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There are hundreds (yes, literally hundreds) of reviews on the Spanish forum on Couto. Couto is probably the best FUE surgeon in the world with Freitas. Feriduni is right up there. Lorenzo is on the same podium. He is probably the most knowledgeable of all but in terms of survival rates (practically 100%) on FUE Freitas and Couto are the best.

I am sorry to hear about your donor. I can see you have thick beard thus I would assume you are a valid candidate for Fit Farming. I can blindly recommend Dr Mwamba for this. He does surgery in Atlanta as well if you don't want to travel to Europe... - body hair can fall out over time as testosterone drops in men as they age. Won’t these grafts eventually fall out from your donor? Not if you use the grafts from your beard. Old men have beards. Plus I don't think it really matters, eventually even your donor will thin out as we age, by the time that happens you probably won't care about hair anymore. - nape hair also falls out over time as the back of the scalp recedes up. Again won’t these grafts also fall out from the donor? Same answer as above. They might do but so will your entire hair. I guess the best choice for this repair is beard grafts.

They did a professional job, very clean and they were always ready for you if you needed anything the day after the surgery was completed and hospitality is good as well. Not feeling welcomed might be the wrong choice of words. They just aren't as friendly as doctors in Spain or Belgium. They are distant. They perform their work and that's that. I would not go to Turkey for HT unless you are going to HLC, Erdogan or Keser. Only 3 names I would trust my scalp with. The best place to have surgery in the world is Brussels and Spain. Amazing food, most experienced doctors and very friendly. Brussels is a little Paris with the best food I have ever had. Spain is where I live and has Couto, Lorenzo and Freitas which are probably the 3 best HT surgeons in the world.

They are all super nice, they did a great job and I had good growth with all of them. My favorite as a person (compassion, sense of humor and overall friendly) is Feriduni and Mwamba. Those 2 guys are amazing and such warm people. They perform surgeries for burned people for free and just have a good heart. Both based in Belgium although Mwamba has a new clinic in Atlanta as well. In terms of outcomes and graft growth I had good results with all of them. The nicest looking clinic is Feriduni's in Hasselt by far. Honestly I would go to any of them but I would rather avoid going to Turkey. So HLC and Keser I would not be keen on repeating but the results were good. I just didn't feel welcomed and had a lot of pain during surgery, they are rough on the anesthesia. The Spanish and Belgians give you sedation and use a nerve distracting machine while injecting and take their time to numb you. With Mwamba you literally don't feel anything, it takes them 30 minutes or more and with Feriduni they give you an IV sedative that get's you high as f***! I could talk about this all day but got work to do. Thanks for your interest in my case, I really hope it's useful to some of you.

Thank you buddy I will explain everything when I post my full journey but in summary I did many small surgeries as my alopecia was not stabilized. I spent many years without taking meds (probably all my 20's) and had some flares of psoriasis every now and then that would cause small batches of missing density. Once the scabs formed I would pill them off and hundreds of hairs would come out with them (imagine the anxiety) and they never grew back. I was trying to fill up those holes yearly so I kept going back for 300-500 graft sessions, my first 5 surgeries were like that between 2007 and 2012. I am pretty sure doctors were fed up with me so I had to find another one. It wasn't until 2015 when I had surgery with Couto that I managed to "cure" or get rid of my scalp psoriasis and stabilize my hair loss. He was the first one to do a larger surgery on me (1.200) grafts and from then on I was addicted to gaining density and growing back my hair which had been shaven since 2008. My dream was to come it again or let it grow but the density was too low. Slowly I managed to add density each time and in 2017 I grew it for the first time. My frontal area was finished a few years ago and now I started fixing my crown and donor which has some work left to be done but I am extremely happy with the way my hair looks and having a perfect hair line (in my eyes). It's also very natural. I would do it all again. I spent a lot of money and had to endure thousands of injections but it's all good. Hair was my biggest insecurity and now my friends joke daily on how great it looks and they all want to get it done!

I think about 1.300 from my beard, 300 from my arms and 300 from my legs. Only 100 from chest. They have the same survival rates if treated with the same protocol, they just have less coverage value. Mwamba did all my repairs, the 800 BHT to my crown was performed by HLC, this depleted my bear under my chin and Mwamba did a repair on that as well taking from other parts to restore my beard. It looks perfect now. I don't know the microns, thicker ones were used higher on the donor and thinner ones on the lower portion. It's impossible to tell them apart in real life, I don't even think you can see on pictures.

By the way Here is how my left side is looking after 3 months I had no schockloss here and it might still improve further but I am happy with it like this. Homogenous depletion.

Yes I am I have 2-3 more surgeries to go. Once it's completed I will post my 15 year journey with probably 15 surgeries. HLC: 1.850 Grafts Couto: 1.200 grafts Lupanzula: 1.000 grafts and 750 grafts Vila: 750 grafts Kesser: 600, 500 and 400 grafts Feriduni: 650 grafts Chueco: 500 grafts Mwamba; 500, 600, 500 BHT and 1.000 BHT grafts Total so far: 10.800 grafts (included de 2.000 BHT) I am still hoping to get 500 grafts more to zone 2 500 grafts more to zone 4 250 BHT grafts more into my donor (if needed). After that I will be doing SMP on my donor and probably recipient to throw away toppik and be bath on the ocean. I can honestly say it's been the best time, money and investment I have ever done in my life. I have super thick hair and provided the donor growths well there will be little signs that surgery ever happened.

Hello! I have done 800 BHT to my crown 500 BHT to my beard from my lower beard and 1.100 BHT into my donor area as repair as well Overall 2.000 BHT grafts have been used. I still have another 300-400 I think to close any gaps if there are areas that don't grow well We will have to wait another 6 months to assess. BHT cycle is much shorter than standard FUE grafts thus final results are seen sooner

Almost 3 months 2 VS 3 month comparison. I am hoping for a lot of improvement on the next 2 months but at least donor looks a little more normal now [url=https://ibb.co/PcmZHdv][img]https://i.ibb.co/Lxkz73X/comparison.jpg[/img][/url]

It doesn't work that way. BHT has no coverage value on the recipient. The donor is kept short so it meets the requirements.

You don't lose transplanted hairs. They shed like native hair and will grow back. Just trying pulling one out and see what happens 3 months later. You will recover whatever you have shed on your transplanted grafts even if they were taken from a zone with miniaturization , they will just gradually thin out like your donor. You have lost a lot of native hair. If your hair loss is not stabilized then you are looking at 9-12k grafts to restore normal density overall minus whatever you have had implanted so far.

What I would do if I were you would be to get 2-3k extracted from a REPUTABLE TOP surgeon (don't waste any more grafts) into your hairline and crown and then do a couple of sessions of fit farming (BHT into FUE scars) on your donor area. My hair and donor looked exactly like yours. I have transplanted over 10K now and have had 2K fit farming into my donor. You want to use your chest hair on your donor to make it seem homogeneous and use all the doubles and triples from your donor you can get to achieve density on your scalp. This is what I did. A last step would be to do SMP and you are done. Look at my case "Mustang BHT into FUE scars, Mwamba"

Chest hair is fine and has a low coverage value. I used it mainly to repair my donor and some on zone 3 Most were singles No, they still look different but I can't tell. They are surrounded by either native hair or FUE transplanted grafts. It's impossible to see if you blend them but when one falls out you can tell it's different. No They grow to the same length as the rest of my hair but I cut it at 4cm. I don't know what would happen if I let my hair grow longer but it would be irrelevant as they would still be there providing coverage (more density on the scalp) I have photos of the chest hairs and beard hairs into my donor area, that is purely chest and beard. It heals within 2 days. Crazy fast. At 4 days you can't tell anything has been done. No scaring. Best BHT doctors in Europe are Mwamba and Ozgur at Hairline Clinic. Mwamba did my donor repair and has a clinic in Atlanta as well

The average do a very poor job then. Check Couto, Freitas, Lorenzo, Vila and Pinto. Consistent 99% growth, I say 99% cause I don't dare to say 100. I had surgery with 3 of them. With one BHT specialized doctor we did a test batch of 60 BHT in one zone with tissue scaring (not ideal for growth). All 60 grew. With another reputable doctor I had 500 BHT into my donor area, all grew. I also had BHT into my crown by another reputable doctor and it looks perfect. So the average clinic yes, they struggle to maintain 90% A good/excellent surgeon in normal conditions will systemically achieve above 95% growth, they have hundreds upon the hundreds of cases documented now with videos on youtube and the spanish forum. You can type FUEXPERT on Youtube or Freitas Clinic.

Why are you not recommending it at all? I had an excellent result on my first pass and have extended my donor from a depleted one to one that can be grafted for another 1.000 grafts. You can't tell what is BHT and what is native donor hair on my donor.

Completely untrue I had over 90% graft survival from chest. It depends on the protocol and skill of the surgeon.

The other side looks perfect, no gaps, no shock. I had 600 BHT implanted there, those are gone and I think I lost some native hair as well, I didn't look this bad before surgery

2 months

My donor 2 months post op Looking quite bad , patience is key. [url=https://ibb.co/Xz9td9Z][img]https://i.ibb.co/zS1ZL1h/IMG-3407.jpg[/img][/url]

I have had 1.500 BHT grafts implanted in my zone 3 All survived, can't tell the difference. Well, 95% survived (I did a proscope test on a specific marked area)

Btw My donor is looking like crap right now. Had shockloss on the right side and I am 6 weeks out of my second 1.050 BHT pass into the recipient area. Not looking good. Patience.

You are not. You put FUE into the recipient, you replace the missing density with BHT. You will never transplant BHT from the donor back to the recipient. We keep it to multiple grafts.

There are literally zero potential problems. Have you seen how long your beard can grow? some people have it all the way down to their chest.

With proper ATP solution these days we see no difference in terms of survival between standard FUE and BHT. Over 90% grow Implanting on scar tissue is an extra challenge but it grows very well, there is enough blood supply to the area. I had 2.000 BHT into zone 3 implanted and 1.500 BHT into my donor. Never been able to tell them apart.