Guides and tools
Built from published sources and from what people wrote about their own hair loss and transplants on reddit, each linked to where it came from.
Cost and planning
- Hair transplant cost Published clinic prices by country, with a trip-cost calculator (flights, hotel, time off).
- How many grafts do I need? Graft counts by Norwood stage, from patients’ own reports.
- Before and after Patients’ own photo results at 9 months or later, linked to their posts.
- Crown hair transplant How many grafts patients put in the crown, how it grew month by month, and why many waited.
- Hair transplants for women Who is a candidate, and which doctors women report going to, with what they paid.
Cost by country: Turkey, US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, India, South Korea, Italy, Cyprus, Poland, Australia
After a transplant
Your hairline
- Norwood scale Stages 1 to 7 explained, with numbers from patient reports.
- Is my hairline receding? A self-check: what to look for and what to do next.
- Receding hairline stages Where people said they were, at what age.
- Mature hairline vs receding What people who asked on reddit were told, and what happened later.
- Hairline types M-shaped, straight, cowlick, tapered and more: which mean balding.
- Widow’s peak What studies say, and what people wrote about their own.
- Balding crown or cowlick? What people who asked were told, the signs of thinning, and what works on the crown.
- Haircuts for a receding hairline The cuts people actually got, and how they felt about them.
- Haircuts for a balding crown or thin top Buzz, shave or keep length: what people thinning on top chose, and how it went.
- Celebrity hair transplants Who said so themselves (Cena, Rooney, Klopp), who denied it, and what reddit believes.
Medication
- Finasteride How it works, how long it takes, the trials and the side effects, with the label’s numbers.
- How to use minoxidil Foam or liquid, oral or topical, dose and side effects.
- Minoxidil results month by month People’s own progress reports.
- Finasteride results month by month People’s own progress reports.
- Dutasteride results month by month People’s own progress reports, and the US label.
- Minoxidil vs finasteride What reddit threads and people’s results say.
- Ketoconazole shampoo The studies, and what reddit threads say.
- Shampoos for thinning hair What the ingredient studies show, and what people reported.
- DHT blockers What actually blocks DHT, the evidence for each, and people’s own reports.
- Spironolactone The label, the trials in women, and people’s own reports.
- Hair loss in women The causes and how each looks, PCOS, the tests, when to see a doctor, and the treatments.
Does it cause hair loss?
- Hair loss: causes and what’s normal How much shedding is normal, the common causes in men and women and how each looks, when to see a doctor, and what the treatments can do.
- Creatine The studies, and what reddit threads say.
- Hats The studies, and what reddit threads say.
- Dandruff The studies, and what reddit threads say.
- GLP-1 drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Mounjaro) Drug labels, studies and patients’ reports.