transplant because of the big scar line that you'll have afterwards. Ive seen a few former hair transplant's with thinnish frontal hair, but a huge vertex baldspot above hippocratic wreaths that were only a couple of inches wide in the very back (and thin too). These guys, although the transplanted plugs were pretty well done (practically see through thin in good light however) paid alot of money to look like they balded in a really funny way. Kinda feel that they much would have rather just buzzed their heads way back when.
hair transplants can be great for patients who arent going to severely bald, but the prospective patient must be sure that he isnt gonna pull a Patrick Stewart of Star Trek before jumping in and getting surgery. He will be very sad if that happens. Hopefully companies like Intercyclex will be bringing cloning to market in the next 5-10 years and genetic baldness will be defeated forever, but we cant count on that until it happens as we dont know what obstacles mother nature might present in their research.
I hope all who read these forums keep in mind that the salesmen who work for big hair tranplant outfits are always looking for ways to drum up business. They log on to forums, make up phoney names, and post happy stories. They get paid to drum up business ANY WAY THEY CAN. Ive been lied to to my face on many visits to transplant businesses by asking questions that I already knew the answers to. As a young man, they know youre freaking out about impending baldness, they dont care if your screwed for life later on, that just guarantees you will get more surgeries to stave off a ridiculous appearance of bald scalp behind the plugs three or four more times. So that initial 3000$ investment might wind up being 30K over the next 20 years. Ultimately one will run out of donor if they completely horshoe and be forced to spend 1500-2000 a year at hair club for a lousy wig. The ads for the big outfits act as if "everybody's doing this" and offer consolation to the prospective client. Well, no, everybody is not doing this. Bosley has only done 180,000 or so surgeries WORLDWIDE. Most men are waiting and hoping that science will come up with something better and more elegant than simply moving hair from the back to the front. Men who are going to go completely bald would be well advised to do likewise.