Why some people opt for surgeries?

[thebaboun]

Why some people PAY for wigs, surgery, or try combover? I am curious. I mean being bald is clean, confortobable and shaving is nice.

I just don't understand. I need other points of view

[The Noggin]

If you're really fearless you could try http://www.hairlosshelp.com/.

[kenny57028]

I think most of us go through the 5 stages of grief Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance. And for alot of people as with that forum shown above, they don't want to accept the fact that there bald. They want to hold on to as much of a former youth that they had. What they gotta do is accept that your body changes over time your never gonna look exactly as you do now 10 years from now. An thats what they hate... same concept with girls feeling down about looks as they age.

[buddha]

I think most of us go through the 5 stages of grief Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance.

From my own experience I would have to disagree although I might just be the oddball in this thread. I just did not pay it much attention. I'm reserving the 5 stages for something big, like when I find out that I'm dying.
 
I think that the reason that some guys opt for surgery is that old form vs. function question. Kinda like is it more important that my car is clean and shiny with a cool paint job or that it has an engine.....that runs? Or should I look around for an interior decorator while my roof is leaking? I've read from guys on this forum that they literally spent thousands of dollars on hair replacement that could have been spent on really important AND functional stuff.....like beer. I mean if somebody I know is having a problem with too much money I will volunteer to help lighten the load.

[kenny57028]

I think most of us go through the 5 stages of grief Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance.

From my own experience I would have to disagree although I might just be the oddball in this thread. I just did not pay it much attention. I'm reserving the 5 stages for something big, like when I find out that I'm dying.
 

Ya I'm sure the 5 stages we'll be back again by than, but in varied intensity. Maybe it was just my age that affected me so much, but atleast for me I went through the 5 stages.

[Timmer]

Surgeries, rugs, drugs...all of that just seemed to be something someone else would do.  Not me.  Since I spent most of my adult life with militarily short hair, flat-tops, fades or buzzed completely, wet-shaving was just another style as far as I was concerned.  With the MPB  really settling in, it's a preference today. 

Now that I've got the Headblade Sport figured out, it's freaking fast.  Most mornings it only takes 5 minutes and I don't even have to "touch up" around the ears anymore, I catch those spots on a back to front pass. 

I just can't comprehend wounding my body on purpose (surgery) simply for...hair.  Especially after reading what some of the guys here have gone through, the infections, the scarring.  No thanks.

[Alexander215]

Desperation, lookin' for a quick fix.

[chgobuzzbald]

There was a time, some 20 years ago , BB, Before Bald, when many of us had such insecurity that we bought into the "fix" of HT surgery. The entire 20 th century up to that point had constantly told people they were "less" without hair- less successful, less loved, less normal, less included. Even with Kojak around it didnt help. We were lied to about HT. My first doctor did it solely for the money and even had a very bad 1960's HT on his own head to show off. It was hype  of course. But as a post college 20 something convinced only THICK HAIR could allow my life to continue AT ALL  based on all the hype in the media , I signed up for it...even my father seemed convinced his life was LESS successful due to his MPB. I did NOT want my life to turn out like his. Then in the mid 90s guys started SHAVING their heads !  A totally unforseen development. I had always secretly wanted to anyway but was convinced prior to that I could not and would be REJECTED at every turn if i shaved.
We live in a vastly changed world today thanks to those early guys in the 90's who just shaved their heads. It took off from there. So a young guy today has no worries or should have no worries unless some older family member, still stuck in an earlier 20th century fear of baldness drama, influences them. I saw a few guys out today in their 20's who still have 100% of a hairline shadow but shaved their heads anyway ! YES!