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  1. Rolandas
    Great write up and of course amazing hairline. I'm always impressed by Dr. Ferreira's hairlines as you can clearly see finer singles in the very front. Not many places are actually taking the time to find those finer singles! I had some fibrin build up after surgery as well, so been spraying a lot of saline (pretty much every 20 min) for the first2 days 48 microns is definitely fine hair. I had 50/51 (just to give you an idea). Average hair/graft is really impressive. This should give you a great density! Next few months will be with no change after shedding is finished, so grow some patients and focus on other things in life. Once day you'll be surprised to see some movement happening in there!
  2. Rolandas
    I think you might have been too gentle when washing them off. Did Dr. Ferreira came back to you about this?
  3. Rolandas
    Nah man, my girlfriend keeps nagging me to cut my hair short. Man bun won't going to happen! haha In any way I'm comparing myself to myself. I'm already ahead of how I looked, and to be honest, I'm already ahead of my entire family haha But nevertheless I'm happy for your result. Truly a game changer and I'm hoping to get "to the other side" soon too
  4. Rolandas
    Ehh, not that bare I'm slick bald in the front (had maybe 13 hairs haha)
  5. Rolandas
    Very good approach. I feel like exactly in the same shoes like you were once. 10 months in after my first round. Had up to 55 grafts/cm2 in the hairline, but because my hair is very thin (~50nm) it doesn't look as thick. I do believe you on 100 grafts/cm2. Did you have a lot of native hair in those areas to begin with or is it 100% transplanted density? I'm going after exact same approach. Step by step. With 1 surgery for high norwood level is impossible to achieve outstanding result, especially if hair shaft diameter is fine like ours. Thanks for your response!
  6. Rolandas
    Two words - HOLY F*&K! It almost feels like you came here to troll us all haha Of course 8300 grafts is a lot of grafts, but damn this looks good! Do you happen to know some finer details of your surgeries? I'm a bit of a HT nerd 🤓, so would be curious to know your hair caliber, average hair per graft, grafts/cm2 in total etc
  7. Rolandas
    Actually I did last video on my exact timeline month by month
  8. Rolandas
    What's up guys, I'm a bit late with my update, but here we are. Month 10 I've put together this short video with a recap of my journey so far and how I felt along the way. Of course at the end usual close-ups. Overall It's still thickening up. It feels much thicker than it was a few months ago! Currently talking to Dr. Ferreira in booking my 2nd surgery. So far closest day is end of May 2021, so either will get on cancellation list, or wait until then Also once I will figure out plan for 2nd surgery, will make sure to update this thread!
  9. Rolandas
    I'm sure you answered your own question correctly. Why don't you try to pull them out right now with your fingers? If they supposed to go, they will go regardless, so might give it a try.
  10. Rolandas
    Don't buy into Dr. Zarev hype. He is one of the best surgeons, but it doesn't mean he consistently does 10,000 fue. It all depends on donor characteristics and if one has very high average hair per graft ratio, then of course it's easier to get more grafts in single session. Also let's not forget hair loss pattern. I was referring to NW7 where relatively small donor area is available. Since FUE requires to spread it out to extract more grafts in single session, this sets huge limits. Besides, Dr. Zarev is doing multiple fue sessions as well. If I recall his biggest is something around 7k grafts in single surgical session, which still is mind boggling, but to be fair, he is using very wide extraction area on NW5 or so with perfect donor conditions. And yes, shock loss is the biggest factor. Not sure why you need scientific evidence of it. It's happening consistently in shit cheap clinics. Extractions are done too close causing shock loss. Of course let's not forget how long such surgeries will take. I had 3659 grafts in 1 surgery over 2 days. Surgery lasted full day from 7:30am to 5:30 pm. I wouldn't like my surgeon to get 6000 grafts via FUE in one go and later to discover that most of it didn't take. Much safer approach with smaller surgeries.
  11. Rolandas
    Appreciate that! I can confirm whenever I look close up at my hairline I always tell myself "holy shit this looks so natural", even though I've seen it hundreds of times
  12. Rolandas
    You brought up really good points on FUT stitches causing transection of surrounding grafts. Never heard much about it to be honest, but it's an interesting theory. Imagine someone NW7, he has very thin donor area. How many grafts would be safe to extract in one surgery? 2000? The patient would need to get 3 surgeries to get only 6000 grafts (considering donor management while extracting was spot on). There would be still chances of permanent shock loss. There are no guarantees it won't happen even in best hands. 6000 grafts on NW7 is good, but not enough. 6k grafts could have been extracted in 1 strip. Of course chances of shock loss are there too with fut, but overall chances are smaller as the patient would have only 1 surgery as opposed to 3. Of course all these numbers are just random, but hope this show my though process.
  13. Rolandas
    But this is the reason why fue might be superior technique than fut right? Of course if someone is NW6/7, then definitely FUT will be the way to go regardless of survival. Donor management is still they key.
  14. Rolandas
    Most of you probably heard that FUT has higher survival rate.. But is it? I found one study that shows otherwise! Imagine, they cut FUT strip on the right side of his donor, and FUE punches on the left side O_O Of course it all depends who is doing your surgery, so don't jump into conclusions too early! What do you think? Btw here's the study https://www.ishrs-htforum.org/content/28/5/179
  15. Rolandas
    Interesting... Do you think Melvin it's due to patient healing ability, or there's something more to it thats happening during the surgery? I'm just genuinely curious.
  16. Rolandas
    This can be it! Makes absolute sense. Punch size is pretty standard, but less trauma per day, thus body can recover easier and faster. Didn't come to my mind
  17. Rolandas
    From what I've seen 0.8mm & 0.85mm punches are quite common. Some surgeons like Dr. Zarev are using even smaller like 0.65mm. I think maybe it's due to hair growth angles. If it's growing straight in the back, the hole overall would be smaller than sides for example where hair growth is more steep (at least for me it was very steep)
  18. Rolandas
    I'm curious if Dr. Ferreira is doing something different in terms of extractions or it's just patient physiology. What I've noticed recently is everyone is healing in donor exceptionally fast. Your back side of donor looks incredible in just 1 day!
  19. Rolandas
    Glad to see hairline wasn't lower too much as you could expect from shit Turkish places. Very appropriate design which will work long term + enough available grafts for the future. My donor in the mid area healee extremely quickly too. On my second day of surgery when I came in they immediately noticed that my donor scars are closed down in central area. Looking forward for your updates!
  20. Rolandas
    Oh absolutely! That was the plan all along since the beginning, 2 step approach. Can't wait to get my second done. If not current pandemic I would have booked it already for January 2021
  21. Rolandas
    9.5 months First of all I want to say a huge thanks for everyone who keeps supporting me during my journey so far. It's really been a life changing experience and I truly can't wait to get second one done and leave this finally behind me! Right now I'm still struggling with thinning mid scalp and crown, but also I still see more hair getting thicker. In this video I will cover: - What's happening with my hair transplant right now - How my hair looks non-washed for 3 days, towel dried & brushed forward - How I'm currently styling them with this length - Close-ups of my HT (direct light | indoors | outdoors) - Donor area Hope you guys find this video informative!
  22. Rolandas
    Wow this looks so good, especially when you compare to where you started. You've been pretty much completely bald! I would be curious to see how your hair looks right now when you spike it up a bit just like you did in month 8. Is there a difference? Other than that, a touch of hair fibers and you have a full set of hair! If you're planning for another surgery, you could reconstruct temporal peaks and put some in crown and it will be a home run. Plenty of beard grafts as donor for extra density in mid scalp.
  23. Rolandas
    I don't know exact numbers, but from what I've heard he has something around 7-10 years of total experience as HT surgeon. He started working in Dr. Lorenzo's clinic from around 2017, and in his own from 2018. No idea about the cases, but looks like he is doing 3-5 surgeries a week (can be 2 day surgery like my own), so should be around 156-260 cases a year. How true is this idk, just did a simple math
  24. Rolandas
    Perhaps if someone is NW3 or so then he goes wider. I've been in touch with him for quite some time, and by the end his representative said "Dr. Pekiner thinks you need X amount of scalp grafts and X amount of beard grafts. He won't change his mind". I've tried to negotiate and say that i don't want to use beard grafts in the first surgery, but this response was the same "he won't change his mind", so this put me away. Once I had surgery with Dr. Ferreira i was very thankful that I've decided not to go with Dr. Pekiner. Reason for this is Dr. Ferreira's assistants showed me my grafts under microscope, and guess what - they were short! I'm 100% sure Dr. Pekiner would abort my surgery as well. During the surgery I asked Dr. Ferreira is this a bad thing to have short grafts, to what he replied - "no, it's quite rare, but nothing to worry about. All your grafts are just short". This lead me to believe that Dr. Pekiner's diagnosis can be incompetent in certain cases. Although I really like Dr. Pekiner and always suggest for people to look at his work and think for themselves, this thing just planted the wrong seed in my head.
  25. Rolandas
    Dr. Pekiner extracts only from the safest area of the donor, considering worst case scenario you would progress to NW6/7. This is not the case with most people, but that's his approach. He proposed to me 3000 grafts (2500 scalp and 500 beard) on my very first HT. I went with Dr. Ferreira, and he estimated around 9000-10000 grafts available before donor depletion. No beard needed.
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