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PostOp Pictures Sorry for the late reply, I haven’t forgotten about you guys. Had a lot todo. The experience and operation was good, I liked India very much. Doctor Bhatti was friendly and his staff were very talented. I will later this week write a longer and more detailed post. I will now just share the post-operation pictures and give my comments about the HT. The amount of hair harvested is clearly too little, also I think that the density which I estimate to be around 16-20 grafts/cm^2 is too small. The recipient area which I estimate to be around 60-70 cm^2 received a total of 1164 grafts.

thank you so much for your information . lets hope it doesnt come to that. im intending to wear my hair abit long.

never heard of keloid scarring, does it come about as a result of fue hair transplant, or is it that some people might already have such scarrs and therefore become unsuitable?. When it comes to the number of grafts, i would be satisfied if atleast the front, and mid scalp look "dense enough" as to look natural. the crown area and the temples im not bothered with that much, as long as they are covered and dont look exposed. thanks for your input @Lerenzo

Traveling to India on 12 July to meet Dr Bhatti and undergo a hair transplant. I have been planning to have hair transplant for the last 2 years and I have come to the conclusion that Dr Bhatti is the right choice, I will write about how I arrived at this conclusion later when I write my longer Hair transplant-story. Short summary of me: I am a 24 year old student living in Sweden , from East Africa originally. I started losing my hair at the age of 18 , used Rogaine for about 2 years, than I decided to discontinue. My hair loss is stage 4-5 I assume. It does look very big on picture , but its not that big . I have been told, due to the difficulty arising from how African hair curls under the skin, I might not be suitable. Hence I will undergo test-grafting to determine the suitability of my hair (about 50 grafts), if transection rate is within or less than 10%-15% Dr Bhatti will it deem acceptable and hair transplant will follow. I have been informed that if suitable , than the difficulty associated with extracting grafts from “African people” will still lead to low harvest yield. Not entirely sure why this is the case, it either curls under the skin or not, and if doesn’t curl, why would it than take longer to harvest than other hair-type that don’t curl? :confused: . This is why the headline reads “1200 grafts -3000 grafts”. If possible my desire is to have 3000 grafts, spread over 100-120m2 , giving me a density of 25-30grafts/m2 . Travel plan Flight time to Delhi is about 12h. then I will take another flight I bought separately to Chandigarh, sadly I couldn’t find a fitting connection flight close to my arrival time in Delhi and will therefore wait about 4h in the airport. Im going through all this hassle , because im forced to enter the country through Delhi Airport with E-Visa (basically clear immigration , and get back into the airport). Evisa is only accepted in 16 airports across India , and this sadly excludes Chandigarh airport. However, you can exit through any airport with Evisa, and I have therefore decided to exit India through Chandigarh airport. The Evisa processing time is quick but application is rather tedious to complete , you need pictures of yourself and your passport (in PDF format, ) , after the paperwork is done you pay $48. After payment it states the process of issuing a visa takes 72 hours, but mine took less than 24hours. Looking forward meeting Dr Bhatti and finally having this hair transplant that I have been planning for years. I will of course post a more detailed post about my experience and hopefully you will all be able to follow my progress through coming weeks and months.