Understanding Hair
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If you had your heart set on having a hair transplant, only for the clinic of choice to say no, can be exasperating to hear. It can cause confusion, disappointment, disbelief or even a little anger. If refused a hair transplant, it´s important to understand the reason, without understanding you cannot achieve closure or come to terms with the decision or look for alternatives.
The most common reason for refusal is the hair loss gene is most active, combined with the current hair loss pattern, and that often coincides with age. Clinics have a broad range when it comes to having an age protocol, to not having one, anyone of adult age, others may cap in the mid-twenties, while clinics may prefer to wait until the candidate is closer to thirty. While the age range for a hair transplant is debatable, age is only part of the equation. It´s more about the hair loss gene being in its most active period, consequently further hair loss is likely, and the speed varied. It would be common sense to perform a hair transplant with an idea how the current hair pattern may change in the coming years, (planning), and fixing a low permanent hairline is not a clever idea. As a result, it would also make sense to wait a little longer before committing to a non-reversable surgical procedure.
The argument to want a hair transplant while the hair loss gene is highly active is simply because you want to, it will make you feel happy. Which is fine, no young man wants to have a receding hairline or open crown, it makes you look and feel older, you can´t style the way you did the year before. Every man concerned about hair loss has gone through the emotions. It doesn´t mean a clinic that advises you to wait doesn´t appreciate your feelings, in fact a clinic refusing does have your wellbeing in mind, as they know the potential consequences and have seen it play out too many times. Of course, the advice can be ignored and the search goes on for a compliant clinic, only to be complaining at a not so later date you´re not happy your hairline looks unnatural, and it´s the experts fault, they should have refused to do it.
Another, but different approach, is occasionally a clinic may try to put you off, rather than outwardly refuse, suggesting a good result would be unlikely, due to the natural hair or scalp characteristics, due to a previous hair transplant gone wrong, for instance, wrongly angled hairs or excessive scarring. This could occur if a clinic does not feel they could achieve a satisfactory result in their eyes or not wishing to get involved in case results are subpar and the potential fall out if the case goes public.
As with any industry, there are experts in their field, a clinic can excel at using the hair and skin characteristics to maximise the hair coverage and density for high Norwood hair loss patterns. Repair surgery often needs thinking creatively and the highest-level surgical skills in the approach and execution of the procedure, as it´s about prioritising the approach to achieve the best change possible with limited or impaired resources. Consequently, when researching it would be best to isolate the search to specialists in a specific area of hair restoration. Under these circumstances it would be important to have the opinions of multiple specialist clinics as the approaches are likely to vary.
Always research and take time, if a clinic refuses it is likely for a good, often ethical reason, as their goal is to attract people that pay, not turn them away. Especially if multiple clinics agree, the continued pursuit of an agreeable clinic is almost certainly not going to end well.
The most common reason for refusal is the hair loss gene is most active, combined with the current hair loss pattern, and that often coincides with age. Clinics have a broad range when it comes to having an age protocol, to not having one, anyone of adult age, others may cap in the mid-twenties, while clinics may prefer to wait until the candidate is closer to thirty. While the age range for a hair transplant is debatable, age is only part of the equation. It´s more about the hair loss gene being in its most active period, consequently further hair loss is likely, and the speed varied. It would be common sense to perform a hair transplant with an idea how the current hair pattern may change in the coming years, (planning), and fixing a low permanent hairline is not a clever idea. As a result, it would also make sense to wait a little longer before committing to a non-reversable surgical procedure.
The argument to want a hair transplant while the hair loss gene is highly active is simply because you want to, it will make you feel happy. Which is fine, no young man wants to have a receding hairline or open crown, it makes you look and feel older, you can´t style the way you did the year before. Every man concerned about hair loss has gone through the emotions. It doesn´t mean a clinic that advises you to wait doesn´t appreciate your feelings, in fact a clinic refusing does have your wellbeing in mind, as they know the potential consequences and have seen it play out too many times. Of course, the advice can be ignored and the search goes on for a compliant clinic, only to be complaining at a not so later date you´re not happy your hairline looks unnatural, and it´s the experts fault, they should have refused to do it.
Another, but different approach, is occasionally a clinic may try to put you off, rather than outwardly refuse, suggesting a good result would be unlikely, due to the natural hair or scalp characteristics, due to a previous hair transplant gone wrong, for instance, wrongly angled hairs or excessive scarring. This could occur if a clinic does not feel they could achieve a satisfactory result in their eyes or not wishing to get involved in case results are subpar and the potential fall out if the case goes public.
As with any industry, there are experts in their field, a clinic can excel at using the hair and skin characteristics to maximise the hair coverage and density for high Norwood hair loss patterns. Repair surgery often needs thinking creatively and the highest-level surgical skills in the approach and execution of the procedure, as it´s about prioritising the approach to achieve the best change possible with limited or impaired resources. Consequently, when researching it would be best to isolate the search to specialists in a specific area of hair restoration. Under these circumstances it would be important to have the opinions of multiple specialist clinics as the approaches are likely to vary.
Always research and take time, if a clinic refuses it is likely for a good, often ethical reason, as their goal is to attract people that pay, not turn them away. Especially if multiple clinics agree, the continued pursuit of an agreeable clinic is almost certainly not going to end well.
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