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Happy

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Country
    Germany
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    AL

Hair Loss Overview

  • Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
    Thinning Hair Loss All over the Scalp
    Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning on Top only (Genetic Baldness)
    Thinning or Bald Spot in the Crown/Vertex
  • How long have you been losing your hair?
    10 years +
  • What Best Describes Your Goals?
    Considering Surgical Hair Restoration
    Considering Non-Surgical Treatments
    I'm here for support

Hair Loss Treatments

  • Have you ever had a hair transplant?
    No

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  1. i fully agree that a major stumbling block might be monetary issues. therefore, in my view this initiative will be driven by surgeons who just don't pretend to be ethical, but truly are: with today's technology and decades of experience in the ht industry we all know that surgeons can create outstanding results and leave patients very happy - but just in the short and maybe in the mid term; creating high-density, low hairlines for young patients would be one such example. however, being ethical means to look beyond the monetary aspect and what is achievable, but to first of all focus on what is best for the patient also in the long-term. and for this, i feel it should be compulsory to provide as much crucial information to the patient as possible so that he a. can finally make a well informed decision before any surgery b. is also able to properly monitor and manage the progress after a surgery i can't imagine that a patient would be able to do that without such reports. ps.: in terms of getting a better feeling for how long it would take to create these reports - can anybody provide information how long dr devroye needs for doing all the exact calculation of the bald/thinning area? maybe 10 - 15 minutes?
  2. in the other thread "Looking for good HT doctor in India(preferably Hyderabad)" i noticed that so far only 1 surgeon, dr. mahdu is being recommended despite dr. a is also regarded as one of the world's top ht surgeons coming from india. but he hasn't even been mentioned here. why?
  3. i had a read through your terms of service again, but can't find anything. hopefully, you can help. thanks
  4. surfarosa, it's great to hear about all your efforts, your passion and which i fully share; and even more, this is wonderful news that you got your principal ok by the consultant of one the world's leading ht clinics, h &w. to me, this is the most obvious evidence that we are on the right track with those reports. i fully agree, that it would be wrong to wait till a bunch of ht docs would agree on anything. because this would never happen. instead, progress is mainly driven by initially "weird" guys who take the plunge and act differently, even if this means just to provide additional but invaluable service that hadn't been heard of before. and if these trendsetters are successful, well, then others will gradually start and imitate them. it's that simple in life. in case h & w taking the plunge this would have another tremendous advantage: since h & w is already known for being very successful, this would definitely have an aftermath in this industry sooner or later. maybe, you could get h & w involved in this thread and to simply contribute in a way to make this vision become reality as soon as possible.
  5. achieving outstanding results unfortunately doesn't equal being also a surgeon who is 100% honest in all the financial aspects. we all know that money is a very big temptation for anybody to suddenly change ethical standards. having said that it's simply impossible to agree/disagree with your stated belief, hence i won't comment on it. i would suggest to rather focus on the vision how the ht industry can be changed first of all for the benefit of patients - eg. how these reports could look. and i hope that also any surgeon or clinic will finally come foreword.
  6. how is it then possible for him or the surgeon to answer questions "correctly" ?:confused:
  7. louise, the same question goes for you: what is the average of transected grafts (in percentage) that you have in your surgeries?
  8. i understand that you are talking about the fue procedure. in your experience, what is the average percentage of transected grafts that you have during your sugeries?
  9. well, having such pre-op and post-op reports done shouldn't take more than an hour each. plus, most of the work doesn't have to involve the surgeon anyway: using a densitometer, counting the grafts on screen, measuring the shaft diameter etc. is all very very basic and can be done by almost anybody. and if you don't just want to have a rough calculation of the area of bald or thinning hair that needs to be covered, but very precise figures, then you get software programmes that do the calculation automatically for you (i think, dr devroye uses one of them). only, for checking the scalp laxity the doc himself needs to make his assessment. let's face it: the total transparency in particular with pre-op reports won't benefit certain ht surgeons for one very crucial reason: cheating / overcharging will become so much more difficult for them! just to give one example: as a patient when you know your average fu density plus average size of your hair grafts, then anybody can easily figure out when the amount of harvested grafts somehow doesn't match the size of the donor scalp that was cut out; or when grafts were split. being totally transparent is only a problem for those who have something to hide. on the other side, truly ethical surgeons shouldn't be afraid of such reports. it's rather the exact opposite as they are able to not only clearly distance themselves from any otherwise intransparent practices but, but first of all to provide all those already mentioned benefits for their patients.
  10. for today i would like to ask your doc hopefully 2 easy questions: 1. do you sometimes split grafts into smaller units? (eg. a 4-hairs graft into 2-hairs grafts or a 3-hairs graft into a single-hair graft and double-hair graft) 2. on your website i noticed that it mentions a range of publications with quite groundbreaking topics - eg.: - conditions/advantages of large-scale surgeries with 4000+ fu's - measures to reduce the impact of post-op scarring with the strip method unfortunately, no content has been provided yet. would you be able to maybe summarise the most important information that the relevant publications contain?
  11. i fully agree! and this is why i do love surgeons and clinics who are 100% transparent whilst always providing honest answers. that's how you build relationships in any area, of course also including our private life ;-) from what i have learned i also fully agree in this respect. anybody making these claims needs to be treated with suspicion. like you, i can't claim to be an expert either in the ht industry. and from what i have seen and read from tsisolani so far, he seems to be an outstanding ht surgeon with a passion to excel. as for his current fue technique and by just looking at the bare figures and his used punches, however, i get the impression that there is still room for him to improve compared to other, outstanding fue surgeons.
  12. i hope, not to come across as being too critical, but i am a bit concerned about the size that your clinic uses for the 3-4 hair grafts. from what i have learned in my research is that if the size of the punch is too big (i.e. 1mm inner diameter), the chances are very high that this will result in miniaturisation of the neighbouring grafts in the donor area. in order to minimise this risk, punches with a maximum diameter of 0.85mm for the 3-4 hair grafts are being used, ideally 0.8mm.
  13. many thanks again for your contribution also including tsilosani's response. as for his statements, however, i am not quite sure whether other docs and patients will agree with him. have a read through what another fue clinic, prohair clinic is saying on their website about damaged grafts during extraction process: "...an inexperienced team who does not carry out or know the FUE technique properly will damage 5-10% of the grafts. However, team Prohairclinic work exclusively using the FUE version, in which damage to the hair root scarcely ever occurs. This is why we guarantee that less than 1% of grafts are lost during the extraction process. This is far fewer than in other commonly used hair transplant techniques." "Currently we are able to transplant up to 2000-2500 grafts (follicular units, sometimes also known as grafts) per day on the same patient. This means that we can transplant up to 4000 grafts on 2 successive days. This is much more than an average strip/FUT procedure." as far as i know the prohair clinic doesn't use any power driven tools at all exactly for the reason to keep the transection rate that low.
  14. well, i contacted dr cohen a while ago about the tool. so far, he hasn't come back and to provide further information about this tool. i wonder why? does it exist at all? on the other side, it looks as if other clinics seem to use similar devices as talizi in the thread showed.
  15. in other words, your doctor uses a power driven tool for creating the punches. as far as i know all the world renowned fue surgeons only make the punches manually as this seems to create less transected grafts. for example, the prohair clinic guarantees that less than 1% of the extracted grafts get lost due to damage. what is your surgeon's opinion on that?
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