Permanent Male Pattern Baldness
For most men who are losing their hair before they'd like to, the
answer is genetic. Hair loss, like eye colour, is an inherited trait.
While you were still forming in the womb, your hair follicles were
being genetically coded. If genes responsible for hair loss were
present, they made the hair follicles on top of your head sensitive to
the hormone
DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE, or
DHT. These follicles were then
predisposed to begin shrinking when you reached adulthood.
Unfortunately, once this genetic process begins, it will continue
throughout your lifetime. As the hairs produced by your ever-shrinking
follicles become finer and finer, they will begin failing to grow to
normal length. And what is first noticed as "thinning hair" or
a "receding hairline" progresses to baldness when the shrinking
follicles finally stop producing any hair at all.
For men, permanent baldness generally follows a specific pattern as
suggested in the Hair loss Classification Chart.
Even in the most extensive cases, a horseshoe-shaped fringe of hair
remains. This hair-bearing fringe is insensitive to the balding
process and usually will last a lifetime.
Please feel free to complete our
Self Assessment Form or telephone
0800 614853 (Overseas +44 1924 200918) to make a private,
no-cost consultation with one of our experienced doctors will give you
an exact diagnosis and expert recommendations.
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