Gandolf

Impressive work, thumbs up from me.

That's the whole list of RECOMMENDED hair surgeons. Looks like there are a ton in other parts of Southern California, why would you want to limit your options to just one city?

Wow, 17 years old?!?!?! I thought that was a typo at first when I read the title. I must say that I share the same viewpoints as the masses here, this was highly irresponsible given the patient's age, despite the fact that his parents and therapist were in support. The only imaginable circumstance I could think for doing an HT on a patient under 21 years old or so would be if they were already on their way to full NW7 baldness so you know exactly what their final donor/recipient areas would look like, and it goes without saying that a surgery in this type of case would have to have a very conservative placement of the hairline. I am a little surprised that no one has asked about this, but for this particular patient, what was his family history of baldness? Did he have any fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, etc. who had aggressive NW 6/7 baldness? Did he have other family members who started showing noticable signs of hairloss at such a young age? If so, how did their hairloss progress? I don't doubt that this poor young man was extremely depressed and even potentially suicidal to be probably the only kid in high school going bald, and I believe that the Dr. thought he was being compassionate and helping him, I just don't think he was using good judgment. Here's to hoping we have better options for stem cells and hair cloning etc in the next 10-15 years.

That's a very big improvement for 1 session. I have a few questions: 1)Do you have a picture of this patient right after surgery which would show graft placement? 2)Do you know if he dyed his hair color in the after pics? It looks very different in color. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work!

If you don't mind me asking is your follow up procedure regular price, discounted, or no charge? Regardless, it sounds like Dr. Rahal cares very much about his patients and is going to extra mile for you to make sure you're happy with your final result, I think you're making the right choice to go back to him. And thanks again for sharing your experience with the group!

Yeah I think that's my thinking too. If there is an eventual option in 20-30 years of unlimited donor supply thru cloning that's great but certainly nothing to wait around for.

I'm just curious what others think about this and how likely it is to come to fruition while those of us suffering from hair loss are still young enough to reap the benefits. The most comprehensive write up I've seen was on Dr. Bernstein's website and the basic gist seemed to be that it's promising but still has significant hurdles to clear and further testing etc. Everyone's thoughts?

Just out of curiosty, how much of a sponsorship fee are we talking about??

2103? Wow that's a long way off : )

I am not aware of the recently passed legislation you mentioned. Could someone please post a link to that thread?

I really like this result.

Your continued progress is making me very excited about my upcoming surgery with Dr. Rahal. Congrats on your transformation.

The end result looks OK I guess all things considered, but does anyone here really feel this guy was a good candidate for surgery? That's still some extremely sparse coverage, as anyone would expect in a patient with such a large, bald head.

Great result, I especially like that temple work.

Wow looks like really great coverage.