I've created a weblog with some before and after pics. Now the waiting begins.

Carl

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4,686 grafts = 9,905 hairs with Dr. Cooley 9/24/08

My Hair Loss WebLog

I've created a weblog with some before and after pics. Now the waiting begins.

Carl

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4,686 grafts = 9,905 hairs with Dr. Cooley 9/24/08

My Hair Loss WebLog

same day as me and more grafts (bastard- jk!!). You look like you will have some great frontal density and density overall.

I am sure you are excited and look forward to following your progress.

Eman

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done and done!! Check it out...

I miscalculated on total hairs. My breakdown was like this:

1 hair grafts - 1,122 = 1,122 hairs
2 hair grafts - 2,284 = 4,568 hairs
3 hair grafts - 956 = 2,868 hairs
4 hair grafts - 273 = 1,092 hairs
5 hair grafts - 51 = 255 hairs
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9,905 total hairs

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Looks nice and clean, and a good amount of grafts. It will give a good amount of density. Congrats on your HT. Heal and grow well!

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3279 grafts with Dr Gabel - 06/12/08

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The scar (if I can call it that) looks awesome just post op. Its so clean. Looks like this will be an awesome result Congrats

Yourcoach,
You have been well and truly Cooleyfied.Well done on a great choice and can't wait to see your progress over the next 12 months.

Mick

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Looks really good

Carl:

Nice and clean results, especially the scar. I did not know that 5 hairs grafts exist.

In term of shaving, are you concerned that dr. Cooley did NOT shave your head? From what i read, planting between grafts is more time consuming. On top of that, the direction of hair is difficult to assess when the hair is long.

Nobody want to the shave, however, I would prefer getting optimal results (by shaving and making my doctor's job easier), even if it means i will have an ugly duckling period of 2 or 3 months.

What do you think? did you debate this before going with Cooley? Thanks.

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I am not a doctor. The opinions and comments are of my own.

HT with Dr. Cooley on Nov 20, 2008
2097 grafts, 3957 hairs
Proscar, 1.25 mg daily, skip the 5th day, started Nov 2007

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Thank you all for the kind words of support. It means a lot.

latinlotus:

Regarding your question about shaving, there was no debate with Dr. Cooley. I hesitate to try to fully explain what Dr. Cooley explained to me when I expressed the concerns of not shaving that I have read about on the forum for fear of not doing his explanation justice. In simplest terms, he said that shaving saves some time, but does absolutely nothing to impact the results. I know this is contradictory to what others have said. I can say that when I compared his full explanation as to why I would not be sacrificing any aspect of my final result and compared it with the concerns I read on the forum, I felt most comfortable with Dr. Cooley's reasoning. I understand it is possible for someone else hear the same two points of view and come to a different conclusion than I did. If I felt that shaving would have improved my result I would have done it. All things being equal, I preferred not to shave, but would have done it if there was some payoff other than the procedure taking more time. Dr. Cooley not requesting his patient shave was an extremely minor factor in choosing him to be my doctor.

Carl

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4,686 grafts = 9,905 hairs with Dr. Cooley 9/24/08

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