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He is the only one who touches your head. Techs assist him (ie setting up the implanters) One “negative” about this is he can only do up to a certain amount of grafts in one day so a lot of the time it’s a 2 day surgery. So you’d want to hope you’re prepared to sleep well after that first day of surgery Bc you have another day to go.

Great review. Thanks for it. Very densely packed 3500 there. I expect your result to be awesome. Would you say you still had a decent forelock/frontal third of hair remaining? Bc based on how dense the implants look it looks like he may have gone in between quite a lot of your native hair which is impressive.

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Looks near perfect for under 4 months imo at 6 months you’ll probably be golden

I wanted to see if anyone had any acknowledge or first hand experience with this... About 6 months or so ago towards the beginning of the year for the first time I used some Just For Men comb in hair dye for the sides and back of my head. Mostly the sides. I was starting to go gray pretty bad there and the result of this stuff was awesome. Immediately it was all brown again and I felt like a million bucks. I proceeded to use the dye going forward about once a month. In recent months however, the last few I'd say, in what can only be described as either a result of using this dye or a very strange coincidence, I've noticed that the sides of my hair have started to appear slightly thinner than usual. I already suffer from some retrograde alopecia so it's not the strongest in the first place, but the retrograde now just seems, well, a little bit worse. It wasn't until just this week that I put two and two together and thought there could be a legitimate connection. After some research I found the obvious - hair dye, in any form really, is not good for your hair, at all, and absolutely can create/cause hair loss. Whether or not this really is a result of the Just For Men I obviously can't say for certain, but I'm thinking it definitely had some sort of negative affect on my already poor hair quality. Question is- If it WAS from the dye, now that I'm going to stop using it, will the hair eventually go back to normal with time?? Thank you?

Nothing is absolute with the NW scale. When you say the crown doesn't drop until NW7, that doesn't mean that NW6 it can't thinned badly with the slight forelock still intact. Lord knows I've seen that many times. But no i dont think the crown completely drops on any norwood aside from 7 (i.e. Joe Biden). If you really look at Biden's hair overall, it is pretty weird. The guy has the full fledged norwood 7 horseshoe but a decent hairline. Why you ask? He had a transplant of course as we all know. If he didn't have the transplant guy would be full on NW7. Not to mention he never would be president either. As far as the age when you are "safe" from NW7 happening there really is no concrete answer for that either. You are 37 and still have the back of your crown intact, ok, but even though hairloss slows down around 40 (so I've read), you better believe that when you're 57 that things will likely be much different especially if your hair loss is already advanced.

If the ingredients in hair fibers were truly a serious health hazard there would have been articles all over the internet about it when they first came out many years ago now. I don't see any.

Yes in my opinion you have slight retrograde. It is evident above the ears most where you can see the lack of density. You can still be a HT candidate of course, but your donor capacity will be less.

Dr. Panine please confirm if you meant 8000 scalp donor grafts left. I'm assuming 8000 takes beard into account as his donor does not look that strong.

Thanks. Would you say 8 inches across is average? You just inspired me to measure my hairline temple to temple and it's approximately 6 inches. I always felt like I had a smaller width going on which is one of the positives for me possibly going into a transplant, especially since i'm looking to be conservative with grafts.

Who gave you this number? That would be with the absolute most dense packing possible which I would imagine isn't really necessary (or worth doing) in most cases. In this guys case however, I could understand it given how his hair is very strong other than the area of loss and it doesn't look like he'll need any other surgeries anytime soon.

No, it's not.

This is NOT me as I have a bit more hair up top, but my pattern is pretty similar with the temples drastically receded and the humps (towards the back of this guys head I guess) still somewhat intact, making me a future norwood 6. I am curious if someone in this case decided to go forward with a hair transplant in a very conservative manner, would recreating the temples be a must? I have also drawn out a few examples to try and make more sense of what I'm trying to say. Picture 1 I'm sure would be more visually pleasing but it would also require a nice amount more grafts. 300 on each side or so in my opinion, to give a decent fill in to that entire temple area. I am hoping to be very conservative as I have a limited donor. Picture 2 is the much more conservative approach obviously. Thanks.

Call me crazy but on what planet would anything more than 1200 grafts or so be necessary here

One of the best hairlines ever. I would love to know what the strategy is behind the technique that achieved this.

As far as not being on meds go, you just have to proceed knowing that there is a very good chance you will have to return for another surgery down the road. Considering the rest of your hair looked relatively strong, I think calls for you to cancel your surgery were outrageous. Just my two cents. Glad it turned out well.

Multi's in the hairline is typical Cinik. No surprise there. Fortunately other than that things look pretty good. Looks like you got full or 95% growth.

"No Scarring" on their homepage. That should have been the first huge red flag.

Hope you show the clinic your count pics and get half your money back.

Would really love to see a few new pics as it has been 10 months. Usually not much new growth in between 10 and 12 months.

Just curious how many were implanted in that frontal area and how many in the crown?

Yes, slight thinning. Nothing a drop of toppik wouldn't be able to fix for a good few years before you had to take real action imo. Starting something like Finasteride just isn't necessary yet imo, but that's just my opinion.

Also FYI I think @Rolandas’s transplant stayed red for almost 6 months before clearing up. Maybe he can provide some info.

I had a consult with Dr. Dorin earlier this year. Really nice down to earth guy.

Very sorry to hear this. When you say your hairline isn’t symmetrical what do you mean exactly? That might not be a bad thing. With regards to the redness in the recipient area , were you in the sun much after the surgery? You are not supposed to be. I hope things get better for you and I’m sure they will.