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Absolutely. Take David Silva as a perfect example of someone who’d be considered as the ideal candidate for a hair transplant. Early 30s, thick all over, with just a receding hairline. Simple task: fill in the temples and he’s got perfect hair again.While I agree that the median wage can easily afford a decent transplant with a bit of planning, and there are few complications, there is still one problem. They don't work. Transplants are only for the few lucky men who have front recession only and stabilize there, therefore able to dense back what was lost. In the majority of men this just doesn't work. The majority of hair transplant results I see are unacceptable to a man under 45.
Problem is, so many men are not in that situation. They have a receding hairline, a balding crown and diffuse thinning. It means that unless they have an excellent donor region, there is likely to have to be an undesirable level of compromise on the final result.
The way some people talk about hair transplants as if they’re a doddle, but decent ones involve a lot of thought and planning for the future. Unfortunately there's this trend where all these naive 25-year-old men are going to Turkey to get their hairlines filled in with not an ounce of thought about the future. I fear that many of them will end up with very odd-looking hair, with a solid, boxed-in hairline but nothing behind it.