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This is an awesome work, great list Portugal! I did not know Asmed was kicked out of HRN. I know that they were not getting good results last couple of years but was there more than that? What happened? Any links?

It has been 45 months since the first HT and 30 months since the second HT.

Wonderful, super natural hairline; one of the best I have ever seen. You will be very happy when all grow.

Why do you think your progress is slow? Have you ever seen some other hair transplant with transplanted hair grown at 2.5 months mark? Telogen phase is about 3 months so don't expect anything another 15 days or so. There is something to consider with your HT specifically. Transplanting into an area with existing hair is harder and riskier than transplanting into a slick bald spot. Because of the limited blood flow feeding the existing and transplanted grafts, not only some of existing grafts (you have many of miniaturized ones) can go into shock loss, but telogen phase may be prolonged as well. Were you asked to get finasteride by the doctor before and/or after the operation?

Different tool to extract or implant?

Beautiful work from Dr. Konior.

This is the third HT from Asmed I see in the first two pages of the forum where the patient had to go back for a touch up because of the low yield. I have seen more examples of low yield in the last couple of years. I believe Asmed needs to criticize its own work and find out where they fail and fix it.

Hi TempleRunner, I am sorry to see the mediocre yield. You are not the first one getting subpar results with Asmed lately. Did they explain why your yield was low? Any guarantee on second procedure not resulting like first?

OP means original poster, it would be you in this case. Angel, did you ask the doctor following questions before the second operation: - Why did the first HT go wrong? What was the cause of low yield (max 50%) - What will you do differently in the second operation so I don’t get similar yield?

Can you please provide pictures of your hairline and vertex under daylight?

You are lucky to have curly hair which has better coverage compared to straight one. Do you have any picture where you comb up and show your hairline where camera will be looking to your face straight instead of down on to your hair? Pretty much like the ones below but comb up to see the hairline/roots?

Looks good. How old are you? Can you please provide your preop pictures? The recipient area looks not too large in the first 2 pictures but postop pictures show the other way around.

Yep, that's why I updated my post right away A few gaps is not a concern at this point. You had a huge area to cover and this density on that area in about 6 months is the best you can get in HT world

Excellent result! It will get a bit better from here since it has been less than 7 months.

Good yield for 5 months Portugal, it will be better by time 😊 I would suggest you to go back to Pekiner in about a year for another round. Let him harvest all of your beard under your chin (probably 1000-1500) and another 1000-1200 from your donor and place it to the same area. This way, you will have at least 6000 grafts on second and third area.

Why do you want to delete? You got some kind of refund?

It is true. He does not use a microscope.

Yep, Keser does stick and place only.

Hi karatekid, If the reason for scratching out Turkey is solely based on Turkey having tons of cheap, low quality HT clinics (and that's a fact), you may be missing some A grade doctors. I will not talk about it since Portugal already mentioned those. If you have other reasons, I can't comment on those. If you are planing to have temporal point (side parts, under temples) work, I don't suggest any Turkish clinics. As a matter of fact, I myself was thinking of having it but I could not find any HT doctor doing a very good temporal point in the world; forget about Turkey. Because of the very fine nature with different color, temporal points will stand out from the rest easily unless you will keep them very long. If you researched and found out very good temporal point results of any doctor in the world, please let me know; I may have consider As for Keser, I am pretty sure he can give you a good density (unless you want a low, aggressive hairline) with 2400-2500 (possibly even less grafts) but it will take at least 4 days which may be a showstopper for you. Pekiner can do the same in 2 days I believe. As for donor management, I got 1700 grafts and my donor is still very strong. Other doctors would be looking to spend at least 2500 grafts for the same so I am pretty sure I saved lot of grafts in my donor for future. Most of the doctors you are considering in Europe and US/CA are top notch ones with very good records. I would suggest you to have your HT with Dr. Couto if you can find any availability in the next several years. Dr. Konior would be another excellent choice if you can fly to US and afford. For 3000 grafts, you are looking at 18K-24K Usd depending on what you will get (Fut/Fue) Another option: Since you are in your early 30s, you might wait a couple of more years and continue researching. There is a slight chance you could lose more from forelock.

Can you please attach preop and 10 day photos? How much did you end up paying?

Thank you! Very happy indeed!

It has been 3 years after the first and 1.5 year after the second HT...

Any updates?

Happy 4th guys! 14 months

17 months