folliclehero

folliclehero- thank you for your opinion.

 

Are you going to put any pictures up to document your procedure with Dr. Carman? i clicked on your profile and you have no documentation. Just curious, would love to see the Dr.'s work.

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/164448-incredible-5-month-result-dr-carman.html

Here are some pics....and these are only at 5 months. The whole front of my head has fuller, more lush hair now, it's awesome. It's 100% undetectable, couldn't look more natural.

All I wanted were the corners filled in but it looks much better everywhere up front.

folliclehero- thank you for your opinion.

 

Are you going to put any pictures up to document your procedure with Dr. Carman? i clicked on your profile and you have no documentation. Just curious, would love to see the Dr.'s work.

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/164448-incredible-5-month-result-dr-carman.html

Here are some pics....and these are only at 5 months. The whole front of my head has fuller, more lush hair now, it's awesome. It's 100% undetectable, couldn't look more natural.

There really are only a handful of great surgeons imo and yes, all of them practice outside of SoCal. Cant say for sure why a place like LA does not have an "elite" ht doc. As for more crazy conspiracy theories, This may sound stupid, but maybe many movie stars or high profile individuals might choose to not want to get a ht in LA due to the ever present paparazzi. Maybe it's easier to go to Vancouver, Ottawa, or great neck ny if you are a high profile individual?

This post is utter nonsense. CA has absolutely top-notch doctors.

Don't listen to this guy's opinion. I had work done with Dr. Carman and the guy is a master surgeon, I'm sure there are others as well.

Hey bud....

The big names around here are Dr. Rahal, Hasson & Wong, The Shapiro Bros and a few others.

Those seem to be the names that come up the most.....HOWEVER, all of the recommended doctors on here are great. I went with Dr. Carman out of La Jolla and am very happy with my results, I expected just the corners to fill in but the whole frontal area of my hair is now thicker and more dense. I'm guessing the results would have been just as good with most of the recommended doctors.

What you should do is type in some doctors names in the search box and check out some of their posted work samples, and read some threads about them.

It looks to me like an easy fix....like the temples could be filled with not too many more grafts because there is already so much existing hair.

I can't believe Melike wasn't there....the fact that you had surgery planned with her and then when you showed up, it was some other person seems very sketchy and dishonest. I would have either waited for her, or gotten my money back.

By the way, did they give you any indication before hand that she wouldn't be there?

I'm glad you've made it through the doldrums. They can be nasty. Do you have, or can you take, new photos with your hairline brushed upward? Your before pics show the hair up but your 5 month pic has the hair brushed forward over the hairline. Brushing the hair up will allow for a better comparison.

 

Thanks for sharing and congratulations.

It already is brushed upwards....scout's honor:) In all of the photos I brushed my hair straight upwards about 3-4 times, cause I wanted 100% honest pics, the flash and the background is the same too. My hair is a little longer in the first two photos, but that's not why it looks so much denser. The hairs have just totally grown in!

Also, my hair is very thick and curly, and brushing it upwards didn't change how dense it looked, especially since it's not that long in the last photo.

It's been just under 5 months and I'm blown away by the results thus far. Even if there was no more growth and the hairs didn't thicken up (which they will) I'd be happy.

Months 2-3.5 were very tough, waiting and nit knowing is an awful feeling. Now I look in the mirror and can't believe it....I had roughly 1320 fu's put in. Dr. Carman delivers and then some.

Subtle?

I think it looks MUCH better........little differences can have big effects.

Really nice work Dr. Carman.

Just don't lose sleep over which one you choose, All three of those guys are experts, and perform world-class results.

Wow, really? No responses.

Hey, what's up bud. I don't know much about Pak, but H&W and Reed are all very well respected around here. You can't go wrong with any of those guys.

Man, that's crazy. You look younger than you did ten years ago!

It's amazing how much of a difference a full head of hair makes. And your HT is completely undetectable, not even a hint of anything unnatural.

Show off!

LOL....

I wouldn't worry Damon. Even if you do need a HT at some point in the distant future, it will probably only be 1200-1500 follicular units.

I understand your concern though, because hair loss is gradual and creeps up on you. Sometimes you can't tell if it's happening because you see yourself every day.

Right on....

I'm glad to see H&W are a stand-up clinic like everyone says they are. I hope all this gets worked out.

You might want to check out the hair transplant journals and look at guys who received 4000+ grafts. That should give you a good idea of what you can expect.

Hair Restoration Sites

This link will show the patient journal entries of one top doc in the US. You can check out other top doc patient results too.

But the problem is that everytime I send him photos he just replies "oh it's coming in nicely will thicken up". This concerns me but I still believe Dr. Wong is an ethical man and will correct this. I hope I'm right.

I would be really straightforward and say...."at what point can we agree that the results are not what we agreed upon." Maybe in one more month, he'll concede that the final results are in. He should know that you're stressed out about this and don't want to wait more than say one more month.

Once you get to that point, show him you are still very thin and ask him if he's willing to help you out.

As far as having a plan, I don't understand how you couldn't have one. I'd think that the doctor would know how to best optimize your grafts in order to come up with more thickness.

I also think that your immediate post-ops looked dense. It's hard to believe that all your grafts grew, after looking at the 1 year results.

I wonder if there is a thread somewhere dedicated to HT patients' photos who have not shaved their recipient area? That would be useful for our research since this is quite a common question.

There are definitely other articles, but just a thread with photos of guys who didn't shave? that would be cool.

I didn't shave, but only had 1300 grafts placed. What's weird is that I would have. It's definitely harder work for the techs and the doc, because they have to move the existing hairs around (I didn't know that then). But the results are the same I believe. If transection were really an issue, docs would require shaving.

I actually started another post about this exact topic.

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/163802-besides-h-w-rahal-do-any-other-coalition-docs-guarantee-results.html

Nobody seems to know what exactly a guarantee means.

Ok I just took some additional pics. I think you will all see that this didn't turn out. I don't know why this happened. I did everything Dr. Wong suggested. Ive been taking a liquid vitamin, reduced my stress, eating a balanced healthy diet, exercising, taking propecia.

 

Compare my pre opt pics located in my first comment to these.

 

And for your information Aaron 1234 this is my second procedure. My first procedure was back in 1998 for 600 graphs. In addition, I don't plan on running out and spending another $15000 until I determine whether I received adequate results from this one. I don't believe I did.

 

The question is what should I do now????

That second set of pics is much clearer. I would definitely call Dr. Wong and tell him you're not happy. That looks much thinner than H&W's normally incredible results.

It definitely looks better, but not nearly as dense as one would think for 4200 grafts. Have you talked to Dr. Wong about this?

Dr. Hasson's post says for optimal, ultra refined results, shaving the head and not shaving it is night and day.

The truth is, many excellent doctors don't require shaving and achieve excellent results. Take Dr. Scott Alexander for example, he has many before and after pics that show incredible final results, and most were not shaved right before surgery. I'm sure there are many other examples.

It seems to me that if shaving was a requirement for tip top results, then all coalition doctors would do it, but they don't.

Do you want FUE? If you want FUE then Dr. Umar is the best choice. There is a huge difference between FUE and conventional strip surgery, and if you dont have a problem with a scar and dont plan on ever buzzing your hair short then perhaps you can get away with a strip but you need to ask yourself these questions first.

 

Saving a few bucks is entirely understandable and something we all can relate to, but we often don't think about whether or not we will be happy 10 years from now. As an Umar patient and a veteran of many strips, if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't see anyone but Dr. Umar. You have to weigh the added costs versus the benefits of having someone like him work on you. He does things other doctors cannot, I know this from experience. Good luck on your search.

To be honest...it seems like the fear of scarring from strip is a little overblown. I've seen tons of before and afters. The scar is almost always very minimal when the surgery is performed by a top doc.

No it's part of the service. They're just a good honest clinic and they feel obliged to help me with my scar, they will also asses my growth and act accordingly with what it says on their website. If you pay for the best you get the best that's why I flew half way across the planet in the first place.

 

Hair transplantation is a mentally stressful experiance as we all know that's why you need to use someone confident enough to give guarantees and stand by it imo, the last thing you need is a clinic washing their hands of you as soon as they get paid that's why this is such a good topic....who gives guarantees and not only that but who stands by their guarantee I bet there's very few clinics.

I'm pretty sure Bill (the assistant publisher) said something about all the coalition doctors standing behind their work, and their patients...I don't remember exactly where I read that though. I just don't know if that's the same as a guarantee.

Very good question. I remember asking my doc if people would look at my hair that had newly grown in and say "did you have a hair transplant?"

He told me I'd be surprised at how few people can even figure out what about you has changed (assuming you had it done by a top-notch surgeon). It looks so natural and grows in so gradually (thin and colorless hair at first), that most, if not all people can't figure out what was done.

So people may comment on how you look better, but not be able to figure out why. But just to play it safe, I'd say I was using propecia and it worked really well. Most people don't know enough about the drug to know that it doesn't do much for the frontal part of your head.

Also in my case, I have existing hair, so that helps obviously.

Very impressive results....not surprising at all after viewing some of Dr. Alexander's other before and afters.