RecedingTide

I like the detailed write up and photos.

At 8 months his hair looks great, very nice result .

This is one lucky patient.

I think all docs should have to provide this type of info in results galleries on their sites. 2000 grafts for one guy is not the same as 2000 for another. I always like to see the hair calibre number. It's so important.

Fantastic result. May I ask how many grafts this patient has left by FUE? Also is this patient using finasteride? Thanks for your time.

Dr. Feller also has good things to say about Dr. Lorenzo from what I've seen in the forums. Dr. Lorenzo seems to be the only guy that can make the choi implanter pen work consistently. The choi implanter pen has been a disaster in other peoples' hands. Apparently, many docs damage the grafts just loading them into the implanter.

I had the nipple pain in one nipple only and chucked the finasteride.

Thing is when I was about 13 I had a growth spurt and surge in hormone levels. Apparently the quick increase in T caused a good bit of it to aromatise and turn to E. Unfortunately I got a small bit of breast tissue, not visible but sore and palpable. On the plus side once DHT levels came up to par (5 alpha reductase levels must have taken awhile to increase naturally) after about a month it starting going away and was gone after 2 months.

When I tried finasteride I felt the same nipple getting sore and puffy so I said no way do I want this happening and got off it. Sucks that it affected me like that but everything was fine after a few weeks.

Also how you style your hair has a big effect. Needless to say parting the hair to one side will create the best coverage and block the most light whereas spiking your hair, especially at the hairline will let the most light through.

I've seen a number of Dr. Rahal cases that are precisely planned out and take into account going norwood 6 in the future. There's also a guy, think it's El Nino, and he's had almost 5000 starting from the crown. He has yet to lose his hairline and people were asking what would happen if he lost the hair at the front. It turns out he has another 4000 by strip for the front half. After that he has between another 1500 to 2000 FUE if he needed them. The plan would have him at about 50% everywhere if he has to have another pass or two.

Nowadays a very decent head of hair is possible even for many norwood 6s who have lost nearly all their native hair.

Big difference from month 3 to 4. You're on the way now Keith. It really just begins now. This is going to be great. Redness is definitely dying down now too. Keep us updated.

That's actually pretty damn impressive for two strips considering his level of baldness before the HTs. I think Hair Restoration Blackrock is a rip off but if that's his head of hair sans concealer then credit where credit is due. Great result and it has dramatically changed his appearance for the better.

No illusion of density going on there Matt. Great stuff. If you take a set of headphones, move the ear pieces to in front of your ears in the temple area and imagine the area of scalp in front of the band , then that's the area that should have 45FU/cm2 moving up to 60FU/cm2 in the hairline.

That is brilliant! Thanks for putting it up in 720 on youtube. With the high def you can really assess it better. Great stuff.

Had a look at the video and if anything it looks even better in the video. Fantastic result.

That is my least favorte look. If my head was normal, an didn't look like a prune, I would definitely just shave it off.

 

Spex has some pretty nice looking hair.

 

Mine is almost black, and most of the videos I looked at were almost black as well. On the good side, I am starting to get a little grey sprinkled in there.

Grey hair works incredibly well for HT. I'm the same but then again I remember being 21 and people commenting that I was beginning to get greys. That didn't bother me one bit though. I was far more concerned about balding.

Very nice result. Excellent yield and result for 2300. This guy can expect a nice head of hair even if he progresses to norwood 6 down the line thanks to the excellent use of donor and great result from this first surgery. Out of curiosity, how much donor does the doc think this patient has available over the course of his life? Thanks for your time.

It's simply all in the shingling effect and the angulation of implantation which will allow multi FU hairs to splay in a manner which will maximise coverage. Often a lot of the really great restorations focus on quite high density in the frontal third and particularly the hairline and central forelock in order to block the passage of light through the hair which tends to cause the thin look. If you create that high density frontal third you can look at yourself in the mirror and turn your head and it shouldn't appear to let much light through. This is how people see you when talking face to face. The worst angle will always be the top down, usually in the crown or midscalp.

Numbers of FU are very important but just as important is hair calibre.

Best comb through I've ever seen? London Lad after his first op of about 7000. And to think he had a 2nd procedure bringing him up to 11200ish! Mind boggling. He's at the point with his hair where it is definitely something better than just an illusion.

Exceptional. Well done. Such a natural result.

This is incredible. You must be delighted with the result. I'm sure it's very reassuring having such a great result with 2500 and knowing you've got plenty left in the hair bank should you ever require the extra grafts.

How could he wear concealers during the match? Doesn't it rub off when he runs, sweats, heads the ball?

Dermmatch doesn't come off. You can actually go swimming with it and it won't come off. Put shampoo on it and it comes straight off however.

That hairline is the perfect shape. It's the exact one I'd go for. I think you're going to be very happy when it grows in.

Don't go to either. Look abroad. It's a big step so you have to go to the best. Look at the big guys in Canada, the US and Belgium and you can't go far wrong. All the best.

Crazy good. This actually goes to show that some norwood 5s and 6s can actually get results that don't even look thin in the crown nowadays. 3644? Looks more like 6000 were lobbed into the crown. Amazing.

It looks awesome Sean. It looks amazing at only 5 months. Must feel really nice knowing you've got the frontal third shored up now. Plus 5000+ FUE left in the bank and your physiology seems really suited to FUE and the healing process. Do you know how high your donor region is in the back and the donor density? No worries if you don't. Thanks again for sharing.

After you strip out you could also do some FUE grafts into the scar and then you may even be able to get down to a 2 on the sides and back, a 3 anyway. Most people nowadays can get 8000-9000 over multiple strips (2 or 3) if they go with a top doc. After that you can go for about 300 FUE into the scar and then another 1500 FUE into some problem spots. You might be able to get to 10,000 grafts by combining FUT and FUE.

I can already call this now. That scar is going to be incredible. Masterful work.

I would be very interested in knowing who these 2 doctors are, as I'm considering FUE myself.

The vast majority of us have nothing like that number available by FUE.

I'll tell you why he charges so much: 2 things. Firstly they sunk a lot of money into Sampson house which is an incredible facility in a weathly area, I'll give them that. Secondly the team seems to be pretty big at HRBR since there's 3 senior guys there. I think they probably charged the prices to recoup funds and manage overheads plus they're the only half decent operation in the country so they probably fell like they can extort twice as much money than is standard.