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A reputable hair transplant clinic will have a longer waiting list than an opening in October. What you are heading for is a "Hair Mill." Look up "Hair Mill" in google, or even this forum, to see what can very well go wrong. It's a crap shoot going to them in Turkey and you have a big probability of coming out worse than going in. Take your money and run.
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Pittella does body (non-beard) hair, Eugenix does not. Search the forums for his work. This is an example of a NW7 patient. The problem you seem to have is your beard is already depleted.
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Here's an example of the problem - this fellow's crown has very visible SMP dots. I think this inking option is ideal when you use it for density, and not for filling in a bald area:
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My objective when restoring from a high norwood was to have a fallback position if I had to buzz down. Melvin might be more unique in how much frontal packing he had done. It works great when you grow out your hair, with the framing at the front view of the face showing strong density, but it's limiting in the case where you get rid of it for whatever reason. The way out of showing a horseshoe - where the donor band is noticeably more dense than where the hairs got moved to is either overharvest your donor with the FUE method so that the two zones look closely equal in density; or buzz down with no trim guard and keep it short every few days and don't let it grow out much longer than stubble. Letting it go out for a week will reveal the MPB. Something which might help is SMP into the crown, but even then, someone would need to keep on top of the buzzing regimen.
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What is the latest on hair restoration?
AB2000 replied to K_2009's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
It appears there are a number of good options abroad that are more affordable, with good results, than who you went with before. When I began my research over ten years ago one of the places I wanted to consult with was H&W, but they had a certain rep who was then working for them which turned me off. In my case I knew I would need to include beard hair, which was newer, but got a stiff blow off. Check out the "Gatsby Unplugged" thread for a thorough documentation of a forum dweller's journey from high norwood and scarring to looking like he has minimal hair loss. -
Have you experimented with hair concealers such as Toppik or Dermmatch? You appear to be at a a stage of hairloss where it would be useful. Excessive balding doesn't allow concealers to work - and you still have coverage.
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Anyone heard of Blue Magic group in Turkey?
AB2000 replied to Mir_a_Mir's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
The Turkish hair mills get advertising money from their government. We've seen obvious fake reviews going on. If you are looking for affordable FUE now's a good time compared to 15 years ago when you joined the forum. -
Body hair transplant success rates?
AB2000 replied to Patrick_Joyce's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447335/ This a reference to an Indian dematology journal: -
Body hair transplant success rates?
AB2000 replied to Patrick_Joyce's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
In Dr. Umar's case he's had custom designs made for his FUE tools to accommodate his patients who have been coming in for HT repairs and have run out of normal donor. In more recent years he has also advertised for patients with afro hair, meaning that like chest hairs, they grow out from the skin at sharper angles and are time consuming and hard to remove safely. I haven't had surgery there with the newest FUE tool but it is supposed to be relatively fast and effective at extracting a wide variety of graft types. -
Body hair transplant success rates?
AB2000 replied to Patrick_Joyce's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
When using hair from the chest, the problem is that it is harder to extract safely and avoid transection. From what I understand these have a sharp angle when growing out from the surface of the skin. Normal tools might damage them without taking ample time and care. At that point is it worth it to the surgeon to go for these? If they need to perform at a certain rate to obtain a good return on their services, then you can see why many won't bother. Another reason why it's hard to find places that will do these BHT's it that the result might not look good. Even if it's possible, will the patient's air grow out like a Brillo Pad? Why have your work put there the like that? It's a fine balance mixing in body hairs. Moral of the story - don't push for it if they are not comfortable, and shop elsewhere. -
Beard and hair transplant hell
AB2000 replied to bbow's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Hi BBOW, I don't think you will find people here wanting to beat you up with words on the outcome of a surgery. Getting your appearance botched is worse than having zero results, but I think that as you get feedback and do research on these forums which go back over 20 years you should find information that will eventually help you turn things around. At this point you might not want to consider further surgery, but there are some specialists who work with patients specifically for repair jobs. Also, with the skill set of some clinics like Men's Ink SMP in Milan, there are options for places that can help hide scarring. If ever there was a time bounce back from what you describe, we are in the era where it is possible. The same cannot be said over 15 years ago. -
It's bizarre how basically the same question is asked every day on the forum. None of the people coming in will do any searching to quickly find the answer.
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I would consider the last three as the Before, but if you mean what I looked like before any surgery, I had a couple on my progress thread, plus how it changed through the years -
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The advice I received when undergoing my restoration from NW6 was to shave the back and sides and let the top grow out, the area with the transplanted hair. These are from about 10m out from my last surgery. As you can see, this style looks better than from the same time period, but without a haircut, where the longer hair revealed the lack of density:
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Having long hair after a transplant
AB2000 replied to formesenlair's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Some of my photos at the link below. For each surgery I'd have the hair shaved down, and after two of them grew the hair out long. -
Recommendation for FUE clinic in Rio de Janeiro
AB2000 replied to HairInRio's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Even if he wanted to go see Pittella the wait list is several months long. -
HDC Cyprus - 3600 Graft FUE - Dr. Christina
AB2000 replied to miked316's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
How true 🙂 -
Look at this insanity
AB2000 replied to consequence's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
SMP would improve it further. -
When do you plan to start going bald?
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Could anyone please help me and my hair?
AB2000 replied to ajsr8's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
What affect does it have on heart health? -
Dr Couto | 1700 grafts | Sept 2022 | Crown | Confused
AB2000 replied to Prof101's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
Have you used Toppik before?