I finally did it. After lurking around here for ages, gathering lots of information on procedures and doctors, I went for the FUT HT with Dr. Farjo a few weeks back. First, thanks to all of you for the excellent information here in the forums. It really helped me out, so glad this forum exists.
After a few online consultations, it came down to Dr. Wong and Dr. Farjo. Everybody here knows Wong, the man is a Jedi, but Farjo... not so much info. So off to Manchester I went for a visit.
Mick welcomed me in, gave me the tour, and chatted with me about HT in an honest and straight forward manner. Dr. Farjo came a bit later, and also made a good impression, straight and honest. He graciously pointed out that I have a very large head... yes I'm aware! ... and figured we should be able to get "3000, maybe even 4000 grafts" from an FUT procedure. In line with the other consults I'd had.
So for various reasons, in the end I chose the Farjo Clinic. Much easier logistics, and a weak Pound, but above all a doctor that knew his shit and left me without any doubts. His website is the same, straight forward and full of the same sort of honest information that I found here in the forums.
It was a long day, 7:30am at the clinic, 8:30 in the chair and we were off. All the staff were extremely pleasant, everything went according to plan, I finally left the clinic at 7:30pm with a terrible hat on my head :cool: and found a pizza joint on the way home. What a long day...
Stats:
4085 Grafts
572 singles
2431 doubles
1082 triples and quads
It was a relief to have the staples removed yesterday, seriously annoying those things. While waiting for my head to heal a bit, I wore a GWinner Unisex Bandana Dryline when out, available at Amazon (of course) and highly recommend it. Now the waiting begins.. I will keep this thread updated.