Hassler

I think around ?5 a graft is what you are looking at from the best clinics/surgeons in the UK operating on a 1 patient per day basis. Some might have a structure that reduces that figure when you go beyond a certain graft number, so they might look more competitive for the bigger FUE jobs, but beyond that, it looked like the only way to find significantly cheaper in the UK is to compromise on quality or approach I.e by having techs do more of the work or a surgeon running back and forth between you and some dude in a chair in another room - I’ve read so many reviews from people who experienced exactly that for a cheap hair transplant and to a man.......they all seemed to regret it.

All you need to know is this - Dr Edward Ball @ The Maitland Clinic, Portsmouth Thank me later.

I should probably add that if you get your FUE from one of the low cost Hair Mills that look to chuck you in and out in 3-4 hours, then the above advantage will almost certainly be completely overlooked. Its an advantage in the hands of the best FUE surgeons tho.

Don't forget big advantage 3 : 3) With FUE the doctor can meticulously select each individual graft from the back of the head - a big advantage for selecting fine hairs for a perfectly natural, soft feathered hairline. With FUT, the doc gets what comes out of the strip from the middle/back of the head, technicians can of course chop chunky follicular units up into single hairs, but they are still more likely to be chunky hairs compared to those found towards the edges of the scalp. Of course, for guys with an extensive area of loss behind the hairline to be filled, then picking each graft individually becomes time consuming and starts to become a drawback. FUE and FUT are therefore both great techniques, it depends on the patient and their needs.

Hi All, Here are the 6.5 month pics from my hair transplant by Dr Edward Ball at the Maitland Clinic in Portsmouth. I couldn't be happier with the results, the naturalness of the hairline is the biggest thing for me, I think I always believed that increased density was going to be a "given" but I was really worried it would come with a price (of quirkyness), but I'm pretty much sweeping my hair back and exposing it for all the world to see with zero thought than it looks anything other than the hairline I was born with. Although my procedure wasn't huge (1400 FUE), it was carried out with painstaking attention to detail, the sort of thing you get with a one patient per day offering, it really does make all the difference in my opinion. Big thanks to David Anderson, Dr Ball, Janna and the rest of the staff at the Maitland clinic, they are truly world class.

I think what springs to mind looking at this result, other than it looks really good, is that very few men losing their hair and considering a hair transplant can aspire to this sort of result, it's simply not possible or advisable to do so. This guy is very unusual, because you don't often see men with what is already a low hairline and pretty good density, going for a hair transplant. I'm not questioning his decision to do so, as a lot of people would have said the same about me, and I know how badly I needed one in terms of how I viewed my own hair situation (I've had one 1400 FUE at age 46). In that respect, the video is a bit like the HT equivelent of size zero models in the fashion industry - it's what so many guys would love but sadly so few men can realistically aspire to achieve. I know that in saying this, I leave myself open to comparisons with the housewife lying on the couch with a glass of red in one hand and the other constantly in the biscuit tin bemoaning "those skinny b*tch models" in her magazine, but there are lots of guys (especially young guys) out there who aren't as well researched as the chaps on here, and don't understand that this type of result is only for exceptional cases. My concern on this issue is always the same - that those younger guys see the like of this and decide it's exactly what they want and need, and they want it at an early age. Even if Dr Arocha and other ethical doctors wouldn't do it for them, sadly, then there are plenty out there that would, and leave them to deal with the future consequences.

Its a very female hairline design, temple points curve forward rather than angle backwards (on quite a masculine looking guy as well). Very unusual, but I take on board the point that his hairline was somewhat in that shape/area already, the challenge now is that his hairloss is likely to progress, so can he keep ahead of the game. Its a beautiful looking result now for sure, just hope he doesn't end up looking goofy in later life.

Based on the pics it simply looks like the front of your hair is transitioning from your juvenile hairline into the normal mature adult hairline (and at a relatively late age in your case). I remember when this happened to me at age 22-23 and you do get freaked by it, but the reality is that you simply get used to your more mature look over time. Based on the lines drawn on your head, it appears as though your doc is planning to bring your hairline back to the very low quite straight position where it was when you were a young man. Also take all all recession out of your temples to the point where your temple points angle forwards (as a boys does) instead of backwards (as a mature mans does). In my opinion, it's a terrible idea. But I suspect your going to do it anyway.

Great work...superbly designed and executed!

I have no issue opening myself up for critique, I post my own result on here so people are welcome to express their opinions. There was a great post on here a while back titled "Did I make my hairline too high". There was a lot of responses from respected surgeons, and virtually every one said the same thing - that the sensible approach is to be slightly conservative with a first HT, most people have more than 1 procedure in their lifetime, and you always have the option of bringing it down later if you feel its still too high once it's grown in, but once it's down, its down, going back up is a lot harder. Anyway, this young guy made his decision early, he wanted it right down there. If he researched it and knows the risk then he can't really complain if it all goes pear shaped in his later life, only time will tell.

If you take a long term view then it is a gamble. I’m never going to convince you, but if I can convince some of the 20 something guys out there who will be looking at this result and thinking “Yes....I want that too” to think it through again, and consider the long term implications, then that would be something positive. I would hope Dr Konoir would say the same thing, but if he doesn’t, then somebody else out there should, even if they aren’t a Dr.

I don't quite say that ("every man will progress to an advanced state of loss"). If that is how may words read, then I should have phrased it better. I do I agree with your earlier paragraphs stating the need to consider potential future loss, and that nobody has a crystal ball in trying to do this. So on that basis, this patient may be lucky, he may stay at a relative low level of loss, that can easily be managed by a further procedure, or he may not, he could easily hit some really aggressive hair loss in his 30's and 40's, at this stage, the truth is that nobody knows. I think my questioning was around the fact that taking this sort of aggressive line therefore represents a gamble to the patient. Repeat the above * 100 and some of those guys are likely to have a problem further down the line. This is really what I was trying to say. If the patients are informed of the gamble and are adamant they want to take it, then that's fair enough, it's by no means a fait accompli they will hit problems, but they need to be told the risks, and certainly never encouraged to do it. If posting my views makes a few of the young guns who tend to want this type of thing take a step back and consider the *potential* longer term implications, then I'd be happy if I've done that.

OK, I'll be the one to mention it. What is this 28 year old kid going to look like when he's 58?...68? Almost certainly a little bit odd. Thats about a third of his donor gone at 28, just doing a new juvenile hairline. I can't fault the skill or artistry of the result, I just hope the doc explained to the young man that this is a numbers game and there are only so many grafts on his head to go around. If he is really lucky then whatever meds he's taking will put the brakes on his further loss, hell if a pill or lotion came out tomorrow which was absolutely proven to stop all further loss I'd book in for one of these myself, but with the current medical limitations, he's taking a gamble (and the doc really cannot say otherwise) I think its currently wrong to encourage this.

Hi - if your in the the UK then I'd highly recommend you go for a consultation with Dr Edward Ball and his adviser David Anderson at the Maitland Clinic in Hampshire.