StaggerLee123

Nice work! I would have wanted the widow's peak worked on just a tad, but overall very nice.

There are plenty of examples of light haired patients, I would look through the pics of your favorite Docs to find them. Blondes and lighter red heads have somewhat of an advantage over darker haired patients in that their hair to skin contrast is much lower and transplant tend to cover better because of it.

Hi is Mike Ferko still with H&W?

Bring your pain meds with you to your procedure? Seriously? Why doesn't the clinic just provide it like every other clinic? That sounds weird to me.

Great result. The grey hair looks very distinguished. The idea of thinning out the donor area with FUE to more evenly match the less dense recipient area as being some how "better" does not make much sense to me. Having a slightly less dense recipient area is by far and away the more natural result. Conversely, having a thinning donor area is much more noticeable and does not mimic nature at all, unless the patient is on his way to complete baldness or is not well. If anything, the fact that FUE noticeably thins out the donor area in some cases is a definite argument against it not for it. And not to beat a dead horse but I see many FUE cases that take hair from what has to be considered the "unsafe" zone, particularly very high on the head.

yes scarring will always exist after FUE. That being said, even after they shave this guys head down the scarring is not that easy to see. In a week or so I'll bet you won't be able to see the scars as his hair gets just a tad longer. Great case.

You obviously didn't take the time to watch the second video. If you did you would realize he is talking about the FUE scarring that is visible after they shave the patients head.

Ouch. He used to be so damned cool too... Looks like in the heat of the moment he just forgot about the big smiley face gracing the back of his noggin!

Taking Adderall for symptoms of Propecia is a terrible idea and could very well lead to other problems that make your brain fog seem trivial like addiction, heart problems, and suicide. Don't do it.

Sorry you didn't get the result you were looking for, I would be disappointed as well considering other results with 5000 grafts that we have seen. It looks like you were a diffuse thinner to begin with and you probably lost your native hair after the procedure and netted a look similar to where you started. Were those grafts spread out over your whole scalp or just in the front? If you didn't have the transplant you may have been approaching a slick bald look by now. Propecia would have been advisable for sure. I agree with the others about your hair style. With your hair standing straight up and taking photos that are lit from directly above will result in a most unflattering look for many people, not just you. I would part it on the side so it lays down a bit and provides coverage or comb it forward in a Cesar style. In any event it doesn't look like an obvious transplant, it does look naturally thin which is a good thing. Rahal is a well known surgeon with a very good reputation. I would take him up on his offer for a free touch up and bite the bullet for the $1500 plane ticket over. Good luck.

Congrats again. Would you mind posting some pics as I am a repair patient also and would be very interested to see if our cases are in any way similar.

Good ole sympathetic Busa strikes again, isn't it fantastic that he graces us with his presence here? You can't have ABUSE without Busa... Your grafts are permanently anchored into your scalp at this point and I've never heard of any type of illness such as the flu effecting permanent growth, besides at 1.5 months your grafts probably haven't even started growing yet anyway! Not to worry.

Very nice. You can definitely pull off the shaved look, it really suits you. Makes you look younger.

To regrow hair? Forever.

Congrats dude! Who operated on you or was everybody at SMG in the room at the same time? This will really help you in your job as now you'll be able to relate on a first hand basis. Look forward to the details.

I don't see any pics either... ok they're on his blog.

This was done in one sitting correct? That is a big procedure for Dr. Rahal great to see. The work looks like the clean work we've come to expect from Dr. Rahal. Good luck growing.

This is a great result and it seems the people finding things to criticize may just be the FUE Nazis that like to attack any result by way of FUT. For those people: get a life. For the other posters, if you notice the pattern of the way this patient's hair grows in the before pictures you'll notice that he has it combed in exactly the same direction in the after pics. This is the most logical and easiest way for this guy to comb/style his hair. H&W has been doing comb through videos for years and yet they get hammered when they present pictures. If they show the hairline then people complain about not seeing the crown etc, etc, ad naseum. The obvious bias against FUT and particularly against H&W on this board for the past months has been obnoxious.

SMG takes before pics of all their patients. Without before pics it is tough to tell what's going on with your case.

Very interesting. Is this the first time this has been done? I don't ever recall seeing anything like it before.

I have been looking at his photos and other than a slightly crooked hairline, which seemed to be slightly crooked pre-op as well, I can't see what the horrible damage is. Perhaps hairfarmer should peruse your photos Wylie to see what a repair patient with damage looks like before he was fixed. I'm sure I will be threatened with a law suit, as seems to be hairfarmer's wont, but I agree with the "persecution complex" theory. The paranoia is thick and if he is looking for Hasson & Wong to work with him, this strategy is not the way to go. I feel bad for the guy.

Yup this thread reminds me of the Hairguy vs Dr. Umar thread which went around in circles for a while until it was deemed unproductive. This seems to be headed down that same trajectory. Hairfarmer is it true you were in the hair business? What are you looking for besides to spread the gospel on how bad H&W is?

I'm a little late to the party here but wasn't this all hashed out a few moths ago in another thread? Why is it being brought up again? I've been looking at your pictures and other than a less than perfectly symmetrical hairline I really don't see the damage that you are talking about. In fact I think that most true repair patients would trade places with you in an instant. After reading through your post a bit I was expecting to see something along the lines of disfigurement.

SMG probably took pics at the clinic so you can always request them from Janna if need be.

Another reason I really like the micro-irregularities, as opposed to a more linear hairline, is that they provide a nice transition area and also lower a hairline ever so slightly and providing more bang for the buck.