Seeking thoughts on moving from fin to a full HT...

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Hello everyone,

I'm a 28 year old male, guessing I'm about NW3. I've been taking finasteride for about three years now and though I've experienced only a little additional thinning in that time, it has reached the point where it's starting to make it more difficult to wear my hair in my normal style.

This is how my hair generally looks, and has looked for the past few years:


This is the level of recession of the hairline I have:



The problem now is the hair at the front can't always fully cover up the recession of the hair that's happening on either side of it. I'm therefore looking into a hair transplant in a bit more detail to see if it might be worthwhile.

A few questions - sorry if you get asked them a lot but I've done some research and I'm still unclear on these points:

1) If I get hair grafted into the receeded areas and the hair at the front starts to go (as in a Norwood 4A) and I going to end up with a weird hairline with two areas of hair stranded at the front while everything else receeds away behind it?

2) My other concern is scarring. The idea of having individual follicles moved in FUE appeals to me a lot more than the strips of FUT because it seems less invasive, and I'm under the impression the scarring would be much more minor. Am I correct? Really, how serious scarring can I reasonably expect - is it going to be obvious that I've had a transplant done if I shave my head later in life? I'm worried that I might regret it ten years down the line if so.

3) Finally, it sounds like I'll need a shaven head in order to undergo a transplant, right?

Thanks for your time!