Matt27

Narrow bald top? Your crown loss is pretty broad. Too broad to assume you'll stabilize at NW5. You're headed for NW6 most likely.

Is there a guide or any good threads to read on here regarding hairline work?

I had that and then some for over a year and I only took it for 4 days. After 15 months, I'm like 80-90% back to normal. Guys saying "everyone should try fin; it's worth a try! :cool:" simply don't understand how dangerous it can be. Or that every pill they pop makes it more likely that they'll develop the same thing. Risking an unnatural looking head of hair > playing Russian roulette with fin every day for the rest of your life.

I'm just curious about Bisanga's hairlines. He always designs them with a U shape in the middle and the curved lateral sweeps on the sides. Does he transplant differently in these two zones or does he just draw it that way to get the shape right?

HTsoon restored a NW6 in 2 procedures (midscalp and then frontal third). So it isn't like he has much to chase unless he progresses to NW7. But that's the risk you take. If you start getting transplants at NW2 and end up a high norwood that's different.

That's great news actually. He might be my top doc if he isn't as conservative as I think he is. I thought he wasn't an option. edit: I just checked your profile and you're mid 40s with NW2 level loss. That's completely different from our cases. I'm 28.5 and looking at NW5 eventually.

It's comforting to think that, but I get nightmares looking at, eg, Bruce Willis's hair loss progression. Thick NW3 in his mid 30s and went completely bald shortly after. edit: Just checked your thread. Awesome results.

There are physicians who don't care if you use finasteride or not. Dr. Lindsey said that only 30% of his patients take it (iirc). I think this forum overstates the necessity of it. It is very common to get a HT and not be on it. But some physicians, like Bisanga, will require that you're on it.

80 is average, not 100. 100 is great density.

Biggest thing is you should have constructed a proper goatee before transplanting to the cheeks. The way it was designed looks like an exaggerated handlebar mustache. I guess David Beckham has a similar pattern with much of the goatee completely bare, but this result looks strange to look at.

I agree. He posted a thread a while back called "making a hairline" and then I never saw anything else posted by him. Disappointing tbh.

Yeah the guys who get to NW3 without any diffuse loss are lucky. They seem to settle into 3V patterns for the long haul.

Being completely honest - I have a good beard and it doesn't look like I need to worry about hair transplants making nice beards commonplace. The result looks unnatural and I don't see a cosmetic improvement.

We can blame for-profit clinics, but the responsibility lies with the patient IMO. There's no excuse with the internet and resources like this website. A little off topic, but I read a comment a while back regarding for-profit law school "diploma mills." A user argued that it's impossible for these schools to produce good lawyers because being a good lawyer requires that one is good at performing research. And no one fitting that description would ever go to one of those schools. If you go to one of those clinics and get botched, you can blame your own laziness/incompetence/impatience/etc. If you go to a reputable clinic and get botched, then that's different.

I agree, but 4k is pretty standard for the minimum required for a frontal 1/2 restoration on a NW5 and his hair looks pretty fine (compared to the stellar results that we're used to seeing posted). I'm not sure if the actual density is below par.

The biggest benefit of a HT is to restore a frame to your face. If you have insecurity regarding the appearance of your actual hair, it won't fix that unless you're a low NW. My issue with hair loss is how it affects the appearance of my face. I just want a frame. I don't care about having a nice head of hair.

My bad. Wow. :eek:

Some are very honest (or even round down the NW level of their patients), like Dr. Feriduni. No offense to Dr. Rahal, but his reps are the biggest exaggerators in the business, in my experience.

My observation is that hairier guys are more likely to stabilize early. Less hairy guys are more likely to start thinning in 30s or later and stabilize later.

That's a norwood 5. Progressing to 6 probably, but nowhere near a true 6, let alone 6.5.

Yeah the graft directions look terrible.

Erdogan and Doganay are the two budget surgeons most highly recommended on here. They're both in Turkey. I'm not sure what the differences are, but Erdogan's hairlines are really good (and aggressive) and Doganay does a lot of body hair transplant work. I'd probably see Doganay if I ever wanted to try BHT (Umar is pricey).

It's pretty grey. I don't have an answer to that. But late 20s is fine because most guys who are going to be high norwoods before old age seem to have their hair loss patterns clear at that age. I actually agree with you on the 'you only live once' thing. I would sacrifice having an awkward looking transplant in middle age to have a head of hair in my 20s-30s. I just think 20 is way too young and is a hasty decision that a young guy would make.

You have your birth year as 1995; that's what I was going by. If you're 27 that's plenty old enough.

So you're only 19? That reads like rationalization and short sightedness. I don't think encouraging caution to kids who aren't even old enough to drink (legally) is a detriment to this forum. But do whatever you want really. You seem to have your mind made up.