Nick153452

Personally, I think that 3000 grafts is a little excessive. You have ideal skin tone/hair color contrast. Usually people with your characteristics get wonderful results with a modest amount of grafts. I think lowering your hairline would be silly. If you grow your hair out, it will already look lower. You are still relatively young, you need to save the grafts that you do have for later. As far as your doctor, I think you did choose amongst the best in the world. However, there are good doctors in India also. I think Dr. Radha has posted some great results and she is significantly less expensive.

It's not that recent. It was 4 months ago

I can already see the results They are going to be great!.

Do you have any pictures? That would really help for you to get advice from some of the members on this forum

You are from Egypt. It would be much cheaper and much more wise to stay on that side of the world if you're keen on going FUE. The best surgeons in the world for FUE are in Europe. In my opinion, I would go to Turkey if I were you. Dr. Erdogan and Dr. Doganay are the best for the money.

Good call. I didn't see that at all. Hopefully things thicken up

I'm actually not too blown away by this result. His hairline looks good and natural, but the density elsewhere for that amount of grafts seems a low considering how much native hair he had.

I don't see the point of Gho's technique if Nigam's does end up being practical..

I agree with Spanker. Continue your research. I personally wouldn't go with FUE with any of those surgeons. There are only a handfull that are doing world-class results in my opinion on a consistent basis.

2.5 months is nothing to even start to worry about. Most people experience 0 growth before this time. At 3 months I saw some stubbles and at 4 months I am blown away with the progress. If you want some reassurance, look at my thread in the hair transplant review on this forum. My thread should be on the front page with many photos of each months progress.

Let us know what you find out .

Yeah I can see a little difference too. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do other than be patient. Some people are late bloomers, some are early bloomers. Just try to stay away from the mirror. A watched kettle never boils.

The photo looks almost identical to the 4th month photo to me also. Do you know what density he placed in your frontal portion?

Does he accept paypal?

What are your overall expectations with surgery?

This is a wonderful result. I really, really, really like this result. Thank you for sharing it with us Jotronic. You can't go wrong with Hasson & Wong

I would say that you would benefit highly from FUT if your density and laxity allow for it. 8000 grafts is a lot of grafts.

The unwillingness to change often comes back to hit a person in the butt twice as hard. If donor doubling turns out to be as what is claimed, strip WILL be a thing in the past and those strip doctors who didn't invest time into learning the trade will be behind in the game. However, the time isn't now - FUSS still has its place in the field, and strongly. I am a strong advocate of research. Although I didn't research for two years like some people, I researched enough to have made an informed decision and risk assessment based on the specific needs of my case. If I would have gone with FUE, I would have never been able to achieve an appreciable amount of density that I would have been satisfied with. I know that when I talked to Matt at SMG, he made it clear that it is a surgery and with every surgery there is risk of a stretched scar, although they are very good track record with their scars.

You are using the same logic that the leading strip surgeons used back in the day when FUE was in its infancy and a severely inferior form of hair transplantation. These strip doctors were saying that it was bringing back to the plug days and had severely inferior results to strip. That much was true and everyone will agree. However, look at it now; FUE is providing world class results comparable to strip and has evolved into its own market. The fact that none of the world leading surgeons are using robotics, similar to the way that none of the world leading strip surgeons at the time abandoned strip in favor of FUE, has nothing to do with whether or not it is a good, or has the potential to become a superior form of donor harvesting. Robotics as a form of harvesting is relatively new. The world leading FUE physicians have been going at it for YEARS and have mastered their technique. Naturally they are going to be hesitant to try someting new, in a similar way that strip surgeons were skeptical of moving into FUE. That does not mean that it is the only technique, and I reaffirm that it is not the best technique that can be thought up. I do agree with Bill, this is getting a little out of hand. These topics have their rightful place on the discussion forums, but not in a thread like this

I echo what has already been said. Most people don't realize that they're going bald until they've already lost half of their hair, unless of course they see it under harsh lighting or in photos It is also true that hair transplants become visible under harsh light because the goal is to establish about 50% of native density (which under most lighting seems full.)

Definitely not normal. If I were you I'd get it checked out.

I don't see what's wrong with using robotics, provided that it can provide equal results as to what a human is capable of providing, which at this point is unknown. Anyone who claims otherwise is arguing on pure emotion and is not a person who is excited to advance the field. I see several advantages to robotic harvesting that I will not go into here as it really makes no difference. Human's have used technological advances to make our lives significantly easier. You don't see humans building fire to cook their food. You don't see bakers mixing their doughs by hand, you don't see doctors drinking pee to test for diabetes anymore, because not only would that be silly, it's also less effective. Does that mean the doctor is a worse doctor because he doesn't want to drink urine to test for diabetes? Does that make the chef worse than a family on a camping trip cooking food over an open fire? Does that make the chef less SKILLED than someone baking at home without the high tech gadgets? Absolutely not. No matter what you think, there's always a way to improve no matter what it is we do. Those who are stuck with the idea that modern methods are the best and anyone searching for a new way to provide better results are (insert negative adjective here), really shouldn't be complaining that strip surgery is still in our industry

It's always good when a patient enjoys his/her results. I would like to see more photos, if you have them?

I do see Mickeys point about the reputation bearing little importance on the overall ethics of something. On the other side,I do agree with spanker that sometimes the strip bashing is a bit annoying and goes as far as to insult those of us who underwent a strip by insisting that we didn't do our research or weigh our options. if the debate is to continue, you have to be reasonable of both sides and be objective about the facts.

It depends on your hair. I'm on my phone so I don't want to go back and lookat your balding class, family , donor supply etc. if your only needing about 4000 grafts over your life,I would go fue. Anything more,fut may be more appropriate.if I remember when I get back home from work I'll look into your case more and give you a better opinion for you