Hairline And Shape For Hair Transplants.
Before a hair transplant is undertaken, the patient’s whole-body status must be considered and any underlying health problems addressed. The best result you can go for is to try and recapture how you originally looked when you have hair transplant surgery and not attempt to change your appearance.
In the adolescent, the hairline sits just above the upper brow crease formed by the upper border of the frontalis muscle directly below it. The position of the normal adult male hairline is approximately 1.5cm above this crease at the mid-line). A common error is to place the newly transplanted hairline at the adolescent position, rather than one appropriate for an adult. Although the younger patient, first experiencing hair loss, may put considerable pressure on the doctor to place hair in the lower position, the physician should not yield to this demand.
Under normal circumstances, as a patient ages, his density decreases and the natural hairline will move back somewhat. However, a transplanted hairline is immutable. Therefore, when the transplanted patient continues to thin or bald (which he invariable will) the fixed low frontal hairline will begin to look out of place, since it is natural for a person with decreased overall hair volume to have a slightly receded hairline, rather than one that is still in the adolescent position.
A similar logic applies when choosing the shape of the hairline. As a male passes from adolescence to adulthood, his broad, flat hairline evolves into a more tapered shape with some recession at the temples. A persistent low, broad hairline is enjoyed by those who also maintain their adolescent density. This situation is not present in those who are suffering from androgenetic alopeica; therefore, a transplanted flat hairline will not “age well” over time and will look unnatural as the patients overall density decreases and particularly as the crown begins to thin