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DO NOT plan graft surgery and then plan a big social event in the next two weeks afterwards.

Ha ha! If I had a transplant, I don't think I'd plan any big social events for the next six months.

10-20-30 years ago no one even tried to do anything about solving that problem.

Not so:

http://tinyurl.com/2g8proy

Well it is a start. A good one if you ask me.

At this point, the best that one can accurately say is that it's potentially a start. The press release doesn't provide enough information to make any more realistic an assessment.

Unfortunately, this press release isn't all that informative, as the phrase "significant hair growth" is vague and undefined. A five-fold increase in the number of vellus hairs could be considered "significant hair growth," but nobody experiencing MPB would really find that outcome cosmetically appealing.

When someone is 65, it's acceptable that he's balding. No one goes around saying, "OMG, LOOK AT THAT BALDING 65 YEAR OLD MAN! LOL"

When people reach middle age, it's normal for them to start developing wrinkles. No one goes around saying, "OMG LOOK AT THE CROW'S FEET ON THAT 45-YEAR-OLD WOMAN! LOL." Yet plenty of middle-aged women still undergo cosmetic surgery for such things nonetheless.

He was one of the best hair restoration surgeons in the area.

Can you imagine anyone who practices in that field not saying the same thing? What practitioner is going to tell you, "Yeah, I do hair restoration surgery, but my results are typically average at best"?

Hair is not to be transplanted to the crown (top) of head, because that hair will continue to fall out leaving a weird looking island.

It may not be advisable to transplant hair to the crown before the extent of the hair loss pattern in that area is evident, but it's far from an absolute that hair should never be transplanted into the crown.

People don't care about the back of the head anyway, it's the front that matters.

I would agree that the framing of the face is more aesthetically important than the fullness of the crown, but plenty of people still care about the appearance of the latter.

Rogaine and Propecia are proven to work on that area.

Technically true but misleading. They have proved to work well for some people, but the extent to which they work (and whether they work at all) can vary quite widely from person to person.

Why would a 65 year old get a hair transplant, anyway?

Why should a 65-year-old person be less concerned about his appearance than anyone else?

Again, I'm 22. This guy said most doctors don't want to deal with immature 22-yr-old-hairline expectations and then the resulting 30 year old backlash when it all looks ridiculous, but he still said he was willing to do it. Another guy refused to even see me. Is that normal?

In general, a 22-year-old is not far enough along developmentally for his future hair loss pattern to be established or predictable, so hair transplantation is not advisable for such a patient. (It would be a case of sacrificing long-term potential for an ephemeral gain.) I would be very, very leery of any doctor who was willing to perform such a procedure on someone that young (barring the most extraordinary of circumstances).

DO NOT drive your sorry self home after that in DC beltway Friday night traffic.

I wouldn't advise anyone, anywhere to drive himself home after a HT. I'm sorry you didn't have anyone to help you out in that regard.

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You didn't have any density added to your forelock, is that correct?

Someone tell me that this is wrong....if you can decifer wha he is trying to say.

It's wrong.

"Shock loss" is used to mean at least three different things:

a) Hairs which are accidentally transected during surgery. This phenomenon should really be called "surgeon error" or something similar, because it has nothing to do with a "shock" to the patient's system.

b) Miniaturized hairs in the recipient area which fall out due to the trauma of a HT and don't grow back. Such hairs were already on their way out to begin with; so they haven't really been "lost" due to the HT; the surgery has simply hastened something that was going to happen soon enough on its own anyway.

c) Hairs in the recipient area which go into a telogen (i.e., resting) phase due to the trauma of a HT. These hairs will grow back on their own after the end of the telogen phase (about 2-4 months).

The phrase "shock loss" should most appropriately be used to reference ©, and that type of loss is most definitely reversible.

That looks pretty impressive, especially for the five-month mark.

How do you feel? Any pain, scalp tightness, itching, etc.?

for example the techs could have had a off day and the grafts where compramised!!!??? im not saying this is what happend but you have to say it is a possibility.

Yes, it's always a possibility, but since the patient has so far declined to provide any details or be examined by the doctor who performed the procedure (or any other), one cannot assume any culpability on the part of the doctor -- certainly not to the degree of asserting outright that the doctor should be performing additional work for free or rescinding his fee.

Dr. Timothy Carman is an IAHRS member who is reasonably close to that area:

Dr. Timothy Carman – San Diego Hair Transplant MD | IAHRS Member

either way i still think Dr feller should offer you a FREE surgery and if you dont want to return to him a partial refund

Those are choices that a doctor might opt to offer out of a sense of compassion or good business relations, but why should any doctor feel obligated to provide them for circumstances beyond his control? That's like saying that if an earthquake levels your new house two weeks after the end of construction, the architect should either design you another house for free or refund half his fee.

I hate to sound like I'm blaming the victim (and it doesn't mitigate the issue of informed consent), but if you didn't know that little or no growth was a possible (even if relatively rare) outcome of a hair transplant, then you didn't research the procedure very thoroughly before agreeing to it.

And although it sucks to pay a lot of money and not get even close to the results you wanted, you can't really expect a doctor to be liable for issues completely outside of his control. He performed the procedure you wanted, and unless you can show malpractice, he deserves his fee.

In general, anytime you schedule a medical procedure, you should ask the doctor's office to provide you with copies of any attendant paperwork requiring your signature (including waivers) in advance so that you can review them prior to the day of surgery. (This practice also ensures you will have copies of such documents on hand should the need arise.)

Pictures of Jeremy Piven? What can I see them?

Jeremy Piven's Cranial Conundrum | TMZ.com

Will my exisiting hairs grow(on the HT'd area) on a normal phase as it used to before/ Will it's growth be affected coz of the Ht grafts implanted in between???

Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes a HT will cause some existing hairs to go into a telogen (resting) phase and not grow back right away. This is one of the phenomena commonly described as "shock loss." In general, native hairs should start growing back within the period of a normal telogen cycle (i.e., 2-3 months).

After all he is the professional with the years of experience. If a doc has no idea of how a result will turn out, is he not in the wrong profession?

There's a big difference between "has no idea of how a result will turn out" and "cannot guarantee a particular result." No doctor, in any field of medicine, can absolutely guarantee a result, and that's especially true in a field where aesthetics, not healing, are the primary issue.

So what would you do if you were in my shoes, or should I say, if you were under my hat?

Which place would you rather be in five years from now?

a) Debt-free with a lesser hair transplant?

b) Still owing money but with a better hair transplant?

To me the choice is obvious: money is regainable, but transplanted hair is not.

Is this at all relevant to our interests?

I don't think so. I'm no endocrinologist, but my understanding is that in terms of hair growth, FSH levels would primarily affect pubic/body hair, not the hair on the top of your head.

Just tell the truth, no one can prosecute you you telling the truth as it is and was. Its called freedom of speech.

You can, however, be sued in civil court for violating a confidentiality agreement.

This Dr. Epstein?

Dr. Jeffrey Epstein / 2900 grafts - Bald Truth Talk - Hair Loss, Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Community

That's too bad -- this example looked like good work.

Allergan dropped a juicy tidbit into its Q2 2010 earnings call the other day: Its experimental baldness cure is now a fully funded R&D program scheduled to go into its first clinical trials next year. The drug is already on the market as Latisse for eyelash growth, and one of its side effects is that it may cause hair to sprout beyond your eyelashes if you’re not careful using it. Since I first noted that Allergan had a speculative baldness cure in the pipeline last year, Allergan has mentioned it at least twice publicly, keeping it in the spotlight.

So Far, Allergan’s Baldness Cure Is Better at Growing Its Stock Than Hair | BNET

I consulted with a very highly regarded HT doctor, and he told me my scalp was on the tight side and recommended I begin scalp laxity exercises if I were interested in a transplant. At the same time I consulted with a different HT doctor, who told me that my scalp was of about average laxity and said that he had not seen any convincing evidence that scalp laxity exercises were helpful.

So, is there any consensus on whether scalp laxity exercises really are effective for the average prospective HT patient? If they are, can they also help with relieving the feeling of scalp tightness after a HT, or are they only useful prior to an HT?

It seems to me that in quite a few (if not the preponderance) of the post-op photos posted by HT patients here, their scalps still have a pinkish tint from the hairline back, even after several months (or even a year or more) of recovery time.

Is this just an illusionary artifact of the photography, or is the coloration as noticeable in real life as well? Does this discoloration completely go away in most cases, or do traces of it typically remain?

I remember them giving me the shots. I was told they were ready to be given and I stupidly put my arm out. "No that's not where they're going".

At least you didn't drop your pants ...