HAIR TRANSPLANT FORUM

Having good body hair is a good thing. You might be able to combat higher degrees of hair loss with BHT in the future should you choose.

*For right now though I think it make sense for you to monitor your hair loss and observe the effects of the meds/shampoos.

Losing hair is hard at any age, certainly when you are younger. Try to maintain what you have, be patient, and a solution will present itself - surgical or otherwise.

agree with FITLock

Hi everybody,

Body hairs technique is a back up solution.Rigth now , we can't say that body hairs can change your status (from bad candidate to good candidate for Hair transplant surgery).
We will try to use as much scalp hairs as possible before to jump to Body hairs (BFIT).So our evaluation and criteria are based on scalp hairs surgery.
Be patient ,get into propecia,Nizoral shampoo, and the future could bring new ligth and solutions for you.
Good luck

Yes, but not one of those cheap deodorants:)

When evaluating a patient the doctor must try to come to some conclusions about what can be achieved, in the long term and in short term. The doctor needs to balance alot of variables (nw class, donor area, worse case scenario, hair quality, patient goals). With a 28 year old class 5 the doc knows what he is dealing with to some extent. There are some tell-tale signs at this point for where this person's hair loss might be headed. For a 21 year old NW 3 the future is not so clear in most cases. In this case it is very hard for a surgeon to balance issues of coverage, density, patients goals etc because he does not have a clear picture of the patients possible progression.

phillipedes262, you are a young guy and a cautious one aswell. But I do not feel that you are a "young patient" in terms being a poor candidate for surgery.

BTW a 31 year old class 6 is a candidate if he has the donor area to combat his hair loss.

These are some ideas. I'm sure the doctors might give some other thoughts on the matter that differ from my own.