matt3480

11,000 grafts? Yeah, and only 1,500 will grow based on most results coming out of India.

Am I missing something? You’ve had 13,000 grafts taken?! Is that even humanly possible? I’m not sure what real options you could possibly have left besides a hair system.

Was asleep during 90 percent of all three procedures. Secret is not to sleep the night before. Surgery day is a vacation day for me...don’t have to answer my phone, emails, or work. I honestly look forward to it for that as much as the hair I’ll gain.

Wouldn’t want to bother the surgeon or techs by talking to them while they were working anyways.

If you have your hair shaved to a 2 guard, of course every little detail will be noticeable (but people don't get HT's to shave down to stubble). However, once you actually grow it out? Won't be noticeable at all.

I don't quite say that ("every man will progress to an advanced state of loss"). If that is how may words read, then I should have phrased it better.

 

I do I agree with your earlier paragraphs stating the need to consider potential future loss, and that nobody has a crystal ball in trying to do this.

 

So on that basis, this patient may be lucky, he may stay at a relative low level of loss, that can easily be managed by a further procedure, or he may not, he could easily hit some really aggressive hair loss in his 30's and 40's, at this stage, the truth is that nobody knows.

 

I think my questioning was around the fact that taking this sort of aggressive line therefore represents a gamble to the patient. Repeat the above * 100 and some of those guys are likely to have a problem further down the line. This is really what I was trying to say. If the patients are informed of the gamble and are adamant they want to take it, then that's fair enough, it's by no means a fait accompli they will hit problems, but they need to be told the risks, and certainly never encouraged to do it.

 

If posting my views makes a few of the young guns who tend to want this type of thing take a step back and consider the *potential* longer term implications, then I'd be happy if I've done that.

So, what is your point? It sounds like you are just talking to hear yourself talk. It clearly wasn't/isn't a "gamble" to this particular patient. Did you even read the first paragraph that Dr. Konior wrote? It clearly states that a number of factors are looked at in determining how good a candidate someone is for a hairline like this. Do you know if this patient was on Propecia? Do you know if he has any family history of baldness? Do you know the patient's personal history of baldness? Did he just start balding last year or did he start balding at 18? Where does he have miniaturized areas? Do you know his amount of donor supply or his quality of hair caliber?

I'll answer that for you. No, you don't. You based your uneducated comment on two things and two things only....his age and your self-perceived medical expertise (which you don't have just because you had a hair transplant once:rolleyes:). So, yeah, thanks Dr. Hassler.

Your comment about repeating this hairline on 100 people was stupid, too. The whole point of the examination that any surgeon does is to weed out those among the 100 who are not candidates for this type of hairline (due to donor or degree of balding or estimated future degree of loss, etc.) and to weed out those who insist they are good candidates but, in reality, are not (by re-establishing their goals).

Quite honestly when I hear stupid comments about aggressive hairlines (and I see them often on this forum), I feel there is some sort of passive-aggressive jealousy on the poster's part regarding the patient's situation (could be the patient's age, density, hairline height, etc.).

2 weeks.

Never heard of him.....would never consider a HT with him as a result.

You are absolutely the opposite of bald.

It's easier/faster to say bald guy than "shaved head guy".

I am partial because I have only let Dr. Konior operate on me. Both are great surgeons....but I've seen some sub-par Rahal cases. I have not seen any sub-par Konior cases and he has been doing this, jeez, 25 years. If you are looking at a FUT, I don't think there is a better scar surgeon on the planet than Dr. Konior. If you are doing FUE, it feels reassuring to know he does all the extractions, etc. and only does 1 surgery per day.

Only cons are you will have to get on a long wait list and he might be out of some peoples' price ranges. Everyone has different circumstances.

Another awesome result by the master!

I like Dr. Lindsey's commentary with his videos. He has been coming up with some nice results, too.

Ugh, this sucks.....I feel for you, baldlivesmatter.

Also, sorry but not sorry.....I think this whole "the doctor will make it right" excuse I hear from time to time on poor results is a cop-out. It's one thing to hear that from a surgeon who did surgery and you had a 95% great result but maybe there was a small little touch-up needed. Surgeon says "I will make it right." That's a good surgeon. Little touchups happen are are normal. "Hey, I ordered a burger without onions and it has onions on it." "Oh, no problem, we will make you another burger without onions."

However, hearing that line from a surgeon who produced an overall POOR result.....it means nothing. Why would you ever consider going back to someone who demonstrated they didn't the surgery as a whole very well? "Hey, come back to my restaurant....I know you had food poisoning for a week after and almost died but I promise our food will be better this time". Yeah, OK.

Like some have said.....1700 is a small amount of your donor (and you look to have a nice caliber of hair) so at least you didn't waste many grafts and luckily you didn't get FUT and have a scar and a poor result. Christ, call Dr. Konior or one of other 3-4 top-notch surgeons tomorrow and be sure of your result this time. STOP CUTTING CORNERS PEOPLE! You not only waste your time and money but your donor when you pick people B-list surgeons. It's 2018, do you want Tom Cruise in your movie or do you want Jean Claude Van Damme?

I realize you said you researched several surgeons and went with the one you went with. However, I'm not sure what factors you based this on to make you pick him out of the others you could have went to. I'm not saying Harris is horrible....you said a friend of your's went to him and it looked good. However, this is what separates the A list from the B list. The A listers might have 1 bad result a year (likely due to patient physiology).....the B listers are going to have significantly more. How lucky are you feeling to test the odds?

What an amazing observation! I’m sure that never occurred to Dr. Gabel. Or, more likely, he and the patient decided under the present circumstances that this was the better course of action based on a number of considerations unknown to you when you made your non-professional opinion. I defer to you, though....you talk tough and call people snowflakes from Australia (and you are 23 years old, at that).

By the way, you can give helpful advice and still be an asshole.

Not sure what's relevant about how many people have "inboxed you asking for help".

So let me guess, your view of an easily repairable density issue is putting another 2,000 grafts into an inch of hairline when this guy has already had 4,000 taken out? :rolleyes:

His pic from 12-3-17 does not show a massive strip of damage....and micro-needling/laser can significantly clear up any issues versus chasing density issues.

Still noticeable. This was a very silly idea.

You really are an ass in literally half of your posts. It doesn't look very noticeable and it's been TWO MONTHS. Skin/scars can take 12-24 months to fully heal and mature.

Of course it will help.....that is 3,000-4,000 more hairs on the top of your head.

Seen some nice results from him......

Go FUE then if you are afraid of tightness.

Honestly....not sure if it was because I didn't know what to expect or what, but my first transplant of about 2,075 FUE in early 2015 was the hardest to recover from. I used up my entire thing of hydrocodone. I think a lot of it was in my head knowing I just had 4,000 holes put in my head. I had a lot of redness but that was expected given I had no hair there previously.

I had a second FUE of 1,200 grafts 9 months later.....piece of cake. Same area as the first.....needed more density. I used maybe 4 or 5 hydros total.

I just had my last procedure on Tuesday, another 1,150 grafts via FUE. No hydrocodone (I get the impression they don't hand that out as easy anymore versus even 2 years ago). EASY. No pain.....very little redness.

Would not worry, at all......

Trust me, even if those 5 don't grow, it's like 10-15 hairs total.....something you would never in 10 million years be able to notice. It's akin to having $10 million dollars and going out and putting $0.50 in for a soda.

I had considered SMP years back until I saw Lorenzo's post from a few years ago about his situation.

It might be a coincidence....but this is cancer, I am not taking any chances with that over some SMP. Would never consider it now. I still feel the whole SMP thing is rather "new" in the grand scheme of hair treatments.....too many unknowns.

Doesn't matter where one gets their ink from.....EVERYTHING is being knocked off these days, a lot of it unknown to even the people selling it.

Looking good. Hope you get some great hair gains. How' the redness? seems like it is still noticeable even after a month.

Totally normal.....especially since there was absolutely no hair there before. He is going to be red/pink for a couple months likely....I know I was. It does go away.

Yeah, I have never heard that.....I used baby shampoo for several months after my HT's and never had an issue. It's about as harmless as a shampoo can be.

I think there is a chance you can be bumped if someone cancels last second.....but that would also require you to basically hop right on a plane last second.

Pretty sure there would be a lot of blood.....trust me, you would know.

Yes, he is and has been booked out about a year for 2-3 years now. You might want to go see Dr. Nadimi (who practices with Dr. Konior). She is supposed to be a real up and comer and she trained under Dr. Konior. Not only this, but you will have a smaller wait time and it will be cheaper price wise. Definitely something to consider.