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I am lost for words at the above, how you can be pleased with the results in the doner area is beyond comprehension, if this is a case where your happy with the results in the doner area I'm shocked I truely am. It then goes from bad to worse when you make the above statement about the patient, can't belive you have come on a forum and tried to defend yourself like that... Maybe you should have never taken him on, as for a trade off im at a loss how you think this is a fair / normal trade off shocked to the core at at your response to be honest. Things might not always go how we want or expect granted, but your reply as this mans Doctor on a forum has shocked me and that has told me even more of a story than the outcome of the HT.

Hi Matt and Sean, After reading old threads on here and seeing many posts by you both I am hoping you could please give me your thoughts on the below (or anyone else who can please steer me in the right direction) as trying to get my head around things to choose a DR. If I had a hair transplant with one of the best hair transplant centres in the world and my first and only HT of 4000 grafts all pretty much fell out as BaLdEnStEiN said his has 5 to 7 years later I belive my fist port of call would be to the surgeon who gave me HT to see why they have fallen out and also to see what they can do to fix this. It doesnt make sense having another HT (when the first one which would probably at a guess have used the best grafts in the doner area) the same thing might happen again? 10 to 14 years later your left with a lot of scaring 10,000 hairs missing and nothing to show for it. I am asking as I thought if a HT was a permanent solution not a quick fix. Q1) if this happened to me Would I be wrong to go back to the surgeon 7 years later if the grafts fell out to get them to fix it? Q2) In this type of situation are the grafts not supposed to be permanent? I hope I'm not coming across as a pain in the you no what as that's not why I am asking and I hope BaLdEnStEiN does not mind me asking in his thread (please let me know if I should not be asking this here and I will delete this post).

After looking at the pre op and post op doner photos really could not agree more with the above, work looks amazing but the doner area looks to be a bit thin clearly pre op to me in places and extractions clearly well out of the safe zone on the back and sides. For me on the front third on my first fue I think I would prefer everything to stay 100 per cent in the safe zone so not to go over the same area twice if the grafts do not take was this talked over going outside the safe zone? Only asking and learning as this is something I will be now asking myself, does the safety zone get talked over if extractions go outside (as a newbie could be wrong but I would prefer to may be go outside only when filling in behind the frontal third).

As a newbie on here I'm trying to learn and apply a bit of common sense (or guesswork you could say). What I have taken from this thread wrong or right but at a guess (and will use myself) from the advice given from others is : 1) When high on the Norwood scale (as I am also) go to a few recommended Doctors rather than email photos if possible, if there is no charge or a small charge (under ?250.00) your only really wasting your own time and with anything you learn a bit as you go picking up new questions as you go to ask I would hope. 2) expectations, make them clear to the docs straight away and I am now in my own head doing this. I for myself am hoping after 2 or 3 HT; I can end up a 3V on the Norwood scale on the front and I am not going to worry about the crown and around the crown to even if it dips down; for me I'd be happy with having some hair on the front of my head again :-). I've belive my donor is quite good to average, my head is quite narrow in width and is medium straight hair. What are your expectations superdudeo?

Hi BaLdEnStEiN, I hope you don't mind me asking (still learning) as I am researching looking at your photos it would seem a lot of the 4000 grafts have not lasted the 7 years till now. How long did they last? I thought a hair transplant if all goes well should be for life or am I wrong do they have a life span? From what I have seen on here Hassan & Wong seem incredible just has me thinking... The only things I know of (still learning) that might affect the new grafts lasting are bad aftercare, someone with dupa hair loss, or hair that has been taken out of the safe zone If Dr Erdogan saw the 4000 grafts did not last 7 year it wouldn't make sense to do the same again would it? I am looking at the above with the thoughts of no native hair on top at the time of surgery 7 years ago.

After looking at Dr Reddy website you can't help but be impressed by the results there, out of interest the photos in the links are they the same photos you sent to Dr Reddy representative? Only asking as you seem (at a guess) to be quite similar to a resent patient who posted on here (he thought and was told his doner area was quite thin). http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/185371-2000-grafts-done-dr-reddy-private-clinic.html If the photos you sent were different, showing things a little differently may be post links to those photos as well. Also did you mention your overall expectations to DR Reddy team? I think at a guess it shows a Dr who is really trying to do the best for the patient and not just after the money, have to say hats of to Dr Reddy right or wrong and as I think at a guess it shows honesty.

Hi HTsoon, I'm at a loss to all your replies and you keep dragging what I am saying of to something totally different and keep avoiding my one question to you which I asked only because you stated I was a fishy poster here and I have been slandering a doctor which is 100 per cent not the case (I am a newbie here and looking at choosing a doctor for a future HT as was shocked at the donor image posted here, if I had personally used a recommended doctor from this forum and that doctor had done this to me I would personally be in bits). I am clearly not talking about the doner area having blood that can be cleaned away of course and will be different for different people, I am clearly talking about how the doner area looks with or without the blood the blood is irrelevant why you would mention this is a mystery to me; I am clearly stating how the area look straight after the extractions. Also unsure why you go on to explain about scabbing, crusting, aftercare, I am only talking about how it looked in the photo straight after the extractions as I'm sure your aware. Sorry Mike if I have stopped anyone posting (I felt I had to reply to HTSoon when he was quoting me as he was taking everything I said out of context I believe possibly on purpose but could be wrong) and I wish you well I truly do and I'm sure your going to look great.

@htsoon sorry as I said a few times in my last post, I am only referring to the photo straight after the HT not the others so much but the more bloody one, I was shocked by that one photo none of the others as I said in my other post. If this photo was not there I would not have posted and I believe your completely wrong you (but I am a newbie) say you cant compare photos straight after a HT with each other if there both fue and both with a similar amount of grafts and similar hair type (please note where you seem to be once again be dragging my posts of in another direction i.e the healing process, I was not shocked on how the op was healing; I think considering the doner area after the op he is healing amazingly to be honest). As for the recipient area I think it looks amazing as I posted in my first post. @HTsoon are you saying the more bloodly photo in this thread straight after the ht looks the same as other photos on this forum and this you say seems normal to you? Please note in by above question them same I asked in my last post (but you chose to not answer it and say "no I don't see anything concerning with the photos" I am asking do you think the doner area straight after the ht looks the same as other photos on here for fue for the similar amount of grafts also straight after a HT". I honestly think that speaks for itself when you think that this is normal, yes I am a newbie but what your saying is crazy to me but I am newbie as you correctly pointed out and others might well also think I am wrong but my eyes tell me something different.

Hi HTSoon, Unsure why my post seems fishy just looking at getting info and learning to be honest the doner area after this op scared me nothing more and nothing less. I am not slandering anyone and find it crazy you should say this, I looked at a photo of a doner area after a op and found it scary looking comparing it to hundreds of other photos I have viewed on here. You said I am basing my comments on a photo one month after, not true I posted my post after looking at the doner area photo straight after the op (one month after does not look terrible to me). So look at it from my point of view as I clearly posted I am a newbie and want to learn, I am maybe going to use at some point a Dr recommend here; to be honest if I had based by thoughts on how my doner area would look straight after a HT after seeing hundreds of photos on here I would be shocked PLEASE NOTE I MEAN STRAIGHT AFTER THE HT. After reading on here I totally understand there will be scaring from fue, I totally understand there could be shock loss after a HT, I totally understand you could not then completely shave your head after fue; you seem to be dragging my post elsewhere I am new here yes and this is my second post yes but to say my post is fishy and slandering is just not on and you seem to be muddying the water I just found that photo straight to be quite gruesome personally and thought if I had used a doctor recommended here and the saw the back of head looking like that I would be upset. If you want me to delete my post please let me know or if anyone else wants me to please let me know and I will. @ HTSOON can you honestly say after looking at the photo straight the HT this looks like a normal doner area after this amount of grafts taken when comparing to other photos on here?

Been reading on here for a few months on and of and have found it to be a great resource of information. But I am a little shocked (to see this doctor is recommended on here) after seeing the photos of how the doner area was left and after seeing on here other photos of doner areas from the same doctor looking the same way after the normal amount for a first fue to me a newbie it's shocking and I would be in a right state if my head was left like that. Comparing photos from Dr Lorenzo after a larger amount of grafts from fue, it's like chalk and cheese and then Dr Lorenzo is not on the recommended surgeon list here does not make sense? Is it any surpise the doner area is now patchy and looks this way? I thought it looked shocking to be honest and surely this will impact how the surrounding areas recovers? Also surely after looking at the photos the extractions will have damaged other hairs in the area? Looking at the planted hairs it looks amazing to me looks like it's done my a different doctor. What would have happened if this was done to someone with a less thick doner area?