2100 is not going to give you that much coverage with your Norwood regardless of which doctor performs the surgery .

Few people get away with one procedure for a full restoration

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1417 FUT - Dr. True
1476 FUT - Dr. True
2124 FUT - Dr. True
604 FUE - Dr. True







My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor.

Total - 5621 FU's uncut!

You are totally right Jobi. I really wish I knew that before going in. But now I do.

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2008 Dr. G – presumably 1,000 grafts / 2,142 hairs
2009 Dr. Paul Shapiro – 2,348 grafts / 4,258 hairs
2011 Dr. Paul Shapiro – 1,999 grafts / 3,624 hairs

My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group

Aaron,

I think your hair is a tremendous improvement over your baseline. Almost everyone, except for the FEW here that are very low norwoods, need a second pass. Even the Megasessions you have seen online (e.g., Nic-Nitro) needed a pass...

Take some time off - enjoy the summer, and then go back in for another 2000+ you will come out just find.

Keep the faith bro.

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Feb. 2009 - 1002 Grafts via FUE

Re: graft #'s --> "(which may also be influenced by how many staff call in sick that day. . .)"

Do you have legit reason to believe that your doctor would actually waste grafts due to a vagary in staffing, while pulling the wool over the patient's head? Not accusing this of not being true, but it's a pretty bold claim with scary implications.

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*A Follicles Dying Wish To Clinics*

1 top-down, 1 portrait, 1 side-shot, 1 hairline....4 photos. No flash.

Follicles have asked for centuries, in ten languages, as many times so as to confuse a mathematician.

Enough is enough! Give me documentation or give me death!

One of the key points to keep in mind when getting a HT is "setting realistic expectations". It's easy to get caught up in all of the great pics on this site and to let your imagination go wild!! I must compliment Dr.True in educating me on the facts and directly telling me it would be a gradual process needing more than one surgery based on my goals.

I myself fell into this trap (even though I knew it would take time). I think this is also due to hair greed!! The graft calculator is a great way to get an estimate of what you will need to achieve your goal . it was very close in my case.

The good news is every sugery brings you 1 step closer ( assuming it is a qualified doctor). 3 surgeries later all of the blood , sweat, and tears are no longer relavant!!

I have a great head of hair and it was worth the wait!

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1417 FUT - Dr. True
1476 FUT - Dr. True
2124 FUT - Dr. True
604 FUE - Dr. True







My views are based on my personal experiences, research and objective observations. I am not a doctor.

Total - 5621 FU's uncut!

Not wasting grafts, but not stretching the scalp as far as could be based on resources at hand.

I got less grafts than predicted. I had done the scalp exercises RELIGIOUSLY and had generated laxity over when I had the in person consult, which was when they predicted 4500. When the Dr. was examining laxity, the assisting technician said "It looks like there is good laxity, this will be a long day" The Dr. then corrected her and said the scalp was fairly tight.

If the office is light on resources for a given day, and they have two patients in the chair, they have to balance.

If the second patient is getting a 3000+ surgery, they are not going to undertake 6K grafts on the first patient.

I never had any tightness post surgery, so this is one of those things that make me go "hmmm", wondering if they could have gotten more grafts.

I would have GLADLY paid the extra money for them. This is one of those situations that raises an eyebrow and you are not exactly sure what to think.

Also, the Dr. originally drew some temple closure, but did not plant any in that area. No explanation. In fact the drawn hairline was gone when I took my first break. But you are undergoing this big thing, so you just extend trust.

I absoluately believe that a doctor who has (say) ten techs, and two are on vacation or sick, the doctor is going to scale accordingly and this will impact your outcome. Did this happen in my case? I dont know, but I am one of the rare that was predicted about 1K more than I got.

Another point. . they have techs planting, one on each side. THere is a divide up the middle in the front. It appears that the tech on my left may have had slightly more steady hands as the yield on the right is lower. Just more gaps on that side. Hair grew in slower there and not as dense.

People always remark on how growth is not even, funny how that in my case, that happened right along the line where the two different techs were working in the morning. No other way to explain it.

My intuition tells me they were a bit short staffed that day.

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aaron, just be careful on your expectations on the finisteride. I too was an excellent responder. I regained pretty much all of my crown hair back. However, it lasted roughly 3-4 years before it lost its effectiveness. I slowly lost what the fin had given me and after I stopped, I noticed no difference so the fin had done all it could do at that point.

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I Know it's been said before and I can see you follow the comments
If you look at my HT I had 2900 FUT in 42m2
http://www.hairtransplantnetwo...opyID=2175&WebID=920

So I'm not surprised that your result for a larger area may see a little thin.
It is still a very positive result
But as you know to get where you would like to go you have to go back, as I may will in the years that follow as the efffectiveness from propecia wears off
Good Luck

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Severn. Yeah, I have responded well to Finasteride. But I don't think it has completely halted the process. So I do expect to see more thinning in the future. It's a bit scary I must say. How long has it been since you stopped the meds?

Predator. I have been following your progress and I am much impressed. I will say that my result looks awful in certain lighting and decent in others. But I have no choice now but to go a second round.

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2008 Dr. G – presumably 1,000 grafts / 2,142 hairs
2009 Dr. Paul Shapiro – 2,348 grafts / 4,258 hairs
2011 Dr. Paul Shapiro – 1,999 grafts / 3,624 hairs

My Hair Transplant Journey with Shapiro Medical Group

I stopped about 5 years ago but recently started to hopefully counteract any shock loss on my upcoming surgery.

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