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Windjc, yeah it was FUE at $10 a graft. Good advice, everyone. Thanks. My hesitancy with a strip is I have seen some fat scars on this site, even from some top recommended docs. Anyone see the pic of "Entourage's" Jeremy Piven last week in some tabloid mag of him at the beach in the surf with his fat red scar showing through his hair? Not that I'm going to be in People magazine anytime soon. Also, I have seen some Shapiro testimonials of patients doing multiple days of surgery back to back. I understood these to be FUE, yielding 2000 grafts or so range. Small scars, strip equivalent yields. Any downside? Again, thanks, gents.

First of all, many sincere thanks to Pat for creating this site and to everyone else who has added to it. I am glad I finally wound up here. I had 1000 FUE grafts done last July with a California doc who I'd like to remain nameless as I don't want to knock a guy if in 6 months his work ends up miraculously looking great. I chose him after way too little research based mainly on the facts that he was expensive and he had a slick website(D'oh!) I admit it was only a 1k graft initial op onto mostly bare scalp and it's only been growing in for 6 months but I swear it looks worse instead of better as time goes by. Please call me out if I'm overreacting as I admittedly haven't seen any other real world results close up to compare, but these grafts look super pluggy and pitted, especially in natural sunlight and flourescents, and I dropped $10k on this. So, I'm looking for a little direction in choosing someone to do the follow up FUE procedure(s) to make this the hairline that I dream of. After reading the forum extensively it does seem that the Shapiro brothers are the Go To Guys but if anyone can advise me on their or anyone else's suitability for my specific situation it would be much appreciated. I'll travel wherever, preferably in the US, and pay whatever I must. I just want the best to do this right. I'm going to start my research by contacting Dr. Shapiro soon but I just wanted to get you guys' feedback as well. Some questions I have: Can you go in this soon after an initial FUE and pull and plant grafts or is the scalp still too sensitive? Is there danger of laying new hairs on top of others that have yet to sprout from the previous op? Would a doc actually pull out the most offensive pitted grafts or just pack around them and lower the hairline to disguise them? Is Shapiro a suitable doc for my case? How good could someone cover this? Thanks for your help. I greatly appreciate it!