LaserCap

PRP and laser, when done together, (and correctly), can help reverse miniaturization and can help bring in results of a transplant a lot faster.  A few providers really know what they're doing and are getting awesome results.  Like any other modality, however, these need to be done periodically to maintain the effect.  

SMP can be a great technique, particularly to camouflage thinning.  It can help minimize the contrast. So, if you have dark hair and light scalp, it can help you postpone a procedure.  Make sure they use organic ink so the body can metabolize it.  Then repeat as needed/required.

I can gladly guide you to providers that do these things.....

I honestly don't think it's a matter of age. Well, perhaps a little - but more for how mature the patient is.  A good understanding of what's involved is huge.

First consider family history....Next your own pattern and how much donor you have available. (And always keep in mind, if you've shown the propensity to lose, this will continue).

I am glad to hear you've been on some type of medical therapy.  Please continue.  It truly takes a good year to see if you'll experience enhancement.  

Looking at your crown, yes you are thin - but not to the point you should be considering transplants.  Remember, we all share a whirl.  This is the weakest area for all of us and to be a bit thin is normal and natural.

My suggestion is to continue the course and, perhaps, add another modality to the mix.  A laser, Rogaine, something.  Also, take a set of photos and put them away and do the same thing 6 months from now.  I'll venture to say you'll look fuller than you look today.

You are keeping your hair rather short.  Consider growing it for another week....

Best results in a quick time...how quick?

Board certification....in hair restoration?

Expertise....Where did you learn? Do your doctors have fellowships?

What types of procedures do you offer?

You are very young and already with an advanced pattern.  You seem to be dipping in the donor area as well.  Fortunately, however, there seems to be a good amount of native hair left.  You said you had side effects due to the medication.  When? Right after taking the medication? Months later?

Propecia, Rogaine, Laser and PRP are the modalities we typically discus when taking about retention of the native hair.  You need to be on all of them and keep a record.  Start taking photos.

It is concerning to think you are considering more grafts.  I realize the situation you find yourself in, but be judicious with your grafts.  There is a finality to the donor and eventually you'll have nothing to work with.  Additionally, if the grafts are taken from an area where the hair is lost, (in the donor area), eventually you will lose those grafts, wherever they're placed.  

Listen to Melvin.

Unfortunately you are generalizing and assuming a number of things that may or may not be true.  In the 30+ years I've been involved in this industry, I can count with one hand the number of patients that considered a system from the get-go.  It is unrealistic to think that a young guy with receding temporal points is going to shave his entire head and put a system on. Is there a place for a system, however?  Sure!  This is the class 7-8 that has no donor hair available.  He has exhausted all options and has had a number of consultations.  Have I encounter this! Of course. most of us have.  Further, a number of combinations come up.  A smaller piece could be used for the crown.  How about the patient that uses a system for the mid back and transplants the front to add more naturalness?  The combinations are endless.  Clips, glue, woven.  Whatever, it can be done.  Some are so natural that it is difficult to detect.

You indicate that people are apprehensive because of the blood.  It never crossed my mind and seldom does this come up.  

Great wigs are expensive.  I give you that.  But for the average consumer, $40?  I've seen them.  Compare this to $5K - $10K and you can see that it is an attractive option for someone with no means.

I can understand why you wrote the piece the way you did.  But the fact is, most of what you have offered can be easily discussed during a consultation.  Educating the patient and discussing all these options should be the approach. We are communicators looking out for the interest of others

Urgent!! But you want to stay conservative.  Go figure.

800 grafts is what is needed to do an eyebrow and does absolutely nothing - which is what you have.  Who convinced you of such thing?  Did you pay a lot? Bet not.

Criticism aside, Where exactly did they place the grafts?  Unfortunately, and because the way the photos are taken, it is hard to say if the current hairline you have is in the middle of your forehead or higher up.  

You have curly hair which gives you more lateral coverage, a nice benefit to have.  Your hair also seems coarser.  Negative? your hair is stark black and there will always be a bit of contrast between the color of the hair and the skin.  

Again, and because of the angle, it is hard to see what is going on throughout your head.  Because you are concentrating the photos to the frontal third, I can only assume this is where the grafts were placed.  Were they placed on the corners only or placed diffusely through the whole front?

Are you doing any type of medical therapy, (Rogaine, Propecia, Laser or PRP?  

You will need TONS of grafts to achieve the density that you seem to have elsewhere.  And, perhaps, multiple procedures. This will use up a big percentage of the available grafts in the donor area.  Was your first procedure FUT?  If so, even through it was a small procedure, it will bring up the issue of elasticity.

I want you to run through this exercise:  Look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? (Don't tilt your head down).  The front.  That's what you see, that's what others see when you interact with others.  This is why this area is primordial.  In the crown we all have a whirl.  A distinct point from which hair stems.  It goes in all directions and you don't get the benefit of hair shingling like you do in the front and top.  It typically takes many procedures, large numbers of grafts, and a doctor that knows what to do. Perhaps you can take a better set of photos, and of your whole head.

There are many contributors in this site that will truly help you, just need more info.

A lot of common sense in what you wrote.  Currently, Propecia, Rogaine, laser and PRP are the only FDA approved/released modalities currently being discussed by most practitioners when it comes to hair loss.  There are tons of other things out there that people swear by.  Like I tell people, if they work for you, continue using them.  

Most, if not all of the "modalities" out there that can help with retention, do work in different ways and are thus synergistic when used simultaneously.  Most believe it takes about 1 year to see what these meds will do.  So create a baseline.  Take tons of photos and repeat every 3-6 months.  In one year you will have a decent idea if the loss has slowed down, stopped, or you are reversing the thinning.

Chances101 did ask - why aren't you a candidate for transplants?  Are you experiencing global thinning?