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Why Hair Loss Occurs Behind a Thick Hairline - Saturday, March 06, 2010

Question:

My hair has been thinning for a few years now, but there's something strange about it: My hairline is still relatively intact. Is this common? I thought male pattern baldness was almost always accompanied by temporal recession?

Answer:

Some balding men still retain remnants of their juvenile hairline and experience thinning hair throughout the rest of the scalp; this balding pattern has been identified as the persistent anterior fringe. Hair loss is largely unpredictable, and not everyone is going to follow the Norwood scale of hair loss to a tee.

Some degree of hairline recession is the norm in most cases, but diffuse thinners and men experiencing other pattern variations might not lose all of their frontal hair.

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