hello my hair follical lovers. well I went to india to have a procedure done and so far it looks promising. I had 2300 strip and 1700 bht (scalp and beard mix). I had it done on the 29-30 of aug.

I have had 3 procedures before this one each consisting of 1000 graphs a session first was at sword medical which I was very disappointing , not because of the hair growth which I never got the chance to notice because they just put in an area that already had enough hair and they didnt want to lower my hairline at all. but that was about 5 years ago so maybe the hair I have now is what was transplanted but I really dont know. second, it felt as even though I paid for 1000 graphs that I only got 1000 hairs, because even a year later the hair in the area that it was put in never felt thicker or looked fuller. staff was nice and very clean.

second place I got my 2 procedures was crown medical in los angeles. reason I went there was because they had $2 graphs. this is where everything went wrong. before I went through the procedure I asked question like " is that gonna be enough graphs? , am I gonna have enough donor hair? and such" they assured me I would have enough hair to cover the area I wanted and would be natural. first procedure I got was for a 1000 and after it was done I noticed a lot of spot that didnt even have hair around the hairline area, and I mean chunks! so I was hoping since I never really get to see the graph placements of my first procedure maybe there was graphs in those places that I couldnt see or the hair wasnt long enough to be noticed. about 6 months later it was very horrible, didnt look natural at all. so now the wearing of bandanas and hats started, and all I had was a receding hairline. so after that I went to the same place again to get that area filled with another 1000. left after the second procedure and noticed that same thing, still missing chunks of area that needed hair. only reason I went there was due to finacial reason, and so far has f'ed up my life for the past 5 years.and also they left horrible scars that were huge and around the upper mid area of the donor area, well more right in the middle of my head. from the beginning all the procedures I had did not look good from the start.
now on to my current procedure, so for from getting there to after my procedure its has been promising by just looking at how it has been done and installed. as soon as I took off the bandages and was able to see what kind of work they did it seemed very well done. right now the hairs they put in are still there since they still havent fell off yet. but as it looks right now my hairline seems a million times better, so I am very siked to see how it will look with longer hair. the placement of the hairs seem very good to me and enough coverage that it resembles the rest of my head since I had them cut all my hair off for the procedure. so it looks around the same density as the rest, there are some areas where there isnt the same density but enough where it still looks good.

now, the scars!!!! I was concerned about that, so they made a longer cut to about mid ears to get more graphs out of my donar hair, but the cut looks thin, dont know how it will look after the stitches are taken out but so far it doesnt look bad. the horrible scar that was mid head wasnt cut into since there was two scars I had. they used the lower scar to go over. the mid scar they thinned it out by putting beard hairs there to make it smaller and got rid of the track mark looking scar. now it looks very thin compared to what it was. about 750 beard hair were put in the scar to thin it out.

about the donor area from the beard area has healed amazingly in such a short time. in about 12 days you cant notice any scars of any nature. I know people go ape sh!t when a dr. or clinic say "no scars" but the fact is I cant see any thing. technically there are scars for the little holes they pulled the hair out from, but like most people my skin isnt perfect like a cartoon. we have pours and cracks in our skin so in a way there is no scars visable because they are camouflages as my skin. the pours on my nose are more visable then the bht area. I am confident enough where if I need more hair I would take the beard hair from face area due to my experience. I actually think I might never be bald in any matter with the combination of beard hair I have, and if one day I need it I will see how the chest hair fair also.

well so far I am happy with the procedure but the true results that matter will be for a later time. if 90% of the hairs they put in grow then I will be satisfied. everything so far from density, placement, and price was all wonderful. now time will tell if my investment was worth it.

here is a before and after procedure pic

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sakukada,

Thank you for sharing your hair restoration journey with us. I wish you the best on this current hair transplant.

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no problem, sorta sucks though. even if this procedure gives me the results I want. I know I will need at least one more big one, because I have concentrated to much on my hairline and front of my head. but as my hair is short right now I see that I might need some work on the top. so hopefully the beard hairs give the results I want and if it does I wouldnt mind doing the top with pure beard with a little mix of whatever scalp I can use. so if all goes well and the bht works well I might go next year to finish all these procedure with one last big one.

Hi,

It would be helpful if you told us who the doctor was who performed the operation?

Regards rod

I left the doctor and the clinic out of the post because I want to wait to see the results before I mention them.

most of these pic where about 5-8 days after the surgery. pictures were taken with flash on

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and this before I the surgery about 3 weeks before

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hey guys, just giving a quick update. its been a little bit over a month now and I am seeing the hairs starting to come out. I will put some pictures around month 2 or 3, but I started to notice some hairs about a week ago and now every day I see a new little black dot popping up. hopefully about month 3 i'll get some good growth and coverage. ( gotta cover up the mess that was left there before)

hey guys here is my update on my progress. I have seen some good coverage and there is a lot of hair still poping up. so far I am happy how its going and now I can finally not wear hat by slightly combing my hair to cover a little light sections. its been about 3 months so far. here's some pics. ther is some hairs from my previous procedures that I have to pluck out but most were removed here. there is a couple there have got around to plucking out. some have flash and some dont. all the hair havent grown in, but I will assume that I will just need one more good procedure and I shold be good. using rogaine to keep the rest I have and a hand held laser thing.

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its lookin good!