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How long from when you offered to pay 9 euro per graft were they able to get you in for a procedure ? I feel like now that some people will pay $9 a graft the $5 a graft will get pushed off to the long end of the waiting list

It's honestly really unfortunate his wait list is so long. If he just had a better way to streamline his consultations it would be easier so so many people who are ready to go don't have to wait so long

Zarev consultations are in 2025-2026 right now and his surgeries are booked 1-2 years later

I think I need to pop a finasteride pill right now because I have an absolutely massive hair envy erection

I would love to see a zarev patient sides shaved to a 1/2 or 1 guard to see what the scarring looks like.

If you watch some of his youtube videos you can see how he can do what he does. Below are two videos which show his surgical technique and how he can accomplish transpants with such high graft counts. The main points of his technique are as follows At your consultation he develops a long term plan on how many grafts you need to cover your area of balding. So lets say if you are a norwood 6 he will make measurements on your head on where to place your hairline and then develop a calculation of the number of grafts you need for full coverage. If he determines you need 10000 fue grafts to cover the entire norwood 6 area he will see if your donor zone has this capacity so if your donor area has "20000 total remaining folliucar units in the entire donor" he will recommend extracting 50% of the donor in a "homogenous" way which depletes the donor equally allowing him to remove such high graft counts without the donor looking moth eaten or depleted. It does deplete but its equally across the whole donor. So to the naked eye the donor looks the same after surgery I believe the vacuum assisted FUE machine he uses allows him to use a tiny punch size which minimizes scarring but "sucks up" the fue graft dislodging it (it doesnt suck it into a tube). This allows him to then easily remove the graft with tweezers and not harm adjacent follicular units allowing him to extract more grafts without damaging neighboring follicles. when he places the fue grafts into the recipient area he does so in a homogeneous way and in a way to optimize graft survival. So because each FUE graft needs blood flow to survive he doesnt "dense pack" but distributes the grafts equally ensuring survival and getting full homogeneous coverage. Density is then added in subsequent surgeries over time as needed. This is why his patients he performs surgeries on with high norwoods are booked for a 2 day session then a follow up session 10 months later to add density (like HugoX) He does not do 10000 fue grafts in one sitting. He will do 3-4000 fue grafts in one 11 hour surgical day and then a second surgery the next day for 8000 fue grafts over 2 days. A final follow up density surgery is booked for 10mo later to finish the case completely. He doesn't use microscopes to separate follicular units. During his micro camera analysis of your donor zone he maps out different parts of your donor. There are areas in the donor zone that apparently only have singles, other areas doubles, others triple fue units, so when he extracts grafts the separates them based on the location of the donor he got the grafts from. I assume this just results in less handling of the grafts preventing damage to them and increasing survival rates Grafts are implanted with a choi implanter pen. He does not use lateral slit or scalpels for preparing recipient sites so when he works on a patient it appears there is less trauma to the recipient area which may help with graft survival. His surgical field is clean. He is very meticulous Finally every step of the procedure is completed by him. Apparently no one else touches a patients head other than Zarev. It allows for consistency in results Zarev appears to be active on another hair transplant forum He just posted another case there. See the below videos for his technique https://bellicapelli.forumfree.it/?t=79701174

Absolute fue GOAT

Absolutely amazing. There is no doubt in my mind zarev is the best in the world.

Can you take a pic from directly overhead ?

Any before and after photos? It would really help the community if you shared your results for all of us.

Question for anyone who has had a transplant with Zarev or with a clinic overseas. How is the infection control at his office? Are things like implanter pens reused on multiple patients ? What about sterilization techniques? This has always been a worry of mine on getting a hair transplant in an area other than North America.

How's the donor?

Cant wait for my consultation in 2025.

Did you message him directly? Or did you just message their generic Whatsapp number? I booked a consult with them in 2025. I paid the $150 euro but have not received a confirmation email or anything (even after asking for one 😂). I called to book the consult and have been chatting through whatsapp with whom I assume is their receptionist.

There is a post on hairlosstalk forums by a poster named Omega2327 who posted his results as well and the results are good