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That's a nice result and a really good scar revision

Very strange about Liam. He is 43 and I always thought by that age your hair should be fairly stable. His brother has great hair and is older.

It's quite common for MPB to strike in the latter part of peoples lives

Michael Caine for example always had great hair but now he's almost completely bald.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones probably had zero hair loss in the first 50 years of his life, but he's really been losing it since then.

Didn't Shane Warne and Jacques Kallis get treatments from AHS

Yes, they both had treatment at AHS

do you think they got transplants from one of the elite guys and are simply being pimped out by AHS?

Jacques Kallis didn't have a transplant - he's wearing a wig (hairweave)

I'm pretty sure the same goes for Warne

Wow - I'm impressed - that's an incredible amount of work in such a short space of time.

You're making great progress - that's quite a transformation already

Keep the updates coming

If you think that looks good, God love you.

If you don't think that's a big improvement on where he started from then......God love you.

At the end of the day the patient is cleary delighted with the result and that's all that matters.

There is absolutely no basis for the statement that taking fin would harm your performance.

Correct..........and Arsene Wenger NEVER made that claim anyway.

He made a general comment about players taking longer to recover from injury if using medications for non-footballing reasons

This is what he actually said:-

Arsene Wenger has warned that players are damaging their careers by secretly taking hair loss remedies, diet pills and other medicines for non-sporting conditions.

The Arsenal manager said that, in attempting to address medical anxieties, some players were putting their health and fitness as professional athletes at risk.

In March 2011, Wenger’s former player Kolo Toure, then at Manchester City, was given a six-month ban after he tested positive for bendroflumethiazide, a weight-loss drug, contained within ‘water tablets’ recommended to him by his wife.

Toure began taking the pills as he battled with what the Football Association described as “a misplaced perception that he is fat”, and an increasing number of footballers are thought to be taking hair loss medicines.

Arsenal have been crippled by long-term injuries this season to influential players such as Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil and Laurent Koscielny.

Although Wenger said he could not know whether there is a direct link between sporting injuries and non-sporting medicines, he believes the recovery of players could take longer if they are taking medication for other problems which the club might not know about.

When asked if he felt certain injuries could be prevented, Wenger said: “Some of them are down to the medication that the players take that you don’t even know about it. Then you realise afterwards that they took this medication but that’s not prudent

“For the liver, the liver doesn’t work as well, the toxics don’t go as quickly out of the body as they should and they get tired.

“If you lose your hair and if you’ve taken something to make your hair grow it might not be good especially for the rest of your body.

"Medication always pushes a part of your body and is sometimes detrimental to other parts of your body.

“At the moment we have not come to any conclusion, every case can be very different and you need to analyse very deeply why things happen.

"I’m surrounded by people who want to enhance their performances because they have another problem in their life and it’s not always necessarily a good thing to do.”

Arsenal stressed after Wenger’s comments that they knew of no instances of their players taking long-term medication.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10745838/Arsene-Wenger-voices-concern-over-Arsenal-players-taking-medication-for-non-footballing-reasons.html

Steve claridge went there recently aswell. They seem to put out nice results....way too expensive though. no need for it

Nope.........Steve Claridge had his surgery at a different clinic - ARHT Global in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uP_PeQ5Bs

Nice job, but it looks like grafts were extracted beyond the safe zone?

I'm using them in roughly a 3:1 ratio (taking a couple of tabs of Avodart per week).

Not noticed any hair loss since adopting this regime a few months back, but need to monitor it over a longer period and grow my hair longer to say for sure.

By the way, I've not heard about Dr Frechet for years.......is he still active and performing HT's?

Well I think it's a great result Abbie despite what some of the whinging negative posters on here might think.

The patient is clearly delighted which is all that matters at the end of the day

You hear alot of controvery about the frequency of usage and dosage of Propecia/Finasteride and Avodart. This is an interesting subject : alternating the two meds. I would like to see some studies to show its efficacy.

There was an Australian study on the subject which concluded that using the two drugs in combination is indeed beneficial. I have followed the same regime since reading that article and would support their findings.

Combination therapy with finasteride and low-dose dutasteride in the treatment of androgenetic a.pdf

Dr Amiya Prasad offers PRP therapy in his Manhattan / Garden City clinics.

Really? Nothing in my post was nonsense or biased. Please if you want to have a meaningful conversation based on facts act like a big boy instead of resorting to dismissive useless responses. Not one of Dr. Gho's results in his photo gallery on his own website is on par with any of the top traditional HT clinics that are posted everyday. What is the point of getting a HT with regeneration if the recipient area only sees marginal mediocre improvements? The ultimate goal of a HT is to restore the hair on top of the head and Gho is severley lacking in that aspect. Donor regeneration and hair multiplication are definitely the future, but it is not here yet in any meaningful form.

 

Which part of "we'll have to agree to disagree on that" do you fail to comprehend? It's pointless repeating your mantra. It's obvious we have widely divergent views on the subject and I strongly disagree with yours. I'm not interested in going round in circles or getting involved in "tit for tat" exchanges and I can't be ar$ed spending the time to refute your points one by one. Not going there.....particularly as my remarks were just a supplementary point to the OP's original question.

So that's it : agree to disagree.

Kindly explain how that tells me anything about you claiming there is a doctor that is getting 50% regeneration with Acell, and please keep you pompous condescending tone and comments to yourself. You make pretty bold claims about the state of regeneration with nothing to back it up,

 

1. I've already said I can't post the name or a link due to forum policy (blocked by software). Which part of that do you fail to comprehend?

2. No, the surgeon in question makes those claims and has his own data - I'm merely repeating his observations

3. I'm surprised you don't know since you claim to be "up to date on most treatments"

4. I could send you a PM with a link, but seeing as you posted such a rude reply I will just say : GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND. USE IT

and we're all supposed to what bow down at your feet and thank you?

 

Please keep your pompous condescending tone and comments to yourself

By the way.... that's my last comments on this thread. Feel free to have the last word

For a start, I wouldn't believe a word that Ironman says

The only reason Ironman was mentioned is that he is an example of someone who had particularly well documented results. I couldn't care less about his internet persona etc - I'm only interested in the evidence he put forward.

I've done plenty of research, and had a few unhappy Gho patients email me for my opinion on what to do next.

 

I've got no interest in getting into a pro-anti Gho debate (seems to be quite an emotional issue for some of you guys). He is merely mentioned as one party that can offer hair multiplication but not the only one. And let's get real..Gho has a massive waiting list, many of whom are repeat customers ...that's hardly likely to be the case if he has a crappy technique that doesn't work.

All the pictures I've seen so far have shown a very thin result in the recipient, it's not all about the donor you know.

 

We've obviously been looking at different pics (and videos) then...because the ones I've seen show good results in both the donor & recipient.

My opinion is that regeneration does not exist anymore than perpetual motion

 

Lol.......perpetual motion is here mate...Dr Nigam has already demonstrated that his donor doubling technique works and you'll get plenty more evidence over the coming months.

Ironman is a troll and I'm pretty sure he is affiliated with Gho in some way. I have seen all of those posts on the bald truth talk and they definitely don't prove Dr. Gho's claim of donor regeneration. Dr. Gho has a very poor track record throughout his career making wild claims and not thoroughly backing them up. And even if he is getting the regeneration he claims his results in the recipient area are piss poor and not on par with the majority of surgeons on this site. Ultimately a HT is about results whether there is donor regeneration or not, and Gho's work is very unimpressive.

Lol....nice rant but utterly biased nonsense (IMO) and not really worth a reply. Let's just say we'll have to agree to disagree on that

when I asked for links I was refering to your claim that surgeons were seeing 50% regeneration with Acell. I stay up to date on most treatments and I have yet to see anyone documenting regeneration at that rate using Acell

 

There is a surgeon who claims results in that vicinity and I responded in post#8...do keep up.

Before you answer, maybe this thread isn't the place for this discussion as it's obviously not what the OP wanted to talk about, you could start a new topic regarding this if you like?

On the contrary, some remarks can't go unchallenged so kindly don't be so patronising. I'm actually the one poster who fully addressed the OP's comments. as I can speak from experience.

The photos show that the OP has got a much bigger area to cover than I originally thought (you have a nice disguise going on there HairToday).

He also wishes to have maximal results and not just thin coverage. FUE alone will get coverage but not at the density he desires without multiplication or by other means.

I don't think that donor regeneration exists at all, I've never seen any good results from Gho and think it's all hype.

Well, there will always be naysayers :rolleyes:

With all due respect, you have haven't looked very hard and It's irrelevant what you "think".

The proof is in the pudding.........and there's no finer proof than board members who have had the procedure themselves and documented their results.

Take a look on some other well known forums where board members like gc83uk and IronMan have photographed their post operative donor areas in macro detail and painstakingly mapped and counted the follicular regeneration.....and guess what? ...the results are entirely consistent....more than 80% regrowth. This is solid factual evidence that goes way beyond "opinion" and "hype". Dr Gho is the real deal.

Can you please provide links to back up these claims. I know Dr. Cooley was experimenting with plucking and Acell but I don't recall him getting anywhere near 50% regeneration.

I could do but apparently the forum policy doesn't allow it :rolleyes:

Hi Hairtoday,

First of all, I will speak up in favour of the Frechet scalp extender.

I was in dire straights after being butchered by UK surgeons many years ago and had a Frechet extender fitted in 1994 (as suggested by Dr Damkerng Pathomvanich who later became one of the recommended HT surgeons on here).

The Frechet extender was a great success and was an absolute LIFE SAVER for me. Frechet performed a slight flap operation a few months later after removing the extender and later I had a couple of FUT sessions with Dr Pat which enabled me to get complete coverage - something that was previously unthinkable considering my starting point.

The Frechet extender was fantastic technology for the time and it may still have a place these days - but only for people who are in a dire situation.

However, in your case, you are not in a dire situation and there is other less intrusive technology available these days that will serve you better. You don't therefore need the Frechet extender and you should forget about scalp reductions as they don't work - something I found out to my cost.

You only appear to have a minor problem (I can't see any obvious hair loss in your photos). Personally, if I was in your situation, I would go for FUE to fill the thinning areas but I would ONLY consider a surgeon who can offer some form of donor regeneration like Dr Gho or other recommended surgeons who are getting donor regeneration with the use of A-Cell (I would also be quite happy to use Dr Nigam but that's another issue). This will achieve your objective of obtaining maximal results without further depleting your donor area.

Dr Gho's method will give you around 80% donor regeneration but would require a trip to the Netherlands and there are US based surgeons getting 50%+ donor regeneration using A-Cell.

You also have the option of using beard hair to re-charge the donor area which would give a great result and allow more scalp hair to be made available for transplant.

Best of luck whatever you decide.

Great result for such a difficult case - well done

Nice summary - Thanks

I've scheduled a HT with an overseas surgeon and he prefers cash payment. While the surgeon has an established reputation on this site, I feel uneasy about making such a large purchase in cash, let alone carrying it in an unfamiliar country. Does anyone have experience with this? I would think that a surgical practice would accept credit cards.

Yes, I've had a couple of sessions with Dr Pathomvanich in Thailand and paid in cash on the day.