Hello everyone. Well, I'm at it again. I decided on Dr. True of NY for my second surgery. My surgery is actually tomorrow 7/28/2005 and I'll be doing a 2000+ graft session in the front region of my scalp, to further define the hairline and frontal thickness of my hair. After a lot of research and careful consideration, I decided to select Dr. True. He seems to be an excellent physician and has had great results with other patients. <BR><BR>Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I journey off tomorrow to NY. I'll be getting up very early, like 4am, leaving by 4:45am so I get there nice and early. The surgery starts at 8am, but I want to get there earlier so I miss traffic rather than later. <BR><BR>For those of you who know me on this forum, Dr. Katz of Philadelphia performed my first surgery. I personally think for 1600 grafts that he did an excellent job. If you look at my other photo album, you can see that 1600 grafts all over my scalp made an all around difference, though not extremely noticable. I chose Dr. True for this session over Katz for the following reasons<BR><BR>1. Dr. True will do more grafts in a session that Katz, and although 1600 is a decent number, many people do surgeries with much more grafts than 1600 and have excellent success. <BR><BR>2. Dense packing, though controversial has been shown with much success in Dr. True's office as well as other highly reputable physicians such as Feller, Shapiro, and other Drs. Katz is not against Dense packing in specific cases, he is just more conservative, which is not a bad thing, he is working ethically according to what he thinks works best for him, and as I said, he did a good job with me<BR><BR>3. Similar to number 2, Katz didn't feel comfortable putting 2000 grafts in the front in one shot due to the amount of dense packing. Other physicians have had much success in doing this including True<BR><BR>So in short, though I am satisfied with my first surgery, I decided to go see True for my second one based on the above reasons<BR><BR>If people show interest, I will do as I did with the first surgery....I will post monthly results. Comments are always helpful as well. <BR><BR>The one thing I have noticed is unfortunately, I have seemed to lose a little bit more native hair. I'm not positive about this, but when I look at my 8 month pics compared to my 10 month, it seems like I may have. I don't know.<BR><BR>I have attached a few pictures of my 10 month post op AKA before second surgery pics. Remember...I am only getting work done on the front half of the scalp this time....so I am hoping, if all goes well, this will be my last HT in the front. <BR><BR>Please, do offer your comments and/or support. Those Christians on this board....please say a prayer for me. I look forward to hearing from you soon.<BR><BR>Bill

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Hey Bill, good luck and Godspeed tomorrow! You are in my prayers. You'll be fine. Terry.

Bill,

Congratulations on your decision and your well-laid plans for success. I believe that you are on the right track and I am positive that you will be satisfied with your procedure from True & Dorin at the hands of Dr. True.

-Robert

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Thanks Terry and Robert. I appreciate your support. I will be posting some direct post op pics tomorrow evening or Friday depending on how tired I am tomorrow night. Long drive there.

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Bill:
Best of luck...I'm sure everything will turn out well...keep us posted as you recover from the surgery...when your feeling up to it, please post some before/after pictures...looking forward to hearing about your experience with Dr. True.

Mike

Dear Bill!

I am looking forward to following your second HT as I did the first one. It is great to see others experiences so we can make better decisions of our own.

I think we need a Patron Saint of HT, how about St. Peter? I pray everything goes perfect for you.

HH

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Hi all. I just got back from my surgery in good old Manhattan with Dr. True. The experience was a good one....Dr. True is very professional and showed a lot of care with me. As you can see in the pics, comparing these to my first op pics, the hairline has been slightly redefined, there is more of a dip down that blends in with the sides now rather than the slight receeding look from before. I am happy with the way the hairline looks, though it will be much easier to tell when growth starts in 3 to 4 months. I posted a few directly post op pictures. From what it looks like, I should have some awesome density when all grows in, though I don't doubt that it will be a long waiting process....which is usual.

Please, do comment and tell me what you think? Thanks!

Bill

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THANKS FOR THE PICS AND PLS KEEP THEM COMING.
I AM BOOKED FOR 1200FU (9/15) IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH TIME I NEED OFF FROM WORK.

Hi Markcia. After my first HT, I went right back to work...though I have a desk job...though this time, I did mine on a Thursday and am taking off today, and I'm normally off Sat and Sunday. I'm already experiencing a little bit of swelling.


What does everything think based on the way the grafts were placed? Looks like a pretty good job at high density...what do you think?

Bill

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