How to Create a Natural Female HairLine
Sunday, June 28th, 2009I just read a nice article in Dermatologic Surgery Journal on naturally occurring female hairline based on a study on a large group of normal women. The study was done in Miami, Florida by Dr. Nausbaum et al. Although due to the higher numbers of men with hair loss who undergo hair restoration surgery, male hairline has been studied and published more comprehensively though female hairline design through hair transplant is also gaining popularity in the last few years.
The authors came up with a guideline that could be used for designing a female hairline. The numbers were calculated based on the average of the recorded parameters in women with healthy non-balding female hairline. Among the interesting parameters, you could see that the presence of the widow’s peak was recorded in 81% of all 360 women.
The authors report that lateral mounds were observed in 90% of the patients in the study. They published the average measurement parameters on all the indexes in the article. We at US Hair Restoration perform hair transplants for women with some types of female patterned hair loss and alterations in the pattern of their hairline, or the ones with a male patterned hairline. We also perform transgender hair transplants for male to female transsexuals. I believe that transgender hair transplants should be one of the first cosmetic surgeries that a transgender individual should have done to achieve a more feminine appearance.
