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  1. I have not spoken with Diep about it - my follow up is not until April. Either way, I'm not sure that this would fall under the category of "money refunded" or "free touch up" - although I think an argument can be made that the lack of grafts in the right temple falls below what should be generally acceptable. I'm not sure what would account for this area of sparseness - all the photos I took in the first few weeks shows that the hair was transplanted there. The only thing I can think of is this is an area where there seemed to be a large scab, but the scabbing essentially stayed put until well after day 10ish. I took some follow up photos. I just got the hair cut, so it looks a bit different than the photos posted over the weekend. Here are ones where the hair is dry, just washed, no product (and the hair is generally frizzy here due to the keto treatment): This is after using some wax to style it (I know, doesn't look that different): I didn't used to style my hair this way, with it up and to the side, but this is sort of my only option because the transplanted hair won't drape over in any kind of fringe. Here is the donor area (the best quality I can do on my own with mirror), this is a 3 guard on the back:
  2. Here is my last update and final thoughts (I'm on a different username because I forgot my password and I am too inpatient to wait for account unlock) I overall have mixed feelings about my final result. I think the hair is in general an improvement, but I think that there are some issues, some of which have nothing to do with Diep, others I believe are a result of the procedure execution. 1. The implanted hair texture/density doesn't flow with the natural hair. This is probably out of hands of the doctor, but something that everyone should realize will likely happen unless you are just fortunate to have your existing hair match well with the donor. The hair behind my implanted hair doesn't flow or style very well with the implanted hair. The implanted hair is clearly thicker, because the hair behind it is thinning. My styling routine mostly fixes this, but it is an issue that I have to deal with each day - the hairstyle just doesn't flow naturally like you would expect. 2. Building on point 1 above, which I believe is directly as a result of Diep's work - the angle of the implanted hair does not flow well with the natural hair. Its obviously not implanted standing straight up, but the natural hair flows forward and down, where the implanted hair constantly wants to angle upwards and out. This is especially apparent in the area where the implanted hairline at the temples meets the natural temple points - looking closely at mine the flow is absolutely not natural at all, and its a very obvious indicator where the transplanted hair begins. Again this makes it difficult to style in a natural way. It seems like the angle of the hair is best suited for combing the hair back, which I see a lot of guys do after implants. Unfortunately that style doesn't work for my head or hair, making every style a difficult cross between hair that wants to flow up and back, and hair that I am trying to style down and across. I don't know if this is a limitation of current techniques, or the Dr. didn't utilize fine single grafts to place in this area when they were available. 3. This also adds to 1 and 2, although this isn't the Dr. fault (although I think he could have advised me better on this) - part of the fault for the hair styling issues is that I didn't have much hair implanted in the areas where I already had hair. If I could do it again, it probably would have achieved a better result to just shave the crown and then have some of the grafts implanted further back in the hairline, so that there was a better mix of native and implanted hair. Instead, there are my triangle tufts of implanted hair, and then the natural,thinner,weaker hair right behind it. I expect this will continue to become more of an issue when the hair continues to recede (which it has a small amount since the procedure). 4. There is a small area in my right temple where very few grafts took. I don't know why this happened, but it is annoying thing to look at and work around every day. You can see this in the pictures below. I will add that the picture looks probably worse since you are also seeing continued advancement of the hair thinning, but the implanted area is missing many grafts that should have been placed. 5. There is a lot of stuff said on this forum about Diep's donor areas. I can say that I haven't had any concerns about mine, but I also think that I can't actually know if my donor is in bad shape until I get a second procedure down the road. I think I will probably seek a different doctor just as a precaution since I anticipate needing 2-3 more procedures later in life, and the donor area just looked "really" bad right after surgery compared to other reputable doctors. I'm not sure why it has to be this way when other docs are getting just as good results without leaving a huge mess. Again please keep in mind these photos are putting the hair/transplant in the worst light. My hair looks pretty good when dry/styled (see other progress pics above, not much has changed since my last update) - it's really just the finer details that are bothering me. Going into the procedure, I was hoping that after this, styling my hair in the way I want would be easy/no effort because it would just be in all the right places. Unfortunately that part hasn't really changed much - instead of dealing with a receding hairline, I am dealing with hair that doesn't naturally flow together.
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