Melvin- Admin

20 hours ago, Al - Moderator said:

Honestly it might just be better to move on to another Dr. I don’t know why some clinics are so awful at responding to potential patients. It could be that they are way over booked but they should still reply to you to let you know that. 

^This, plenty of quality doctors. 

2 hours ago, Drumnjake said:

First look at recipient and donor after first wash.

 

Donor actually looks better than I anticipated .

 

 

Looks super clean. Did you mention the surgeon?

2 hours ago, Drumnjake said:

*****Update****
I ended up seeing Dr. Nader yesterday. 
2572 grafts total to rebuild and reinforce hair line, as well as center part. 
 

Here’s some pics. (Donor is still bandaged till tomorrow)

 

Love the widows peak 🙏

16 minutes ago, sansi said:

thank you Melvin, any anticipation when Dr. Barghouthi will update us ?
After your words I check the forum hourly like crazy

It may be a week or so, so no need to check the forum for a while 😅

Looks excellent, excited to follow your journey🙏

Can we get a short video of your donor? Almost 12k grafts via FUE is a record here on the forum. I remember when we used to think 10K grafts via FUT was amazing. 

6 hours ago, Dragonsphere said:

About the current trial, something else or both? 😁

Both, I can’t speak until it’s finalized. 

5 minutes ago, Lenzman said:

Definitely. It looks to be getting much better in the UK in terms of options 

That's great. Almost half of our members are from the UK. They were told to travel for years, but now they have options close by, not that you should choose based on location alone. But if all things are equal, convenience does matter.

I think you’re gonna look like a rock star after this. Did you take pictures of the clinic? I really want to visit Feriduni when I go to Europe. 

Now that's case presentation 👏  amazing results thank you for sharing.

They’re both very good surgeons. IMO you can’t go wrong with either. Search reviews here and consult with both.

Thanks for sharing, happy growing 🙏

How does your beard look like?

On 4/23/2024 at 7:08 AM, FullHL said:

Hey, thank you for your reply. I have already done my research regarding surgeons that I like. The surgeons I wanted are the likes of pekiner,HLC and maybe Turan. The problem I have with pekiner is the long waitinglist, with HLC I can‘t choose a surgeon. I just heard that Dr Bek who is a former HLC surgeon opened his own clinic and offers a very reasonable price for now at least. Therefore I am considering him but only due to the fact that his clinic is new I am afraid of complications. If someone that is preferably not paid could share his experiences with Dr Bek (also HLC days) I would be very thankful. 

Why are you focusing solely on Turkey? There’s doctors in Europe like De Freitas, Pinto, HDC for similar prices.

Where you started vs. now

1 minute ago, xhomer said:

@Melvin- Admin that would be great thanks for you great work talking and pushing doctors to try this.

what about second @DrTBarghouthi trial, didn't he said he would schedule two trial patients? is there any schedule for next one and what will be different? can include recipient area and see if it reduces redness and shockloss after HT or hair regrowth without HT? also in donor doing bigger areas like half left donor with verteporfin half right donor without would be nice to compare more visual result for patients and if it is worth.

@DrTBarghouthi has some news. I will let him announce it. But it’s great news.

34 minutes ago, Piccolo said:

Do you think a year is a good enough

A year is good enough, then re-assess and hopefully the number of grafts you need will be a lot lower and you can save a lot of money.

That’s amazing wow

Beautiful results 🙏

1 hour ago, Piccolo said:

Yes Minoxidil and finasteride for one month orally

Give it some more time. You might thicken up a lot. The entire thinning area may thicken and the crown. 

Im at Dr. Behnams office today talking about a potential a Verteporfin trial. Should I do an instagram live?

23 minutes ago, Piotr94 said:

I will consider making own thread in the future. Actually, I just wanted to ask one question (with high-level detailed explanaition of the problem), but I was asked to add some photos and I did that. Sorry for making confusion.

Just one more thing related to @Melvin- Admin post, left picture is not mine, I just joined to the thread. So, there are two different people. All my photos are few posts above. However, if I incorrectly understood your post, then ingore that.

Please do not post photos of individuals that are not you. Please create a separate thread. Im removing all of the posts from this patient’s thread. Please create your own thread using your own photos.

21 hours ago, track_rat said:

Hi all, wanted to provide you with an update. You have been so supportive and encouraging, so thank you very much for that.

My procedure at Eugenix was clearly a very poor result. I don’t think there’s any other way to view it. I will never get the time I lost back, but here’s to hoping I continue to make progress and am at a point where I’m content soon.

Life stopped post surgery. I lived in a hat and was in a very bad place with low self esteem and an enormity of regret. After many tens of thousands of dollars and numerous visits to experts around the globe, I found a dynamic duo (Konior and Mwamba) that has yielded some success. We have plans to continue in the coming year.

Excuse some of the extra cropped photos. I value my anonymity very much but am sharing in hopes this helps somebody else.

Step 1: Konior  | ~450 beard graft removal and redistribution 

Before Konior surgery.

Day of Konior surgery. Focus was to remote the helmet head / birds nest of beard hair to yield a more natural blend, even if I looked more bald in the process. Goal was to look more natural and less people staring at me.

 

Step 2: Mwamba | 800 scalp grafts into outer ring, 500 beard grafts combination of filling in beard gaps and also lower horseshoe of head, 500 chest grafts into donor 

Mwamba had a tall order on this surgery. Objectives:

- Build around the island that Eugenix implanted on to try and merge the sections. You can see in prior photos there was nothing implanted in the outer ring and much of below, and things just looked awful.

- Implant into my neck/beard to restore the empty patches left by Eugenix.

- Implant into the top corners of my head where there was no work done prior.

- Remove the remaining Unger hairs from my temple that were not pulled in India. There were so many.

- Remove some hairs at the center of my hairline to lift it, as it was made to dip way too low.

- Do all of this with a no shave technique. 

 

The red rings here would be his focus for the second session we had about a year later. 

About 8 months later:

 

Step 3: Mwamba second session | 300 scalp grafts into various areas, some beard grafts into empty patches, some chest grafts into donor 

Objectives:

- Continue to rebuild back of head with empty areas. Mostly refilling the red rings shown above.

- Remove additional hairs from center of hairline to raise it. The prior session was less aggressive as a test to see how it would heal.

- More touch ups on gaps in beard 

I didn’t take as many photos here. I was comfortable with Mwamba, and it was a relatively minor session with only a few hundred grafts moving. 

After approximately one year, and current state:

 

The next session is with Konior coming up in a few months. We will be using scalp donor that I’ve been preciously saving to start giving me more volume on the top of my head. He has proposed a few sessions with a few hundred grafts a pop. It may seem nominal, but a few hundred in his hands can make a difference. I will also continue to see Mwamba to make use of body hair and targeting empty areas in the donor. 
 

Please let me know your thoughts.

You look amazing brotha, so happy for you. Hit me up when you're in LA drinks on me 🍺 

On 4/2/2024 at 1:40 AM, miko said:

Just for fun, I tried the hairstyle I wore when I was 16 🤣

That’s real density 🙏

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