Since I had HT with 1325 grafts with Dr. Ron Shapiro last Aug 2010, it's been 4 monthes now. Here I attach update photo of my hairline.

It is pleasant experience to see my hairs actually growing when I see mirror. Temple parts look good and though the frontal top has somehow low density for now, I believe it will get denser as time goes on. I heared that the new hair line formation goes on until around 8th month so I still have pretty much a way to go.

 I received pictures taken at the clinic. I had HT with Dr. Ron Shapiro on Aug 3, 2010.

I planted 1325 graft with 662 1hair/graft, 662 2hair/graft, 4 3hair/graft = 1998 hair. The number of hair per graft is a little disappointing but the doctor said asians have typically lower density than caucasian. But even with relatively small number of grafts, I guess the area was well covered.

I will keep uploading updated picutre in my blog and website. Good luck for all of you!

I have just received my surgery and am taking rest in hotel. Dr. Ron Shapiro did my surgery.

One thing I was impressed was that he didn't want to implant too many grafts for the sake of patient, not trying to take too many grafts to raise the price. He seemed almost non-chalant to such issues.

Operation itself was incredibly pain-free. I felt very small pinches when they injected novocain.

But what makes experience a littlbe uncomfortable is that maybe the valium or the sandwich I had for the lunch made me dizzy / nauseous with minor headache. I hope they could provide with better launch option.

Soon I will upload pre-op and 1~2day after op picture.

Good luck for all of you.

p.s. I often  get e-mails telling me that I have received  a new message in this forum but when I check the inbox, there is nothing. Can anyone explain this? Thank you!

After considering a number of doctors, I decided to go for Dr. Ron Shapiro. The reason I chose him was that his hairline seemed very natural and it seemed that he could make distinctive change even with fewer number of graft compared to other doctors.

One thing is that I first looked at hairloss blogs of his patients but there were not so many blogs of his patients, so at first I thought he was not that famous. But I found a bunch of result pictures on the forum from whom didn't make their hairloss blog so I suggest each of us to make blog. It's really helpful for getting a big picture and deciding which doctor to go.

I expect to get 17~25 hundread grafts and my surgery is scheduled on August 3rd so I should from now on do the scalp exercise. I hope it will work fine and hopefully painlessly.

In the picture, the black line is what I planned and yellow one is what the clinic suggested. I will need to talk with doctor how to design the hairline.