voxman

You told us all in multiple posts about your great experience ~ but it's confidential and there are no pictures? That's a great business model you're going to have there, FahadQ8.

Must be great work - you posted 8 time this contrived fantastical experience. No pictures? After 2 whole weeks you 'couldn't know where's your scar is'? Let see this very dense natural hair you are so happy with! You should be very proud and happy and show pictures of wonderful transformation by 'awesome charm friendly' Dr Carlos Wesley. Did you travel to USA for your work? Or maybe from Outer Bulshitistan?

Singh, relax man, not everyone is here reading every post voraciously - and responding immediately. We're all looking in the mirror ourselves.

I think it looks quite good. Are you going to grow it out any or keep it short?

Or you could revive an old look - do a Beatle do!

Sorry - the role of Chewbacca has already been cast.

Dude, you're going to have a TON of hair! If I had your pre-op hair I would never even have considered a HT until 2020.

But I say that for me and you are you and you know what your situation is!! It looks like a good job!

Duck, if I read your post correctly, you are concerned about your hairline redness, not your donor area. In my experience, the redness after two weeks is quite normal and different skin types will fade later than earlier. You'll keep shedding in that area too....aloe helped me but time is your best friend (and enemy as you wait, wait, wait).

Awesome outcome. Your hairdo is what I like to call the "take that, Baldy..."cut. It's like totally cutting off what the MPB guys are left with. You look better and younger...and happier!

A loose fitting hat that sits on your ears with room on the top so that it doesn't touch the grafts is all you need. Think along the lines of an adjustable Baseball Cap - lots of open air on top. Just nothing that smooshes down on your head. Oh, and wear the Bill FORWARD....

I'm not a veteran ( well, I am a Veteran) but I'm post-op 9 weeks also and I get the same prickly sensations now and then. I'm getting pimples too but with just a little research here and there, you will easily find out this is all *normal*. Boringly so. Enjoy the next phase! I am.

For his first and second ever post, oliveoil pretty much wraps up this thread.

Looks good - with your hairline, at least when you look in the mirror - you're still yourself!

I started thinning in my 30's and it was just a slow progression but it never bothered me to the degree that I would get depressed or hide my head. I am NOT a hat guy and I am NOT a shaved head guy either. The real heart of the matter for me is that I am a musician and I always take pride in my stage appearance. For most of the late 90's and from 2000 - 2010 I performed in a 60's tribute act and we wore costuming and wigs. Problem solved. But I stopped doing that and now perform as 'me' so the thinning hair has been a concern. I am not of the mind to go the 'baseball cap' or 'backwards beret' and pony tail look so I pulled the trigger on a HT at 64 years old. I'm only two month post-op but I know I'll be happier with my looks and more confident when the lights go up !

I did have something to add - with all the posts about FUT scars, this is my scar after 7 weeks. I think it's pretty clean and thin after just this time.

That is going to be seriously nice!

I too think it will diminish as time goes by. I see this concern in a lot of posts.

It was never even a consideration in my case. I last buzzed my hair last in 1968 and have never since and don't plan to.

Hello all,

Long time lurker here...a bit about me - 64 years old - thinning since my 30's so I figured 30 years is long enough to wait before I take the 'plunge'. Being 64 puts me squarely in the 'Beatle era' which means I went through the 'hair wars' in my teen years - fighting with Mom and Dad and High School about my hair. Crew cuts were the name of the game back then until we all let it grow out. So even though I am now an old crotchety guy, I still want my hair.

I visited many clinics in the past 10 years - from the mills to the one-off guys, but I settled on Dr. Chao in Redondo Beach. I've read the reviews here and walked into his office with eyes wide open. Of course, I had the obligatory consultation with Rob D'Angelo which was at no time high-pressure, close the deal. Rob was more concerned about MY expectations and whether HairLab was right for me.

By the way, I can be long winded as I am a writer so if you're looking for soft short post, this is not it.

I tell ya, that Rob's got a head full of hair to be proud (probably courtesy of Dr. Chao) and he's a businessman that has found his niche. Flat Rate Pricing may be controversial in some professions - I can see it certainly is in the HT industry - but coming from a contracting service background, it has a lot of advantages and seems to work for these guys.

CAVEAT EMPTOR - Buyer beware - please do your own research and feel confident in it. HairLab's website and social media presence is certainly not all that attractive and very generic. It is what it is and as long as Rob and Dr. Chao can properly read their P&L statements and run a clean and lean operation, kudos to them.

Anyway, that all said, I had my FUT on 2/21/2014. I'm 49 days Post-Op, 7 weeks, and I feel that I need to just get involved here at the discussion boards and share.

The procedure was very smooth, we built a nice age-appropriate (ouch) hairline I was happy with, I had minimal pain, absolutely no swelling, and all the post-op after care has been boringly *normal*.

The experience is one thing, the results another - and this is a results oriented community by it's very nature - so I will keep posting follow ups. I made a matrix picture for all -

For today, there's not much more to report as I enter the wait and see period for a couple of months.

Your mileage many vary but so far, so good.!

That's now a great looking head of hair for a man in his seventies! You should both be very happy!