TomCruise

Surely Dr. Couto has a doctor in the area that he is friendly with and can do the follow-up post-operative care for his patients (you, in this case) in his absence. I would ask them about this and if no such arrangement exists, I would be very wary of proceeding.

While I agree with everyone's advice that you are in dire need of competent medical care, do you care to explain how your hair went from dark black immediately before the surgery, to gray immediately post-op? This makes no sense. My apologies if I'm missing something.

You need to post a picture of your scalp immediately following the transplant. Your "before" pictures looks like it was taken roughly 20 years before.

I can hardly tell the difference between the before and afters. Part of being a responsible doctor is appropriately counseling a patient as to what to expect and whether a procedure will make an appreciable difference, even if he is constrained by so-called financial limitations.

this is good to know.

This is a good point.

Tom Cruise of course.

There is or was a shampoo sold under the Rogaine brand, however, it contained no minoxydil and had no hair loss prevention attributes. It was just a brand extension.

Fallen, what inspired you to choose this doctor in the first place over others?

You do raise some good points....

Hariri, what about Dr. Koray Erdogan or Dr. Hakan Doganay per your sig?

911fan, it was 1471 grafts, not over 3000. I see how the NW number and graft number ran together in the post, though.

I'm pretty sure the generics sold by Walgreens, Costco and Target here in America are grade A, double plus good.

Hope all continues to go your way in beating this disease.

Good idea. It's shaping up to be "The Ultimate FUE Thread" period, or something like "FUE Criteria and Considerations" or "For Those Considering FUE....": etc.