GreatPelo

I think in order to guide you correctly you should add pictures to study your hair loss pattern. If you have an aggressive hair loss pattern, you should lean towards the FUT method, considering you'll get more yield, more coverage. Once you're close to your goal, you can turn to FUE, not only touch up remaining areas, but also to add to your linear scar and diminish scarring if you were left with a thicker than normal scar. Every patient is different...not all patients are candidates for the FUE method.

Britboy, I'm sorry you didn't have a successful FUT experience...but to state that FUT is outdated is an incorrect statement in your part. Every patient is different....not every patient should have an FUE surgery just like not every patient is a candidate for hair transplant to begin with. After reading such a thorough article from the ISHRS, the most renowned hair transplant educational board in the world, and then say FUT is outdated leads me to believe you've based your opinion solely on your experience. That doesn't mean the same can apply to others....

Yes, ILikeMyHair....actually a patient with an aggressive pattern of hair loss should first use the FUT "strip" method to get him as far ahead of the game in coverage and then can actually use the FUE to help diminish his scar in the donor area. This game plan has worked for many patients.

A good year to give lazy follicles enough time to produce hair....4-months to transplant a new area, which gives enough time for donor to heal.

If you're scared of scarring, you can always look into lasering them so you kill the follicle but don't leave scars behind. Just another option...

No reason to beat yourself up, YoshiYo. It's up to industry professionals to be transparent and act ethically. However, you're wiser due to the experience. Wishing you great growth!!

Definitely medical Therapy to see how it holds up on you. DO NOT consider HT surgery until close to mid 20s. Be patient. Step by step.

Patients with multiple future procedures are best to use the strip. You're a future NW 5...so I think you're on target with the FUT with trychophytic closure. Everything above and under that scar will be as thick as when you were born. With FUE and multiple surgeries, your donor can start to become diffused. Doesn't make sense to help thicken front mid and crown areas while diffusing donor. Best of luck!

I agree with above. Dr. gave you a female hairline...across down..instead of a male's...across up. You always want to leave a little receding so it looks natural as you get older. You will need to extract and probably do 1500-1800 grafts...and more in the future for more density. Best of luck!

someone above recommended 3000-3500. I think it's too much considering you still have some native hair and don't want to over do it, resulting in hurting current hair, not to mention some new grafts may fight for blood due to overloading transplants, resulting in some of them not taking. I'd probably do from 2000-2200 and of course get on propecia asap. If you need a touch up in the future, which you probably will do to your age, then you go for more density. It's taken you a while to lose your hair, you're not going to get it all back in one shot.

You don't have a terrible pluggy look. Frontal hairline can be softened with fine one hair grafts and then give you density behind hairline. Also, someone above mentioned you should do FUE because the strip will give you another scar??? Wrong! You already have a linear scar. An experienced hair surgeon will take the new strip above or under the current one, remove the old scar...and leave only one scar. I also don't believe you only have 1600 grafts left as donor. Maybe you can only harvest 1600 on your next surgery...but you do seem to have more for the future if needed. Best of luck!

Look for other recommendations (from other hair specialists) before making final decision.

You're 27 years old and have good donor. You can probably start taking and stay on Propecia which will help keep your "walls" high and then hair transplant. Probably Strip (FUT) since you'll need more than one surgery, each one being pretty large. Best of luck!

YoshiYo, I have to agree with HairWeare....the benefit of this site is for people to use it as a research tool in order to help them make the best possible decision on who they choose....not afterward. However, from what you stated and knowing personally who these folks are, consider yourself another of the numerous patients in this industry who's surgery is totally performed by a technician, while the Doctor only pats you on the shoulder to see how you're doing. Florida state law requires a licensed medical doctor to cut into skin....while harvesting and making the receptive sites where grafts are placed. Technicians should separate and place grafts. MORESO WHEN YOU'VE INVESTED A GREAT DEAL OF HARD EARNED MONEY....but are treated solely by a technician instead of a doctor. I ask myself what the doctor was doing while the tech was performing the entire surgery? In addition, if ron (the salesman) told you he got his result from FUE....don't believe him. His hair was done at MHR where I first met him as a patient. He puts his before and after pictures on the website to impress patients about the Neograft but it's pretty unethical considering 95% of his result was done by other doctors when he worked at MHR. Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade....but honesty and facts rule! This being said, I pray you obtain great results.

Not sure about way back, but Dr. Leavitt, from MHR (which merged with Bosley), did at least one of his HT surgeries.