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Re:Hairy Question
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I worked for a company that was very strick on facial hair and dress for 29 years. As soon as they layed me off (1 week later) I shaved my head. I like it that way and I will never go back.
It gets some attention, some good and some bad.
Good luck with your decision.

Can any of you assist me with a hairy question I have?  Or should I say a non-hairy question?  I am thin and in good physical shape (I do the Peachtree each year), but I’m also as bald as a baby’s butt.  It’s been many years since I had a full head of hair and frankly, I’m tired of it.  I’ve been doing some research, but all I see is what I would consider sales pitches.  I then had a thought, “Maybe someone on TER can give me good advice”.

Any advice on transplants?  Where do I go?  What should I expect?  Are there other options?  I have been bald for many years so I doubt pills or anything I would rub into my scalp would help.  Besides, I don’t like taking drugs of any kind, even if they are from a doctor.

Ladies, if you know anyone who has a good experience with this I’d like to hear from you as well.

Check this place out in Florida.  Do lots of looking around and be careful of the sales pitches.

brookebutler4180 reads

I hate to see you try to do something unnatural. I happen to love a bald head. I even love balding heads. Good luck but I say you stay the way you are!

*wink*

xoxo
B

-- Modified on 6/27/2004 1:28:14 PM

Dude,

I feel for you.  No man wants to be bald.  Its crap for a man or woman to say so or its sexy or whatever.  

I slowly started loosing my hair at 17. While never going bald, I did have thinning and receding hair by the time I was 23.  I had tried Rogain in college.  No dice.  

Then at 23, I made the big jump at started the process of hair transplants.  I did a lot of research (this was 18 years ago).  Like lasik (vision correction), you only get one shot at this.  So, I opted for the most expensive place with the highest reputation at the time, a place reportedly to have done the "stars".  

Bosley Medical Group in California.  I had 4 procedures.  While the procedure sucks . . . its not painful . . . but it is still surgery . . . and the donor area did take weeks or a couple of months to heal (its like a serious cut that scabs and take a while to heal . . . don't get the wrong idea . . . its not too bad)  I was very happy with the end result.  It did the rick for 10 years.  

Over time, however, my hair receded and thinned further.  So, I needed to make some more investments.  Haven't gotten around to it yet for a variety of reasons.  

I do plan on it though within the next year or so.  There have been major improvements.  It used to be that they would transplant areas of your scalp about 1/8 of an inch in diameter.  If you had really dark hair, which I don't, then this didn't look perfectly natural . . . good though and the average person wouldn't have noticed that you had had a transplant.  Today, however, the best transplant single folicles.  This results in near perfect results.  

I'm not entirely sure how current Bosley is on this procedure.  Check them out.  The place that I believe is the best is NewHart.  I've been to there "open house" and was impressed.

By the way, I wouldn't go near the place posted above.  The guys site has a "testimonial" page which is bland and he has only three head shots which are nothing to be excited about.

Good luck

I worked for a company that was very strick on facial hair and dress for 29 years. As soon as they layed me off (1 week later) I shaved my head. I like it that way and I will never go back.
It gets some attention, some good and some bad.
Good luck with your decision.

i am now 33 my hair has been thining since i was 18 used rogan.helped some but not much.went to the bosley group in atlanta for the free consoltation i was impresed but the man i saw said i didnot have enough donner hair so after years of parting my hair to the side i have decided to have it all cut off not totaly bald but the crue cut.i will be slick on top but i am tired of worring about it.good luck with what ever you do

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