This is truly a traumatic subject for most men who discover that they are, in fact, balding. Why? Well look around. Everywhere you go–grocery stores, shopping malls, movies, and football games–you can’t find balding men with hair loss en vogue. No. Guys everywhere are living a sort of hell on earth trying to live up to the modern-day demands of having it all (staying young, healthy and great-looking). But hair loss is a fact of life for most men. And male pattern baldness accounts for 95 percent of men who are losing their hair. There are a couple of ways that hair loss men can go through diagnosis.

Okay, so define male pattern baldness or MPB. What is it and how do I know that I have it? Well, fortunately it’s not that hard to tell. It’s is usually diagnosed visually, just as a doctor would diagnose that you have a head cold from your physical symptoms of a runny nose, swollen lymph nodes and tonsils and an inflamed throat. Another way you can tell is by looking at your family history. Did your dad or grandfather have MPB? If you have a family history of it and you’re are following the pattern which I will describe below, then you have male pattern balding.

There are several ways to determine if you have MPB. You can have your dermatologist examine under your scalp with a magnifying instrument called a densitometer. It assesses the the size of your hair follicle to see how much it has shrunk. Or you can visit a hair loss clinic for a scalp biopsy to diagnose the cause of your hair loss. But before you rush off to a clinic keep in mind that this analysis will only assess the possibility of poison-induced hair loss such as lead or arsenic which is very rare. Poisoning does not cause male pattern hair loss.

Now we can follow the typical pattern according to the well-known Norwood Scale. This is a very useful tool for diagnosing male pattern baldness and avoiding misdiagnosing it. In the beginning will see a slight receding in the front of the hairline at the top and on the sides. As that continues, there will appear another bald spot, presenting itself in the crown of the head. The hair loss will be coming at you from both ends until they meet. Hence, as the hair at the top of your scalp continues to recede, there will be a thin band of hair separating the hair loss in the front of the scalp from the bald spot at the crown until it will be totally bald, leaving one giant horseshoe-shaped bald region at the top of your head with hair only around the ears and back of your head.

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