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I nominate voxman.

Try the Thai cafe their massaman curry is amazing. Good luck!

For a big chunk of FUE clinics you'll need to read Euro forums....

You shouldn't be aggressively towel drying in general. Be gentle...

Happy growing, look forward to your update.

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You really need to cast your net wider instead of hoping a clinic with known ethical failings will suddenly improve its ways. There are other good surgeons out there doing quality work even at low cost, I don't see the point of being fixated on one surgeon. For similar prices I'd rather go to Chueco, Maras, or Bisanga. In Turkey Dr Ozgur in Ankara looks interesting too.

I would look for the surgeon to check miniaturization, measure your donor density and your hair shaft caliber. Granted not all docs do the last two but if they do, it's important information.

Looks like she is gone? I wonder what happened to Dr YV Rao and Dr Peralta-Arambulo.

^Thanks David, appreciate it.

I would not advise you IMHO to do 7k grafts over 3 days. I would try to go for say 3500 max the first round, and do it over two days.

I don't know FUE clinics in India. It's disappointing to me that there aren't more that are producing great work given that the medical industry is pretty advanced. That said, Eugenix has some good results on this forum, as you've seen, but I would keep reading until you are comfortable. There is also Dr. A P.o.s.w.a.l in Delhi you should look at.

Eugenix looks interesting, they have some posters who have had work here. There is also Bhatti.

I'm curious about this. I've been reading that alcohol interferes with wound healing both in terms of epithelialization and angiogenesis. Angiogenesis doesn't occur until 3 days after the wound, and goes on for a few days after that.

My doctor recommended no alcohol for 3 days after (which I obviously followed). But based on what I've read, I'm thinking that maybe clinics should recommend no alcohol for 2 weeks? But obviously, I'm not a doctor...

Another day, another finasteride side effects thread...I wonder if you've seen the search function.

Yeah, the big strip is unfortunately unavoidable if you want to go the mega session route. It looks harsh now but the redness will cool a bit and the shock loss will subside over the next few months.

I don't disagree with what you guys are saying. He should plan conservatively for sure, but if he's on fin, I think he's going to be in decent shape assuming he continues. But yeah, two moderate sessions spaced years apart may be better than going for glory in one megasession.

^With all due respect, have you thought about avoiding another HT and just styling your hair differently? I'm saying bc your goals are going to be tough to accomplish as you want really high density to match native density, which is going to use tons of grafts. Just IMO though.

You could just not go...that might be the best.

That's something I'd discuss with the surgeon. Some prefer to do the crown in round two, but since there is a contrast here with your white skin, you may choose to do it in round 1, but it's unlikely you'll harvest enough grafts to get good coverage there and the front during the first op unless you go for a really big strip session.

Yes, I think you'd be a textbook good candidate. Good density, high sides. Maybe start off with 3k grafts in the front.

1) I chose FUE in order to be able to keep my hair short. The length I wear my hair, the scar would be visible.

2) Actually, I did the opposite. I had a list of doctors and I would have been comfortable going to any of them. My view was that all were doing quality work and would be difficult to separate in terms of quality. Basically Konior, all the Belgians and Lorenzo.

^If your practice uses forceps like most do, then this is additive. No difference for docs using inplanter.

Inplanter pen makes incisions. Same concept though.

So was Erdogan declining patients with curly hair for surgery before?

65% regrowth rate prior to the introduction of this tool? Good innovation though.