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Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
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How long have you been losing your hair?
In the last 5 years
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Maintain Existing Hair
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Strip vs FUE vs mFUE - Dr. Alan Feller Great Neck, NY
Rootz replied to Dr. Alan Feller's topic in Open Hair Loss Topics
There are world class FUE docs out there performing large FUE sessions with great results and with yields approximately the same as FUT. Lorenzo comes to mind as the gold standard example for FUE. So tell me... why would I ever want to get a giant scar on my head in exchange for a difference in yield that is imperceivable? I can't help but wonder... does it keep you up at night knowing you're recommending and performing FUT on people without explaining to them that there are top FUE doctors out there who can accomplish the desired result, without disfiguring their head? Because I would have a hard time living with myself if I did what you did. -
Percentage of growth at 5 months?
Rootz replied to FUE2014's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Looking back at my 6 month pics I would estimate my perceived density then was about 50% of what it looks like now at 12 months. -
Bit of a shock 5 months post op.
Rootz replied to JIMjim's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Your result by the time you get to 12 months should be dramatically better. I remember being in your boat at around 6 months. When I look back at those pics now I think "Wow did it really look like that?" As the hairs mature and come in they become thicker, it just takes time. I would estimate my hair looks about 100% more dense at 12 months now than it did at 6. And at 6 I was concerned it wouldn't get much better. Try not to worry about it too much. -
Can anyone morph a hair transplant here
Rootz replied to yeeaah's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
I suggest getting a program that allows colors to be added with transparency (not sure if paint can do this), then take a color sample of your actual hair in the picture and with that color start carefully drawing. Adjust the transparency as needed. I found photoshop to work well, I was able to create different layers for easy comparisons between designs. -
Is Minoxidil the most overrated hair loss product ever?
Rootz replied to FUE2014's topic in Hair Loss Drugs
I tried it for hairline recession (i.e. temple corners) for ~6 months give or take and I think for the hassle it was not worth it. No visible improvement I could appreciate, and if it was helping maintain I wasn't going to keep using it for 10+ years to find out. It's about 100x less convenient to use than Fin... it would tend to run down my face while exercising hard and get in my mouth too. Very gross. From what I read though it should more effective for general thinning especially around the crown area. -
We can only hope top tier doctors don't regularly lie. If the day of surgery Lorenzo told me so and so would be helping to do X and Y, and no one else, I would probably trust him. Maybe that's a mistake? By the way who actually told the patient you mentioned about the extraction information, was it Lorenzo himself? I'm sure the patient brought this point up to Lorenzo either during or right after the surgery, right?... I wonder what Lorenzo had to say. The "no auxiiliary staff is involved" thing may be a translation issue. It's an ambiguous statement as is, you could interpret it to also mean he has staff but not supplementary/backup staff (silly thing to say).
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Sounds like a mix up, and I would hope the exception not the norm among top tier doctors. It's pretty unethical (and just messed up) for a doctor to assure you a certain technician will be assisting then intentionally bring in someone else. So again I'm assuming your example was a mix up and a rare occurance. Maybe if I was that concerned about which techs would be assisting though I would request to be introduced to each one personally the day of surgery and ask each one to break down what they would be doing and how long they had been doing it.
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How to hide a transplant
Rootz replied to thomson653's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
I had ~2500 grafts with Feriduni early 2014 (all hairline/temple work) and no one I know has any clue, not even my roommate. I'm now in the "safe zone" in that the result has grown in and I honestly don't think even I could determine I had a HT based on inspection. Writing this actually bring me a smile because it kind of just sunk in what I pulled it off In my case I did not use a hat or wig, but left as much hair as possible up top long (to style over the transplanted areas) and used some strategic makeup placement to smooth out the transition from normal skin tone to red. Depending on what you're getting done you may be able to do what I did. I think shaving down the entire head pre-op is a bad decision in general though... it may look better that way immediately post-op, but when the transplanted grafts shed you'll be left exposed and with limited options. -
Multiple reasons why I wouldn't give much credit to the Amazon reviews, 1) Most shampoos will indeed make your hair look nicer/thicker, but that isn't the same as preventing hair loss so I imagine there is a lot of confusion there. 2) Placebo effect is especially easy to apply here when the appearance of your hair does indeed change for the better. 3) People claiming quick or immediate hairloss results are mistaken considering that is... impossible. 4) With even the most effective hair loss medications (i.e. Fin), the results after years of usage tend to be subtle and extremely gradual. A lot of the time people taking Fin are unable to notice or appreciate any kind of improvement. But the catch is the hairloss has been slowed or haulted. 5) Based on research I've done on the subject I suspect there are no credible studies showing any significant hairloss prevention from any of those shampoos. You might want to check for yourself first if you're interested in buying.
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Aside from the awful pluggy looking transplants of the recent past, I think it's pretty hard nowadays for a HT from any decent doctor to really be obvious mainly because most people know little to nothing about HTs. There are a lot of weird balding patterns out there, so what you may think is an obvious tell of a HT most people might not think much of. And sure a big FUT scar may stand out and look "weird" but I bet most people wouldn't know what to think and would assume some type of accident. I think the most obvious give away though is when the hairline is done too perfectly. As in the hair line itself follows a line that is too uniform/consistent, and yet the density is relatively low, giving it a synthetic look. It's like if you saw a group of cattle scattered amongst each other grazing in a field. You'd think nothing of it. It's a herd of cattle. So what. But if the same cattle were all grazing together in perfectly organized rows/columns you'd think, "... Wtf?"
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The better shampoos like Nizoral will contain Ketoconazole and these have been shown to have mild benefits in terms of hair loss. When I say "mild" I mean the actual hair loss benefit is probably imperceivable... you may attribute the immediate positive results of conditioning and cleaning your hair as combatting hair loss, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're preventing hairloss or regrowing hair. Don't get me wrong though, using a shampoo that makes your hair look better or appear thicker is great. Just don't be fooled. At a glance I'm not sure if any of the ones you listed are legitimately effective, but I would be willing to guess... no. One of them is titled "with plant stem cells"? I would definitely not buy that one. Ever.
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I guess it is a bit taboo of me to question the usefulness of natural treatments in the natural remedy subforum. Sometimes a conflicting opinion can be a useful one though.
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I highly doubt increasing Vitamin D consumption has any meaningful impact on hair loss. The only way to find out for yourself though is to try it for a long period of time and carefully examine your hair before/after... but in the likely event it does nothing, you will have possibly spent a long period of time losing more precious hair. So I would stick with the proven methods.