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i've just been paranoid lately cuz ive been reading up on male pattern baldness and stuff...
but i have short hair (gonna grow it long) and was just wondering if my hairline is normal (the middle part is slightly more down because the barber styled it like that from what i'm aware.. he didnt make it a straight line):
(pic taken first thing in the morning, hence my hair looks messy lol)
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3709/2yl3.jpg
help would be greatly appreciated.
looks normal to me......which is more then i can say for my hairline which is looking like it's receeding....
thanks for the feedback. You say you have a receeding hairline, any pics?
Looks perfectly normal to me.
Thanks for helping
so is there some receding there?
Well, I can't look at the picture(s), because you gave me nothing to click on! I am EXTREMELY computer-stupid, by the way, --- and am also incredibly lazy! So, if I can't simply see the pic (like most people here include their pic with their typed comments), or at the most click on a link that will take me there, I'm stuck with having to guess...
So, my GUESS is that you don't having a receding hairline... yet!
- Ken
Hey...A.S. you have no recession at all. And even though I cannot see the rest of your face and the way the silhouette of your head outlined by the hair cut frames the features of your face in conjunction with your jawline and your hairline, from what I can see that appears to be a really well cut shorter style that truly works well with your head shape and hairline. It does not look messy at all. I really like the look. The reason the hair is clipped the lengths it is in the various areas is because the hairdresser was looking at the shape of your head and trying to clipper/scissor sculpt an outline of your hair above your head that worked with your head shape and hairline to frame your facial features to make you look your best. That is when a hairdresser becomes part artist. Many and especially some Barbers just cut the hair as if everyone has the same head shape and it ends up not looking very good at all.
And there really is not a real need to worry too much about MPB as there are new surgical techniques that are much simpler than the old butcher graft surgery still being widely practiced in the US. Known as F.U.E which stands for follicular unit extraction. Instead of a strip of hair bearing scalp being excised from the back and sides of the head and then the scalp having a long scar and obviously a lot of pain involved. The new method is where individual follicular units of one or two hairs are extracted and then transplanted with a hypodermic needle. In the old method one could never achieve satisfactory density on the top of the head relative to the sides because the back and sides were just as thick as ever only there were fewer or more stretched square inches of hair bearing scalp. The surgery was also limited by how stretchabale one's scalp was because after the strips were excised the scalp has to be stapled back together. So the result was far from satisfactory. The individual grafts were then cut up from the excised strip by technicians under a stereo microscope. So the Surgeon did the relatively simple task of slicing the scalp and excising a strip of skin. Of course he had to be careful with nerves an blood vessels and other complications but the Doctor was not involved in the tedious process of separating the individual grafts. He could do mpore surgeries witjh a team of helpers. Now since the individual units are taken from the back and sides those areas are thinned and the hair is transplanted to the thinning areas. One can achieve an even density all over the head just not as dense as when one was a teen. For guys who have very thick thick hair this is sometimes a welcome change. The hair on the back and sides may be just the perfect density when thinned by redistributing hair to the balding areas. For those whose hair is already thin, body hair transplants of hair from the chest and abdomen and back for those who have hair there are also possible. The hair takes on the growth characteristics of scalp hair soon after transplanted. nmaybe not to terminla lengths of several feet but certainly to the length of the hair in your photo.
An Australian, Dr. Woods pioneered the new Hair graft surgery and the method is known as F.U.E. and also as the Woods Technique. All hair graft surgery will be here in a few years. The reason it is not being embraced as much in this country is mainly because the operation is really simple especially if one considers some of the piercings that are done by way less than doctors. There is no reason a trained nurse could not perform this simple surgery or really a tattoo artist or an electrologist. And there is the rub. The Doctor has to be involved in the tedious process of extracting the grafts and obviously cannot do as many surgeries or the medical profession has to admit that anyone can do this simple surgery and not block legislation allowing less than doctors to perform it. Up till now the Butcher surgery though the results are far less than satisfactory has been highly profitable for the late night TV Doctors and others who perform it. This is a politically powerful group who do not have a bevy of highly paid lobbyists in Washington for nothing.
Anyway if you want to find more information, Google Dr. Woods, or Dr. Alvi Armani although he still performs the old surgery too he has a nice website, or Follicular unit extraction or F.U.E. or The Woods Technique. And also B.H.T (Body Hair Transplants.)
If you doubt that the old techniques still being practised by most late night TV doctors was serious surgery and involved a LOT of pain, look at the Photos linked below. These procedures are never shown in the infomercials or the slick advertising brochures where the hairs to be transplanted magically appear from the back and sides of the scalp. I advise however that these are actual surgery photos and are NOT for those with a weak stomach.
Strip Excision Harvesting of Hair Grafts:
http://tinypic.com/11icvo8.jpg
http://tinypic.com/11icylw.jpg
http://tinypic.com/11id1si.jpg
A "Scalp Lift" reduces the area that needs to be transplanted. A particularly gruesome procedure. Thankfully, not always a part of the old method:
http://tinypic.com/11id91v.jpg
http://tinypic.com/11idd28.jpg
http://tinypic.com/11id62u.jpg
Of course the real advance is probably only a few years away. When as much of one's own hair as one wishes can be grown in a Petri Dish and available for transplanting.
Hi A.S.,
"read my lips" (lol :-) it is NOT receeding, that's for sure.
We all worry a bit, but your hair line is much lower than mine, and I certainly don't consider myself an MPB victim...
By the way, you'll look phantastic with long hair! Let it grow forever! I'd love to see your 2007 and 2008 updates!
Hans-Uwe