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For over 5,000 years, men have mourned their hair loss and attempted to create treatments that would reverse their baldness. From honey and oil, to goat pee and pigeon poop, men have done whatever they could to regrow their crowning glory and recapture their youthful appearance.

Men today might feel a close kinship with their bald ancestors if they knew they shared the same emotional distress hair loss can inflict. Two studies from the 1990s looking at the psychological impact of male pattern baldness came to the conclusion that it caused great stress and unhappiness, left a poorer self image, and increased self-consciousness of their own baldness when compared to controls with little to no hair loss.

While mankind is formulating bizarre, kitchen sink concoctions in the hopes of finding a hair loss cure, Greek physician Hippocrates wrote in his Hippocratic Corpus: "Eunuchs are not subject to gout nor do they become bald."

With that observation, Hippocrates, whether he knew it or not, had stumbled onto a fact that is the cornerstone of understanding hair loss in men and women. Eunuchs don't lose their hair because they do NOT have the male hormone known as androgens. Despite his clever observation in 400 BC, the science of hair loss did not take another step forward until an anatomist by the name of Dr. James B. Hamilton took up the eunuch observation once again and published a paper in 1942 entitled: Male Hormone Stimulation is Prerequisite and an Incitant in Common Baldness.(6b) In that research paper, Hamilton noted that androgens, the male hormone, was the main prerequisite for male pattern baldness. Later, in 1949, Hamilton established the first progression chart for male pattern baldness which was later improved upon by Dr. O'Tar Norwood to become the now industry standard Norwood-Hamilton Chart of Male Pattern Baldness.

Understanding the actual pre-requisites for hair loss was the foundation for establishing cures in the coming decades.

Modern Era

The last half century, 1960 to 2010, has seen major advances in the treatment for hair loss. Hair transplants went from being an academic notation to hair plugs to micro grafts to more natural looking follicular units that could be harvested in strips or one at a time. A blood pressure medicine with an activie ingredient called minoxidil was discovered to have an interesting side-effect. Modern research led to the development of potent anti-androgen pills such as finasteride and dutasteride. Outside of FDA approval for hair loss, spironolactone, azaelic acid, and ketaconazole have shown evidence of their ability to stop the androgens that cause hair loss.

Although men today may stress about their hair loss, most are grateful and hopeful to be living in a time when effective treatments are available, and wait with anticipation for the day that a complete cure can be discovered.

Crown Hair Loss

Hair loss is men is most observed in the frontal region. Men are more likely to notice their hair loss at the temples and the receding frontal hair line while shaving in the morning mirror. What is less noticable is the thinning hair at the crown which slowly gives way to the infamous and unwanted "bald spot.". Unfortunately, hair on the crown can thin out by 50 percent before it is noticed by men, or their immediate family members. Going undetected like this, valuable time is lost in which the man could have taken a proactive approach to preserving and reversing his crown hair loss.

Within the realm of hair transplantation, there is usually more emphasis on restoring frontal hair lines and hair loss in the mid-scalp regions, than their is in the crown. Transplanting hair into the crown region is not as straightforward as it appears. Doctors have to take into account future hair loss and the availability of donor hair. If done too early, and future hair loss is underestimated, the patient could have a patch or island of hair surrounded by thin to balding hair. A phenomenon known as hair transplant shock can also cause a patient to permanently lose DHT damaged hair after new hair grafts are implanted.

Hair transplant and hair restoration doctors commonly recommend to patients that they do as much as they can to preserve and reverse hair loss using topical and oral medications such as minoxidil and finasteride, which can be extremely effective at producing positive results. Other medications, including topical finasteride, show promise with their anti-DHT abilities, even though they are not approved by the FDA for hair loss. Minoxidil in strengths up to 15% are even available over the internet for the man who wants to fight his hair loss aggressively. While hair transplant doctors focus more on frontal and mid-scalp hair grafting, it might be good news to some that these medications are actually more effective in treating crown hair loss.

CrownHairLoss.org

With more than 50 authoritative sources utillized in the research and writing of this website, we hope that visitors will be armed with a thorough understanding of their crown hair loss and the best treatment options available. We also provide visitors with access to a list of 25 important minoxidil studies that begin as far back as 1985 as well as additional resources where crown hair loss sufferers can go to find more information. We hope that you enjoy this website and find it a useful source in your fight to stop and reverse crown hair loss.

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