ndubya

Incredible!!!! Congrats 

20 hours ago, JerryJerry said:

Dear all,

i desperately need some help, hopefully a respected surgeon can help me in this matter, or someone who experienced what i do now. . My first hair transplant i had 2,5 years ago, 2200 grafts on the frontal area: that one failed because my transplants where falling out after 7 , 8 months ago untill the point my hair situation was almost worse then before the hair restoration. I blamed it on the surgeon at that time. He was ignorant of possible causes. I figured it was poorly done / bad luck and had another surgery like 9 months ago, some 1000 grafts to restore the frontal area. With another surgeon. Much to my distress i ve noticed my transplanted hair is thinning again! The rest of my head is ok, maybe a bit of shedding because its summer but nothing disturbing. After some decent growth for about 7 months its rapidly falling out again. My current surgeon is fague about the causes, sais its probably stress related and saying i should get propecia. Now he is ignoring me after i reached out to him again that my situationnis worsening. Really frustrating!

the thing is, i am wondering if its me. Could it be a strong form of Aga in the recipient area? Could it be hormonal? I do suffer from chronic fatigue due to a burnout. I got this for 2 years now unfortunately. Can that be the cause? I am eating healthy , excercise otherwise.

to sum up: transplants are falling out again for the second time after 7 or 8 months of growth. Please help.

That is very disheartening, for sure. Keep us posted.

This is a total failure and NO grafts will  grow.

Hehe, Naw just kidding, give it time. It takes 12 to 18 months. 

What a Great  result. I like your small graft count and Great result.

As it should be.

Good question 

In my profession(Super Masculine intoxicated, haha, as it should be) they would try to Eat me alive for such a "vain and unnecessary procedure"

Just man up and shave it!!!!   

lol, Hehehe 

Very Nice, Dr Hasson has seemed to really conquered fue.

Looks Great!!!

22 hours ago, nick1111 said:

Folks,

Apologies for loosing track of this thread as I got occupied with other things in life. I would post some pictures soon.

Almost 11 months have passed since my surgery . Everything is looking fine. My hair have grown well and has completely changed my front look. Only little downside I faced is thin donor on the back but I am fine with that considering how much of a difference it has made on my front look.

 Now I think that it is time that I should start focusing on mid scalp and crown area and would schedule personal consultation with doctor  to see what are my options (BHT....May be if possible??).

Please share if some of you came across certain threads related to body hair transplantation, and if that is a reliable option.

 

Great, would love some pics.

I know your donor was terrible from the git-go.

Beard hairs are pretty good. And not trying to high jack but Dr. Devroye posted a result using pubic hair recently, which I thought was pretty interesting.

6 hours ago, 1978matt said:

A bit of a change yes, though it is a subtle one, being only 32 grafts.  They definitely did grow as I saw them come out all wiry at the start.

The doc put them in at his own choice 

I only think about the crown now but have been fortunate to secure a slot to address it in early 2020.  His FUE was such a walk in the park it is hard not to resist!

I love it, you are "almost" cured. 

Your hair looks Great.

I'm gonna just give him free reign also, let him work his magic.

Thanks for answering me.

13 hours ago, Mooneypilot said:

 by 3.5 months I was ecstatic. 

Woot woot!!!

That's what I like to here.

Patiently waiting for your next pics.

19 hours ago, Anthonyd said:

 Normally one of the technicians stands next to the Doc/tech with a hand held tally clicker, or whatever they use,  and counts every time he/she makes an incision. The same applies with extraction process I think. So this should tally up with the number of grafts previously extracted. Obviously if the Doc is using the implanter pen method, then as long as there are no grafts left in the Petri dishes, you’re pretty much guaranteed that all the grafts have been planted.😂👍

Hope this helps.

That's the way it was for me.

One quick question if you don't mind 1978Matt?

Can you notice a difference in the hairline where he put the 32 grafts?

It looks pretty dense in the widows peak, which is where I am wanting some grafts added also.

Thanks

Looks Great!!!

Thanks for the update

1 hour ago, transplantedphil said:

not to derail this thread, but ndubya how did your HT go? have been wondering for a while

 

It's in Oct.

Hey 1978matt, you should be at 12 months?

Are you gonna give us an update?

Looking Good, and at just 4 months.

On 8/2/2019 at 9:19 AM, MattyNJ1 said:

Looks really good, congrats!!!

(((  Iam very happy that i put myself through this process, No regrets, the results i got, restored that gut wrenching feeling we all know about, (when we start seeing our ugly scalp in the reflection of the mirror), back to a feeling of satisfaction and confidence...I love not really thinking or worrying about my front hairline receding any more, and that feels great. 

Its true what Dr. G and others have stated, IT TAKES MORE THAN A YEAR....iam just now still seeing visible thickening and maturing and naturalizing of the transplanted hair. I would also caution people about shock loss, as i experienced ALOT of shock loss, and it took a long long time to grow back. )))

  

I will second this ^^^^

I was always Happiest once the 2 yr mark rolled around.

At that point everything was grown in, thickened, normalized and finally totally natural looking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 8/2/2019 at 11:51 AM, Dr. Jean Devroye said:

Thank you for your comment and query.

So far, I have used pubic grafts mainly to restore eyebrows. Sometimes, to restore beard or sideburns.

Given the weaker nature of pubic grafts, it's not always easy to extract them; however, if transection is avoided, they provide a good yield.

I frequently use beard grafts to fill in the scalp. Pubic hair could help, if necessary.

Thank you for the reply and answers.

Very interesting.

Yep a few hundred grafts. The area probably looks a bit larger with wet hair.

Dr. Devroye.

Great work.

This is the first time I have heard of harvesting pubis grafts. Very interesting. That would be killing two birds with one stone as far as I am concerned.

In what areas of the scalp can they be used? Or are they only used on beard restoration?

How is the yield on the pubis grafts?

Thanks

Looking good

Thanks for the update.

Looks pretty good but wierd hairstyle. I like to wear my hair straight back.

Not saying that this is not a great result. But when I pull a comb back thru my hair, it looks solid.

Now, combed back and styled with no comb present, looks thin.

On 5/30/2019 at 3:49 PM, TheHairlessMonkey said:

Oh, I wasn't precise with back. That photos is from six months after the last transplant. Here are some present photos. I believe, they have taken too many grafts. When they performed the transplantation, they were were supposed to take 3000, but only took 2400. They didn't really give a good explanation.

There is a photo of my left side, that is untouched. I tried to "scramble" it a bit, so you can see it better.

 

Donor looks decent in those pics, choose your next doc wisely.

13 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

How long ago was this? Can you log in now?

Hey Melvin, btw I appreciate everything you do for us.

No sir I cannot log in. I have an account on hair restoration network, but can't access the blogs??

I tried to create an account, unsuccessfully.

Would be nice if we could just look around over there while logged in here.

That is a substantial lowering of the hairline for the # of grafts used.

A lot of ground covered. 

So, now can the doc come back and create more density in the immediate hairline?