Having a large forehead is by no means always an issue, but a hair transplant might be an option if you are dissatisfied with your appearance or would feel more confident with a lower hairline, reducing the amount of skin on show. But can a hair transplant help to reduce a big forehead?
Options like the innovative, minimally invasive FUE transplant approach we use here at KSL Clinic ensure your hair transplant is bespoke. It relies on a precise, microscopic technique that uses your own healthy donor follicles for a seamless outcome.
Unlike many alternatives, including surgical interventions to reduce the size of your forehead, a hair transplant leaves no stitches, requires no large incisions, and offers a speedy recovery time, with the ability to return to your usual routines after just two weeks.
Hair Transplants for Large Foreheads: A summary
- Hair transplants can be adapted to most aspirations and requirements and provide a permanent solution to a large forehead by lowering the hairline and reducing the amount of exposed skin between your eyebrows and hair.
- KSL Clinic requests all prospective clients book a private, free consultation to ensure we can verify the suitability of a hair transplant, assess whether this will achieve the results you wish, and advise on additional or separate treatments.
- In contrast to other options, such as forehead reduction surgery, hair transplantation is by far the fastest, safest, and least invasive option. A transplant is completed on a walk-in/walk-out basis within our highly regulated UK clinics.
Considerations for Potential Forehead Hair Transplant Candidates
Large foreheads are often genetic and are simply down to the natural shape and structure of your face and the inherited location of your hairline. However, we also consult with clients who have seen an increase in the prominence of their forehead due to issues such as:
- Androgenetic alopecia, or pattern hair loss, where receding hair around the temples can make it look as though your forehead is larger – when it is, in fact, the hair that is moving further away.
- Frontal fibrosing alopecia – a type of hair loss that usually impacts women from around age 55 onward and can mean hair loss at the side and front of the hairline affects their appearance.
The general standard is that a ‘normal’ forehead has a space of roughly seven centimetres from your hairline to your eyebrows, but this is subjective, and your options will primarily depend on how you feel about your appearance and whether your forehead and hair are a cause for concern.
Bespoke Hair Transplant Procedures to Correct a Big Forehead
Depending on the results you’d like to achieve, the health of your scalp and hair, and the availability of donor follicles, we can put together a strategic hair transplant plan to lower your hairline – for most clients, this is by a minimal margin of up to 2cm, which can have a dramatic impact on your appearance.
Our talented hair transplant specialists can also look to adapt the pre-mapped transplant if you would like to:
- Soften or adjust your hairline to change the way this affects the shape of your face.
- Replenish areas of hair loss around the temples, eyebrows, or sides of your forehead that make it appear larger.
- Use a hair transplant to reverse thinning and a receding hairline that has occurred due to genetic hair loss.
- Discuss alternative therapies to augment the recovery time or to optimise the health of your scalp and hair in advance of your hair transplant procedure.
If you have a condition like frontal fibrosing alopecia, the suitability of a hair transplant may depend mainly on whether you have sufficient donor hairs and are likely to continue to experience further hair loss that could be detrimental to the results.
However, options like platelet-rich plasma therapy provide non-surgical solutions and can activate dormant follicles and prompt cellular activity to prevent further hair loss, stimulate regrowth in areas of patchy hair or thinning, and ensure you are in a great position for a hair transplant.
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Understanding the Average Cost of a Forehead Hair Transplant
It’s difficult to give an exact cost because every client is different, and your hair transplant quotation will depend on varied factors, including the number of grafts we anticipate needing to complete, the size of the area you’d like to conceal, and the health and growth rate of your current hairline.
As a rough guide, most hair transplants cost between £2,500 and £6,995. Still, the more grafts, the more complex the procedure, and the thickness and density of your hair may influence that cost, with specialist transplants for afro and coarse hair normally requiring a slightly longer procedure time.
For more information and a chance to discuss your forehead hair transplant with our accredited hair restoration specialists, please book a consultation at your preferred clinic.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Are the Differences Between Forehead Hair Transplants vs Forehead Reduction?
Forehead reduction is a fairly invasive surgical procedure in which a cosmetic or plastic surgeon removes a section of skin. The process takes around three hours and involves the removal of between three and five centimetres of skin.
Complications can include visible scarring, which is an inevitable side effect of cosmetic surgery, the invasive nature of the procedure, the cost of private plastic surgery, the risks of damage to the nerves in your face, and the longer recovery period.
In comparison, FUE hair transplants involve zero scarring or incisions and are suitable for most people, although full hair regrowth typically takes six to 12 months.
Can a Hair Transplant Correct a Big Forehead?
Yes, a professional hair transplant surgeon can use the FUE process to extract individual donor follicles and implant them in a preconfigured pattern around the hairline and forehead to lower the hairline and reduce the size of the forehead.
For most clients, donor follicles are taken from thicker, denser areas of growth to the back of the scalp, taking care to grade and sort each graft for a seamless, natural outcome and to extract minimal follicles from each area to ensure the donor site is invisible once healed.
What Are the Differences Between Forehead Hair Transplants vs Forehead Reduction?
Forehead reduction is a fairly invasive surgical procedure in which a cosmetic or plastic surgeon removes a section of skin. The process takes around three hours and involves the removal of between three and five centimetres of skin.
Complications can include visible scarring, which is an inevitable side effect of cosmetic surgery, the invasive nature of the procedure, the cost of private plastic surgery, the risks of damage to the nerves in your face, and the longer recovery period.
In comparison, FUE hair transplants involve zero scarring or incisions and are suitable for most people, although full hair regrowth typically takes six to 12 months.
Can a Hair Transplant Correct a Big Forehead?
Yes, a professional hair transplant surgeon can use the FUE process to extract individual donor follicles and implant them in a preconfigured pattern around the hairline and forehead to lower the hairline and reduce the size of the forehead.
For most clients, donor follicles are taken from thicker, denser areas of growth to the back of the scalp, taking care to grade and sort each graft for a seamless, natural outcome and to extract minimal follicles from each area to ensure the donor site is invisible once healed.
