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It's been 5 days now since I had the transplant. I've just been taking it easy, not been outside as in KL the UV is high. So the method I've diligently followed post op is: 1. sleeping elevated 2. regularly spraying the implanted area with saline prob every hour or so 3. lots of water to drink and healthy food 4. absolute minimum touching of the area, however itchy tempting it is! 5. daily wash - i've showered every day but not showered my head - i take the shampoo, dilute it, gently pat it into the transplanted area then rinse with a cup. baby shampoo on the rest of the head. very very gently wash through whole head with water generally i've felt ok, bit lazy, few headaches, i had some mild eye/bridge of nose swelling on day 3/4 gone by today. already the scar is healing well once the results of this transplant are clear I'll do the next stage. I wanted to see the result and use that info for the next stage regarding density,grafts,etc i'll do fut again the only really painful bit is those injections they do at the start. here's the update of how it is now looking I'll update periodically over the next year so you can see the final result - depending on result I'll either be back to Dr Ruban or i'll see Dr Pathomvanich in Thailand.

I love to hear what the opinion is of how many grafts are approximately required and density to achieve a good look

I think so too, this is just my first session. The plan was that this would allow us to both see the effect. then in around 8 months take a view on the density/grafts for the rest of the head. Its a bit more long winded and requires 2 sessions but in the meanwhile I'll have a renewed frontal section and some more detailed info on next steps. I'm only 38 so hopefully have plenty of time to get it right

I agree and it is somewhat worrying...

Thanks for the encouragement about growth. I don't fully understand the comments about 25% of the grafts. I am having a second session. Do you think I need around 3500 more grafts? or are you saying I could have used more of the grafts that were harvested?

Hey All - I've just had a hair transplant completed at Dr Ruban's clinic in Kuala Lumpur. I have seen some people asking about transplant clinics in Asia and there haven't been any mentions of Malaysia so here goes. I arrived at 8am, and met Dr Ruban and his staff at his clinic. I was given an anxiety pill and a glass of water [can't remember the drug]. Dr Ruban had previously discussed the aims of this session and we had agreed to have 1300 grafts in the front section of my head.We'd also discussed the hairline which was drawn and re-agreed. This is the first of 2 sessions, Dr Ruban advised a second session in around 8 months to work on the top of my head. Dr Ruban performed the strip harvest and his colleagues disected the grafts under microscope. The anasthetic was a little painful but overall this was pretty pain free. 300 single grafts and 1000 double grafts were harvested which took about 3-4 hours. I relaxed and patiently waited in the clinic. Dr Ruban then administered more anasthetic to the implant area, was a bit painful. Then the work started implanting the grafts. Dr Ruben made the "holes", his team implanted th grafts. It took from 8am until 5pm in total. I slept reasonably well, woke 2 - 3 times. I visited the clinic the next morning to get a hair wash. Oddly I was light headed and sick after the bandage around my head covering the strip stitching was removed, but I felt better after 30mins or so. I've attached before and after images of the work so you can see for yourself the initial work.