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looks nice, any close up picture of frontal hairline?

Nice case, good donor healing too, slashed 10 years off of his age!.

Work looks pretty clean,slightly conservative hairline given you are only35,I guess keeping in mind the possible future hair loss. All the best, happy growing. It should look great once growth is fully manifested.

No problems bro. I understand how stressful these things are,life altering decisions and sketchy clinics. Appreciate all of you guys for questioning the practices of certain HT docs and their clinics. Hope things work out for you in future.

Quite fascinating how you would take a question directed at the moderators as an insult in the form of question directed at you?. I asked the question because I recently had HT and posted my thread here as a new post and it said: ''your post will be published after approval by moderators''. I have never before seen the above message about posts being screened, that is why I asked the question hoping that mods and owners might be frequenting this thread might answer. NO OTHER MOTIVE. I was hoping that the posts by people like you questioning some unethical practices by clinics like ''HakanDogany's'' are not being screened. Anyways my post has now gone live and here is the link to my post: http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/181502-nw-6-7-hair-transplant-new-delhi-ncr-region.html May I request you to please not to assume illogical things and accuse people unnecessarily.

I would imagine that the results would not be satisfactory. The reasons are multi fold. Look at the graft harvest site, follicles are harvested from balding area which is unlikely to be DHT resistent, even if they grow these follicles will eventually fall out. For number of grafts cited the area covered and density also appears suspect. Also look at the implantation site, pitting scars with too sparsely placed grafts which are misdirected!!!. Unfortunately he would need another HT under a better HT expert. A good example of why we need to be diligent in choosing the right HT doctor.

More than lack of scars in the donor area, the naturalness of the hairline is stunning!. Nice job.

Question to forum moderators and owners: are all new post and threads being screened before they are published?.

NW 6/7 Transplant Experience – New Delhi/NCR region - > 9000 grafts I owe a lot to this forum, from insane cases to sane advice to do’s and dont’s this forum has been the place to find some help and solace at times for me. So I have decided to document my journey of hair loss and hair transplant and everything in between without any obvious bias. Everything written is my own experience and all the trials and tribulations I have gone through thus far. CHOSEN HT SPECIALIST: After much research into the techniques and results, naturalness of hairline and maximum survival of the transplanted grafts and having seen some of their NW 6/7 work I decided to go for Dr. Arika Bansal MD at Eugenix hair sciences at her newly constructed Gurgaon office. What I liked about Dr. Arika and her clinic: - Only clinic offering DHT – direct hair transplant – in fact Dr. Arika and Dr. Pradeep are the pioneers of the DHT with no root touch technique. They have had tremendous success in taking on high Norwood classes like 6/7 and have consistently produced some wonderful results. Initially just looking at the pictures she also thought that I had retrograde alopecia which she said I did not on visual in office assessment. She was also available for interaction via he whatsapp and readily answered my queries. She seemed confident of her technique and skills backed up by her excellent results and education at the topmost medical schools in India with a gold medal (AIIMS). What gave me the final push to proceed ahead was the results posted by SHASLEc0 with showed excellent transformation with very natural looking hairline design. Also Dr. Arika was not pushing for the procedure with repeated e-mails or phone calls like some other doctors and clinics, I liked that attitude. TRAVEL TO INDIA AND THE PROCEDURE: Time to book tickets, having my in-laws available living in New Delhi was a blessing in disguise. We booked air tickets to New Delhi via Dubai. 23 hours of total travel time. Was picked up at the hotel by my father in law and rested for the weekend. PROCEDURE AND GRAFTS: Day 1 – Oct 12 th – scalp hair only – 2400 odd grafts for hairline and frontal 1/3 rd. Day 2 – Oct 13 th – scalp and beard mix – 2400 odd grafts (total 3640 grafts harvested from the scalp donor region which was higher than expected due to decent scalp donor density) Day – 3 – Oct14 th – Beard hair only 2100 odd grafts for back and vertex. Day – 4 – November 2 – 2158 beard and head combination HT- combination beard and scalp donor hairs for whorl creation and the reminder of the scalp at the back Day started at around 10:30 the first day, initially Drs. Arika and Pradeep discussed the hairline with me and the pros and cons of different levels of hairlines and impact on eventual cosmesis, they also discussed the cosmetically acceptable harvesting of both scalp and beard donor area. Subsequent to this the frontal 1/3rd was anesthetized and careful hairline designing was begun with Doctors themselves taking care to punch recipient sites both at hairline and beyond, careful attention was paid to give the maximum applicable density to the hairline with slightly less density at the back. Overall all punches were done by doctors only (Drs. Arika and Pradeep), Graft extraction was mainly done by technicians but some of it was also done by Dr. Arika herself. Implantation was entirely done by trained of technicians with physician supervision. Both doctors are experts in hairline design and precise angulation of graft placement. After the donor area was prepared the scalp hairs were harvested and then implanted soon after. Same on days 2,3 and 4. AFTERCARE and FOLLOW-UP: I would say the process of numbing the scalp and especially the beard hair was slightly painful, I would say grade 3-4 out of 10. Otherwise once numbed there was virtually no pain. Day after the donor areas were little painful but absolutely no pain in the recipient areas. The beard area was raw for 2-3 days, on day 7-8 the left side of the beard area (harvested one day before the right side was harvested) had healed completely except for some redness. The right side beard took a little longer to heal = 10 days since more grafts were taken over 2 days from the right side. Right now I am happy that I chose the right physician and I am happy with the care given and the procedure, waiting for the results to show up patiently. I have been through the tough phase, now praying and planning are the only things to be done. I am extremely satisfied with Dr. Arika, her skill sets are excellent and top notch, she is very patient with her patients, methodical and artistic in her work and extremely talented, passed out of AIIMS with a gold medal which THE TOPMOST institution in India. I could not have been more satisfied with her work, ethics, skills, artistry, humanistic values and professionalism. I found her to be one of the few physicians who really cares for her patients wellbeing. Honesty, integrity, ethical behaviour and an extremely well oiled equally artistic team makes… in my mind the very best in the hair transplant business in today’s world. I have one thing to say for Norwood 6/7 hairloss sufferers, it is possible to restore your hair and the confidence in aesthetically acceptable fashion provided u have good donor hairs, also one more thing is that assessment by any professional HT surgeon can be deceiving with just hair loss and donor pictures. One cannot beat the in person evaluation. At this time, the hair wash at 3 weeks lead to about 30-40% hair shedding, rest remains intact and growing in length every day. I have also seen with other examples of DHT the hairs don't shed completely like in traditional cases, and also the transplanted hairs bounce back to full growth earlier than traditional HT. I suspect this could be due to less cold ischemic time (out of body time) of these grafts??, experts may elaborate. I have inserted pre and post transplanted pictures, please feel free to comment and advice. Please pray for my good growth, thanks a ton.

Nice density and good hairline design.

Nice results.

I agree on both counts. Result looks fabulous for 2500 grafts. nice and artistic work by the clinic. But for 20,000 $ for 2500 grafts you do expect the doctor to atleast do the hairline and be present for the most of the procedure. Again I also think tht based on the doctor's trust on his technicians who might have been working with him for many years now, their technique might be as good as the doctor himself. It might also be the fact that the team is a well oiled machine?. ThAT SAID the fact that the consultation was rushed makes no sense, the consultation, counselling, expectations of the patient are the most important things with any HT surgery. It is important to get to know the patient and talk to them in detail, discuss with them their expectations and present him/her with realisitic goals for the future with HT.

I hAVE TO AGREE, though kinkyness of the hair may be secondary to afro hair pattern. (more curly hairs)

If cost is of major concern then consider options outside UK. David himself had excellent results from Dr. Bhatti in India. There are also other doctors who have consistently have had good results so you can consider them as well. Good luck.

True, but also consider the search box is very difficult to use in pulling up these results from particulat HT surgeons or specialists. Please make it easier to use the search box so that we can search with terms like ''results Dr. X''. Or ''complaints Dr. Y'' etc.. Makes it only fair for new patients who come here with so much trust and hope.

Overall Bill and David are trying to help the affected patient which is good to see. I think we all need to appreciate that. I also belive that despite doctors paying to be recommended by the forum the genuine complaints by the adversley affected patients' should be heard and voices not sitfled out unless it appears entirely ridiculous attempts to maling a perfectly well intentioned HT doctor due to either professional jealosy or other incentives. As i have mentioned before, it is very, very, very,........important to maintain the sanctity of the forum so the folks who come here for some genuine advice (like i did several months ago and benefitted immensley from the advice and help of forum members, to all of whom I am indeed very indebted). don't get false re-assurances about a HT specialist who has had several cases gone horribly wrong?, or some who may have cheated on graft counts etc.. or some who would not follow-up or come good on their promise of correcting a bad result. I don't mind seeing few google adsense or chitika or brightroll advertisements on the forum if it means it is going to free the forum off the clutches of being indebted to benevolent doctors who sponsors the forum. I understand the need to advertise their work and attract potential new clients, but to push the envelope in such a way and to such an extent which can be harmful to potential clients and perfectly naive and trusting patients is a horrible thing to do in any profession. hope this is a lesson learnt!. once again thanks for publishers and mods for keeping this thread open.

very nice transformaton. welldone Dr. Bhatti, one question though. why not beard hairs for the crown?