Paul Saladino· MD
pattern hair loss that's male and female pattern hair loss or androgenic alopecia aga and this is more of a chronic and progressive type of hair loss disorder that's characterized histologically through what's known as hair follicle miniaturization so the actual hair strands over time get thinner and thinner and thinner and thinner until they become so wispy and so short that you can't see them anymore and at that point for men your temple recession has receded the bald spot has grown you've got the slick bald scalp for women it more so presents as diffuse thinning so just general thinning throughout the top of the scalp