dragonfly2014

i would say i already lost 50% of what i planted before

Hi All, After a series of email back and forth between me and Dr Bhatti, he insisted that the falling out hair are from the mid scalp which is the native hair, not the transplanted hair. But isn't it the native hair that's falling out is much thinner and finer? the falling one that i am seeing look like normal hair with a very small root, it seems to me that the root is too small to hold the hair, that's why it falls out. Dr suggested me to do another 2000 graft I would like to have some suggestions for you all. thanks

Hi California, yes, things had gone very well last year. So that's why i didn't contact you since i was quite happy with the growth. The picture below was the one i took year and half ago. My graft started falling only within this half year. It's falling so bad to the point that everday i wake up, i would see some grafts on my pillow. Not sure if this happens to anyone in this forum or only me? I have a friend, he is caucasian , did the same procedure on the same day as me by Dr Bhatti as well and he is having a very nice growth. and i take care of my hair same way as he does. Not sure if it's because i'm asian and he is caucasian

Thanks everyone for your valuable inputs and suggestion. I do believe Dr Bhatti is a very competent surgeon and I believe he will give me some good suggestions to guide me to the right direction in fixing my hair. I will speak to him on email and will keep updating my post so you can get some good experience on my thanks

Hi Dr Bhatti, thanks for providing me the new email, the email i sent to you was the one i used to contact you before and after the procedure, and i didn't realise you have changed your email. Anyways, i have sent you another one to discuss more about what is your suggestions to improve my desperate situation now. Thanks for your response

Hi Everyone, This is my experience with Dr Bhatti, i had a HT procedures with Dr Bhatti in India back in 2014 , i posted my experience from that procedure , here is the link below http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/175328-edmonton-chandigarh-%96-dr-bhatti-4000-grafts.html after the procedure, i am still taking 1mg of proprecia everyday Now, after 2 years, i'm not really happy with the result. I see my transplanted hairs are falling off everyday ( which is not supposed to since transplanted hair were harvested from back of my head). You can see from the pictures that doesn't seems like a 4000+ graft have been planted on my head. Another thing that i'm very disappointed about Dr Bhatti is since this happen, I try to send him email everyday to ask for any suggestion. But i have not received any returning email from him:( So if anyone one of you consider Dr Bhatti for future hair transplant, please take a look at my post and consider very carefully. thanks

Hi guys, it's been 1 and half year after HT with Dr Bhatti, thanks for all your inputs and i greatly appreciate them After 1 and half year, i think whatever supposed to grow are already been grown, not as dense as i expect it, and Dr Bhatti already i told me i need another HT for another 1k or 2k grafts. However, i consult with a HT in my city, he told me the amount that I put on doenst look like i had 4000+ graft, and If it was 4000+ , it wouldve been a better job if i went for FUT. There are 2 or 3 hair follicles coming off everyday, and it looks like those are the transplanted hair. not sure if it will regrow again:(. As you can see Crown is not that dense, but i have my hair line back, if I do over comb, from far away or if i take pic, it looks quit good. Even hairline is not as dense as i expect it. but Im happier with my hair then before HT. To be honest, if you ask me how much am I satisfied with my hair HT, i would say around 60%. However, with the price I pay for it vs the price I would;ve paid in Canada, i think it's totally worth it. I don't think i would go for another section since the US dollar is really high now. These are all my opinion. weather or not picking Dr Bhatti as your surgeon, it's all up to your discretion.

Hi Guys, this is 9 months update transplanted hair is still growing, but it's not as dense as i expected. it doenst look as natural as I thought since everyone can spot it was transplant right away. Please give me any comments

Now, this is my half year update, getting some growth in my hairline, it definitely looks better before HT, however, my temple does not look natural , I wish i didn't do my temples and save those hair for my frontal. Let me know what do you think

I requested standard package as Dr Bhatti's advice. Didn't really know much difference between the new and used punch, but in term of price, 20 cents difference for +4000 grafts makes a huge difference. Since i'm oriental asian so i don't have much chest and beard. that's why Dr didn't even bother. I wish i had more body hair so i can add more density on my crown

Background Finally I have some time to write down this post to document my HT journey. This forum inspired me to make a life changing decision, now it’s time for me to contribute my own experience and hope I can inspire other bald fellers My root is oriental Asian, used to have full head of hair in early 20s, when I reached 25, my hair started shredding. Now I’m 31, I’ve visited couple local and online HT Dr, and they said that I’m NW 5 and will need roughly 4000+ grafts. After doing research online, I decided to go for FUE and Dr Bhatti seems like the best candidate in term of technical skills and price ($1.2/graft compared to one of my local Dr who charge me $14/graft:confused::confused:???) Flight: I booked a flight from my city to Chandigarh ($1500). I laid over in London for 10 hrs which allows me sufficient time to visit London Eyes and London Bridge in a day, not too bad for a trip:D:D. And then I flew from London to Delhi, and from Delhi to Chandigarh (after reading the suggestion from the others fellers in this forum that flying straight from Delhi to Chandigarh instead of cabbing there even Dr Bhatti does offer this service). It saves time and headache especially after 30 hours flight; you just want to get to hotel right away and rest Accommodation: I stayed 5 days in Altius hotel which booked by Dr Bhatti. This is a decent hotel but the staff is extremely friendly. WIFI is not so great but it offers complimentary breakfast every day. If you mention that you are patient of Dr Bhatti, they charge $50/night. This hotel is bit far from clinic (far means only 15 mins drive, Chandigarh is a small and well planned city) but it is 15 mins walk to Elante mall which is the biggest mall in town and it has all Western fast food if you are not a big fan of Indian food Procedure day 1 My procedure was booked on April 12. After a good night rest from 30hrs flight, Dr Bhatti driver picked me up at 9h30. After arrival, I had a talk with Dr Bhatti, he immediately took pic of my hair pre ops. And drew a hairline and 2 temples ( which surprised me since I didn’t expect that he fixes my temple as well) my conversation with Dr only last for 5 mins which disappointed me a little bit since I’m expecting a 30 mins consultation before ops. I guess he was too busy on that day since he had another case in the morning before I arrived. Dr drew an uneven hairline intentionally, I didn’t like it, he told me no one hairline is symmetrical which I agree, but it looks weird when you have buzz cut so I corrected it to a symmetrical hairline. And then they took my blood sample for HIV test and planted an IV injector on my arm. This IV injector will remain until the procedure is over. It’s there for the ease of injecting antibiotics during procedure. I was told to change to different clothes. My personal belonging was lock in a safe with my owe password and its super safe. And then I was brought to the procedure room where I had to sleep with face down for harvesting. Anesthetic was injected into my right scalp and this is the worst part for the entire of the procedure. The needle was poked deep into my right scalp and Dr injected almost 20 shots as far as I can remember until your scalp is frozen then harvesting starts. It takes around ? hr for anesthetics to kick in. After this, things get better after you lose the feeling and Dr will inject more anesthetic as he goes to the places where there is pain. Harvesting takes about 2hrs. And then, I was asked to sit straight. Dr injected anesthetics on my frontal so he can make incisions on my frontal and hairline. This part is not as bad as when he injected anesthetics on my back scalp. I was told the number of incisions is equal to number to harvesting hairs. This is the best time to do graft counts. After that, my head was wrapped to prevent bleeding and I take a lunch break. Before lunch break, I have to pay for the grafts that harvested. It was 2000+ graft as per the assistance. Lunch was provided by a restaurant downstair, it has a choice of Indian food or western food. After lunch, I was brought back to the room, this time I sit upright, Dr’s assistant start planting hair into those incisions. This part is painless but most tedious part. Dr Bhatti doesn’t do this part but he dropped by once a while to make sure everything is under control. And I do feel sorry for the assistances so I try to joke around with them to make their job more interesting. That’s also the reason why HT is so expensive in Western country. The whole planting part takes 4 hrs. I went back to hotel, sleeping upright position on my neck pillow. There was no pain at all for whole night Procedure day 2 Everything is pretty much the same as day 1 except for no more blood sample need, IV injector is already attached. Still the same pain with anesthetics except for it’s on left right of back scalp. The harvested hair was planted on my crown. Procedure day 3 I came back to clinic to undress all the dressing. And I was shown the proper way to wash my hair for the first week. I was provided with after care medicine, and the instruction how to take care of my head for 2 weeks post procedure until all the crust fall out. And of course, pay the rest of the fee which includes fee for medication and for cab I stay in Chandigarh for 3 more days before I fly back. I also met some nice fellers who went for the procedures day after mine and we spent some good time in Chandigarh Now it’s been 1 month after procedure. Transplanted hairs are falling to yield place for new hair to grown. I took 1 month off work. When I am back to work, no one even realizes that I had HT procedure since some of the HT hairs fall out, so my hair looks very similar to before ops. I will patiently wait for couple more months Pro: Dr Bhatti is extremely professional on his job, he knows what he is doing and what you are expecting from him. He staff is well trained. Clinic is nice and clean with world class standard. Everything is done systematically even the instruction for after care Cons: Graft count wasn’t transparent. I ask the staff for graft count but they said they don’t recommend it since grafts needed to be planted ASAP. So I just paid what I was told. I suggest that Dr should develop some system to offer patience graft count in the least amount of time to make it fair and transparent. However, with the result and price that he is charging, I have no complaint on my bill. It’s just my suggestion to improve patience satisfaction

Is that ok that i'm using someone else's grafts for HT, providing that person and me share the same type of hair and color? If using someone else's grafts is feasible, means a person can donate their hair as similar fashion as donating blood? Can anyone provide me an answer. thanks

Hi, Have you ever consider doing HT in somewhere else rather in Canada, i did so many research, and found out that India has very decent surgeon for HT with a very reasonable price. i'm from Canada too and i'll be flying to India this April for my HT

Hi Holty81, which date are you booking with Dr Bhatti, I will also be there in April, hope i can find some company