Ahoy, Tyler! The chart to which I referred in my earlier message was the Norwood Chart. Thanks for your research on the Nordic, Mediterranean, and Jewish charts. Norwood is most often used by the hair "restoration" industry. In my twenties, in the late 60s, when a Saint Athony bald spot first appeared on my crown, I went to a place called The Thomas Hair Clinic, in downtown Providence. It was there that I saw the Norwood chart for the first time and there that I endured electronic stimulation of my hair follicles. The operative passed an electrified wand over my head for half an hour, twice a week, at fifty bucks a pop. This went on for at least two years. Needless to say, this technique proved worthless; the spot got bigger and, by the late nineties, the top grew thin and the hairline receded. Before I started shaving, in early November, I was a Type V on the Norwood chart. One dermatologist told me he could regrow hair on my head but that the drugs I would have to take for the rest of my life would also cause me to grow tits. I chose balding. In that era only space aliens, Buddhist monks, Nazi skinheads, the military, female collaborators, and mad scientists shaved their heads. When I think of the money I could have saved over the years, my stomach gets queasy. It's good to be alive when total baldness is a chosen fashion statement and when the Sly Bald Guys community and site can lend support. Professor Melon
