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Look through the forum for patient and clinic results to get examples. There's also some recommended surgeons on the site: https://hairtransplantnetwork.com/best-hair-transplant-surgeons

HDC over in Cyprus is not far from Turkey and has a similar cost. It's a recommended clinic here if I'm not mistaken.

One of these clinics that draw in a lot of people, name escapes me right now, clearly had google reviews which were copy and pastes, with certain words altered. Turkey's clinics have their advertising costs reimbursed by their government, so they can afford the review farming services that are out there. I don't know if Clickworker has done hair clinics specifically, but if you see the types of jobs they post you know companies like them are used, and they hire people to write reviews for small sums of money. The gamble with with that country is the lack of regulation and how easily the techs, who do most of the work can be swapped out from one day to the next. And we've seen it where the techs perform multiple types of surgeries, not just hair transplants. You never know who's going to wind up working on your hair. No matter what the Doctors claim, at hair mills they are minimally involved. The downside - an unnatural looking head of hair - is worth bailing on the travel cost for most people.

I inferred him using the term Asians to mean what westerners used to call Orientals, or people from places such as China, Japan, etc, and not to mean those from India or Russia who have different genetic histories. In the case of North and South American aboriginals, they appear to have migrated to the continent about 10,000 years ago and split off into different tribes settling different regions over the centuries. Old photos of non-mixed men show them with their distinctive lack of hair loss, even in old age. I think shiba's characterization more or less matches observations, so I am not sure what you are confused about.

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Any update on getting the LPP under control?

And this is the "X" factor on why some random hair transplants fail, even when going to a doctor with a good track record and the surgery done properly. The procedure can kick up something like Scarring alopecia to those who are prone.

Just wondering, in regards to your point 2, how often did you wind up washing your hair after changing the frequency? Did you wash with the Nizoral shampoo more often or less often? In the past year I've adjusted down to washing my hair with salon grade shampoo once or twice a week. Did you switch to using the Nizoral daily to prevent outbreaks of this seborrheic dermatitis? Or do you space it out? I had the opportunity to visit my hair surgeon in person this past week and went in to do photos. Not that I noticed it but he said my scalp was inflamed. I had been showering with ControlGX for some days before that to wash out the grey, as it acts over time, but it was causing my skin to sting a little bit. Dr. Umar mentioned in the last year he began screening patients for an inflammation condition that causes scarring around the follicles as that can be a detriment to keeping native hair and with transplantation results. So when I was there he did a couple of biopsies so I will find out soon if I have this condition like some others on this forum.

If you can find a surgeon who can do leg hair extraction successfully, its only utility is for repair cases where there is no other useful types of sources left. The best non-scalp option would be beard grafts. It behaves the most like scalp. Leg hair has a short growing phase, then it goes dormant for months.

Don't risk it. Many people have had bad hair transplants and go back to the same place for a "repair," making their situation hopless.

I have had four surgeries that have used beard grafts. Having the face numbed was by far the most painful part. The various injections in the scalp was not that bad, but whatever tool was used for the face, it felt like a roller with pins on it. The last time I went for surgery I had nitrous oxide which helped take the bite out of numbing the beard. Not sure what your second question meant.

That was a rapid amount of hair loss between 2014 and 2018.

One of the best ways to find a right surgeon is to look up case results from patients within a 1-2 year window (ie. recent). If you can't find any, don't risk it. Beware google reviews for Turkish hair mills, they've been caught spamming this feature. If you see bad reviews for Turkish clinic you're interested in, even if it looks like there are more Good ones than bad, skip it too. There needs to be a very high threshold of proof from a place in that country otherwise you are making a gamble and can come out looking worse than before. Use the Advanced Search feature on this forum to do some detective work.

It will be interesting to see how this result unfolds from one of the more senior forum members.

I imagine that would be impossible, rather than difficult.

Be aware that it will come off on your pillow, so switch to a black cover.

Which witch is which?

The forums are searchable. You will find many posts to answer your questions.

I am confused with the wording. How can it be stated that these grafts are body hairs when it is stated that scalp is included in both surgeries? Also, the fact that the man appears to have had an initial transplant isn't addressed, unless the "before" photo was the between surgeries stage? It's hard to make out exactly what this patient's road to the end result was.

What we've read from people who have gone to such places is that more work is done by technicians over there than by the doctors, and since their techs change out frequently, you will not know who will be doing your surgery at a hair mill. That's one of the reasons why it is hit or miss, different people doing the bulk of the work. Doctors who you see well rated here are always involved throughout the surgery and there is that consistency over time. Another problem in Turkey are clinics that do other cosmetic surgery than hair transplantation, and with their techs working on those other types of procedures as well. The regulations are different in that country to allow this to happen. There are decent doctors out there, but you'd be advised to look up their results by patients to get their track record, and to consult to find out if they can do your hair type and amount of hair loss. If what the doc is offering seems to good to be true, then the risk is high.

I think you will have a better time if you went to Vegas with that money. Most likely you will not receive the result you are looking for from Turkey at that price.

While the appearance of density is impossible for a patient like this, I find this appearance preferable to SMP by itself. The reason being, the hair can be allowed to grow out, and maintained. With SMP on a slick bald head, that person is forever locked into a situation of shaving his head every day, because if he lets his native hair grow, on the sides and back of his head, it will be jarring to see that against the head tattoo that looks like stubble. The person in this video, who pushed his result by using beard and body hair, still has the option to mix in some SMP and not look unnatural.

If you are looking to style your hair short and want the appearance of more density that you have, then skin micro pigmentation might be a good option at that point. SMP along on a bald area forces someone to always keep their hair short of have a very strange appearance, but if you mix it in with your transplant result it should maximize the illusion of even density.

Look up past patients to give you a good idea of where to go. I don't think there are many surgeons in the Atlanta area but I could be mistaken. A good way to find these posts with photo results is to look up the search term "afro" of "african" and you should find some good case studies.