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  1. ModernHair
    Just have to say that it was very classy of Dr. Arocha to post here, even if he's limited in what he can say! I'm impressed! Hope the OP calls to work things out!
  2. ModernHair
    Do you have a picture of how bad it is?
  3. ModernHair
    Don't do it...I think you'll regret it. You'll be in a losing effort to chase your hairline and may run out of transplants. I know it absolutely sucks, but I would wait a good while so you can plan properly with the grafts you'll be able to use - my best guess is that you're on your way to a NW6 or NW7. Just keep your hair short. It looks really good at that length!
  4. ModernHair
    Dramatic transformation! Really good result, especially considering where you came from! Congratulations!
  5. ModernHair
    Dr. Feller did a really nice repair job but don't be misled about the fact that the original procedure was a FUE. I've seen bad FUE's and bad FUT's all over the place (as well as great ones). I think this is MUCH more a matter of your doctor's skills and not the procedure. The grafts either sat out too long, had significant damage coming out or were placed improperly - all challenges with HT surgery and the reason to be very careful about your doctor selection. For what it's worth, I had a FUE 6 months ago with one of the pioneers in hair transplantation surgery, Dr. James Harris. I consider my results terrific so far, am VERY glad I chose FUE and I have lots of growing still left to do. Dr. Harris did mine with with fewer than 1,800 FUE grafts.
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  8. ModernHair
    @octave - My personal thought (and you may not want to hear this) is that you wait for a little bit, maybe until at least your early 40's. You seem really conscientious and concerned about the future, as you should be. But I think that going for 800 or even 1,000 now won't make enough of a difference (2,500 seems really aggressive to me!). I personally would rather wait a bit until you know more about your hair loss and feel more confident ,and when you will likely need a larger transplant that can make a real difference and give you confidence that you'll have plenty of donor hair leftover for future needs. To give you perspective, I had a HT this past April and needed roughly 1,800 FUE grafts which filled a good bit of 3 zones - the front (transition) zone, the defined zone right behind it and a bit into my central core. I am VERY happy about my coverage at only 6 months and am excited about the growing I still have left to do. I also preserved a good bit of my donor hair for any future needs, although since I am in my mid 40's, my doctor thought I may not need anything further since I had minimal miniaturization in my remaining hair and am now using Minoxidil daily. But if I do end up needing more, I have plenty. Anyway, hope that gives you something to consider and maybe takes the urgency away from doing something immediately.
  9. ModernHair
    Wow...just an awesome study and a fantastic summary! Thanks SO MUCH for posting this! It's nice to see some real FUE studies being conducted. Just to put a bug in your head (not that you probably haven't thought of this!), but next up should be the transplanted growth rates between FUE and FUT on the same head which eliminates patient variability. My sense is that they will be pretty similar with FUT perhaps having a slight (few %) advantage.
  10. ModernHair
    You look totally age appropriate. With your hair grown out, like many said, you'll quickly forget where your hairline is. The waiting part right now is the toughest! Happy Growing!
  11. ModernHair
    @Td06 - Thanks for the perspective. That really bites. Hard to imagine the doctor finishing up and saying you needed 1,000 more. I'd love to hear what his reasoning was. It's such a science regarding how many transplants are necessary that there's really not much excuse to not know how many transplants are needed prior to surgery and having a set game-plan with the patient. I've never heard of something like that so I'm really curious how it happened. My doctor was within 1% of his estimate (and actually ended up needed a few dozen fewer than initially estimated). I can totally understand your disappointment and agree that the pics are not comparable. I've been careful to document my progress (now at month 6) by making sure my hair is wet each month just like my initial picture, so it's an apples to apples charting. That said, I do think the pictures from your left side show some pretty significant improvement (the right side is much harder to tell) so it's clearly not a total fail (not to downplay your disappointment). Of course, it would be a much fairer comparison if all the pictures were with wet hair and combed back. Not sure why the doctor would post pictures from such an unhappy patient rather than trying to make things right with you. Hopefully, he steps up and makes it right with you.
  12. ModernHair
    Looked at your results and I think they look great! You'll never have the hair density of your youth so, to me, you look terrific without looking artificially dense.
  13. ModernHair
    @Td06 - Are you not happy with your result?
  14. ModernHair
    Most important thing...keep your expectations in check. If you are expecting the fullness of your hair before any of your loss, you won't be happy. If you are expecting good coverage but still more 'mature' hair placement and density, you will hopefully end up pretty happy if you pick a good surgical team. My impression is that many of the dissatisfied posters here had expectations that were set too high.
  15. ModernHair
    It's a dramatic change. I'm sure it feels so slow to you but it really is looking great!
  16. ModernHair
    I have no dog in this fight but, sorry, to my eyes the high resolution photos prove to me that this was not a successful procedure. Were there some new hairs identified in super high resolution photos? Sure. Would this be even slightly within my definition of acceptable or a successful transplant? Not even close.
  17. ModernHair
    Dr. Feller - I'm not saying this to be argumentative because I think you raise some great points, but aren't you vastly overstating the success of the FUT strip when compared to how many follicles are harvested vs. how many actually grow? I'm not anti-FUT strip by any measure and can see, especially for large sessions, why it is a fantastic tool, but isn't the patient also losing 10-20% of their hair follicles up-front with an FUT strip procedure because there are that percentage of dormant hairs that get discarded (because they can't be seen) when you are harvesting the scalp for transplantation? In the FUE, you can cherry-pick only the actively growing follicles and thus have no "wastage" of dormant hairs when harvesting. So, while FUE may have the 3 issues you refer to which can cause slightly lower yields, isn't it also true that FUT strip starts off with a deficit of up to 20% verses FUE because of the dormant hairs which are completely lost in the procedure and are literally thrown away? I think the dormant hairs lost to FUT strip are being left out of this great conversation and including those in the mix probably makes FUT strip and FUE pretty even in the end regarding how many follicles are taken out of your head vs. how many end up back in a different spot and actually grow. That's the only comparison between the procedures that seems fair to me, at least as far as yields are concerned (but of course, there are many other reasons to choose one over the other). Interested in your thoughts.
  18. ModernHair
    Looks like it's going to be a great result! Thanks for sharing!
  19. ModernHair
    You can tell it's going to be a great result!
  20. ModernHair
    Impressive how thick it got between months 4 and 5. It looks really good! Very excited to see since I'm at 3.5!
  21. ModernHair
    Very impressive!
  22. ModernHair
    Did you ever get clarification that 2,000 grafts were transplanted and how that could be accomplished in 4 hours? I'm really curious how that is possible since mine took 2 days (probably about 12 hours in total for 1,800 grafts, which is 200 fewer grafts than you received).
  23. ModernHair
    I just had an 1,800 FUE transplant in April and it was 2 days of work. Roughly 1,000 grafts the first day and about 800 the second. And, I had a large team (7-8 people at peak, including the doctor). To be honest, it doesn't seem slightly possible to me for you to have had 2,000 grafts in 4 hours with FUE and, at least from the pictures, it doesn't even look remotely close to 2,000 grafts to me. Are you sure you didn't perhaps accidentally misunderstand the total?
  24. ModernHair
    He will tell you when he feels ready. I wouldn't bait him into saying something. Does it really matter one way or another for your relationship? Women have cosmetic procedures all the time and don't talk about them - botox, breast enhancements (or reductions), liposuction, etc.
  25. ModernHair
    3+ months of waiting now...nothing you can do but bide your time!
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