mattj

Everyone wants to keep costs down when getting a transplant, but it's sort of alarming that you're in such a rush and are choosing the location based on price. You could be setting yourself up for a nightmare. This is a demanding surgical field and there is a vast gap between the best and the worst surgeons. But having said that, I'm pleased to see Dr Keser on your list as some very nice results have been coming from his clinic. I don't know what his prices are but presumably you've checked and he is within your price range. Unless you get any positive info on the others (who I am not familiar with myself), I would focus on him. I think the consensus here would be that manual punches give the surgeon greatest control and less chance of destroying grafts. You would want punch sizes of less than 1mm. 0.8mm and 0.9mm being common punch sizes for minimal scarring.

It'll be good to see a hairline patient like this from Dr Farjo. I'll be watching out for updates, definitely.

Yes, propecia should be your first choice of treatment, but it's unclear whether you're already on it since you said you've been trying everything.

Well that's quite an endorsement!

Your hair troubles seem to be over. What a fantastic result. I'm sure most of your mates don't have such a good head of hair now.

I don't think we can completely rule out FUE with Dr Rahal in the future, but in the meantime he is so busy with strip work he doesn't see any urgency in branching out into FUE. Additionally, the doctor might have concerns with the yield, if that's what Adrian said.

Even if the treatment does re-grow hair, it might only be a very small amount which offers no cosmetic difference, but prevents you from claiming your money back.

You say you were a NW3 at 20. Where are you now?

Wow, this must be the longest spanning documentation of hairloss yet, and you're still young. It would certainly be possible to construct a new hairline somewhat lower than even your juvenile hairline. It doesn't look like you've lost that much during adulthood so I see no reason why you would be a poor candidate. That wavy, coarse hair will give good coverage. It's best to see what a transplant doctor or doctors have to say regarding graft numbers, but at a guess I would say that you're looking at 3000+ grafts, depending on just how much lower you want to go.

I don't think I've seen recent photos of you. I do recall you had what looked like a great transplant some years back. Have you lost a lot more hair since then?

It's hard to tell exactly where you would need to have grafts placed, but Dr Rahal doesn't need to shave the entire head or anything like that. I just wanted that to be clear. He just likes to have the area that he is working on free of long hair as he feels a better result can be achieved in this way. If I were you I would just see what the doctor himself has to say. I can pass along photos to Dr Rahal, but I would suggest trying to take some better ones. I know it's hard to photograph yourself so get help with that if possible. If not then use the cameras timer (if it has one) and ensure that the lighting is good.

Interesting. I see there are a strip and a FUE case on there which look to have been successful. It does appear to be very natural-looking, although the actual hairline designs are often far too sharply defined, especially at the temples. Movsar, were you given some idea of costs involved, and how is the pigment removed in patients who chose that?

In my experience breast implants are anything but soft. I think you can get implants for most or all of the main areas where men wish to add 'muscle', but you have to think about how muscles look and feel when they are flexed. I doubt very much if an implant will look natural in anything but a stiff pose. Also, unless the rest of you is muscular, having "really big" biceps will just look wrong.

I also had the same thing happen with a PM. What I think it is is that there were two parallel PM systems, one reached by sending a PM from a user's forum profile, and the other through the social network bar at the top. Bill has since removed the forum PM system making any PM's that were sent via that method unreachable. There was once a way of reaching PMs in the blue bar, alongside the 'member list', today's posts', etc. The two separate log-in routes (one forum, one social network) are, I think, also the cause of the issues surrounding staying logged in. Only one has a 'remember me' option to check.

But surely he would need to take the hat off indoors.

Bill, I have one waiting to read, and I'd like to see it, but I can't find it. Can you help me with that? I'll use the social community feature from now on, although the most common route for PMs I think is by clicking a member's user profile and doing it that way, through the forum. I'm surprised others aren't bringing this up.

This place seems to be a forum within a social networking framework, and so there appears to be two parallel private messaging systems. I've sent PMs via the forum profiles and I just got an email telling me of a reply, but I can't for the life of me find how to access them, which is weird because I'm sure I have done before. Bill, am I making sense here? One of the PMs was to you and I have a feeling you didn't see it. There also seem to be two ways to log in, and the one which I was using didn't have a 'remember me' box to check, which was the cause of my problem with being logged out.

If you have a hair transplant with the strip method, you won't have a bald or thin area at the back unless the surgeon does a poor job and/or you experience permanent shockloss. Shockloss is where hairs are 'shocked' by the trauma of surgery and cease to grow. This can be temporary or permanent, but it is uncommon with reputable surgeons. The wound is closed and the hair is at original density on either side of the fine scar. In fact, with the trichophytic closure method which seems to be standard these days, hair actually grows through the scar, disguising it even more. How were the hairs taken for your eyelash transplant? By the way, if you're only a year out from this procedure, there is still a chance that the hairs will relax and become a bit more manageable. Can't say for sure though, of course. Although female hair transplants are much more rare than male, I've noticed that they seem to consistently offer very soft and natural results. Forehead reductions don't seem to be a good option for men, but for women they can look good. You'll have to weight up the pros and cons of each, but I think either type of procedure, if carried out by a good surgeon, will give you what you want.

Maybe you're aware of this but there's still an issue with staying logged in. Or at least there is for me, with firefox.

Looking good with the new haircut. It suits you.

I am still having to log in with every visit, but the other issue seems to have been resolved.

The main benefit of FUE is to avoid a strip scar in the first place, but since you have already undergone a strip surgery, and need some repair work on your existing scar, it makes sense to opt for strip again. I don't know the ins and outs of your scar and what the problem is with it, but you'll probably need to re-open it during the repair anyway. If possible (and it isn't always), the repair will be done while taking the new donor strip.

Something like this. Maybe a little higher. Sad thing is, before hairloss struck I always used to think my hair grew in a similar way to Clooney's. I can't say I care for Pitt's hair. Too juvenile.

I would say that it is still the same community, but now with the communication medium it deserves. That's a thumbs up.

Wise words, aw33. I agree totally.