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How is your overall health? Medical issues like diabetes and thyroid problems can contribute to hairloss regardless of transplant or finasteride.
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Unfortunately you’ll need an in person consultation to properly answer the question. Some people do have three strip procedures. Assuming you have enough donor capacity, it would depend on how much laxity you have left, and you’d have to have that checked by the surgeon.
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Agree with posters above. At the same time, many variables affect the length of the surgery, and some would be specific to you and your case. For example, some people have “mushy” skin which can slow down extractions. Implanting in between long hair can slow things down. Dense, or ultra dense packing takes longer. Also, some people have grafts that are more prone to pop out after placement and need to be repositioned. A clinic may perform a 2000 graft surgery on one patient and it takes six hours start to finish and the same team may take nine hours on another 2000 graft surgery on someone else.
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Everybody has random hairs falling out everyday, maybe 50-100 per day, assuming a full head of hair. But if they are terminal they should grow back. If miniaturized maybe not.
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Yes, but it’s not as much wasted compared to FUE as you would think. That’s because when you extract a single or double with FUE it may in fact be a double or triple with one follicle in telogen and the telogen follicle can be transected during extraction. No question that FUE does prevent the wasting of one hair follicles in telogen, which is about 1% of the strip according to Bernstein.
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Not sure about that. Bernstein estimates the number of one hair telogen follicles wasted in the strip to be as low as 1% of all follicles in the strip. Wasted telogen follicles from multis vary from 1%-5% depending on how the strip is trimmed. https://www.bernsteinmedical.com/answers/telogen-phase-after-hair-transplantation/
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HairClone: Pipe Dream or Scam?
Spaceman replied to VicTNYC's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
Hair Folicle Banking. I can see why it would be attractive to many HT doctors. It’s another service that they could sell. They’d get paid for extracting the grafts for storage and maybe kickback from HairClone’s storage fees. It’s yet another high margin, generally harmless, but likely totally useless service peddled by the hair restoration industry. Seems only useful for someone at risk of losing every single hair on their head. -
TOTAL newbie. So many questions.
Spaceman replied to SixHouse's topic in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers
No point in getting a consultation from a bad clinic. You can’t trust what they say. Bosley says your safe zone is too small for 2500 FUE grafts. That’s a really small safe zone and it doesn’t match the level of loss you describe. Or they could be wrong. -
New AI Robot ready to replace Ht docs??
Spaceman replied to VicTNYC's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
I wouldn’t consider Artas at this point either, nor would I recommend it to anyone. I do think it is possible, however, that robotic technology will continue to improve and may eventually be better than the human hand. Consider tasks like making incisions. Robots should be able to control angle, depth, and spacing better than people. I’m not saying it’s there yet, but I do think someday it could be. I wonder which will happen first, robotic technology improves to rival the top doctors, or the development and commercialization of hair cloning/duplication technology? -
I think it’s standard to use such loupes during extraction and implantation. I don’t know if they examine grafts under microscope with DHT. It’s more about minimizing out of body time. Even so they can probably ensure that most grafts are singles just with loupes. You may miss a few multis with follicles in telogen. As you probably know the Eugenix doctors are active here so you may want to PM them about it.
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Loupes are used to select FU for excision in FUE and for graft placement. Stereo microscopes (~10x) are used for examining/dissecting grafts post FUE excision or from a strip. Many FUE clinics don’t use microscopes but most of the best ones do.
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Don’t you think that depends upon the ability of the surgeon to dense pack the hairline area and the patient’s hair characteristics? I say that because in my case, the first few rows are all singles and it does not look weak or pluggy. I’m sure with less density it would.
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Very nice six month result. I imagine it will look even better as it matures and the length evens out.
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Upshall, sorry, didn’t mean to redirect your thread. Most causes of poor growth have been mentioned. Poor growth is caused by poor surgical protocol or execution, post-op care issues (particularly in the first week post-op), and other unknown “x factor” issues that Gas refers to as genetics. If you see tiny wispy hairs now, then you are probably on track. That’s what most people would see at 3+ months.
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Great, maybe you can provide a link?
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Where do you get these numbers from?
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The first few rows of hair should be singles. Refined surgeons will excise enough singles (or split multis) to create a natural looking hairline.
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It may be folliculitis. An infected ingrown hair that formed a pimple that “popped”. They are pretty common in the recipient at your stage.
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As far as concealers go, its going to be some combination of dermatch directly to the skin to color the scalp, toppik fibers (or similar) over that to add texture, and a few spurts of the color spray to blend it all together. Then some hairspray to hold it all in place. You may need to blend colors and try a few times to get the best look. Best of luck!
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Dr Lorenzo 2101 grafts done April 2018
Spaceman replied to davehhh1's topic in Hair Transplant Reviews
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2500 grafts DHI
Spaceman replied to Dr.Cinik Hair Transplant C's topic in Results Posted by Leading Hair Restoration Clinics
You should provide more details about the procedure and better quality pictures in better light from multiple angles. One can’t really assess the result with the minimal information provided. -
You should avoid neograft as well. It’s a robotic method that does not produce the quality of results that the best surgeons achieve. Dr Vories is legit. Keep doing your research.