Is it DUPA or DPA - 17 years old

artik

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My hair has gotten a bit thinner so I decieded to go to a derm. He confirmed that there is some early miniaturization, but not only on the top of my head, but also the sides and no receding hairline (although i have an assymetrical hairline which I have inherited from my father, who is not balding). The back is completely fine, no bad hairs.

I have no family history of history, my dad is 48 with a full head of hair, his dad only had some minor recession (something like a Norwood 2.5 when he was about 70), my mums dad died before he was 50, but suffered no hair loss until then.
I have only a great grandfather (paternal, grandmaternal) who was bald, he suffered from early male pattern baldness, he was bald by his twenties and he had no hair on the sides of his head, just a patch of hair on the back (but that was solid and thick, not see through) and that he maintained until he died at 68. Was that DPA or DUPA. I guess I inherited my hairloss from him (bad luck on this one), so do I have DUPA or DPA?
 

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I see, so it's only DUPA if you lose ALL your hair, or at least all miniaturise to some extent? Also note that he didn't have the typical "horseshoe" nw7 pattern, he had less hair, it didn't reach his ears from the back, but from the pictures of him, it seems like that what he had left were thick, healthy terminal hairs.

If I have his pattern then I guess I wont be a candidate for hair transplants later on, so I will have to wait for hair cloning and stuff like that to come out... is that correct?
 

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Well I dont think i will have enough hair for a hair transplant as only the hair on the back of my hair is not miniaturizing. Can it later on start to do so or it is permanently safe?
 
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