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Having lurked here and on other forums about hair loss for some time, posting just now, it amazes me that many on the internet facing MPB think a temporal recession is worse than crown loss.
Transplant docs, who know the large number of grafts and more challenging work and complications involved in crown repair, push this "receding hair lines frame the face" meme on the public, to help themselves.
I have considerable crown loss, and not nearly as bad from the front. I can tell you balding from the back is a lot more traumatic and depressing, and disfiguring. You can hide a frontal with comb overs better, and unless it's really really bad, most on the public will hardly look twice. It almost looks distinguished.
You have little recourse except to shave, because it looks soooo baaad.
People who have never heard of Norwood scales call you balding if you have any sort of real bald spot. And it's called a "receding hairline" (e.g. not a balding hair line/temples) for a reason, and a "balding vertex/crown" for a reason.
The reason is you have a solid mass of hair with an irregular expanding hole in it that is hard to hide and looks really bad, limiting options. Transplants will require lots of grafts, and probably multiple expensive surgeries to correct and keep up with the loss. It's a lot worse to lose your crown.
My nearly 80 bio father and well into his 90s bio grandfather have better crowns than I do, and I am under age 45. My several years older bio full brother, hardly any loss except a super modest and irrelevant frontal recession and zero crown loss to boot!
Talk about life being unfair...
Transplant docs, who know the large number of grafts and more challenging work and complications involved in crown repair, push this "receding hair lines frame the face" meme on the public, to help themselves.
I have considerable crown loss, and not nearly as bad from the front. I can tell you balding from the back is a lot more traumatic and depressing, and disfiguring. You can hide a frontal with comb overs better, and unless it's really really bad, most on the public will hardly look twice. It almost looks distinguished.
You have little recourse except to shave, because it looks soooo baaad.
People who have never heard of Norwood scales call you balding if you have any sort of real bald spot. And it's called a "receding hairline" (e.g. not a balding hair line/temples) for a reason, and a "balding vertex/crown" for a reason.
The reason is you have a solid mass of hair with an irregular expanding hole in it that is hard to hide and looks really bad, limiting options. Transplants will require lots of grafts, and probably multiple expensive surgeries to correct and keep up with the loss. It's a lot worse to lose your crown.
My nearly 80 bio father and well into his 90s bio grandfather have better crowns than I do, and I am under age 45. My several years older bio full brother, hardly any loss except a super modest and irrelevant frontal recession and zero crown loss to boot!
Talk about life being unfair...
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