I had my first hair transplant (strip method) 6.5 months ago at N.H.T. and my experience has been incredible. I had been losing my hair for about 20 years and had totally bald temples (extremely recessed) and small bald crown area, with the rest of my top being very thin. After one session (200 single follicular graphs and 1420 modified follicular unit grafts, total about 6100 hairs) and 6 months of growth my hair looks awesome! Dr. Steven Chang made my hair line look natural and I now appears like I never had hair loss in my life. My hair looks like it did 20 years ago and you would never suspect that I was severely balding before.
My Hair is wavy to slightly curly which helps out tremendously, if you where to run your fingers through my hair you would see that the top of my head is thinning and my grafts are about 1mm apart from each other, so it is not nearly as compacted as it was 20 years ago. But it gives the appearance of being the same as long as your not one foot away running your fingers through the top of my head. I would assume all transplants are the same as this since we simple do not enough donor hair to replicate it back to original density.
I do not know if others that have 3000 grafts = 6100 hairs would have a better effect or a more natural compaction at the root. Maybe those with fine straight hair should have all single follicular units performed, I just do not know. NHT can perform single follicular transplants but they do not recommend them.
I guess what I am saying is that I am not a hair transplant expert, and perhaps I might have been even more pleased if I would have had a 100% single follicular unit transplantation. I do not know without comparing side by side. All I can say is that I look awesome, and was very impressed with Dr. Chang, his staff, and his facility.
I had my first hair transplant (strip method) 6.5 months ago at N.H.T. and my experience has been incredible. I had been losing my hair for about 20 years and had totally bald temples (extremely recessed) and small bald crown area, with the rest of my top being very thin. After one session (200 single follicular graphs and 1420 modified follicular unit grafts, total about 6100 hairs) and 6 months of growth my hair looks awesome! Dr. Steven Chang made my hair line look natural and I now appears like I never had hair loss in my life. My hair looks like it did 20 years ago and you would never suspect that I was severely balding before. My Hair is wavy to slightly curly which helps out tremendously, if you where to run your fingers through my hair you would see that the top of my head is thinning and my grafts are about 1mm apart from each other, so it is not nearly as compacted as it was 20 years ago. But it gives the appearance of being the same as long as your not one foot away running your fingers through the top of my head. I would assume all transplants are the same as this since we simple do not enough donor hair to replicate it back to original density. I do not know if others that have 3000 grafts = 6100 hairs would have a better effect or a more natural compaction at the root. Maybe those with fine straight hair should have all single follicular units performed, I just do not know. NHT can perform single follicular transplants but they do not recommend them. I guess what I am saying is that I am not a hair transplant expert, and perhaps I might have been even more pleased if I would have had a 100% single follicular unit transplantation. I do not know without comparing side by side. All I can say is that I look awesome, and was very impressed with Dr. Chang, his staff, and his facility.