Gandolf

WOW, it's amazing how good your hair looks now, just a few short months after such extreme shock loss. You look really good, I am 28 and have my first HT scheduled in early 2013 and hope to be as successful as you were in staying ahead of this stuff.

I get nervous when I hear such wildly divergent views: 7 days vs. 2 months+ .

How often do you receive inquiries from and do procedures on celebrities? I know you aren't allowed to disclose their identity on these forums, but is this a common occurence?

However, even this cannot be counted on since fine blond hair can look really good at that lower density.

Kcchiefsfan1982,

You need to do a LOT more research before having a hair transplant. Just the fact that you mentioned Bosley means that you have barely done any research online at all (their repuation is HORRIBLE). As someone before me already said, thank your lucky stars that you came here before taking the plunge on this.

Several points:

1)I am not a doctor nor an "expert" but I think you will need more than the 800-1000 grafts that you were quoted to get a good result. Sure, it can be done with less, but it will look sparse and not natural if you don't use enough. I would get a 2nd and 3rd opinion before going through with such a low graft count

2)You're crazy if you base your decision on where to have a HT by the city you live in. HT is not like other forms of plastic surgery like getting a boob job or a facelift. Those procedures are much more straightforward and there are literally 1,000s of good surgeons out there turning out good results and one is available probably in any major city. HTs, on the other hand, are much more of an art, and there are less highly skilled doctors out there turning out truly good work on a consistent basis. In my opinion, there is a very significant drop in quality even when comparing the absolute best 2-3 doctors to, say, the 10th best doctor out there. Once you move outside of the several dozen that are recommended on this site, your odds increase EXPONENTIALLY of getting a bad result.

Joe,

Have you kept in touch with this guy? How's he doing? Any growth yet? Any complications come up from using so many grafts?

That's a very significant improvement for only using 2900 grafts over such a large area, and it looks like his hair is quite fine. Good work!

Looks good, how many FU/CM^2 is that?

Interesting, I don't recall ever seeing this type of pattern on a female before. Regardless, I'm sure you will look much better once this matures and grows out, thanks for sharing.

Matt,

Did you ever get any newer pictures of this patient or hear any updates? I'm just curious if he got any further improvement as these were only at the 7 month mark (even though they blow 99.9% of final results away).

This patient's hair looks almost just like mine, especially from the back. I hope I get as great a result when I have my procedure with Dr. Rahal. To everyone making a big deal about the placement of the hairline, it doesn't look to me like it was even lowered very much in the center, just in the corners. And 2084 grafts is just a fraction of his lifetime donor supply so I fail to understand all of the fear mongering here.

I, too, am anxious to see pictures of your results. Were you suffering from hairloss? Or just lowering a naturally high hairline?

Wow. Very nice.

That's a really nice looking result there.

Looks like you're on your way to a wow result.

I know I'm several years late to the game but I can't see any of the pictures? Were they taken down? If they are posted online anywhere can someone please post a link?

Hi all, thought I would update on my progress so far. Im four months and a week out from my op now. There is some good growth on my left side with more new shoots popping through. The shape of the hairline is great on this side too. The right side is a fair bit weaker which is a little disappointing as the hairline was not lowered on this side, the idea was just to fill it in here and create a natural hairline. I know its still very early days yet so we'll see what the next few months brings.

 

Ive noticed probably about ten or so dried plugs drop out long after the shedding phase which im not sure are failed grafts. The odd transplanted hairs have shed (after regrowing following the shedding phase) but im told this is normal and can happen. I'll let the photographs do the rest of the talking.

Great result! Any pics of him right out of surgery so we can see the graft placement??

thats great for only 4 months.. when you have fine hair does it mean you need a little more grafts to achieve density?

Speechless !!!

Any pics of this guy right after surgery? I'd like to see exactly which areas were hit.

ok it does look very good but 4600 grafts for some thinning on top is alot of grafts and I would expect a result like that.Who can afford that ...

Wow, this guy was looking awful before the surgery, that's an amazing result.

Interesting case. Any updates on this one Matt?

What type of FU/cm2 does Dr. Rahal use for a case like this in the crown?? Looks great too, by the way.