1150 FUE - 6 months post op Dr Feller UK patient

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6 months:

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Spex,

While I have viewed Dr Feller's wonderful work on this site just like so many others, I have one question. First, it is obvious this patient has a rather unusual hairloss pattern. As such, is it really appropriate to fill in the gaps given his potential for future hair loss? With the surgery, should he suffer more hair loss, the results would leave a very obvious and tough to comb head of hair.

I'm am in no way questioning Dr Feller's judgment. Perhaps a more detailed post could answer that question. I'm sure all future concerns have been addressed prior to surgery but I'm simply interested in a more thorough explanation when I see similar cases presented.

Awesome results, I wish I found FUE before I did my strip - so much easier and I would of kept my hair short and tight like that.

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Dec. 2004 - 1938 Grafts via Strip
Feb. 2009 - 1002 Grafts via FUE

Good question - The patient was well aware and informed prior to going into this surgery and combined with his and the doc's long term game plan the patient is happy so far. LONG term planning is vital ESPECIALLY in a patient such as this. This session was the first, as the patient is well aware of necessary further sessions required as and when either by strip or FUE. The patient is very well informed as has his goal in mind long term.

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This shows you can pull of the buzzed look with FUE and have it look good.

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Dr Feller Jan '09 1800 grafts

FUE indeed enables the buzz look but patients need be informed that it is surgery and it can leave scaring.

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1. NOT A SINGLE pics showing what his donor looks like shaved that short.

2. you say he is aware and informed but either way you slice it i GUARANTEE this guy WILL NOT have the option to buzz down after FUTURE procedures unless he plans on exposing either, A. a strip scar or B. a thin depleted FUEed donor with white dot scarring present....he WILL need thousands and thousands of grafts in the future this is FACT. unless he wants two thin triangles up top with nothing next to, or behind them.

it is OBV to me that this guy at some point WILL hit the higher NW.. look at his pre op and his balding pattern is easy to spot.....

so NOW HERE IS WHAT WE ARE LEFT WITH it seems..... he either continues to undergo FUE procedures to keep up with the thinning that will happen around his two UNNATURAL triangles (AND ALL THE WAY BACK TO HIS CROWN) from HT#1. all the while making his donor thinner and thinner resulting in it becoming MORE AND MORE visible while shaved

OR

he goes strip to try to pull bigger future sessions since his hairline and front WILL be lost eventually... so now he cant buzz down for OBV reasons.

either way he will be left with one option... growing his hair out and exposing his thinning pattern... to me no matter what this guy will eventually have longer hair(to cover scarring from WHATEVER procedure, possibly BOTH) and either a VERY thin crown, or just an overall thinn looking top as it will have to be longer like the sides.....

please tell me im wrong, then much more importantly tell me why

The pics were taken by the patient himself and non were provided of the donor (nothing to see). The patient reported no visual scaring whatsoever but if you know differently then please inform us all here.

HIS intension was to NEVER just have one HT as stated. This HT shown here at 6 months is purely stage one of the patients long term objective. The way i "slice" it are the FACTS surrounding this patients individual goal and long term plan which himself and Dr Feller agreed upon. The patient has addressed his concerns initially via FUE and is aware he will indeed potentially have to go in via Strip and or FUE at a later date when required. He is aware there is a limitation as to how far HT's can carry him like any informed high NW patient and is confident along with Dr Feller that HIS GOAL can be met long term with appropriate planning.

Yes i am sure he may well have to grow out his hair somewhat like all high NW levels do ( all high NW levels have to compromise slightly) - he just happens to have his hair buzzed very short here at this stage i suppose cause he can and its an option he has.

Hope this helps.

LMS, I am right that you went to Bosley twice?

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why ask me this?? are you gonna try to make this point relevent to THIS PATIENTS case or what?? stop dancing then my friend and get to the point of why you would ask me this question. does my history have ANYTHING to do with THIS PATIENTS hairloss or game plan?? if you want to know about my history for real(which you do not) shoot me a PM man. ill be more than happy to share....

now back to the REAL topic at hand.. im SURE that at this point the patient can pull of the buzzed look...

but let me ask you, for the people at home watching, if this patient were to extract, say, a mere 3 to 4 thousand grafts via FUE, giving him ONLY 4 to 5 thousand total grafts would he STILL have the same buzzing luxury... what do you think? BTW i think you would agree that a typical patient headed for the higher NWs like this guy WILL require EVEN MORE then just 4 to 5 thousand grafts if he even wishes to touch the crown, or just to provide decent density for the hairline and front half of his head ONLY,for that matter..

so IM GLAD that this guy is aware, and has been informed that future loss will lead to more procedures and MUCH harder to hide scarring, im glad that he is aware that he will NOT have the buzzed luxury he has currently, im glad he has been informed of the limitations of HTs. im GLAD you make note that scarring is very existant with FUE. im GLAD he knows that choosing to have an irregular and unnaturally placed HT, with ZERO chance of it "standing alone" cements in stone that he is in this thing for the long haul

and im GLAD that you and i worked this out and brought this IMPORTANT info to light for the rest of us. he is hopefull that HIS GOALS can met long term, i hope for him he is right.. but it would be nice if we recieved more info as to what his FINAL expectations truly are so that others wishing to rock the same "buzzed look" can know what they too are in for.


ill be looking for that PM

Indeed, nothing to do with this topic WHATSOEVER - I too went to Bosley 4 times and remember reading somewhere recently you'd been but couldn't remember for sure if it was you.


No doubt. Whether or not the patient end goal is to address the crown i do not know BUT - Would he still have the buzz luxury after 5000 FUE...? It would all depend on his existing donor density I suppose but unlikely Feller would ever perform that many on one patient and Dr Feller will not have made the patient any promises to the effect that he would be able to do this i am sure - I am sure you know Dr Fellers opinion on FUE mega sessions and the FACT they are not recommended - This patient is aware that FUE can only get him so far as all Dr Feller patients are informed. Dr Fellers philosophy on FUE is that it is ideally suited to smaller sessions - This is well known as he is very experienced with it and knows FUE is no substitution for strip. It was used on this patient as a starting point which the patient and Doc were both comfortable and confident with, or that is my understanding of it. I only mentioned this morning that FUE can cause scaring on the this topic and obviously the more FUE that is extracted the more scaring will become evident - also the more FUE that are extracted the harder it is to extract grafts via FUE. ( confluence of scar)

This patient is well aware that strip is on the cards later down the line if/when needed - He only went in initially via FUE to address his main concerns as they are at present. His intension or understanding was never to gain complete full coverage via FUE as understood this would not be feasible, hense why Dr Feller would have agreed to address his initial HT via the FUE method but with a view to potentially requiring to go in via strip at a later date to make the best possible use of the patients donor supply safely LONG term - This in turn changing the patients options to completely buzz down.

Its ALL about long term donor management planning.

I am sure when the Doc returns from his break he will be able to add further info on this case to help inform the viewers on this patient and the plan they chose.

Hope this helps.
Regards
Spex

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See my results --->>My Hair Loss Website

I am not a medical professional and my words should not be taken as medical advice. All opinions and views shared are my own. "Research-Research-Research"