damien said:
I have heard of someone at the age of 21 getting some donr but i personally think its stupidity at that age.
Damo
I am going to have to disagree. You cannot make a blanket statement like that without looking at all of the facts. I personally know a young man that recieved a hair transplant at the age of 21 (almost 22). I also spoke with the physician that performed the hair transplant procedure. We spoke at much length about the criteria he weighed to come to an ethical situation for the young man:
1) He spoke with the young man's father about his hairloss, his family's hairloss, and what they did to help fight it. It turns out that the father's and uncle's pattern was much like the young man's. It started rapidly but stabilized at a NW2. Niether the father or the uncle have ever taken measures to fight their hairloss. The mothers' side of the family never showed much, if any, hairloss at all.
2) He spoke with the young man at length about what he had already done to stabilize his hairloss. He had taken Finasteride and Minoxidil religiously for around 18 months. He started utilizing Nizoral 1% around 3 months before. The physician wrote him a prescription for 2%. The young man was very diligent and serious about his regimen.
3) The procedure was roughly 1,600 grafts. The patient's donor area had above average density and laxity, thus leaving plenty of donor area hair for future procedures IF NEED BE but the entire plan was for the first procedure to be the sole procedure.
Like anything, there is no 100% guarantee on anything. However, to write off a situation SOLELY because of age is irresponsible and, in my opinion, immature and lazy.
