The Difference Between Male and Female Hair Loss

Both men and women experience hair loss, but they tend to experience hair loss in different ways. Men with male pattern baldness usually start to see signs of loss when their hairline starts to recede. Women with female pattern baldness start to notice the signs of hair loss when their hair starts to thin on top.

Because men and women usually have different forms of hair loss, hair loss specialists will use different scales to see just how advanced the hair loss really is.

Men use the Hamilton-Norwood Scale. This scale, first created in the 1950s, shows the many stages of hair loss in which a man can have. Most of the hair loss images display a receding hair line and thinning hair around the crown of the head as shown below.

Hamilton-Norwood Scale

Women use the Ludwig scale to check their stage of hair loss. Most of the images show thinning and balding of hair down the center of the head where the hair parts down the middle.

Ludwig Scale

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