DrMoreHair

Agreed - i'm a little worried on whether it will all fill in enough to blend naturally. We shall see. I am excited that the temple peaks and corners are filling in quite a bit making the hairline a bit stronger. Probably most noticeable to me since i spend a lot of time looking at it. People at work don't seem to have a clue

In theory only the area that actually is being cut will suffer damage. Also you're aware the parietal lobe is near the mid/back of your head so work done around your hairline really shouldn't be affected, assuming the incision would be made in the parietal lobe area. In any case, if you're having symptoms necessitating the removal of an arachnoid cyst you definitely need to get that taken care of first and foremost. You can always touch up your hair later... Best of luck.

Thanks guys! I've seen some of your results and they look great! Crossing my fingers!

Hey All I've been keeping my blog updated, but thought i'd share a post here as well. These forums really helped me out as I was making my decision to get this procedure done so hoping to give a little back. For those that don't know I had 2050 grafts done with Dr. True in NYC. You can see more details in my blog. I'm now 4 months post transplant and happy to see the hair growing. It's still fairly fine and not blended well yet, but it's really coming along compared to month 3 and the hair line is starting to take shape (pretty closely matches the immediately post surgery hairline - ha)! Here's a 0 and 4 month comparison pic and my just after surgery pic - more pics on my blog. Cheers!

Django Unfortunately because you're so young it's likely that most responsible doctors would want you to give finasteride (Propecia) a try for at least 1 year before any surgery. If your body responds to the medication and your hair loss is slowing down/stabilizing then they might find you a suitable candidate for what would likely be a "conservative transplant." If you don't get your hair loss stabilized medically, then you'll be fighting a constant uphill battle such that by the time the results of your 1st transplant have grown in you could have substantial loss in the non-transplanted areas and overall be unhappy with your sugery(s).

Awesome work! It's interesting that in women (like this one) with what is presumably androgenic alopecia the back and side hair also seems to remain DHT resistant. What in the world makes that hair resistant, but the front/top hair not resistant is what we need to figure out!

I'd also like to see what these transplants look like 10 years down the road. More and more you see mid 20 somethings with big sessions of 4,000+ grafts. How many do they have in reserve and what does the result look like 10 years later when they're still relatively young?

Jotronic makes good points on the difficulty of judging work through photos... Nonetheless, I'm willing to bet that if I took photos of 10 guys with good/great transplant results and 10 guys who never had any work done most of the supposed "hairline experts" on here would have an extremely low rate of figuring out who had transplant and who had a natural hair line... Bets?

I'm not at all religious, but AMEN brother! ;-)

There's always room for improvement with anything HairyJoe. Of course hair transplants can be continually improved and we should be able to get to the point where hair can be cloned in a dish and there is no need for linear scars or microdots all over the back of the scalp from donor harvesting. The Porsche 911 GT2 that I got to ride in last month is an awesome car and still there are room for improvements. However, I'd still take the Porsche with all of its "flaws" over the Ford Focus and I'd take Matt's full head of hair from Dr. Konior with what you call "coarse ends" over a Norwood IV any day of the week! Maybe you prefer the norwood IV?

Hairyjoe i'm just curious as to what makes you an expert on hairlines. I'd say your negativity about the whole thing might be clouding your judgement. A hair transplant is not going to take a 40 year old and give him the hair he had as a 20 year old. The question is - is the procedure going to make a dramatic difference in his appearance and is he going to look and feel better. Whether or not Matt's ends look a bit more coarse than a "natural hairline" is really splitting hairs (pun intended). I've seen Matt's before and after pictures and I can imagine he is ecstatic from the awesome transformation he's had with Dr. Konior. Should hair transplants continue to improve? Absolutely! Medicine and science should always be pushing the bar further and further. However, your comments about avoiding "Dr. Konior like the plague" because of Matt's results are nothing short of ridiculous

Hi Set I'm pretty new in this process, but have had my first transplant almost 4 weeks ago and had researched it for quite sometime so I think I can offer you a little advice. You don't need to travel around the globe seeking out consults, but you do want to find a coalition doctor from the website who you're comfortable with. I would personally avoid the big TV advertising firm as it doesn't seem that their results are as good as their advertising budget. As has already been said money should not be a factor in choosing a surgeon. If it is you should wait and have the surgery another time when you're more financially prepared to do it. The last thing you want is discount hair surgery with discount-looking results that will last you a life time. The surgeons already recommended to you are very good. Check out the forums and take a look at their work. You'll find some surgeons are more regularly doing very large sessions >3000 grafts in a single pass while other surgeons seem to do less. Obviously 4000 grafts are more than 2000, but keeping in mind it takes 9-12 months to see full results you might opt for a single session if you need so many grafts to get the aesthetic you're looking for. Or you might opt for 2 smaller sessions etc.... Personally, I went with Dr. True (of True & Dorin). I can't yet speak for the results, but everything else was wonderful. Kind and caring staff - no sales pitches. Honest and straightforward communication.

Hi Set I'm pretty new in this process, but have had my first transplant almost 4 weeks ago and had researched it for quite sometime so I think I can offer you a little advice. You don't need to travel around the globe seeking out consults, but you do want to find a coalition doctor from the website who you're comfortable with. I would personally avoid the big TV advertising firm as it doesn't seem that their results are as big as their advertising budget. As has already been said money should not be a factor in choosing a surgeon. If it is, you should wait and have the surgery another time when you're more financially prepared to do it. The last thing you want is discount hair surgery with discount-looking results that will last you a life time. The surgeons already recommended to you are very good. Check out the forums and take a look at their work. You'll find some surgeons are more regularly doing very large sessions >3000 grafts in a single pass while other surgeons seem to do less. Obviously 4000 grafts are more than 2000, but keeping in mind it takes 9-12 months to see full results you might opt for a single session if you need so many grafts to get the aesthetic you're looking for. Or you might opt for 2 smaller sessions etc.... Personally, I went with Dr. True (of True & Dorin). I can't yet speak for the results, but everything else was wonderful. Kind and caring staff - no sales pitches. Honest and straightforward communication.

Thanks HSRP. I think I'm being quite gentle especially in comparison with the guy in their post-op instructional video, but I guess at this stage it's always a little disconcerting to see a few hairs come out, which may or may not be grafts. BTW Your hair looks great from the small procedure with Dr. Konior. How many did you have with H&W?

Hey All I should introduce myself as I've lurked around here for awhile before making the decision to get a transplant. I've created a blog, which you can view here: (Hair Restoration Site for Dr.MoreHair) if so inclined. Anyhow, my question is on your experiences with after care. I'm now day 5 which according to the T&D protocol is now time to wash hair under a regular shower with very gentle finger tip washing of the transplanted area. At this point I don't have too many scabs, but have had what looks like dried dead skin sitting around the grafts - they're yellowish in color as opposed to the few darker brown/purple scabs of dried blood. The recipient area is healing nicely, redness greatly reduced as opposed to day 1 and this dried skin it coming off grafts ready to flake away. I did notice with the gentle finger tip rubbing the dried/dead skin was easily flaking away, but also i might have lost one hair and another 2 hair that looked like a little bulb on the end of it - no bleeding though. Anyhow my question is when the transplanted hairs shed do you generally see the little bulb like when you pluck a hair out of your face or is just a weak dried out looking hair shaft? Alternatively, if you don't want to answer that question just tell me my hair is going to look awesome in 6 months Haha Thanks guys and thanks for a great forum and source of information for MPB sufferers!