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WHO
MAKES THE BEST HAIR REPLACEMENT CANDIDATE?
Realistic
Expectations
The most important, critical factor is your expectation. If you
expect to have the hairline of a teenager, you are asking for disappointment
and bad results. A man's hairline naturally recedes a little with
age.Beyond that, you need to know how bald you will get and what
sort of coverage you want. Look at your uncles, father, and grandfathers.
How bald did they get? Take the one that is the baldest, and assume
that will be you. You have to plan for the worst. Now if all of
them are balding, but they only have limited balding into old age,
that's great news, because it means you will probably be like them,
and you can plan to not need as much in transplants. If they're
all bald as an egg, you've got a problem. Even the best doctor can't
give you a full head of hair if you go extensively bald. There is
a limited amount of hair, so you have to figure out what you want
to do before you ever begin. If you don't plan and expect a thick,
full head of hair and then go very bald, you are in big trouble
if you're only half way done and run out of hair to transplant.
That's why it pays to be conservative, and if you are not sure of
how bald you will be, to wait.
Age
The second most important factor is age. This is a big catch-22.
Younger men are often the most desirous of transplants to improve
their hairline because it affects them the most in terms of social
life and their self esteem. The problem is this is generally the
worst age to get a transplant. The only case in which this is not
so is in the case mentioned in the previous paragraph where all
your relatives show very little hair loss even in old age. Unfortunately,
typically the younger you go bald, the worse it eventually gets.
For example someone who's lost a lot of his hair in his 20s may
be able to get a great transplant then, but eventually he is very
likely to be extensively bald, and there may not be enough hair
to finish the job. By the time a man is in his late 30s or 40s,
it is easier to tell how extensive someone's hair loss will be.
Also, men in their 30s and 40s are generally more financially stable.
In almost all cases, there is no such thing as a one session transplant.
Three to five will probably be required, and the worst thing that
can happen is stopping along the way and never getting finished.
Physical
Features
OK, those are sort of vague, general factors, what about specifics?
There are a number of physical traits that determine who is an ideal
person for a transplant, among them:
Is
the hair straight, or wavy/curly? Wavy and curly hair looks denser
and makes it easier to look like you have more hair than you really
do.
What color is your hair, and how does it contrast with your skin?
For caucasian males, blond, gray and light colored hair is the best
hair color to have. The reason is that the hair stands out against
the skin the least, so the hairline looks the most natural. The
worst color is dark hair on light skin, because every hair seems
to stand out and any imperfection will also. For black men, since
the skin is also dark this is not a problem.
So the ideal candidate is a man in his 40s, who is black or has
wavy blond or gray hair, has balded slowly, and whose relatives
experienced only limited hair loss. Does that mean someone outside
these criteria can't get a good transplant? No. It just means they
should be leery and careful, especially those who are balding rapidly
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