JustCurious

Jotronic I love the before and after phots from the H&W site. A couple of questions 1) What percentage of the H&W patients that are asked actually say yes to their photos being placed on the web ? 2) Do you guys offer them a discounted future procedure as a means to make more people agree to this? I like many others that have posted are amazed by the huge number of before and after patients on your site. Way more than any other world wide. I would guess that most patients would not want their face visible on the net for the whole world to see that they have had a hair transplant unless they were given something in return? (You may prove me wrong)

I am not sure how many Aussies did watch it, but about 2 weeks ago, A Current Affair had a story about Hair Science. It came out that what the clinic sell you is just a wig which is similar to what a few clinics down under offer. The story finished showing that the wig had a serial number underneath it and that the product was traced to a wig making factory in China. So much for hair cloning

To all Aussie and UK cricketing fans, Ricky Ponting has been wearing a wig from AHS since 2007 and few have noticed it. I was asked by a mate to take notice how Ricky Ponting always keeps his cap on in all interviews and warm ups despite now having a "full head of hair." He will not even take his helmet off when scoring a century in the fear of exposing the rug. He will only show his hair when he has to, such as at a cricketing awards night. His hair will always have a slight fringe to hide the glued on hairline which is typical with all the guys that wear units. Take note how rare it is to see Ricky Ponting with his cap off when ever you see him from now on. In the end, only a select few know for sure if he is in fact wearing one. But his density transformation in the front and mid scalp is huge compared to 3 years ago. This means he either had hair transplantation or is wearing a rug. The fact that the hair always stays hidden underneath a cap indicates that it is more likely to be a rug. What would he have to hide if it was a hair transplant?

Hey Bosco I am in a similiar position to you. I am an Aussie who plans to have a HT within the next 2 years. I am undecided on where to go and am using this website as well as other sites to help educate myself about hair transplantation and the clinics that are out there. My opinion about the HTN is that it is a great and very useful website to those who live in America and Canada as 95% of the information and results posted are from North American patients. The Clinics that are commonly recommended (such as the H&Ws and Rahals) have dozens of examples of before and afters and feedback from patients. The fact that there are so many results posted by patients of these popular clinics gives the readers a fair understanding that a high portion of patients are satisfied with the results acheived at these clinics. Something I always wonder is why don't Aussies post their hair transplant experiences and results like the people in USA and Canada?! How many transplants are there completed in Australia each year? 2000? 3000? There are only three possible outcomes after a transplant which are: The patient is unhappy with the outcome; The patient is content (somewhat ok with it); Or the patient is absolutly ecstatic. Why don't Aussies post thier results? Tell us why you are happy or unhappy with your transplant. Let us know who did a good job and who didn't. When I look up results on this site about any Australian hair transplant clinic I will be lucky to find 2 experiences posted. Regardless if the posted feedback about the Aussie Doctor/Clinic is positive or negative I then have to be logical. I ask myself how many procedures would that Aussie clinic perform per year? Perhaps 200 - 350. How many posted experiences have I found by patients from that clinic during the last 4 years? Lets say 3. Then you do the maths and accept that 3 experiences out of around 1000 procedures (performed over a 4 year period) works out to about 1 out of 330 patients posting a result. That means there are still 997 that have not posted their result. What I am trying to point out here is that unless you have at least 15 - 30 results and experiences to look up on this site as the highly recommended Clinics within the Coalition often do, you can not use the experiences of a couple of patients (good or bad) as the typical result. The more postings, the more accurate and confident the readers will be with their selection. Every clinic has stand out results and I am sure if you took the best 10 patients out of any clinic and compared them with others you would be unlikely to see much difference. The question is what percentage of the clinic's patients are happy. How many obtained large graft numbers and high growth yields? Lets say you were shopping for a clinic in Pakistan. All you could find on the internet about this clinic was one review which was positive. Would this be conclusive that they are a good choice? What if the experience was bad? Would that be enough to put you off? Or do you think logically and say, it is only one experience. I need to see a few more before I make up my mind. When it comes to Aussies (just like many other countries) using this website, the information is definately useful but due to the lack of postings by Aussie hair transplant patients it does not give readers a fair understanding of who is the ideal choice. As is often stated by the members that manage this website, they can never recommend any clinics in Australia due to a lack of postings on this site. My research into Aussie Clinics will result in me visiting all the clinics I may consider having a transplant. Asking my hair dresser if any of their regular customers have had a transplant and if it looks good and who was it through? Speaking and meeting hair transplant patients from each clinic. If after doing all this I am not convinced that any of them could do the job, I will just fly over to Canada and do what Asian Player did. Sorry to blabber on. AUSSIES, START POSTING YOUR TRANSPLANT RESULTS and make this website more useful for the guys down under!! JustCurious has left the building.

Hi AP Your photos look great and with 8900 total hairs transplanted by H&W I am sure you will look fantastic in 8-12 months. By the 12 month mark the Finasteride that you are taking should help thicken up your existing hair further to help maximise the end result of your transplant. We all look forward to seeing your progress photos during the year. You certainly chose a clinic with a great reputation that do have many satisfied patients around the world. Nobody can disagree with that. There is one thing that stood out to me which is the hair breakdown of your grafts. I have never seen so many singles and so few 3s and 4s obtained from any transplant result posted on this website by any patient or Doctor. From what I have read, a typical person has: 10-15% single haired follicular units, 50-55% two haired, 30% three haired, up to 5% fours. Your transplant obtained an astronomical 1615 single haired follicular units out of 5083 which represents 32% of your total grafts. An even bigger surprise is that only 313 grafts were 3s and 4s which represents only 6%. Your hairs per graft average is 1.75. Typical is 2.1 to 2.2. To be honest, I don't think I have ever previously seen a total hair count posted by a H&W patient. Normally its just the 4000+ graft number. Are there any patients on this site that had a strip procedure which managed to obtained over 30% singles and/or less than 10% three haired grafts as AP did? I am just curious...

Thank you for your replies mmhce and Dr Lindsey. Prior to posting the question, I did always presume that as long as tension was still quite low upon closure, that strips as thick as 3cm can extracted by clincs whilst maintaining a scar that is 2mm or less in thickness. I suppose it would be reasonable to expect that strips as thick as 2.5cm - 3cm (at the thickest point) are quite common practice when clinics are extracting 5000-6000 grafts in the one procedure.

I have been reading posts from this website for a few months and badly want to find the answer to one question. What is the maximum strip thickness that a hair transplant Doctor will ever excise from a patient? Whilst the 1cm - 2.2cm thickness range is quite common, if a patient was lucky enough to have very high scalp laxity (lets say 4cm of donor movement), what is the thickest sized strip a surgeon will ever go to?

I have been reading posts from this website for a few months and badly want to find the answer to one question. What is the maximum strip thickness that a hair transplant Doctor will ever excise from a patient? Whilst the 1cm - 2.2cm thickness range is quite common, if a patient was lucky enough to have very high scalp laxity (lets say 4cm of donor movement), what is the thickest sized strip a surgeon will ever go to?