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who is she? Cotelessa?

great hairline design, I think the density is very appropriate...I just think HLC overuses grafts. I saw Couto's works, De Freitas's works etc in great details. They use 50-60% of the grafts HLC used to cover that area. At the end of the story, you pay more at HLC... PS is ALIF still there? I saw looking for ever but could not find on HLC page

I see. Bicer apart, do you think is it worth paying a Turkish transplant the same price of a Spanish transplant? Was Turkish TOP surgeons (Peki...ner, Keser, Bicer, Ozgur) underpaid before or are they overpriced now?

4 manual and 3 motorized extractions. I do not any of her patients but, from what I see, she is some of the sweetest person in the business.

@Rahal Hair Transplant you deserve a wow!

I rarely saw a "wow" HT from Bicer but I think it depends from the fact that she doesn't pay great attention to marketing. All the pics I saw are "home made", with poor lightings and poor background. BTW, she is solid as a rock. Never read of someone regretting the HT with her. And she is one of the most ethical people in the business for sure. Wonder why she increased her prices by 100% in one year. More and more people are asking for her? monetary inflation? At the moment, she is more expensive than De freitas, pinto, vila... In your honest opinion, is she worth 4 euro grafts?

thanks god. only point 3: People bump their heads on a flight very frequently. Just do not pay attention to that and forget about it. I bumped my head during the flight but nothing happened.

Two totally different topic. If you are looking for rhino, you can search a doctor in any part of the world. If you are looking for rhino-filler, the doctor should be close to your house, because you need it frequently.

You got the point! You can put all the hair of the world on the scalp, but if you don't work on temporal angles and (if necessary) on temporal peaks, the hair will never frame your face and you barely will be "nicer".

Looking for an hairline restoration, who are the best "wow factors" doctors on the market? In my opinion, no particular order Couto Ferreira De Freitas Pinto

Are you sure Pekiner is good for a such difficult case? From my prospective, he is a great doctor but he loves working to improve good head. He rejected some of us after extractions because (after extracting) he thought that we were not good candidates.

Hope I do not offend @ticker but considering that he is 95% satisfied, I think he will not feel offended. For me is a good work. Maybe a very good work. I read people writing it a masterpiece. Wonder if people have prejudices. If it wasn't de freitas' work but an HT from a less famous/prestigious surgeon, maybe many people were looking flaws every cm2.

you are NW 4...just to be kind! The good news is your hair have a good covering effect.

now Bicer is charging 3 for motorized and 4 for manual. Do you guys think is he worth the price? I didn't follow her works during years so I can't give any judgment.

let me say that a good doctor can do his diagnosis in 2 minutes. BTW, I understand your concerns. It is fair that the doc gives you enough time to express your perplexities, to make questions etc. I had a free consultation with a doc (I won't name her name until I will book with her) and she spent 25 minutes talking with me.

When you read a research, the "results" show the "average" result. For example, are 6 training sets better than 4. Result: yes, we saw a 25% in hypertrophy. If you read the whole paper, you see that some people got 40% improvements while others got better results with 4 sets. That means, the efficacy is very subjective. That is true for everything in the medical world. If 99% of people get results from something, that doesn't mean it works for you. You can be the 1% outlier.

PS: I see some thinning over your ears. I think that fina/duta are mandatory for you to improve your donor area

the only thing I do not like about this HT is where the doc placed the frontotemporal angle. In any case, the works look like very good.

You look great. I think dr Bicer is "underrated". She is consistent and she works on "desperate" cases improving her look!

probably, treamtmentns won't fix the problem at 100%. In any case, before HT, take care of your self with minoxidil, fina etc. If you improve your hair, you will need less grafts, saving your donor area. And do not forget, even if you had an unlimited donor, God is the best surgeon. keep HT at the minimum possibile.

Before??? OMG, you were full of hair!!! where did they put new hair?!!?

It is not so easy: pro-inflammatory prostaglandins can increase (d2) or reduce (E2) hair loss. DHT is supposed to be related to some pro-inflammatory PG related to hair loss. But DHT (and consequently pro inflammatory factors) are just some pieces of the puzzle. This is vey intriguing: "The logical therapeutic approach for AGA treatment addressing the underlying pathology should be complete reversal of follicle miniaturization and de-pigmentation either by suppression of testosterone to DHT conversion, or by blockage of ARs. However, drug treatment involving increasing blood flow (Minoxidil) or decreasing androgen formation (Finasteride) did not effectively serve these purposes. Recently, it was found that the scalp of male AGA patients retain normal number of HF stem cells but the progression from stem cells to progenitors cells is severely blocked 1. This stem cell inactivation coincides with the known phenomenon of progressive follicle miniaturization during hair cycling".

When I replied before, I didn't read the study but trusted you. The longevity of the HF of donor area is the same theory suggested by the authors "It has been found that the miniaturization does affect the occipital donor hair, and this may be the cause of reduction in the density of the transplanted hairs. "

you look great.

I agree with you. I was asking Melvin to elaborate because I never heard of shock loss during op. By the other way, your last pic confirmed it was not shock loss.