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  1. Hassler
    Yeah man.....but why stop there? How about pilots? We could just put bus drivers on a six week conversion course for a 747 right? I mean flying a plane is so easy these days, the autopilot can even do automated take off and landings, why pay premium rate for a plane ticket when all the pilot does is hit a button and then get served coffee by trolly dollies. What can possibly go wrong?
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    Oh thats just genius. So we all just email every doc on the planet and ask for their transection rate?......and if the lowest quoter happens to be from a Turkish barber shop tech we just get a guarantee of their transection quote. And if you go through and none of the grafts grow?.....what then? You ask for your follicles back?
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    I think there would be particular concern if the diffuse thinning was "unpatterned" i.e. it extended into parts of the donor area. If that was the case then your immediately not a hair transplant candidate. If it is "patterned" diffuse thinning, and especially if it's not severe, then you can get an excellent result, I know this for sure because I am a mild/moderate diffuse thinner. Having said that, it took 3 consultants before I met a doctor who gave me the confidence to have a procedure, the first one warned me that I would almost certainly get significant shock loss (I didn't) and the second one said he wasn't comfortable going more than 1 fingers width into my native hair from the front hairline (that wasn't enough to my mind). So being a diffuse thinner you may get "mixed messages" from doctors, but it can be done very successfully in the right hands, I'm living proof.
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    Its not remotely bad. The other thing to point out is that when your bald or your hair is cropped very short after a HT, then the forehead always appears overly large. When your result grows in, if you grow it out to a decent length (doesn't need to be Jon Snow length) then providing you have the density, it will fall down and cover your temples/forehead, even if you try and brush it back, it will do this naturally. In effect, you forehead will naturally start to shrink before your very eyes, but you need to give it 12 months before you see this effect take place. And as others have pointed out, if you still feel after 12 months that you want it lowered, then you still have the option with a second procedure. Your doc got it spot on.
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    I agree that anybody taking meds needs to be very careful, there are even guys out there that insist Finasteride resulted in permanent side effects (post finasteride syndrome). We are all different, nobody can state what will happen in any individual case.
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    Gulp. The biggest drawback is that surely any numpty can setup shop as a HT surgeon overnight in Turkey. While the current crop of doctors in the US and Europe might not yield many Michelangelo's, at least the medical license restrictions keep the numpty numbers down (granted, they still exist). I would research your doc (correction tech) very very carefully, if you can't find an awful lot of very very satisfied customers, and virtually no dissatisfied ones, then that's a very big gamble.
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    I actually think adding a low dose of Dutasteride to Finasteride is a good idea, and it's exactly what I do (so I guess I would say that ). I think there is enough evidence that Finasteride works (depending on what your definition of "works" is), and there are natural biological models that suggests its very safe for long term usage, it's just not especially strong and anecdotal reports suggest the benefit diminishes after several years. Dutasteride is far stronger, but there are concerns about it's long term usage, as there is no equivalent biological models for high level inhibition of both forms or 5 AR. Increasing the dose of FInasteride doesn't appear to result in much better results, and high long term doses of Dutasteride would seem to equate to the highest risk profile. So FInasteride + low dose Duasteride seems like a good compromise to me.
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    This is an interesting question. I'm not sure how it works in Turkey, but in the UK or US I'm fairly sure it would be illegal for a non doctor to perform a hair transplant. Having undergone an FUE, one of the things that struck me is that it doesn't seem especially difficult to execute the basic procedure - but there is no doubt that its very difficult to achieve a very good result. After all, anybody could paint a ceiling, but only Michelangelo could have painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel like that. I wouldn't think 4-5 years of medical school really means much in terms of how good a HT a doc can perform, most of them probably had little artistic/creative talent or interest in school, hardly the ideal credentials for this sort of creative work, but personally, I wouldn't go to a non-doc, even if it was legal, it's just adding additional medical risk to that is already a risky process.
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    I know....and thats exactly what Dr Ball said to me at my consultation "You've got pretty good hair for a 46 year old". I said "I know, but I want to make it better...can it be done?" I think you have a cracking short list there. Speak to all 3, there is no real difference in cost, so you will just gravitate towards the one you feel most comfortable with. I looked in Ed's eye and instantly knew that he believed my result would be truly top notch (he didn't try to sell it to me), that did it for me.
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    It's all here including the results up to 4 months: http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/188587-1400-fue-dr-ball-4-months-post-op-results.html I think the FUE cost between Ball/Farjo and Reddy is all pretty much the same at around 5 GBP per graft. Note that for something like 2500 grafts, then FUT starts to look very attractive price wise, and if you ended up going FUT with Dr Ball or Farjo then the cost would be quite a bit less I believe.
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    Anybody that is looking for the best possible transplant in the UK must consider Dr Edward Ball in my opinion. There are numerous results of his on the internet, including this forum, Youtube and other social media, and I challenge anybody to find any client less then thrilled with their result and entire experience they received. If I was going for a second procedure in the UK, then Dr Ball would be my first choice. If he wasn't available then I would opt for Fargo. One thing I like about both Dr's Ball/Farjo is that they do both FUE and FUT on a case by case basis, if you have a preference then I'm sure they will take it on board but they will recommend what in their expert opinion is most sensible for you. The private clinic docs (I think there are four) all appear to do good work from what I have seen, but I believe its exclusively FUE, which is what put me off them, not that I didn't want FUE (I did, and actually ended up having FUE), but I really didn't like that they offered FUE or nothing, without even a thought/discussion about if FUT might be more appropriate in some cases. That said, I know that they do good FUE work - if you haven't seen it already then YouTube "Life of Steve Hair Transplant", one of Dr Reddy's patients did a video diary of his FUE every day for 155 days post op. If I have one piece of advise...it's make sure you speak to a Doc like Ball or Farjo who routinely do BOTH FUE and FUT, they will give you a professional opinion/explanation as to what they think would be most suitable in your case.
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    I think it's a double whammy of poor density by the doc and then also poor growth. From the post-op pics, the density looks around 60% of what I would expect to see and the growth was probably also about 60% of what was planted, you add them together and you've got around 35-40% of a satisfactory end result. The doc can really only be held 100% responsible for the poor graft density, as the poor growth could be down to numerous factors (including bad luck). That said, if the doc is taken to task with his grafting density, I'm sure his standard reply will be "one has to be very careful with density, grafts placed too closely together won't grow and follicles can be transected by trying to place them too closely together". All of which we know to be 100% true, however, that's the real skill in the top HT surgeons isn't it, it's the skill and judgement to push things to the limits of what is possible in terms of density to achieve the most natural/dense hairlines while avoiding disaster. The best analogy I can think of is the racing car driver who can push the car to top speeds while staying just below the line which would otherwise see the car come flying off the track. I'm afraid the doc in this case looks like he trundled round the track without taking it out of 1st gear (he knows his limitations). I say he should take the 50% refund and draw a line under this saga, the situation is very recoverable, it doesn't seem worth the mental anguish of a protracted fight (in which he could end up with nothing).
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    I agree with the previous post. If I were you then I would take the 50% refund on offer and run for the hills. You've prob got about 40-50% of the HT you needed (and paid for), so a 50% refund is approaching fairness. You could expend an awful lot of mental energy pursuing the guy for a full refund, and the fact that he has offered money back tells you that he is at least somewhat moral. My opinion from looking at the post-op pics is that you had inadequate density grafted in the frontal area, PLUS a poor growth rate on top...a double whammy. If they had all grown, the result would still not have been great imo (but better than it is). I've seen nothing but excellent results from Shapiro and Cooley, so I suspect your experience would be like night and day with them. Bear in mind, that as disappointing as it is, the result does still hold some intrinsic value. Any existing hair (whether native or previously transplanted) is always a bonus when going for another procedure, it assists in the goal of achieving density, so in the hands of a really good HT doc, they could probably achieve a superior result now than if you had gone to them with your relatively blank canvas in the first instance (I believe). Finally, and to end on a high note.....you have great donor hair. Your hair looks coarse, it has a wave/curl, and the colour is a relatively low contrast with your skin. In the right hands, you should be able to get a cracking result if you don't let this bad experience put you off going for another procedure.
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    Here a couple of references of immediately post-op (second one is my own): http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/171166-3594-strip-dr-bisanga.html http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/188104-1400-fue-dr-edward-ball-uk.html
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    I agree that this is down to poor work, the front 1-2cm are not remotely dense packed, you can practically count every single graft placed (and the count doesn't come anywhere near 2100). A dense packed hairline would just be a blur of redness immediately post-op, not individual dots with larger areas of clear white skin around them as you have. You may also be a slow grower, but the gaps in the frontal area are never going to fill in, there just weren't the grafts placed. I think your wise not to go back to the same doctor, there is no excuse for this sort of work, I think you should also name him on here, as as I can't understand why you would want to protect the reputation of a clinic who have let you down like this - I would be standing outside their clinic with a billboard around my neck.
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    Thank you for the positive comments guys, I must admit, that my experience has been so totally different to "the norm". Part of that is that I was't starting from ground zero, mild but moving towards moderate thinning/recession in the frontal forelock, and I think I held on to a lot of grafts, those two factors mean that my 4 month result looks better than most people's 1 year result. The other factor is definitely the clinic - UK clinics don't have a great reputation on here, but there are a couple of good ones, and I think "The Maitland" are top of that pile. Unfortunately there are more poor ones than good in the UK, and that is why so many well researched guys from the UK hop onto a plane for the US or Europe (I was at that point before discovering Dr Ball @ The Maitland).
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    I like this result, I think its very well done, and while I agree, its not easy to spot the before/after difference, I imagine the difference to the individual in question is like night and day. While I can understand the guys with aggressive hairloss being somewhat dismayed at those with heads of hair they would be thrilled with getting work done, there are a few thing to bear in mind: 1) Hairloss is a very personal/individual thing - sometimes severe MPB has no effect on an individual i.e. Jason Statham, and sometimes mild thinning/recession can be mentally crippling. So "need" is very subjective - nobody is going to die if they don't get it done. 2) The guy in question has gone through considerable time and expense to achieve the result, I don't think a HT is something anybody does on a whim, so it must have bothered him a lot to go through it all 3) The work looks ethical - the guy isn't 20 and the hairline hans't been lowered significantly to what he had as a kid, it's effectively fixing a mature hairline in place for the rest of the guys life, we all know how much mental energy a creeping hairline exhausts, so well worth doing this I was a similar case to this, albeit slightly more receded and slightly more thinned in the front, and had the same type of procedure i.e. essentially fixing my hairline in place with nothing placed more than a few millimetres away from my existing mature/whispy hairline. I'm thrilled with my result. Its great that HT's are now in a place where guys at all stages can benefit, I'm actually jealous of the guys who are NW5/6/7, while they maybe can't get the very best end result per se, they get the biggest change from baseline, so they are very lucky in that respect.
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    Hi All, I posted about my 1400 FUE with Dr Ball in Hampshire back in October (at the 2 month stage), original thread here: http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/188104-1400-fue-dr-edward-ball-uk.html Im now at 4 months post op so thought I would share my latest progress. I would be happy to hear any opinions/feedback from users on my results. Personally, I couldn't be happier, I've pretty much achieved all the objectives I had at the start, which were to correct my slightly "lopsided" hairline, thicken the front to remove the "see through" look (my scalp was becoming more an more visible in the front) and also be able to grow my hair out longer (without it looking a scraggy mess). My pre-op pics are all in the original link....here is 4 months (and still more to go?!?!?)
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    Ah David, I do have a regimen that I've been on since our consultation back in June and it may be contributing to the rapid growth. I hope the sight of my blotchy red head didn't put your prospective patient off. My regimen: 1mg Propecia (every day) 0.5mg Avodart (every other day, just to give the DHT suppression an added kick) Minoxidil (morning and night) I'll probably go down to minoxidil just at nights, and cut the Avodart to once or twice a week, but at this stage it's all working so well with the HT that I wouldn't dare change anything! Best wishes. H.
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