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I haven't posted in ages but I just had my 6th, yes 6th FUE surgery. I started back in 2004 and this was my second procedure with Dr. Lorenzo, the first one being 3 years ago. The quality of his surgery is night and day. I'll concede that when I started out, the procedure hadn't evolved into what it is now even though the FUE docs were making big claims, but there's no other doctor I would let touch my head. Flew across the Atlantic Ocean both times for the work.

I'm interested in this too.

Is it available to US now from H&W? How can you get it?

Thanks for that info. Unfortunately I was a guinea pig in the early years of FUE, fooled by major clinics (still operating today) that FUE was the new gold standard. In hindsight I would have gotten a couple of strips w Hasson and been better off today. Thankfully Jose Lorenzo was able to fix me up although I need to one more procedure. No one mentions much how after several thousand fue your sides look thin when cut short making the benefit of keeping your hair short with FUE invalid.

Right. I figured. And hair multiplication is still 5 years away as it has been for the past 15 years? Thanks.

Because they were adamant for over a decade that fue was inferior to strip as recently as a couple of years ago when I was told by their rep (who now works for a fue clinic) that I will never get good growth w FUE. Don't get me wrong, Hasson is probably the most skilled surgeon out there.

I haven't been on the forums in a long time. Hasson & Wong do FUE now?? Hilarious. Any new treatments out there? Surgical, Medical, topical, stem cell? Or is it still the same old, same old?

So nothing new? I've been hearing 5 more years for the past 15 years. What happened to Aderans?

Hasson is doing FUE now????

Lot of us have flown overseas and to far away places to get the right work done. Going to the wrong doctor can cripple you.

It always goes, my friend. Guys get the wrong impression that they are holding onto their hair with propecia, rogaine, or various experimental concoctions and they just will need one surgery or they can get some really low hairline but you lose all the hair eventually. I think very few people actually grow some hair on meds. That being said the meds can slow the loss down considerably. I should have been a NW6 by 22 but 14 years later I'm still holding onto some hair.

You're a funny guy and I'm not worried. I think the pics are pretty damn excellent. High quality, large size. This site seems to compress them but the originals are 36mp.

I've been on meds for 14 years. It has slowed down my hairloss considerably but after 14 years most of it is gone. Just the bottom half of the crown under the whorl is left and that is very slowly going too. I'm not sure why you think it's too much density. Take a closer look. It's plenty thin. The hair is long and combed together to give myself the best cosmetic look as are the hair styles in just about every result posted by famous clinics such as H&W. A shorter haircut would make it look much thinner. I took the pictures myself in my home. The pre ops were done by Lorenzo on the day of surgery. Forgive me for not have given enough effort to match his pics.

I agree. When you spend such a huge amount of money it's absurd that the doc typically only comes in to make the slits for the grafts. Generally in a FUE clinic, a tech does the extractions for hours and hours, the doc comes in and makes slits or a half hour, and then more techs place the grafts for hours and hours. With a strip, hopefully the doc is cutting out the strip himself in all cases. Lorenzo does everything. His implanter pen allows to bypass the slits step. He places the grafts in himself as an incision is made by the pen. I know clinics go on and on about teamwork and how their techs are so experienced but considering the huge amount of money spent you should get 95% of the work done by the doctor himself.

Thanks, David.