Optimal age for hair transplant

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  One of the questions young people affected by hair loss commonly ask is: Is there an ideal time or optimal age to make your hair transplant? Which is it?

  A hair transplant done at an early age may be the beginning of a long term costly adventure. In many cases doctors recommend patients to wait up to an age close to 30 years or more.

Technicaly, hair transplantation can be performed at any age. A young balding men often require for a hair replacement of his frontline - who later may look unnatural.

Young patients shows in most cases a loss of hair in the temples (somewhere between 20 and 24 years). The question that should be kept in mind is that this fall it 's possible to continue progressively over the following years. Getting a high density in the frontal area will determine later un unnatural look, because the hair behind the front line will be rare or missing.

Also, If the donor area is not stable in a young men's scalp, the transplanted hair will continue to thin after it has been transplanted to the new location. So the hair transplant will eventually gradually disappear and the donor scar may become visible as the hair covering it continues to thin. This problem can affect patients undergoing both FUT and FUE procedures.

Therefore, a doctor must consider the issue of the optimal age and discuss it with his client before proceeding to a hair transplant.

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