Can Surgery Fix Balding Heads?

The mirror revealed all Seth Garon needed to know about his future — there would be no encore for the full head of hair he enjoyed as a guitarist in a rock band.

“In my late 20s, I started losing hair,” Garon said. “I was looking in the mirror and saw my father looking back at me.”

Garon is one of the estimated 35 million men in the United States affected by male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia. By age 35, two-thirds of men in the United States will have some degree of appreciable hair loss, according to the American Hair Loss Association

“It made me confront aging, and I was not happy with that prospect,” said Garon, who had quit music for a job at an advertising agency in Portland.

Garon’s reaction to hair loss, which is usually caused by genetics, is common among young adults who are entering the workforce. Seventy-seven percent said they would be “somewhat concerned” if they were experiencing hair loss in their 20s and just starting their career, according to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery.  Read full news at “Can Surgery Fix Balding Heads?”