Step 1: Designing a new hairline

The design of your hair restoration plan is critical. Your plan must take into consideration results to be expected in one year but also it must take into consideration the balding that can take place over the rest of your life. One limitation of hair transplantation is the limited donor area. Generally speaking, the more bald a person is and the younger a person is, the more he/she has to consider this limitation. It is unlikely that a person can accomplish high density throughout his scalp, a low scalpline with no recession in the temporal area and coverage of the crown (back of the head) if he goes to a stage 7 and, in many cases, a stage 6 degree of balding. (See the FAQs for a diagram defining these stages of balding.) To keep our plan a conservative one and one that offers very high confidence that you will always be happy with a natural-appearing head of hair, we must often compromise in one or more of these areas (density, crown coverage, scalpline.) The older you are and the less bald you are, the less compromise is required as that means you are less likely to proceed to an advanced stage of balding in your lifetime. See FAQs for an opinion regarding the place for scalp reduction in considering this issue.