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Thanks again @Sam818 I have consultation with Dr Rassman to ask about scar management/a dermatologist recommendation. I saw him answer a lot of these kinds of questions on RealSelf...lets see where it goes from there.

In the mean time, I've been researching top dermatologists around the country. Once I find someone that clicks, I may think about posting my procedures online here.

Thank you so much @Sam818 I really appreciate the response.

The his clinic seems to be in the UK? https://www.hishairclinic.com/ 

Can you suggest something in USA and not necessarily socal (kinda scary to see so many clinics just interested in money and not healing)? I prefer not to travel internationally in these times.

Here's a pic of my scar under lighting. I was hoping for ways to improve this.

That being said, if anyone has a first class dermatologist who has experience with healing recipient scars that they can recommend in California (or in USA), I'd be absolutely grateful 10 folds. 

Honestly, I think for the long term, it doesn't make any sense for me to have a hair transplant. I've realized it was very silly of me to have pursued this in the first place. I should've accepted balding from the beginning. I have a fairly solid head shape and I was going through a phase of unchecked insecurity. I guess I didn't have a proper male father figure to set me straight.

That being said, if you really are a candidate for HT (norwood 4 at age 40 for eg), then by all means go for it. But I am destined to be a Norwood 7. It's clear to me that I was wasting time and energy from the beginning. I want to say Dr Diep and Dr Bisanga have done amazing jobs given what they had to work with. But it's time to put all this behind me. I'm taking the Joe Rogan approach and going for a shaved look.

Right now I want to clear up some of the scars I received from the 2nd transplant I did with the  horrible and arrogant Dr from the southern LA area. I'm sorry if I'm upsetting people, but I really am tired and I want to move away from this nonsense.

Can someone give me a convincing solution to treat mild cobblestoning scars? I am not able to find any online and HT surgeons are saying it's not possible to cure...

Damn if I had known about this, I would've avoided HT entirely. I feel like everything is ruined.

SMP doesn't cure this...

Sam, my scar isn't as bad as these...it's not very visible, but it is slightly visible under certain lighting. I really hope for a solution that doesn't damage the hair follicles. 

I'd say the scars look like cobblestoning. I've attached a photo similar to what I may have (though I'd say it's not as bad). 

How would I go about healing this?

Hi all, I have a shaved look along with some SMP sprinkled in. 

I have recipient scarring which is obvious when light hits my scalp. It looks dotted. How can I heal this? Is it not possible?

Starting a second thread as the first was unfortunately corrupted...My surgery w Dr Bisanga went well. I'm happy w the result. I had the procedure on Nov 2018

Before surgery:

Jan 2019:

Feb 2019:

April 2019:

Current (August 2019):

Shoutouts to Dr Bisanga and his assistant Hilde. They did a great job.

Very smart answers guys! Thanks!! Will look into these.

I'm going to get a hair transplant later this year on the back of my head...donor is depleted and a bit patchy, so I thought I could fix it up by adding some chest hair to it. 

But how would I rest/recover without rubbing the back of head against anything? I most likely will do this procedure overseas...so I'm sure the flight trip back would be very inconvenient if I cannot lay back to rest my head.

Hey guys, I'm doing well so far. I've been healing well with Bisanga post op going to reach 3 months in 2 weeks. Already I see quite a bit of hair growth in the recipient...this is great considering my grafts only came from beard and chest. I 'll post some updates in a different thread.

I've spoken to Bisanga about the thigh hair...they suggest doing a test next time I visit Brussels. But for now I'm focussing on a successful 1st repair.

3 hours ago, Curious said:

For what it's worth, I've used arm and leg hair, and it grew.  Finasteride did not affect my body hair.

Nice! Who was your doctor? What was the transection rate (ratio of what was harvested and what ultimately grew)?

Hey I'll post my front side later on a different thread and on a different time. I don't want to do it here. I wanted to get more opinions on leg hair specifically.

Thanks guys, yeah, leg hair is my dark horse. It's thick enough to give it a shot. I'm also not sure if my donor area is thinning...It feels and looks thick to me. It's just...depleted by the bad surgeon.

I am interested in filing a complaint actually. Not sure what I may get immediately, but I at least hope it could deter future clients... I wish I had known, but even people on these forums tout him as a great unorthodox solution. Actually he's polarized. Many people like him and equally hate him. I now understand why people hate him.

In fact, the doctor is even mentioned here in this very thread. That should give you a hint as to who botched me.

Here's a close pic of my thigh... They are about 4 weeks in after shaving.

Thanks for the responses guys. Currently I'm going under a repair plan with Bisanga...I'm already month 2 post OP to fix my recipient. He's doing this with pure chest and beard hairs. I'm already seeing some growth!! For donor he also suggested SMP.

But just wondering is it not reasonable to at least test leg hairs of 400 grafts to see what may happen? I assume the worst is that they wouldn't grow or could the scarring get worse?

I would look at Belgium: Bisanga, Mwamba, and Feriduni. Can't really go wrong with either. Just interview them and pick the one you feel is the best fit. I personally choose Bisanga, but I'm biased as my latest procedure was with him.

Here is my wet leg hair...I was wondering if I can use this to hide my scars...at least do a test to see if things grow alright.

Sure, here are my photos. In one of the pics I'm shaved fully.

On the other ones, you can see a depleted donor area under bright light...which was caused by a poor surgeon who I mis-chose. He's actually recommended here...I may want to write a negative review on him later and hopefully help others.

I do have beard and some chest hair...but I was really hoping to save them for the top / crown in the future. 

From chest I think I can get 1000 grafts. Beard, I think I can get 2500 grafts. Stomach, I think I can get 1500 grafts

I just have a lot of leg hairs than can grow up to 2 inches long...I feel like I have 5000 grafts at least from leg lol.

Also I'm not on fin nor will I ever want to.

I had a 2nd FUE hair transplant by a doctor that didn't do a good job. I feel he over harvested.

Is it possible to find better FUE doctor and have them extract hairs from my thigh/legs and use them to cover my scars in my donor area?

Any suggestions of doctors besides the one in Redondo Beach, CA? Any documented cases?

Thanks!

^Yeah thanks. Still a bit stressed out to see what Bisanga can do. I'm still waiting for the results like OP here...currently I'm 1.6 months post-op. Before I write a post on the botch by my previous surgeon, I want to see success from Bisanga to prove to myself that it was indeed a surgeon issue and not a body physiology issue.

Nice Marshal. I'll post at 3 months if things proceed well...I'm recovering from a failed transplant from "an expert surgeon" actually recommended on this site. Will address that later but I'm grateful Bisanga took me in. Now i'm just waiting...

OP Not sure why you chose FUT route...perhaps you would've gotten a better result with FUE. At least recovery and damage control are better with FUE...

I'm really sorry things aren't working out as well as you wanted...I definitely understand wasting away the youth part...I'm facing a similar problem myself.

Perhaps you can try a buzz cut look and getting some grafts placed + SMP on your scars?