journeyman

You're not seeing as big of a difference because you're looking at your hair every day and analyzing every day. Your hair looks good right now at 4 months. I can clearly make out the better hairline vs. your preop. The preop profile view picture you can tell you're Norwood 4 in the front even with that tuft of hair. Your 4 months postop pictures have hidden that Norwood 4. It won't be as thick has the rear half of your scalp, but it should thicken enough to blend successfully.

Correct, temple points are different. They are the red arrows. Temple angle closure is what is shown above the orange line (left is before, right is 5.5 months postop), the orange line helps show how much of the temples were filled. Some people have the temples filled entirely where the transplanted hair would lay flush on that orange line and close the temple angle entirely, but that is a more aggressive hairline and Caucasian men naturally have some minor recession in the temples. Closing it entirely is best for other ethnicities. The white chalk line in the second picture can be ignored as that wasn't where my grafts were placed.

It's filling in the actual temples and closing the gaps. The angle closure is filling the temples' perpendicular recession of the hairline and angling it more horizontal with the hairline. It widens the hairline when looked at in a frontview and make a very significant difference. You go from a balding hairline to a mature hairline when they are filled in, it's crazy how big of a difference it makes. I have a good photo showing this I'll post it when I get off work.

Your crown doesn't look too bad from the backside. I also think that tuft of hair in the front (the forelock) helps a lot for the front, some guys lose that entirely. Maybe split the 1,800 grafts, 900 to pull the temples forward a tad and thicken the front of the hairline, and 900 for the crown. I have fine hair and the same hairloss pattern as you and this is what I did (1,900 grafts). A diffused head of hair looks better than bald spots IMO.

Good to know this. I do have at the very least 50% of my grafts sprouted at this point (5 months). I have been looking at several areas on my head (one area shown below) and they been looking the same for these 5 months now, so this helps affirm all I will need to do is endure the waiting game more. This is why I hate doing any medical research solely online (except this site, it's pretty knowledgable), because most google results say the telogen phase is 3 months, which now seems obviously wrong.

I noticed some of my new grafts transplanted 5 months ago still do not have hairs growing. I am under the impression when you transplant, the hairs reset to the telogen phase, but this phase is only 3 months. So to me I would assume that all FUE grafts would be having hairs growing out of them, and the ones not growing, even if it's just thin wispy hairs, are to be considered dead. I do understand waiting 1 year before final determination, but I assume all my grafts should be having some type of growth by now, no matter how thin or vellous the hairs are. A good portion of my grafts do have growth fortunately.

Crown was performed just a few days ago, have to wait on results for that. Front hairline was done 5 months ago in late March! Front hairline received 900 grafts. The crown received 1,000 grafts with many 3-hair grafts .

Hello. Left is before (been on finasteride for 2 years since this picture was taken). Right image is 3 days post-op. How does the spacing and health of the grafts look? They said I had a lot of 3-hair grafts. Thank you.