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On 8/22/2020 at 2:13 AM, Sean said:

Any update?

Any doctor on this forum deal with ridging and how they remedied it?  Resection or injections?  How did the repair look afterwards?  

It just went away on it’s on after a few years. I think doing head massages daily might help. I only have slight riding now but not too noticeable compared to before.

I’ve had 2500 fue hair transplant and almost all of the grafts harvested were singles and only 50 doubles. This only covered my front corners and wanted to get another transplant to do the mid but afraid I won’t have enough donor. Is someone who only have mostly single hair grafts and thick coarse hair considered a bad candidate?

Anyone had experience with performance issues (not full ED as I can get it up fapping), and still taken finasteride or dut? Which one has less reported sides for sexual performance? I just don’t want to add to the problem if I already have one.

Had two hair transplants and I finally shaved but have huge ridging on right side. Any success stories of getting rid of ridging with kenalog injections or other methods?

He has a strip scar but could barely see any hairs tranplanted up front at all. Was there any issues blending the front with transplanted hair?

Im not ready to shave yet so not sure if photos will help at this point. I need to keep the hair at a certain length to allow hair fibers to cover up the gap and thinning. Getting tired of doing this daily so will probably shave before SMP

For someone who had previous hair transplant done and a gap and extreme thinning behind the transplanted hair, how well will SMP blend in the transplanted hair, gap, and thinned out mid section when fully buzzed/shaved?

I leave the hair on the back of my hair one inch and I'd like to get fraxel laser on my FUE scars but don't want to go back to work w/ the redness and scars exposing.

Is there such a thing as a hair piece for the back and side of head?

No way would I go fut with this clinic. Fue yes great results but no way fut. Scars look bad in a bunch of patient posts here and on other sites.

I remember all the negative FUT results..

But even w/ FUE from this doctor, I would no longer consider 1mm punch sizes state of the art and I think all qualified/talented doctors should have the skills to use smaller punch sizes w/ low transection rate.. 1mm vs .8mm and below is a pretty significant difference in white dot or scar visibility when you're talking about thousands of grafts extracted.

If Dr Umar uses uGraft to extract beard hair on the face, wouldn't it have to be practically scarless? If it is scarless to the visible eye, is uGraft used for donor hairs on the back of the head also and would it be scarless?

Yea permanent seems like it can occur. Improper extractions to improper compressed extraction patterns to even types of tools/speeds can cause it. An unskilled person that is not efficient at extracting your particular hair type and caliber can also mess things up. If the extractor doesnt use proper magnification, that can also mess things up. Bunch of things can go wrong in fue and in fut. you really have to evaluate a surgeons surgical protocol and see if you are the patient of the day or just another for the day, amongst many other things. Sometimes you may find that out when you arrive for surgery. Or your scheduled 2 day surgery is requested to be 1 day instead. It can happen.

 

I dont think meds can help much to prevent it. Trust me, i know people who followed things to a T and still got hammered with it and some are worried while some are waiting for repairs.

Shock loss has little to do with improper extraction. Improper extraction technique would just result in low or no yield to the implanted grafts.

Shock loss is the loss of your native hair from the inherent trauma of surgery regardless of improper/proper extraction or unsuccessful/successful implantation. It does not matter if the doctor's technique is good or bad, shock loss happens regardless and it's one of the inherent risk of HT surgery. Some hairs loss through shock loss might grow back, but some might not, no guarantees. Meds may help but there are no guarantees either..

You can still shave all off and get SMP.

I also see the dots around your frontal half are smaller and matches your side stubbles more. Why couldn't the same size dots be applied to the crown?

If the doctor used a big punch size like 1mm then it's going to show for sure. I think 0.80mm is ideal and can even buzz #1 with no visibility of scars but if a lot of grafts are extracted unevenly it could end up looking like moth eaten donor area

Interesting.. it's like turning the thick coarse hair to nape hair. where would someone go for that

Another victim here today

Does the hair in the front have to be short. Can it blend with longer hair if the dots are started behind the hailine. Will it make the transplant look even thicker? Thanks.

You might as well just use hair fibers like toppik if your hair is long.

Any updated pics? How well did the SMP blend with the transplanted hair up front?

Why are the dots so much bigger on your crown compared to the real stubbles on the side of your head?

Any updates on uGraft and scarring?

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/172754-scar-stretching.html

This is the only one I remember

If option 1 is even an option for you then that is always the best option imho. For those who can't simply let go of their hair and think option 1 isn't an option, then obviously option 2. It's really about what makes you feel comfortable with long term.

The way I see it is, having a certification doesn't hurt, but it shouldn't have as much weight as real world experience, natural talent and a consistent history of excellent results to back it up. I just looked up some info on the CPCP, and it states on their website "Certification is a formal recognition of comprehension of a specific body of knowledge demonstrated at the time of the examination."

So someone having a CPCP cert tells me that they're good at memorizing info and ability to pass an exam and should be somewhat knowledgeable about the domains related to permanent cosmetics. Nowhere does the certification require a minimum amount of experience or endorsement from a certified/experienced technician or board of professionals.

It's the same case in the hair transplant industry. It's like going into a HT surgeons office and expecting him to be knowledgeable and serving your best interests because he has a "Doctor" title but how many people have been butchered from surgeons with this "Doctor" title? So my point is if a "Doctor" title doesn't prove natural talent and a history of excellent results, "CPCP" doesn't prove much as far as a SMP techs abilities.

A bit off topic but I don't think you need a hair transplant imho. Not worth going through all the potential risks of a HT (permanent shock loss, low yield, unnatural angles, scaring, etc) just for those temples when no one probably notices those receding corners except you who stares in the mirror every morning. The benefits should always out weigh the risks and in your case I just don't see it.

You also have really nice dense hair and it would be ashamed if the trauma of a HT makes that thinner. And should you ever need another procedure in the future after your hairline work to cover natural progression of hair loss, a HT will never give you that natural density you currently have.

Who was the well known doc that told you you needed 2800 grafts for that lol?