Johnny8989

Hi experts at hair restoration network! My situation: I’ve always had a very high hairline and the oblong head shape adds to that appearance, and the right side lateral hump of my hair has always been less dense (can be seen in pics below) than my left side even since I was a teenager. My temple points I feel are very far forward in comparison to where my hairline is (this is probably due to my skull shape) which adds to a greater imbalanced look when looking at my directly from the front and makes styling my hair in an aesthetic way very difficult to achieve. I feel that if I am to do a hair transplant that in order to improve the aesthetics that on top of rebuilding my hairline I need to also add hair to my lateral temple angle in order to reduce the degree at which my temples slope (see first picture below). To my understanding this is referred to as “temple angle closure”? My hair loss has really only progressed starting at my temples and slowly worked its way back making them deeper over the years as well as reducing density at my hairline (especially my right side). I feel like I first noticed some hair loss around the age of 26-28 years old (my father slowly transitioned to a norwood 3a/4a over his life and is currently 75 years old without any medications) and at age 30 I started taking 0.5mg Dutasteride daily as well as 5mg oral minoxidil daily. I am currently 35 years old and when I compare pictures that I have taken every 6ish months apart I do not see any discernible difference in my hairline besides more grays popping up (good ol’ aging). I would say my hair loss has been stable for the past couple years. So what are your thoughts? What norwood do you estimate I am? Is my hairline design reasonable? I want a balanced hairline that gives me styling options and the only way I can see that happening is by rebuilding my hairline as well as closing my temple angles by adding to the sides of my temples to reduce the slope. How many grafts do you estimate? Anything else you’d like to add is also appreciated!