How do you plan treatment?

Dr. Dorin states that the patient has a lot of uncertainties about what to expect, the outcomes, the limitations, the pitfalls. Dr. Dorin believes as a role as a physician it's his responsibility and obligation to them to morally and ethically guide them through the process where they're going to have the best outcome, not just for the year, five years, 10 years, but for the rest of their life. And sometimes that means putting the hairline a little bit higher, a little bit more receded, treating - or not treating an area which the patient may want treated at that particular point in time.

But given five or 10 years knowing that their degree of balding, where it's going to progress to, it's better off that you hold off on that and start them on medical therapy and let things develop. Because, as Dr. Dorin explains there not any objective testing to know what degree or how much a patient will go bald. Therefore, Dr. Dorin says, we will have to assume the worst case scenario given their family history. So Dr. Dorin would say a very conservative, natural approach to the hair transplantation is the correct approach.