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The scabs should be removed.

Yeah, W has had some temporal recession since after leaving office, interestingly Bush 41 has maintained that recessed hairline into his 90s.

Transhair, go to Konior. Yeah he has a yearlong waitlist, yeah he's expensive, but I can't think of anybody better for FUT.

I think you may be a good candidate for SMP, but perhaps don't have the donor for an HT.

Ok, I saw your photos. IMHO I think you can rule out FUT if you keep your hair that short like in the side part pics. I'm not bashing FUT, but if you're cutting it to the point where skin is visible, then the scar risks visibility as well. (That's what Konior said - skin visible, scar visible).

Keep us posted, I think you're the first on here to be operated by Dr Nadimi.

He's competing for Western patients. If you're looking at a US or a Euro surgeon who charges $9/graft vs Erdogan, Erdogan will look cheaper, and you'll get more grafts...

Mwamba, DeVroye. In South America, I'd add Chueco too.

I think H&W have made their name doing great megasessions, not to say they can't do great work for lower norwoods, but megasessions is their "niche". Surgeons like Konior and Gabel are known for apart from refined hairlines they are known for really neat work when it comes to donor area scars. Cooley apart from being a well respected FUT surgeon is also very knowledgeable about dermatology and is an innovator. The Indian clinics, I find them to be below the top Western ones when it comes to aesthetic appeal. They can move hair for sure, but artistically, they have some way to go, but may improve here on out. Turkish clinics to look at: Demirsoy, Keser, Ozgur, Karadeniz.

It's because he charges less than other doctors per graft, and makes it up by increasing volume.

Congrats...

When you say "all of it", do you include placing grafts into recipient sites? If so yeah, there's very few who do that, Konior and whoever uses implanter pens and harvests own grafts.

No point including Konior given that waitlist.

^Probably true, but only thing to do now is to move forward. Fingers crossed.

I think there's a few other docs out there that do the whole procedure. I don't think this is necessarily the most efficient way but a few others out there - Karadeniz, Vories, Gabel?

Do needles and implanter pens reduce recipient site trauma?

Hey azza786, I remember your case, and I followed your surgeries back in the day...any photo updates? It would be interesting to see a long term evolution like yours.

2500 to restore conservative hairline. Down the line you can get more work done but I think 2500 is a reasonable number to start off with.

OP is a Class A patient, which is great. One decent size session would give him a good hairline and sort him up for years to come. I'd say a first session of 3500 would be great. Really though, an online forum won't be able to estimate correctly. You'll need to get an in person consult, measure density, laxity, and caliber along with estimating the area to be covered, but you have an idea of what the range is. Are you doing FUE or FUSS?

Why would "bad health" damage a result? I'm assuming you're referring to poor diets and not actual life threatening conditions.

I don't see why this is a several procedure case? Looks like a typical 4A, one session would give him a lot of hair, and make a dramatic impact.

While I prefer the doctor to be maximally involved, some of the best surgeons believe that the graft site creation is the core of HT surgery and more complicated. In Europe Feriduni and Lorenzo have this type of system and here Hasson & Wong do the same. If techs are trained and experienced, I think it can be OK in my opinion. I assume your OP is about Erdogan. It seems like he's building an assembly-line type of system (I don't mean this in a derogatory way) with less "key man risk" where each person has a different role and that allows them to produce a lot of of good results at high volume. What are you more comfortable with? A boutique type clinic where a doctor does most of the work, or an institutionalized system where a team operates on you? There are clinics doing good work in both ways.

Hey, I think 3k is usually a good baseline number for a lot of frontal work. If you have coarse hair, maybe less, but if you have fine hair, maybe more. Low dose fin might be a good idea too at your age.

Nice, keep us posted!

3,000