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just saw your pre-ops looking good

i just read a post on Dr. Rahal's website patient blog that ACELL was used on him with a picture of the box it comes in first time i've heard of Rahal using this wonder if it is patient specific anyone?

no news is good news

xlent design! even at 4 months you must be stoked! you've made wise decisions re: your hairline transplant and compared to other hairline transplants i have seen yours has made a significant difference in the framing of your face totally worth it and made me make the leap as well

take propecia for the crown if you are over 40 years, you will be pretty safe lowering the hairline temple angles and i am sure you can get this done if you are in your 20's and want to fill in the temples you might find a hard time for a qualified HT surgeon to approve

see your derm you have nothing to lose good luck

yeah, you can't tell the native from the transplant but like you said the transplant was within the native so you did not have shock loss which puts you ahead of the game the initial transplant even though within native hair looked extremely clean as well i think your transplant has a bright future doesn't look like anything was even done and that is saying a lot at 3 months congrats

oh i thought he was looking for what your hair looked like before this transplant i'll adjust my post if allowed best

"seems most patients are older gentlemen. I suppose this is fine as each doc has their niche" that's true but it's a BIG niche! lol! i bet a very high % of HT case are 50+

nice dude!

please ask for proposed density that they can try to achieve in cm2 at the hairline i only say this because as you say: and you want to be aware what your doctor considers THICK compared to what you consider thick, so you are not disappointed, waiting for your "THICK" while the dr., with all good intentions, transplanted his THICK just ask for the proposed density per cm2 at the hairline

depends on how many grafts, fue or fut plus is it a hairline transfer or crown raphael 84 is right best scenerio for running around town in 3 days <2000 grafts FUE to crown area

congratulations!

looking good congrats

frontal hairline and temple point work might be more susceptible to disfiguring, albeit, temporary swelling also, if additional anesthetic is provided throughout the surgery in these areas

he has posted pics in the past and he was transplanting into totally balding areas at the temple angle and temple point post op the temple angles look evenly diffuse, which is more obvious due to the density of the native hair behind the recipient area while the temple points look patchy

at this point, the good news is that this is not a disaster maybe 1000 grafts was too conservative to give the density you wanted in the area transplanted might be the reason for you disappointment; (do you know/can you find out the recipient area in cm2?) for instance, a recipient area greater than 16cm2 for the 1000 grafts you received (given the density of the hair sitting directly behind the proposed new hair line) will give a density of less than 60 grafts per cm2. in the temple angles this will probably look like thinning (as it does) maybe the FUE procedure, which, in general, is known to give lesser yield than FUT, reduced that 1000 grafts to 900 (they say the yield is 10% less with FUE) if that is the case and everyone of those 900 grafts grew out, your recipient area would need to be 15cm2 or lower to reach a density of at least 60 grafts per cm2 find out these numbers they will relieve your "waiting" for growth when all might have grown already look, numbers mean nothing if you are satisfied but if you are questioning whether the procedure failed to grow fully or if it was just a case of not placing enough grafts to satisfy the density you expected, these numbers (recipient area in cm2 and number of grafts transplanted) will clear this up what ever the case, this is an easy case to BEEF up the density with another procedure (i know you've heard this before but at this stage, this is a good plan that you can be proactive about now by consulting with other docs or planning with your current one) best

at this point, the good news is that this is not a disaster maybe 1000 grafts was too conservative to give the density you wanted in the area transplanted might be the reason for you disappointment; (do you know/can you find out the recipient area in cm2?) for instance, a recipient area greater than 16cm2 for the 1000 grafts you received (given the density of the hair sitting directly behind the proposed new hair line) will give a density of less than 60 grafts per cm2. in the temple angles this will probably look like thinning (as it does) maybe the FUE procedure, which, in general, is known to give lesser yield than FUT, reduced that 1000 grafts to 900 (they say the yield is 10% less with FUE) if that is the case and everyone of those 900 grafts grew out, your recipient area would need to be 15cm2 or lower to reach a density of at least 60 grafts per cm2 find out these numbers they will relieve your "waiting" for growth when all might have grown already look, numbers mean nothing if you are satisfied but if you are questioning whether the procedure failed to grow fully or if it was just a case of not placing enough grafts to satisfy the density you expected, these numbers (recipient area in cm2 and number of grafts transplanted) will clear this up what ever the case, this is an easy case to BEEF up the density with another procedure (i know you've heard this before but at this stage, this is a good plan that you can be proactive about now by consulting with other docs or planning with your current one) best

well they can either ask un compensated patients to post their pics or post pics for them

this is all fixable your doc sees what you see that is the most important thing

thanks still prepping for post op

thanks still prepping for post op

when can a baseball cap be worn firmly (securely) not loose and touching the grafted areas

the pointiness can be softened with tweezing or permanently with lasers but the density (if the softening doesn't make it better) then a few fue would do the trick for the temple points or roundness just confirming what you probably already know though best

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