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Transected bulbs are not able to survive and cannot grow in any location. The size of the bulb is irrelevant to this process. Hair can only grow from intact follicles so if the bulb is injured, there is no regrowth, period. There are occasions when the trauma to a hair follicle isn't sufficient enough to cause terminal effects. Transected grafts, hairs, and bulbs are terminally injured structures which means that they will no longer grow. I hope this information is somewhat helpful.

I don't feel confident in these two clinics that you have mentioned. You should have no doubt about the clinic you choose to have perform such a life-changing act on your body. I urge you not to consider having an HT at all because you don't have the necessary information to consider making an informed decision. The reasons why the clinics are not mentioned here are apparent. With very little irrefutable documentation available to support your decision to pursue these clinics, I don't see any reason why you would take hair transplantation by these clinics seriously. Great bargains are objects that you are willing to consider as being a complete loss. Results are considered to be the proof that speaks on behalf of a doctor or clinic.

@ 18and Balding Hi there. It is definitely a good idea to have your case documented so that you educate yourself appropriately. Seeking more that one reputable clinic that can offer you sound consultation (online & in-person) is in your best interests. I don't suggest walking into any random dermatologists' offices or walking into the first hair restoration clinic in your local area. I must be honest and tell you that there are lots of bad clinics out there. Your current hair loss pattern may be what it appears to be. You may well lose the vertex first and maintain the front for many years to come. Definitely expect more loss to continue at what will always seem to be an alarming rate. You should consider all available non-surgical hair restoration solutions because your condition will progress to an unknown extent. There is no better time than now to research what options you might most benefit from in consideration of keeping what you have, at least, until you are at a proper age to pursue surgical hair restoration methods. Understand that medical therapy comes with associated side effects, financial responsibility, and absolute commitment. Don't hesitate to ask for help, and question pretty much everything. I hope this info is helpful, 18 and Balding.

Thanks for sharing, Abedogg. I assume that you may have recently changed hair styles or shortened the length of your hair since the session of FUE in California. You stated that now the right side of the donor region has a noticeable bald spot. I'd consider donor restocking to treat this minor problem. I suspect that this bald area would require maybe fifty to one hundred grafts to achieve sufficient coverage. You would do yourself justice by going ahead and grafting it. A small grafting session would certainly be worth the amount of daily preparation time that you would save. The freedom that will come along with effectively treating the area would definitely improve your state of confidence and allow you to simply forget about it, period. Using your best donor resources should provide an effective resolution. With the exception of the attention-attracting spot on the right auricular region of your scalp, your hair looks great in terms of naturalness, Abedogg. You could easily choose to delay treating the subsequent recession located behind the frontal hairline until it becomes obvious. If you go FUT, go for maximal density, but if you go FUE, don't have the same viewpoint if you want to save resources for later and minimize shock loss. Fortunately, you don't have an advanced degree of hair loss so FUE may be more efficient in correcting such minimal hair loss. As I previously stated, you really look good because your previous HT has yielded natural-looking growth.

@Cantdecide Each case is unique, but some scar revisions can involve viable grafts in the excision. Also, the surgeon performing the excision can chose to avoid capturing donor follicular units as well.

@somez35 Hi. Thanks for your response. Impotence, low libido or sex drive are the greatest and most well-known side effects. I am interested in discovering the side effects that are not being discussed. I am certain that some men are affected by uncommon side effects but either they don't notice them or they are not able to define the conditions that they may have experienced. Hopefully more gentlemen will see this post and respond as well.

@ Spartan13 Oh, okay. So it sounds like Caboki is doing the job in terms of minimizing any signs of shock loss and the surgery. I am happy that the shedding seems to have subsided. The worst part of having surgery is dealing with the effects of shock loss. Thanks for speaking with me about such a discouraging subject.

Balbir, I look at the 4 to 6 months photos and I see good growth. I hope to see more photos of you results in the future. You have come such a long way...

Why wait to treat the crown… Certainly, individuals who desire to treat this area are as young as thirty and can be as old as seventy. No crystal ball is at our disposal when we approach corrective measures at the time when significant recession becomes evident in the crown. The crown a.k.a. ‘the black hole’ is far from simple in regard to its natural design. The constant varying angles contained within the whorl offers no consistency in coverage despite the relatively small area that it seems to measure. Those in pursuit of restoring such an area should realize that the crown is really a difficult region to treat mostly because the hair grows in multiple directions at once; there's no shingling effect in this area like the other areas of the scalp. Crowns are most notorious for consumption of hair grafts and display no regard for any patient’s age or background. Achieving density is essentially an attempt to create an illusion of fullness when the hair in an area has no consistent grade. The orientation of the crown is perhaps the reason why it mostly consumes far more grafts than most individuals realize. The crown will usually be the absolute most difficult region on the scalp to restore so conservation of donor resources is paramount in consideration of future loss. After a crown is aggressively treated, the undesirable effects of progressive hair loss fail to yield to the treated areas. Some hair loss sufferers will even be so unfortunate enough to have a double whorl in this particular region. Those hair loss sufferers can only wish to confine the expansion of the receding perimeter. Almost always, the individual will continue to battle the worst of the recession if they are fortunate enough to still have resources remaining to add half of the density that is visible in the surrounding region. An improvement can be noticeable if about half of the density of the surrounding area can be achieved. If an average male has about 6500 follicular units available in their donor supply, conservative restoration is without a doubt an ethical approach. If hair loss is comparable to a great fall, then slowing the rate of the descent is merely the most important aspect of saving what soon may be permanently lost. Keeping a controlled fall is achievable by administration of medical therapy, anagen stimulation, and efficient management of donor resources. Those who don’t make these basic considerations might eventually see the fall in a catastrophic fashion where an abrupt plunge leaves them victim to the limitations of body hair. Body hair is less ideal when compared to scalp hair simply due to the fact that it’s far less predictable in terms of growth and yield. This is the risk that individuals take when they attempt to treat the crown in one session in lieu of an effective regimen for long-term treatment. Waiting to surgically treat the crown to a certain extent and focusing on the front can afford an individual time to effectively manage the progression of their hair loss. As surgical hair restoration patients, individuals should concert all efforts to maintain awareness of what happens on their scalp.

@Jcm126 Hi there. Three days should be fine. There's no way you can damage the grafts unless you get too much sun exposure up there. Be watchful that you don't dislodge of pull the newly planted hair. Don't do anything to have any blood showing anywhere. Blood is not a good indication of proper care. Don't use products that might increase the chances of adhesion of hair and scalp. You've invested way too much to lose even one precious graft, my friend. Best wishes!

@Hairstome Hey there! The frontline was probably lowered by about 3.5 cm.

@Spartan13 Hi. Have you any experience with Couvre by any chance?

@Balbir Can you get a glimpse of the aesthetic results within your donor? I am curious as to how well your donor has healed as of yet? Thanks for sharing!

This thing called hair loss and surgical hair restoration is a long journey. One treatment won't tame this beast because its nature is without a doubt unpredictable. We can get some satisfaction is retarding the process, but we'll never control it or conquer it without cell therapy. Medical therapy is essentially just as engaging as surgical therapy, and neither is a one and done process because of the involved commitment. It's like a guy either marries medicine or surgery. We have no crystal ball, but the only real and true prediction is that hair loss is progressive. Reality and hairloss bites on another level when donor resources are mismanaged. Take care of those precious follicles, gentlemen.

Hello everyone, I wanted to share the actual words that this patient expressed about the whole disheartening ordeal and how the MYWHTC clinic was able to help. Sometimes we take the littlest things for granted. I am unable to think of any way to explain Dr. Mwamba's level of compassion. Caring about our patients places them in a special predicament because we treat them as human beings before we begin to listen to how we can help them. I hope you all can appreciate this patient's most sincere words as much as I do. This testimony should give at least someone a reason to stop and just take one moment and smile. Cheers, everyone! "The following 7 or more years after the bad work were hell....constantly hiding my head, baseball cap always!! worse than suffering hair loss is suffering a bad transplant believe me! with hair loss you can see others with the exact same thing everyday, with a butchered transplant you are alone....completely! you are a freak hiding under your hat your mistake that you paid thousands of pounds for! you want to go back but you cant.....its done.....you need to live with this mistake.....trust me when i say a bad transplant will ruin your life! its not like a bad boob job, women can get surgery and all talk about it, us guys cant, its a secret thing for us so its more important we find a good surgeon. ok so after 7 years and suffering depression because of my hair transplants (thanks again Nobel) i decide i have to get another to try at least to make it look less like a crop field or a cindy dolls head. you cant imagine the reluctance i was feeling to go there again but what and where else could i go? in the uk we are limited with hair transplant places. i would of shaved my head but i couldnt, it was lumpy where the grafts were. so i needed to continue along the transplant road. i even told them when i arrived the third time "i wish i had never come here" to which their reply was "well lets see if we cant help you" what a joke! so strip number 3 i asked them to take the strip so it joined one of the old scars, so i was only left with 2 in total, they promissed to do it but of course they didn't, they messed that up too, they took it 5mm from one of the old scars giving me....... 5mm scar-5mm hair-5mm scar so over a 15mm section of my head i only had 5mm of hair. you can imagine how nice that looked, and these are 15cms long! butchers! 4 years passed......now i am late 30s and getting desperate to stop wearing hats!! my head is messed up! lumpy crinkled grafts at right angles to my head looking like a cindy doll. I started to search online and i found the solution! Now dont think i am trying to sell u anything please..... this is advice, take it or leave it. I first realized that the uk IS NOT the place to get hair work done, they have been doing it in the USA so much longer and have so much more experience. compared to the USA the UK surgeons are like kids playing with new toys. experience is EVERYTHING with hair transplants!!! so i decided i will travel out of the UK to try to get my grafts removed and my head fixed. (if you get surgery in the UK my god i wish you luck cos your gonna need it!!!) I started to research USA clinics and 'plug removal' surgeons. they are rare. its a complicated procedure and there are very few guys who do it and even less who do it well. then i found a surgeon.....Dr.Patrick Mwamba. He learned from one of the leading surgeons in the world in the USA. They were among the first Doctors in the world to do FUE procedures and FIT was invented at their clinic! so anybody you go to cant possible be as experienced in FUE as these surgeons so i found out that Dr. Mwamba learned in the USA but has a clinic in Brussels in Belgium, not so far from the UK. I arranged a consultation in London (he holds them there and in a few other countries a few times a year) he inspected my head and said "yes" to all the things i wanted done! remove the grafts...."yes" get rid of the pitting....."yes" the lumps under the skin....."yes" restore a natural looking hairline...."yes" help to hide my scars......"yes" put new hair on my temples......"yes" I was unsure. i had already made mistakes in the past at these consultations and believed everything i was told i wasn't going to be fooled again so easy..... yes to everything???? can it really be possible i thought that this one guy can do everything i want? did i really waste over 10 years hiding this when he could of fixed it? I asked 100 questions! and then a few more. I was sceptical but Dr. Mwamba is a really nice guy for a start. he took photos of my hair density using a tiny cam in all sections of my head, measured the area needed, inspected my scars, very very thorough and seemed to be able to explain all the reasons why the bad transplanted hair was like that where as Nobel told me lies. I needed to trust someone if i was going to fix my life and Dr.Mwamba gave me confidence in his skills....i needed my life back WITHOUT HATS! I put my faith in Dr.Mwamba and booked up the prcedure. well.......guess what....i got my life back!!! He did everything he promised and was polite, helpful, generous and professional with it!! All his staff too!! even to the point of his staff going out to buy me Redbull energy drink because I was falling asleep in the chair while he was working on me and i couldnt keep my head still lol He owns and runs a clinic called "world hair transplant centre" WHTC aka MYWHTC MYWHTC - Dr Patrick Mwamba - Hair Transplants and Treatments http://www.mywhtc.net/ his staff are amazing! he is amazing! his work is amazing! its no exageration, even his secretary is amazing! all of them are polite, efficient, thorough and experienced. You sit back and watch tv in the surgery room and Dr. Patrick Mwamba and his professional staff get to work.....gently making injections with magnified glasses with light to see presicely every tiny detail of your head so they can get the grafts perfect, they will accomodate your every need, a drink, something to eat, stretch your legs, never was i told "no" to anything i wanted. i can almost say it was a pleasure. If it wasnt for the fact i was worked on for 4 days running and at around 15 hours a day it would of been. sitting in a chair for that long is hard even if your having fun so imagine if its for something like this, they appreciate that fact and their politeness and helpfulness makes the time fly. you can get an idea now of how much work my head needed to get it back to normal and fill in my problem areas....15 hours a day x 4 = 60 hours! Almost 5000 grafts! Dr. Mwamba had agreed 4265 were needed at the start when i told him where I wanted the hairline so he only billed me for just 4265 as agreed despite putting close to 5000 in He had instruments for checking symmetry of the hairline too, not just "have a look" but measured exactly. Dr.Mwamba took out my old grafts, removed the lumpy fibrossis, used FUE to harvest hair from the rest of my head and filled in my temples, the sides (temporal points) created a new lower hairline AND even put hair into my scars to help to hide them! Another bit of advice.....FUE all the way, dont do strip! strip is nasty, FUE in non-invasive and heals so fast and no scars or severed nerves. Patrick even has an LED light system called '3 wings' that pulses high powered light onto your head after surgery to help speed up the healing process each day. If you need a hair transplant you wont find a better surgeon than Dr. Mwamba or a better clinic than WHTC i am sure of it.....but if you need corrective work from a bad transplant this guy will blow your mind!! I never in my life imagined my head would look normal again! i thought the best i could hope for was a kind of "cover up" of my mistakes, but Patrick Mwamba, MD, rolled back the years to day one and gave me back my smooth lump free head, with normal looking hair growing in the right direction, no pitting, no scars, minimal pain, no crinkled hair, no gaps, and a better hairline than i ever imagined i would have! seriously he changed my life! check out his site, check out his pictures. if you go to the clinic you will see that not all the pictures are on his site because many dont want their pictures used, some of the ones on his computer he showed me i seriously couldn't tell it was a transplant! so natural than when i saw the 'before' pictures (having seen the 'afters' first) i was literally shocked! i cant say enough about his work. so now my life is normal again. swimming, resturants, etc etc no more hats, no more hiding do yourself a favour if your thinking about getting a transplant, go to see Dr. Patrick Mwamba. DONT GET A CHEAP CONVENIENT TRANSPLANT IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE! Thats my story....if it saved just one person from the mistakes i made it was worth me writing it." take care all. Dr. Patrick Mwamba's patient take care all.

I'd have to agree that this is excellent work by the doctor and staff. Truth be known, the level of confidence in consistency with great hairline design is almost unreal for me as a representative. I noticed the growth on the left side before any other details. I certainly find this hairline to be fine, and the location of the hairline is appropriate. While most young men would only wish to be in this patient's shoes, you have to commend the patient's commitment to medical therapy. I can think of one hundred reasons why this approach shows eminent benefits. What, an eight hundred-graft result...

Hello everyone, You have to realize that the crown is really a difficult region to treat mostly because the hair grows in multiple directions at once; there's no shingling effect in this area like the other areas of the scalp. Achieving density can become less visible when attempting to create an illusion of fullness when the hair in an area has no consistent grade.

@ Arlo Hi there. I believe that what Rootz is trying to say is that any decision comes with long-term and short-term effects. Medication is very similar to surgery in terms of meeting the demand of your hair loss. You want to make good decisions and usually we tend to make them better as time passes. Maturity is relative to making life decisions such as non-surgical and surgical hair restoration. Posting a few photos is a great idea, Arlo.

Sadly enough there are still clinics contributing bad work and transplanting plugs. I'd say that the majority of them operate in South America and Europe. Luckily we are trying to help patients understand the differences between acceptable and pathetic surgical hair restoration. A little while ago, we literally had the pleasure of treating this unlucky patient. Somebody needs to be locked away for charging a man for this caliber of work.

Yes. Managing expectations is as critical as post-op care. Have your hair, but don't let it have you making a laundry list of regrets. I hope that someone learns something here before taking a seat in anyone's surgery chair. This is my purpose for posting this particular kind of information with mindful consideration for the uninformed.

Thanks a million! I'm happy to contribute to something positive!

@Beaver I don't think that you should wear it longer if you are hoping to improve the appearance of coverage. Minimizing the contrast between your skin tone and hair color can buy you a certain level of gratification. Some guys lighten their hair color to obtain a significant illusion of increased density while other add grafts. In terms of additional surgical restoration, looks like you just need to add about 25 grafts per cm2 (conservative density) as to avoid losing these robust native hairs that are currently surrounding your transplanted hairs. For a non-surgical approach, you might even attempt to wear a hair cap at night to try laying your hair down and altering its direction of growth. I suppose you may have even experienced a minor and subsequent progression of additional hair loss since achieving fully matured HT growth. Hopefully this is helpful in some way, Beaver.

A semi-aggressive hairline is relative to the age and facial characteristics in part. What do you consider these three examples of hairlines?

Dingdong12, You may want to consider going to a doc that will provide you with a supply of sleeping medication and an anti-swelling med while you're at it. Once you plan your evening's end, just stay up as long as you possibly can and then take your meds after you utilize a neck pillow to prop your neck. The best part about this approach is that you shouldn't have much tossing and turning occurring while you're asleep. I hope this helps in any capacity!

Hi fellows, I'm looking to find out some statistics on a particular issue that I know some guys report as a result of taking finasteride. Are there any gentlemen experiencing or noticing any differences in the quality of semen at the start of taking finasteride? I am really interested in finding further info about the frequency of this occurrence. I have been in contact with more than a few guys who have reported that the volume and consistency of the semen that they ejaculate is affected during the initial starting period. The average amount of semen is between two and five milliliters. These same individuals report that this condition subsides within a couple months. All feedback is certainly welcome and greatly appreciated.