Hi,
I want to share my results after undergoing FUE surgery with Dr Erkan Demirsoy, at Armamed clinic in Istanbul.
There are already many posts with the reasons why to choose Demirsoy, experiences at the clinic, advices, etc... where I don't have anything new to add. Therefore I will just share the results so far and some observations I have for my case specifically.
Before Dr. Demisroy I had had another FUE surgery with approx 3000 grafts some 10 years ago. Dr Demisroy recommended me4000 - 4500 grafts for my HT, but recommendation was to do it in two sessions. The reason was that my donor area was already sparse. I could see that too, that in the donor area I could notice the density of hair was lower (probably because of the previous surgery). To me it also made sense with the two-step approach, as in this case you could see the progress after the first step and then make a more educated decision for the second one.
Actually now I'm a bit worried with my donor area which looks sparse and I don't want to make it look even worse. So I've still not decided whether to go with the second step. Will see a bit later how it will look after some more months.
Here are the photos taken before the operation taken in the clinic, and up until now.
Before shaving:
After shaving:
After operation:
Two weeks post-op:
2 months after surgery:
As one can see, now after two months it looks that most or all of the new hair had fallen off. Compared to the pics from two weeks after surgery, the hair has shedded a lot. I'm hoping the new hair should start growing soon. You can also see the donor area looks weaker than before and you can see recognize the extraction area. Probably no surprise having in mind that approx 5500 grafts in total were already extracted from there.
Will post later with the new pics.