monty3001

Sorry the title didn't copy and paste from my other thread on another forum. It's supposed to be Hakan Doganay experience - BEWARE I've reported the post so hopefully mods will edit the title

Hair Transplant FUE | Hair Restoration Dr Hakan DOGANAY

Guys, I'm 1 year post op from my surgery with these people. Bottom line, awful result! They were polite and clean and seemed professional but the transplant was a total failure. Techs did most of the work. All the extractions and most of the implants. Left hand side grew average to poor. Right hand side and front middle 10% yield. Multiple doubles and triples were positioned at the edge of the hair line. Healing took forever and I'm left with a sand paper texture on my skin that you can see in certain lights. They basically wasted 80-90% of my (supposed) 2100 grafts and left me with limited donor and a much more difficult repair procedure ahead of me. After that procedure I wont have any grafts left for further work down the line either so they've really screwed me over. I've read that one of the senior techs was once the driver lol. Guys it's just a FUE mill. Muslum was the rep and struck me as a decent fellow. He's quit, probably got sick of answering pissed off emails for patients. I'm just giving my 2 cents. No, I wont be adding pics. I can't be bothered. I know what the result is I don't need validation. This is just a FYI for others so they don't make the same mistake I made. Peace

Full reimbursement doesn't cover mottled skin and 1500 grafts down the drain. Particularly as I have limited donor already.

Yeah I went to Doganay just under 10 months ago. My HT is looking shit too. I almost feel sorry for their rep. He seems a decent guy. Probably had enough of being the messenger who got shot for poor results. Before anyone asks I can't be bothered to post pics. Will do a thread at the 12 month mark. To sum it up my hair transplant looks, well, it looks like an obvious hair transplant. It's thin in some areas and extremely thin in other areas. The clinic is a disgrace really.

Image taken today of the thinnest part at the front and another showing some cobblestoning on the right side.

Hi I've been using urea lotion quite recently to losen the dry skin and scraping it away. I'm at 6 months. Do you think that at this stage it's probably too late to save any grafts or could I make a recovery as I'm now starting to get worried. Causing me a lot of anxiety as I don't have good enough donor for another op. I thought 2000 grafts would be problem solved. Ta

Can't seem to get rid of the crusting though. I scrape it off and it comes back.

Anyone experienced fully terminal hairs growing without pigmentation?

Thanks David. Yeah I think I read your thread when you had your first transplant and you were worrying that you hadn't had quite the growth you had expected beyond 6 months ish as I recall but it came in the end. Very reassuring when you read things like that lol. This waiting process is ultra frustrating. Especially when you've finally pulled the trigger on a transplant, quite a significant life event, after 12 years of considering it as an option lol. thanks again

Hi, Thanks for your response. So I can expect roughly 40% more grafts to sprout of 40% more density via hair thickening? Skin issues were there from the start I believe but I only really noticed them when I looked on digital microscope a month or so ago. I do seem to have them more under control now by using salylic acid shampoo and coal tar shampoo EOD and scrubbing my scalp fairly aggressively when washing with a shampoo comb. I think it may be seb derm that has migrated via transportation of follicles from an area that had seb derm at the back of my head.

Looking really great John. Very very natural result. Yeah I'm hoping I'm a late bloomer. I have recently started having more in the way of styling options and with concealer I could prob look like I never lost a hair but I'm worried about the space in between the follicles. Hoping for more sprouting. Anxiety is killing me lol. I'd really like to avoid a second pass as UK is poor for hair transplants and going through airport metal detectors with a scabby shaved bald head is not fun haha

OH yeah the questions... Is it really true that at 6 months you are 50-60% of the way there. I ask cos it seems that some guys get 90% growth by 6 months and not much more after and others don't get great growth in the first 6 months and just get a little thickening beyond 6 months. Do actual new grafts sprout beyond 6 months. Not hair thickening, not grafts sending out another hair, but actual new grafts sprouting? I ask cos I need another 40% lol

Micro pics Dry pics Wet pics

I'm 5 months 1 week post hair transplant. 2100 grafts Dr Dogannay Difficult to say so far how things are going. I seem to have contracted some dermititus from the back of my head to the transplant area which probably doesn't help but I'm experienced at dealing with this and should be able to shift it. My transplant looks like it's getting there when my hair is wet but dry it has no cosmetic effect at all. There are new hairs popping through when I analyse with a digi microscope but only about 3 terminal ones I can see. There are also a lot of very short hairs 5-15mm which obv wont have cosmetic effect until they lengthen and a lot of unpigmented hairs which you can only see if you angle a light. Some grafts are developing 2nd and 3rd hairs slowly and all this I'm certain will help thicken up the transplant but I do feel I need about 40% more over all density for it to look good and of course everything else to thicken, darken and lengthen. My grafts are uniformly spread indicating that there is not major issue with growth but as I say I really feel I need more density and am wondering whether I'll get it over the following months. I'm certainly not gonna be one of those guys who has close to a completed result in 6 months that you see so many pics off on the forums etc. I'll enclose some images and micro pics so you guys can give me your analysis. Just resizing them now. Ta