HUVUD1987

Hi, my name is Scott and I am a new member. I had an FUT surgery done 10 days ago and seem to be healing great. My transplanted hair is even growing. I am slightly worried about a light redish spot on the transplanted area but since sutures come out tomorrow I'll discuss it with my doc. Hope you like the pics! This picture is day 9 post op FYI.

How many grafts have you done?

Hi, my name is Scott and I am a new member. I had an FUT surgery done 10 days ago and seem to be healing great. My transplanted hair is even growing. I am slightly worried about a light redish spot on the transplanted area but since sutures come out tomorrow I'll discuss it with my doc. Hope you like the pics! This picture is day 9 post op FYI.

How many grafts have you done?

Also I wanna ad that my hairs on the scalp lay very "flat". A lot of people didnt think I was balding for a long time, since the few hairs I had left covered a lot of ground.

Attached a small drawing to show you what I mean:)

Are there any difficulties laying transplanted hair that flat?

HUV,

 

 

 

Sometimes it is better to go short. It's just that it is wrong to assume this to be so for every guy that has a lot of hair loss. If you look at the side of a NW7, the hair has receded down the side and the side hairline is closer down to the top of the ear. Not quite all the way, but maybe half way between the top of the ear and the top of the scalp. The hair below this area is closer to full density, maybe 60 per cm2 on the low end, maybe 80 or 90 per cm2 on the high end. When you try to build the sides back up, on a patient like this, the sides will obviously have a severe density deficit that can only be hidden with hair that his long enough to comb.

 

A NW6 does not have this problem as the sides are still completely intact so they can get away with much shorter cuts and with surgery it is much easier for the patient to get away with lower density on the top. Make sense?

 

The hair cuts you reference are certainly possible but the actual appearance with these hair cuts will not nearly be the same as the density from surgery would be far too inadequate. These models you referenced have full heads of hairt. You'd need 8000 grafts of head hair at a bare minimum and then you'd need lots of Toppik and/or Dermatch and a creative mind and even then it wouldn't be the same. Your photo is difficult to gauge but you appear to be a NW6 as I think I see the outline of parietal humps but your image is a bit too blurry, not to mention I see no images of your donor zone or the crown.

Yeah I think the sides are to high up to be a nw7. So since viewing the other images you think Im a nw6? I understand its hard to make a good evaluation from these pics.

The first pictures I posted are in the back(back=donor zone?). Guess you want a more close up?

Thanks for helping me!

On him, I'm saying since he is considering the ink solution, then he should forget the surgery option for now and try temporary ink first. On some patients that are NW7, surgery can work well as long as expectations are realistic. This particular case is not only a NW7, but the head shape appears long so there is more ground to cover and that crown would get little attention, and if any grafts were placed in that crown, little difference would be achieved. If he's going to keep his hair very short post surgery then the lack of density on the sides, where they have dropped, will be apparent. When the hair is grown longer, long enough to be styled, then the sides won't be as noticeable and it might be doable.

 

So, I'm not recommending against surgery completely, just suggesting a third option to his two current considerations.

Ok so it having long hair is better than, short? Thought it was the opposite.

Would these haircuts be possible to make with a hairtransplant on me? (ofcourse with a higher hairline)

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I schould add, I have had a consultation with a hair surgeon, and he said I had naturally a very low hairline, and that my face could work with a fairly high hairline.

I'd recommend against either. You are not a NW6, you are a NW7 because your parietal humps are gone and the sides have dropped. Even 5000 grafts would not do much, especially at the length you showed the one photo as being your expected outcome. To raise the sides enough for a natural appearance would be difficult and with the lower density obtained while doing this, it would potentially look unnatural. That, and you cannot get a guarantee that the scarring from FUE will be unnoticeable.

 

With permanent ink, you're stuck. If you don't like it due to bad artistry or bad technique, you have to go through several sessions of expensive and painful laser to remove it and once you do that, the scalp most likely won't be the same as it was before the treatments. The best thing to do in my opinion, if you go the ink route, is to go with the temporary option. There are several clinics in Europe (your profile says you are in Sweden) that offer it now, including one in Belgium and of course Milan, where you can go to the originator, Milena Lardi. This way, with the temporary option, you will at least know if you like the look of ink on your scalp. If you do not, just give it time and it will disappear completely, without turning blue or green.

Thank you so much for giving me an honest and detailed answer! Appreciate it! So I'm really a NW7? Didnt think it was that bad:). Well I think 5000 grafts would look okay with a 3mm buzz cut, and with a receeded hairline. The picture that was my "expected outcome", is not really my expected outcome, thats way to much hair even I understand that. But I agree with you, ink is the best route for me, definitely.

Yes Im from Sweden!

Uploaded a few more pictures. So I'm a clear nw7?

I met a guy who told me that two of his friends who has had a hair transplant has started loosing their transplanted hair. He said that the DHT in the scalp is much higher than in the sides and when this donor hair comes into the scalp it cant handle the high DHT either.

Is this true? Never heard of this before.

Hi!

I'm having a really hard time deciding if I schould do 5000 grafts with FUE, or just do a MHT with HIS hair. If I do a hair transplant I will be sporting the buzzed look, with like 4-6mm in growth.

Positives and negatives with FUE:

+I can have hair:)

-Costs a lot of money

-Scared of FUE scars

-Scared of schock loss and bad growth

- Worried it will look odd

Positives and negatives with MHT:

+Relatively cheap

+Dont have to wait a year for results

+I will look like I have no hairloss

+I look ok with a shaved head

-Its weird to have hair follicles tattoed

-I must shave to the skin every morning

-My hair gets very light when shaved

-Must be careful with the sun

-etc etc

If I will do a hair transplant I will do it in India or Turkey. What do you people think? Am I a candidate for hair transplant? What do I need to think about with FUE/MHT?

If you take a look at the picture named 44444(the one with the "long" hair), thats the look I would like to have.