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Gender
Male
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Country
Canada
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Hair Loss Overview
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Describe Your Hair Loss Pattern
Receding Hairline (Genetic Baldness)
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How long have you been losing your hair?
In the last 10 years
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Norwood Level if Known
Norwood III
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What Best Describes Your Goals?
Considering Surgical Hair Restoration
Hair Loss Treatments
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Have you ever had a hair transplant?
No
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Current Non-Surgical Treatment Regime
Rogaine Extra Strength for Men
Nizoral Shampoo
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You're currently NW3, but you're diffusing and you're going to end up a high norwood (at least norwood 5).
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lol. That's practically finger length. You could hide a small rodent in hair that long. Guys with FUE are posting pictures with #1 or #0.5 in which the hair is so short you can see their scalp. Just to clarify my opinion on the FUE vs. FUT thing - I do think that FUT is a good option for some people. Particularly those who have no interest in ever having very short hair. For the rest of us, the scar is a deal breaker.
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I'm not really trying to be negative. I just consider your business practices unethical and feel compelled to respond. You criticize my attitude, but you have a consistently unprofessional demeanor in my opinion. You claim to care about facts, but apparently don't care about the fact that many people, including some in this thread, post their donors shaved to grade 1 or 0.5. And they usually don't look bad. I'm sure that you would still make ends meet if you could do only FUE. And Exxon Mobil would probably still do ok if they were forced into alternative energy. But oil and gas is their gravy train and they'll be damned if it stops. As for what I do for a living; I don't see how that's relevant.
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We've conversed before. And my response was that, if only FUT was available, I wouldn't get a hair transplant. Considering that, I'm only interested in FUE. I respect that you are businessmen and, out of self interest, want to do what you can to preserve your business with the market trending away from FUT, but there is a reason you see much more anti-FUE salesmanship from FUT practitioners, who even claim to be impartial. It's because the FUE method sells itself and the slightly lower yield, etc. with FUE isn't enough to steer people away from it.
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I've done the research. Just waiting until the best time to do it, which will be soon since I'm almost 30 and my norwood pattern is becoming clear. I can't take finasteride so I need to plan more carefully than most. My point is just that the guys with 10s of millions generally choose FUE so it isn't just some internet hype phenomenon.
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Is it too soon for HT? (pics attached)
Matt27 replied to bennyt89's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
That is not a mature hairline. You are a norwood 2.5 and have been on fin since age 22, now 27. If not for the fin, you easily could've experienced advanced hair loss by 30. -
Ok I am doing a bit of research on Dr. Devroye and apparently he doesn't even use manuel punches. His reasoning: "Indeed, the engine frees one of the hands of the rotation work. The hand so freed focuses much more easily on the orientation of the hand piece and the punch. It also allows to work in normally uncomfortable positions for the hand work. It allows to increase the number of grafts collected in one day. With the hand I reached 1200 grafts a day. With the engine I reach 2000 grafts. It has enabled me to decrease my FUE prices.." http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/169281-ultimate-manual-versus-motorized-fue-thread.html So he values speed and efficiency over quality. This is not someone I would consider seeing, based on my limited knowledge.
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Google images doesn't display every relevant photo on the internet in a search result. It displays every result that matches the search query. People who are specifically showing their donor and tagging the image with that description are typically posting it for a reason. I am not saying that there aren't bad results. But I haven't come across an alarming number in my own research. Now, I have a certain definition of bad. Typically, there is evidence of surgery, but it is not usually cosmetically significant enough to outweigh the benefit of gaining a hairline. And I have heard of Dr. Devroye, but I don't know anything about him and that would be because he is generally not mentioned as a top doctor who I would see worthy of visiting. Maybe he's good, maybe not. But he doesn't seem overly popular. Most of my research has been done on the top European FUE surgeons. Regarding your last point, that consensus exists to some extent (I don't think it's consensus; more like a common argument) due to pro-FUT enthusiasts slandering FUE in an attempt to argue that it holds no benefits over FUT. Many of these people, including some who frequent and even help run this site, have a financial interest in maintaining FUT's popularity.
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Google images, especially with that search query, won't necessarily provide a random sample. Certain people will be more likely to explicitly post pictures of their donor on the internet. And it provides samples from people who have gone to any and all surgeons. Most HT surgeons are bad. I only research results from top or at least recommended surgeons.
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Is buzzing head a possibility after FUE HT?
Matt27 replied to azakdan2682's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
You need to go down to a 0.5 to avoid the horse shoe look. #1 is too long and that's why it hides scars better. A #1 guard doesn't expose much scalp so you get the obvious horse shoe pattern. Not really a shaved head from a balding/bald guy's POV. -
I'm not cherry picking. The number of bad results does not match the number of good ones. Just look for transplant pictures of guys getting their 2nd FUE. They have pics taken with their head shaved and their donor almost never looks like your's. There is generally little evidence that anything was done. Regarding SMP, I don't have any experience with it. But I don't understand HTSoon's warning. You wouldn't be getting your entire head SMP'd. You'd just get it performed on the most obvious holes. And you'd get only a few done at first to see what the effect would be. The risk wouldn't be substantial in the test phase.