FrankyKnuckles

damn.....$27k? how many grafts were you getting??????????

looking good so far man. do you let your hair grow longer on top? was just curious as to if you've cut it on top at all or if you are letting it grow out as it may?

well starting a new job, especially as a director, is not a bad thing in today's economy so no need to say 'unfortunately'

yea i was just curious as to what has been the reactions of others wearing your hair like that and if anybody asked you questions. i know at my job a few who would be up in my face immediately asking why is my hair cut like that so i'd most likely have to tell them why.

anyways, this pic is a lot clearer and does look like hair is growing, well, it looks like your face is framed now, but hard to distinguish what was old hair and what is new. it looks mostly new because i think you had a receding hairline before correct?

also about your comment in regards to fue scarring - are you saying your scars from fue are just as visible as your strip scar in the back of your head? i plan on keeping my hair really low if i get FUE done and am waiting to see your results before contacting Umar for a consult.

it's hard to tell. the lighting is pretty harsh as mentioned and the pics arent really high quality.good news is its still early though......question for you though....are you going to work everyday with part of your head shaved and the back grown out like that?

hey wassup ivyleauger do you have any photos of your pre and post op posted so we can see your progress and put a visual with what you're talking about?

Dr. Harris and Dr. Lindsey are great FUE doctors who have a lot of their results posted online.

interesting, the search results came up empty when i searched for these docs in this section of the website. i've never heard of them. where can i find their websites?

Never heard of him, but when I see MHR or Bosley, I look the other way. MHR gave me a crap procedure in 96....I did see Dr. Lindsey in Reston, VA and couldnt be happier. I had the procedure on in late May and, so far, couldnt be happier. Alot of growth happened in the past 4-6 weeks and looks really good.

which MHR are you refferring to? can you provide a link by any chance?

i remember going to dr epstein when i was 22 asking about a hair transplant. he turned me away because he said it wasnt that serious. seemed like a nice guy, mentioned he only did smaller procedures, havent seen any of his results, but i wouldnt want to deal with anybody affiliated with bosley.

has anybody ever heard of Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics (here's the website) and a doctor named Dr. Diep?

i came across a bunch of youtube videos on the guy and was wondering if anybody has had any experience with him or his clinic?

i think umar will hook you up. it can only get better man.

i personally haven't really been "wowed" by his work, but i think he is very far from a bad doctor. i dont think you have anything to worry about to be honest. i have seen a lot of patients happy with their results from him. good luck man.

Make sure the doctor you do pick is in a western country, preferably North America, able to show you dozens of cases of successful procedures with air loss that is similar to your own, does good scar closure and is not over 5 bucks per graft but likely no less than three.

 

is there a reason why you say preferably to pick a doc in North America?

i've seen some great results from Dr. Keser and Dr. bisanga, both in Europe.

it's scary if you think about it. you go to a website for information but the admin hides everything negative about the doc/patitnet results that arent so good, so you end up making your decision based on biased search results. its like going to buy a car from a dealer and he puts the good cars up front, but in the back there is an unknown number of bad cars that barely work and have been recalled for reasons you'll never know.

i asked a question up there the other night about why random posts were being deleted, and four other people asked the same.....and the thread was deleted in less than an hour, lol.

i wholeheartedly agree with all of that and recently stopped posting on "HS" as well after having done so for the past six or seven years.

i was in a thread where a guy posted stingray's results and within hours the admin deleted the thread. when asked about this the admin gave a half baked response and locked the thread.

i'm glad i found this site as i see there are many contridicting comments about Armani. until i registered here i was under the impression Armani was batting almost at a thousand for the exception of the Asian guy's poor results which also seemed to get weirdly silent after suddenly the poster was unable to reply to any of the threads suddenly after being accused of trying to blackmail Armani.

in either case, there's just way too many red flags over there when it comes to honesty on that site. it seems to protect the sponsored surgeons first and the potential patients last.

yea that was a little shady how they just deleted the entire thread. i can see if they deleted the one post of the guy who made a negative comment, but i dunno, just left too much suspicion and i dont need that when trying to decide on a doc. if there's a bad result here and there, i want to be able to look into it and make an informed decision of if it was just a one off or if the doc did something wrong....but dont try to hide it.

anyway, yea, i'm interested in this Dr. Keser now as he seems to be pretty honest and have produced some consistent results so far. if anybody has had any experience or thoughts about him that'd be great.

does dr alexander perform FUE or just strip?

what in the world is a Miniaturization analysis? i've never heard of that. can you post photos and let us know who your doctor was?

so basically you experienced shockloss is what your saying that made you lose a majority of your existing hair?

going from a NW2 to almost bald seems really extreme. all of this caused from a HT? i really feel sorry for you and hope the best works out for you.

What convinced me of going with Dr Bisanga was the result that I saw on Stephen's head, who is one of Dr Bisanga's patient co-ordinators, diffuse NW6 to dense NW1 all with fue and no visible scarring.

 

I considered Dr Feller, Dr Umar, and even Dr Armani, but he charges $15 per graft for repair work! I had a phone call consult with Dr Rassman aswell, and hes a very nice guy, I also had a phone consult with Dr Umar.

 

I met with Spex who is Dr Fellers UK Patient co-ordinator, and he knows a lot about the industry and gave me a lot of valuble info without once trying to coerce me into the chair.

 

I had an in person consult with Dr Bisanga in Brussels, and they refunded the cost of me travelling to Brussels for that consult via subtracting it from my surgery.

 

I personally think that Dr Bisanga is the best at FUE, and as thats the method I wanted to have, I went with him. I've never seen a non dense result from him, and he seems to get the same high yeild with FUE as he gets with strip. Also they stand behind their patients 100%, and if for some reason you wernt happy with your result, they would go out of their way to make you happy with it.

i've heard a lot about Bisinga, i never really paid too much attention because i was always stuck on the armani results.

do you have a link to stephen's results? going from NW6 to NW1 and getting postive remarks is definitely time i start taking a look at his portfolio. i havent heard anything negative about this guy now that i think about it.

great result, but is this a strip procedure? if so do you offer FUE (procedure without long scar in back of head)? i am a little confused of the variations on the acronyms used by docs as FUT means one thing to one doc and something else completely to another doc.

I have seen many fabulous results of candidates with a similiar starting point as mine, and nearly all of them were from Dr. Armani. That's why I was actually convinced to get my HT from him. My main source of information over all those years was another forum where only recently someone posted two very poor and terrible results from Armani's clinic, and the whole thread was closed immediately.

 

That was kind of a shock to me and I did some Google research, which led me to this forum, with dozens of very shocking threads about Dr. Armani.

 

 

being as i was in that thread as well i dont think i will go back to that site anymore. can you post links to the bad results you have found? i only know of one asian guy that had a bad result and would like to see all these unsatisfied patients i keep hearing about.

hi i'm new, recently was considering scheduling an appointment with dr and have been following his cases for the past year or so, but was troubled by recent comments that he has just as many bad HT results out there as well. the website i was visiting does not allow people to show his bad results though or for people to comment on it so now i feel like i've been looking at skewed results for the past year and a half.

i've googled and stumbled on some sites "talking" about his bad results but for the most part it is just people talking trash with no photos to back up their claims.

would anybody be so kind as to post some links to all these bad results from Armani? i feel like i have not been getting the full story and have recently cancelled my next consultation with him.

thanks in advance guys