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Great documentation and a fantastic outcome for this patient

Looks great, hope he can maintain his native hair in the years ahead and get the long-term benefit of this transformation. Well done Dr Wesley.

Very refined work for an excellent outcome, patient must be very happy indeed.

Hard to believe it's the same fella - a life-changing transformation. He must be thrilled. Well done to the team.

Superb result for this patient, he must be thrilled. Great coverage for the grafts used. Well done to all concerned

Hi gregor, congrats on your surgery. The work looks clean and you already had a lot of good-quality native hair so it should add up to a great result in 12 months time. Try spraying cold saline (store it in the fridge) on the recipient to deal with the itch. I had really bad itching too and this helped a lot of cool the scalp and prevent me from scratching. Good luck with the recovery

Looks great, you're in excellent hands with a real hairline master. Now you just need to sit back and enjoy the ride. Happy growing to you

Looks wonderful Tj, you must be so happy. Enjoy every minute of it and thanks for the updates.

Hi Oliver, no need at all to apologise my friend - we're all in the same boat fighting this curse the best way we know how. I take your point that there's a certain moment in time where you have to pull the trigger and that you can't wait eternally to try to improve the situation. I'm simply saying wait a bit and continue with the meds. 22 is too young to pull that trigger. Keep a photo log for yourself with baseline pictures. If in a couple of years you see that things have not got worse and you still want to proceed I figure you'll be in a much better position. You'll have had more time to research, to step back and consider it from all angles, to find a surgeon who has consistently good results with diffused patients and you'll have the comfort of knowing that you didn't rush headlong into it. Moreover, if the meds work well, you may not even need surgery and save yourself a lot of $$ and donor hair in the process. And don't forget there are other exciting treatments coming down the pipeline so we may have other options in two to five years with CB, Replicel, Follica, JAK inhibitors, Histogen, Brotzu's lotion and, of course, the holy grail in Dr Tsuji's stem cell regeneration technique which may offer the closest thing we've seen to a full-blown "cure" for this generation of Norwoods.

Don't jump into surgery or you may regret it for the rest of your life. Stay on the meds, take your time, research, develop other aspects of your life and revisit the question in a few years. It's probably not what you want to hear but 22 is far too young for a transplant

Superb - looks very natural. Patient must be thrilled at 8 months with more to come

Very nice compilation, but it's also nice to be able to browse individual cases in detail, especially ones that correspond more closely to one's own hairloss situation

Looks wonderful, great work - the patient's wavy hair obviously helped the final outcome

Very best of luck with your procedure. You seem to have a pretty good head of hair still so hopefully the procedure will set you up for a good few years

I'm scheduled for a FUE in the near future with Dr Bisanga and this was also a critical question for me. I have been reassured by the doctor's rep that all the grafts are punched by Dr Bisanga personally, so that's what I'll be holding them to. The clinic's own documentation which I've reproduced below is also very explicit about who's responsible for what: "Dr. Christian Bisanga has been performing hair transplantation for over ten years and personally trained his team to his demanding standards. The doctor cannot physically perform every aspect of your procedure and therefore has set protocols in place to ensure the highest standards. Dr. Bisanga performs certain aspects of all hair transplant procedures, such as with a Strip procedure he will remove the strip from the donor area and suture the strip internally and out with a “Trichophytic Closure”. His technicians will then divide the strip into the individual follicular units, 1, 2, 3 and 4 hair units. With FUE Dr. Bisanga will punch all the grafts from the donor, his nurse or technicians will then remove the grafts from the donor and then they are checked by other technicians and cleaned and put into relevant groupings. With either technique Dr. Bisanga will make the placement slits in the recipient area that gives density, direction and angle and then technicians will place the grafts into the created sites. On occasion the doctor may place some grafts but this is not standard and should not be expected. Throughout the doctor monitors all aspects of your procedure, from checking the grafts before placement, to instructing where the grafts are placed in the recipient sites. The above is normal practice for all our procedures and has been throughout BHR Clinic procedures, you can be assured of the highest care and attention is given on your big day, we understand the importance it holds for you and want to ensure your experience on the day and in the long term is only a positive one."