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9 hours ago, Gatsby said:

I personally don’t believe in exhausting your scalp donor supply before tapping into beard hair. You will still need scalp grafts to mix with beard grafts. If you opt for beard grafts make sure that you research how good they are in utilizing them (Eugenix, etc). All the best. 

Yes this is my thinking. Mix in some beard grafts when I get the crown done to save donor capacity for my front and mid section as I have native hair there and also a small amount in my hairline 

Thank 

12 hours ago, Curious25 said:

I think it’s good to always keep at least 2000 scalp grafts in reserve , if you are younger than 50. 
 

I would go with Lorenzo’s judgement though as he is excellent - you can ask him his thoughts, however I imagine he will be comfortable because you still have 1500, potentially more, remaining from your scalp. 
 

Have you made a thread ? Post up some pics, it will be good to see. 

Yes I will talk to Dr Lorenzo and see what he thinks. I just want to play the long game and make sure I don’t run out of donor if things look worse years down the line. 

It looks good you can’t tell it’s been touched. I think the extraction pattern was very good. 
 

Do you think it’s better to exhaust the donor before going for beard / body?

Hi I’m just after some advice. I had a 3300 graft FUE to the frontal third with Dr Lorenzo 3 weeks a go. This was part of a two step strategy which I will go back in April for another 3000-3200 grafts to fix my crown. 

After this I will have used up most of my donor capacity which is around 8000 so 1500 or so left. 
 

I’m on fin and hopefully I won’t loose much or any more native hair but I’m thinking would it be better to play it safe and use some beard grafts to the crown to save donor for the front should I loose more native hair in the future. 

Has anyone gone for a similar approach? Or could give me their thoughts on my idea. 
 

Many thanks 

I often read about people seeing what they think is a graft following hair transplant and understandably worrying.
 

I found a few hairs that seemed like they might have the bulb attached and thought they were probably failed grafts. This was a few days after HT and there was no pain or bleeding. Anyway I had 3300 grafts and reading up on survival rates I would be expecting 90-95% from good clinic.
 

So what happens to the 150-300 non surviving grafts?? 

I didn’t see more than 2 and I’m in no way sure they were grafts. Surely every transplant has 100’s of grafts that die. Does anyone know what happens to them I’m just curious?