I am new to the whole concept of the hair transplant. I am 35, Australian and have have been experiencing thinning hair for the past 5 years although I still have a fairly good head of hair except for my Crown. I did use rogaine for a while which seemed to work and then i stopped, bad idea, it seemed like it got much worse over 3 months following stopping the rogaine. I posted a picture and it looks like I am a NW 3 maybe 4? (vertex) I think, happy to be corrected. I have been finding the forum extremely educating but am shattered to find that there are no good experiences shared by clients of an Australian surgeon performing FUE. I am just finding it really hard to believe that in a County of 22 million that there is no one who is performing FUE to the standard of Bissanga, Feller, Rahal, Shapiro R, Lorenzo. I really would prefer not to travel overseas for the procedure. I have looked around on the web and saw FUE being performed in Sydney, by a Dr Jonathon Chan from the hairtransplant institute. I must say I liked the look of the bloke (from the website), he looks switched on, but that is just a gut reaction, I cant find any reference re his work and don't want to travel to Sydney to find out unless there are some recommendations. I am yet to find an Australian to be recommended. Chan has no reviews and any other Aussie surgeon mentioned, the reviews are mostly negative. How can this be? Why cant an Aussie go and learn from the best and then come back here and help out the 1000's of Aussie blokes in need of some rerouted hair.
Questions:
1. Is there anyone in Australia that could be considered?
2. Does anyone know anything about this Chan bloke.
3. If I was going to travel where would be the best place to go considering travel time and considering that I would like FUE not FUT, not a big fan of being sliced up. The little jabby needle gives me more comfort. The focus is on a good job, not a cheap job.
4. Finally any comment on the potential number of grafts required based on my picture, I was thinking 500- 1000, but that is a real novice estimation it is probably more depending on how dense I want to go. I can add other pictures if required any insight will be greatly appreciated.