Men only poll!

[Cliff Rogers]

Can you sand your No. 3 comb back to a No. 2 ?

That would be a different kind of sharpening thread.

[bitingmidge]

Don't worry Cliff, I've seriously considered that. Might even do it with the #7 yet!

P

[Woodlee]

Here are some hair loss facts from the University of Virginia.




I've got the same sort of hair as my dad. I will probably have a very high forehead by the time I'm 70 but not bald. It's not pretty now and I don't think it's going to improve.

Chris

"Not from a gene passed on from an individual's maternal grandfather"

This I would have to disagree with .My maternal grandfather was bald as a coot at around 21 ,but for some hair on the sides and back of his head .Im 52 and have the same symptoms as my maternal grand father but my balding was much later
My paternal grand father went to his grave with a full head of hair and my father shows no sign of balding at age 76.

What gets me is I can grow a full beard in a short time , but my dog (Huskie) sheds more fur when brushed than my missus gets off my haircuts in a year.

Anyway tis a # 2 with a set of clippers for me , and a hat outdoors at all times
I voted for the rats' ring BTW..

[soundman]

I havnt had time to read all 7 pages of posts, but the whole thing seems to require a progressive strategy.

a combover isn't a strategy unles you have some sort of sad comedy act.

one option that has been forgotten for those with a rear crown only hair loss is the pony tail.... grow it long and wear it in a pony tail... but you have to gro the fringe reaaallly long.

Phase 1
Normal hair growth.... fine & beaut
phase 2
Hair thinning a bit...... grow it longer for some extra body
phase 3
thinning and getting obvious.......cut it short... dark hair #1&#2 light hair #2&#3
phase 4
Either you've lost soo much it just not worth it any more, or you have a good shaped head....... buy a top of the range electric shaver & mow it down every day.

My self and a number of mates have the problem in varying degrees

two mates of mine did the ashly & martin thin in their 20's.... cost them heaps and only delayed the inevitable if anything.

Brian... wore a rug for more than 20 years.... he spent good money and it looked real, he even swam in it.... several years ago he had it shaved off
It was the best thing he ever did...... hes got a head like Youl Brunner and he has girls half his age chasing him.... If I had a head like his and could grow a full head of hair, Id' still shave it off.

Tony, ( who has more hair than me) has shaved his for years.....one point he would make is, if you wear a motorcycle helmet you have to shave twice a day or the lining sticks to your head like velcro.. & it can be painfull to get your helmet off.

Ross, is a fitness instructor, so he wears a bandana all the time with the muscle shirt and the funny pants.

I get a #2 on top and #3 on the side....... one day soon I'll go out and buy a top of the range philishave & do the deed.

No matter what a combover isn't an option.

one of the biggest problems is that the sweat forms on your head and beads up into big drops picking up size & speed as it goes & runs straight down into your eyes.

So where do you get good bandana's from.

cheers

[munruben]

Hey, I am already there, I use to comb my hair over the top to try and disguise the fact but one day my son said to me, "Dad. why dont you just cut it real short, it will look much better, I did just that and sure enough I think it does look better than trying to hide the fact.
and I look arount nowadays and see so many young guys with the same style haircut that I got. and I got mine for free.
I havent read all the posts on this topic but probably someone has already mentioned the fact that God made only so many perfect heads when he created man and the rest he put hair on.
Sure if I could have a full head of hair I wold have it in a flash,but it doesnt really worry me, Some things we just have to accept. Guess if I was a young guy it might be different.

I just looked at the poll results, I wonder how many of the guys who voted "I dont give a rats ring" are bald, Just a thought.

[Cliff Rogers]

...I wonder how many of the guys who voted "I dont give a rats ring" are bald, .....

Not yet, but I vote that way all the time.

[silentC]

The end of the comb over?

In a discovery that could lead to a cure for baldness, it has been shown for the first time that hair can be regrown.

The research overturns a longstanding belief that loss of hair follicles in adulthood is permanent.

An American team of scientists found that, under the right conditions, skin has the ability to revert to a more primitive state and then regenerate normally, producing new hair.

The research was carried out in mice and involved researchers cutting away a piece of skin tissue.

"We've found that we can influence the skin to heal in a way that includes all the normal structures of the skin, such as hair follicles and oil glands," said the team leader, George Cotsarelis, a University of Pennsylvania dermatologist.

The new hair the mice produced was indistinguishable from their existing hair.

Professor Cotsarelis said the findings could have applications for a range of hair-loss conditions, not just male baldness.

The researchers also found they could suppress the growth of hair in the healing skin. This meant hairy people might also benefit in future, he said.

Cheng-Ming Chuong, of the University of Southern California pathology department, said the study, which was published in the journal Nature, could have even wider implications for medicine.

"[It is] an unexpected finding that could change our current understanding of repair and regeneration in adult mammals", said Professor Chuong, who was not a member of the team.

The team showed that the healing process triggered an embryonic state in the skin in which dormant genes were re-awakened. These genes instructed stem cells to move to the area of the injury and begin to make new hair follicles.

By increasing or reducing the levels of the proteins produced by these genes, known as wnt proteins, the team was able to increase or decrease the number of new hair follicles that grew.

A University of Melbourne researcher, Justine Ellis, said the role played by wnt proteins in hair follicle regeneration was one of the study's most important finds.

It might be possible to develop treatments for baldness, based on these proteins, which would not require the skin to be cut. But she said the hair would still be subject to the conditions that made it fall out in the first place.

If regeneration could be coupled to an effective treatment that prevents hair loss "then we might really be onto something".

[Capt. Zero]

No baldness or greying on my side of the family. Stress incontinence anyone?






"What's it all about Mr. an Mrs John Q. Public?
Well...it's about this long and about this high. And it's about what we're talking about."

[Dusty]

Hair??
I remember it well.

Now, however, is a different story.

[Glen]

Probably never have to worry, but have had a number two since I was 18 and couldn't go back to having hair anyway. SWMBO not happy about short hair but she's given up that fight years ago, says if I go bald will leave (might be worth it ). I don't know about you blokes but the hair that grows on the back of your neck after they shave it at the barbers really annoys the crap out of me.

[weisyboy]

maby if you grow your beard long you can comb that over or your ear hair.?

[reeves]

a beard is like a lawn on a bald man..!