Tbcruz

I feel your pain Steele, I’ve had 2 hair transplants and even tho I can style my hair  now and I have the Illusion of density I sometimes do think what if I would of just went the bald route and shaved. It was emotionally draining after my first procedure. Always wearing a hat and obsessing over my hair line and examining everything. I still kind of do it now tbh. If I would of just shaved I would never have to worry about this but I prob would always be thinking about getting a hair transplant if I hadn’t. I don’t think in anyway your in a bad situation I’ve seen some bad work with some crazy scars on here and your not in that category. The pictures you’ve uploaded don’t look bad. Give it the full 12 months and I’m sure the shiny look will be less. And by then you could get smp again to fill everything in.

goodluck.

@Steele114

I was scheduled with Dr. Wise once and my father talked me out of it not because of the doctor but he didn’t want me to get anything done. Looking back at it now I’m glad I canceled the deposit and he gave my money back. Knowing what I know now... he wouldn’t be an option. The results he has posted online are okay nothing crazy but the problem is he doesn’t just do hair transplants. He added hair transplants to the many things he does because of most likely $$. I’m curious to see how the work looks.. can you post a picture? 

11 hours ago, EdDantes99 said:

Congratulations on the result Tbcruz! The final result is amazing and progress like yours is the key reason why I chose Dr.Bloxham. My surgery with him is scheduled on May 24th, I'm really hoping I can get results like yours.

My main question for you is the linear scar in the back. I was reading that you said it took months to heal and for it not to become noticeable. Do you think after a month after the surgery, I could use Toppik to conceal it and it wouldn't look noticeable? Did you use any other methods to make it not look obvious? After my surgery, I'm giving myself some time to heal and not really be in public much. When I do go back, I didn't want it to look really noticeable that I got a hair transplant. Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you!

Thank you @EdDantes99theres no doubt in my mind that you will get a result like mine. Your in good hands.

I’m not 100% sure but I think you should be okay using it by that time tbh. I didn’t use anything because I got away with using a hat. If you don’t have the option of wearing hat. It honestly will come down to how you heal. I’ve seen people post pictures after a month and it looks like nothing happened ( aside from the hair loss ) and I’ve seen others that it look really red. I think it has to do with your complexion as well.

feel free to ask anymore questions or pm me.

tb

11 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

You know Dr. Bloxham touched on a point in the video that isn't discussed that much. What's the perfect hair length after getting a hair transplant. How many inches would you say your hair is right now? I'd guess around 5 inches. 

I think your right about the inches deff 5-6 right now. Tbh I think anything after 4” starts to cover your whole head very nicely. Im planning on buzzing my head so I’ll be able to go through all lengths again and see how it changes as it grows. I do plan on growing it out alittle more because I love it like this but I’m starting to also hate the maintenance that’s comes with it every morning lol.. when summer is over here I might buzz it and go back to comb over less maintenance.

11 hours ago, JohnAC71 said:

Hall of “hair” Fame in my humble opinion. 👏

thank you John!! I appreciate your compliments !

1 hour ago, hairlossPA said:

looks amazing. i just crossed the 5 month mark. how much did yours change after the 5 month mark

Thanks man! Yea 6 months is when It really hit me that my hair was looking great tbh until then I was crossing my fingers. Bloxham is awesome you will be fine don’t sweat it !

21 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

I commented on the video haha Tbcruz you're a legend man and your hair looks excellent thanks for always sharing your progress.

Thanks Melvin! I’m happy I finally made it to the other side and got my hair back. I was alittle discouraged having done it once already but I’m glad I stuck to it and found Dr. Bloxham.

Yea I liked your comment once I saw it lmao. 

If anyone wants to watch my 1 year update! Dr Bloxham took some great pictures of my hair pre-op. It really shows how how thin my frontal third really was.
 

Im so blessed to have went to Dr. Bloxham. He’s really given me the long hair look I wanted. I can’t thank him enough and FYI I will be going back to fill in some spots in the hairline maybe at the beginning of 2022. Dr. Bloxham said something around 300 grafts. I will be also documenting that one here.

here are some Pics I took today which is 14months post op for anyone who wants to see. These pictures were taken in VERY bright light. Like the only way someone would every see me in these conditions would be if someone was holding a flash light to my head lol.

When I first started looking into hair transplants I thought of the same idea tbh. But it will never work unless you can remove the grafts without leaving a scar. The scaring around your head would be crazy and even if you get smp I think it would still look like very obvious that something happened. But it would be cool if someone tried it so we could see 

Looking good mike! 

Skin fades are doable. Obviously you can’t do high skin fades without you seeing the scar completely but mid to low are good .. you won’t even see the scar. Trust me .. check my post.

6 hours ago, Gatsby said:

Just such a super natural result. It looks like you never had any work done. Thanks for the update.

Thanks gatsby! 

9 hours ago, aaron1234 said:

Looks incredible!  I would wait awhile before doing another round.  Enjoy what you have!

Yea I hear you lol.. I’m in no rush to do this all again. If he can do a small fue without shaving I’ll do it. If he says to wait acouple of years to see how I progress I won’t complain. My hair is not perfect but I’m happy. 

9 hours ago, hairlossPA said:

seriously looks amazing man. if mine turns out like this i’ll be so fucking happy. i just crossed 4 months and not seeing much... getting to that nervous stage 

Thanks man! Yea it’s such a great feeling finally getting to this point where I can push my hair back and leave the house. Don’t worry you’ll be there soon!!!lol ... when I was at 4 months it wasn’t that impressive either. Tbh the first time I actually looked at my hair and was like this is crazy when did I get this much hair was somewhere between 6-7 months I was getting ready to go to a engagement party and I did my hair.. I had the fibers out wax and a comb. I was like let me style my hair first then I’ll put some fibers on. Once I finished combing my hair I was like I don’t need fibers this looks awesome 😎 

6 minutes ago, James C said:

That low skin fade is perfect. As for you adding density, does bloxham want to do do another strip for that or fue ? Or are you going to save another fut surgery for your back half if needed? 

Thanks James, I asked him about doing a small fue through email but once I go in and he takes a look ill see what he recommends. 

I agree with @Melvin-Moderator, sometimes you rush into things because your sold on fake dreams of having all your hair back and how easy it is. Until you realize 6 months later that there is something worse than losing your hair and it’s a botched hair transplant. Don’t be in that situation because it’s not a good place to be in. 

1 hour ago, Harry Bosch said:

Great stuff, with the sharp strategic haircut to match.

The hair greed is well-earned and much deserved.

@Tbcruz what changes are you thinking about with the hairline? just adding some density?

Yea I just want alittle more density right in the first cm of my hairline. The rest of my hair covers my scalp just enough to make it look like a perfect head of hair lol

I wouldn’t change my hairline even if they could give me a juvenile hairline from when I was 18 with density. This is my opinion but I feel like a receded mature hairline gives a guy more character and just better looking than a straight low hairline. Plus when your 50-70 years old (hair transplant or not) you will bring a lot of attention to your self because of it.

1 hour ago, RandoBrando517 said:

How short do you cut the sides? Can you show a picture of the scar?

Where the scar is if I had to guess maybe around 3-4 clipper guard. Yea let me see if I can get some now... if not tomorrow I’ll have my wife snap some.

tbh tho I really could care less about my scar. I’m 32 years old and I have a great head of hair (thank god for hair transplants & this website). I think it would bother me more if my transplant was a failure and my scar was showing.
 

Just wanted to update with some pictures since I just got a haircut for who ever is curious and also some pics of side and back of my head scar is good not a problem.

Im having alittle hair greed and I am planning on seeing Dr. Bloxham in acouple of weeks to see what his thoughts are on adding some more density to hairline only.

If anyone has any questions lmk!! 
 

P.s haircut didn’t come out to good so just ignore the spottiness lol
 

1 hour ago, JohnAC71 said:

@Tbcruz 👌

1 hour ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Good choice, I forgot some bloxham guys I knew it.

Thank you 🙏!

12 months guys here are some dry combed back and some styled combed back ! 

no concealers* & styled pictures just have hair spray.

I am planning on going back to fine tone the hairline. Some little things that bother me nothing anyone would pick up on tho.

I will try to get pics of the scar tonight I forgot to get the pics before doing my hair lol so when I shower I will get some.

tbh the scar really disappeared on me these last 2 months. I haven’t seen it in a while. I think I had some shockloss in the donor along with some redness that made it more noticeable before but now I feel like it’s come along way and I’m very happy! 

On 12/18/2020 at 4:03 AM, Falconary said:

Wow nice results! Did you do scalp elasticity exercises before the FUT? Did he take the strip from the area you previously had FUE? Do you recent pictures of the scar? Lol many questions, but I am 50/50 contemplating between FUE and FUT, need to transplant about 2000-2500 grafts.

Yes I did it for like a month before the procedure. Yea the fut was taking from where I had fue. I will update 12 months soon and I’ll make sure to take some of the scar for you ! Lol don’t worry about the questions I don’t mind at all. I’m here to document my procedure and help as well.

I don’t regret fut and I’ll prob get another one and finish with fue.

On 1/25/2021 at 11:20 PM, andrew11 said:

Wow great result and great hair style !! 👏👏 looking back at your 6 month results it seemed to have thickened/matured quite well , would you say that you noticed quite a difference personally from that 6 month mark until now?

thanks man! Huge difference between 6-12 lol wait til the 4th when I do an update !

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I will be doing my 12 month update on feb 4th. That’s when I got my procedure done last year. I’ll be a alittle more thorough in the update and take some good pics of my hair and scar. I might go in to see Dr. Bloxham in the next couple of weeks.

Thank you everyone for the kind words ! I will update again at 1 year!

any questions Just ask! 
thank you hrn! 

10 months post op.

went out to eat with the fam while we can and while I was in the bathroom I snapped some pics with some very harsh lighting directly under the light and others how it looks normal lol ( without a spot light on my head )

also hair cut is 2 days old skin tight fade not too high scar is barley visible but honestly I don’t care I love that I can style my hair however I want.

enjoy! 

On 11/15/2020 at 12:19 AM, hairlossPA said:

hey man. can we get an update? I just had my procedure with Bloxham so am doing my rounds of previous bloxham patients haha

Congrats man the work looks great !

yea I hear you I did the same when I got mine lol I’m currently 10 months and 2 days post op. I will try to update later today.

On 10/7/2020 at 6:43 AM, Guano said:

@Tbcruz

 

I'm pretty much in a similar situation as you dude, I had roughly the same amount of grafts with FUE and the results are worse than anticipated. I'm in a position where I'm strongly considering getting FUT but I want to make sure I'm 100% set on it.

 

The scarring is putting me off, I know FUE has scarring I'm well aware but I normally wear my hair short on the sides. How has it affected your styling?

 

Also, how many more ops did Bloxham say you could possibly have in the future given your current donor situation?

Hey @Guano sorry for late response super busy. 
 

I can relate exactly to how you are feeling. It took me a long time to pull the trigger, I did a lot of research and went through a lot of threads.

the fut scar was my biggest concern as well. Not because of changing my hair style ( usually would get a high skin tight fade) but because I was scared if I didn’t get the results I wanted up top I would not only have a failed ht procedure I would also have a scar across the back of head. I don’t mind changing my hair style (lower fade) for more hair on top of head which worked out for me 🤞🏻.

that was something I asked him when we did that video and he’s said he thinks 2 more. Plan is to tap out with fut and to finish it all up if I need to, go to @Eugenix Hair Science   To put beard hair into scar and maybe add density all over.

13 hours ago, Guano said:

Wanted to know how your experience was with FUT, and why you made the choice of choosing FUT over FUE?

 

Also, how has the scar healed? has it stretched or caused any tightness in your scalp?

Fut was very different healing wise in the donor. Didn’t hurt more but just a little more tender. My experience in the recipient area is way better. This time around grafts were packed in way tighter and I believe I had a lot more grafts survive as well.

I chose fut over fue because of the research I did. I wanted to give myself the best possible outcome. Based on my research, fut was what would do it for me. Also I knew if I did fue again and the results were not good I wouldn’t be in a good situation.

22 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Great results, man I’m always happy to see a good repair story. Dr. Bloxham is solidifying himself as an elite surgeon 🙏🏼

Thanks Melvin appreciate the compliment and I’m glad I chose Dr. Bloxham as my surgeon I do it again in a heart beat.

Looks amazing dude!

How’s it looks irry88