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HLC Ankara or Demirsoy Istanbul for a cheaper option.

The hairline is growing nicely, as you said. IMHO the problem is poor hairline design. At 10 months (with. longer hair and at about 80% of new growth) I'll decide if I need to lower the hairline another little bit. I used my first HT to check my grafts quality! this. is why I went very conservative. I thought "if hair growth will be poor, I'll cover transplanted hair with. my natives!"

I can’t ser a great difference from before ht. hope that increased density will help with long hair!

You look great! Very nice job!

Ozgur created a spot for me. The first day they were totally booked so he and Dr Ali worked late on night for me. Really glad for what they did. PS: they considered that I spent a lot of money to delete my flight and bought a new one (and I stayed in Ankara 10 days), so they gave me a discount (I didn't ask for it)

Sure! I'll try to post my pics in the afternoon. For the record, today I had my first haircut. My barber didn't believe I had an HT and he just thought that PRP was working very well! That means 2 things, 1 good and 1 bad. the good one: my HL is very natural the bad one: I didn't have any drastically change!

Thanks for your support, @Portugal25! I have many doubts that Pekiner aborted my Ht because he thought my grafts were weak. Really happy to hear that Concalo good hits surgery with @Dr. Bruno Ferreira ... I'm planning to lower my hairline next year and he is in my top 3.

HLC guys had ...balls! They accepted the challenge...if I had a poor result, it was a very bad advertisement for them!

Thanks Melvin! So sorry I've been here for a while but after my HT I thought that the best thing for me was to take a break from the hair industry and wait...I just waited!

thanks buddy. If it was 0,5/1cm lower...I was ok for the next future anyway, as someone says "density is the key factor" and I can say that my density really improved.

I got my ht in Akara in January , 10 th and 11 th 2020. I was in Ankara because I was going to get my Ht with Kaan Pekiner. I planned 2500/3000 grafts in 2 days (6-7 Jan). As many of you know, after 189 extractions, Pekiner aborted the op, saying I had miniaturized grafts. So, I decided to visit HLC the 7. I explained what happened and I asked to extract some grafts to check if they were healthy. I really liked dr Ozgur: he was smart, funny and confident.He paid a lot of attention to my case. He visited me with all the other doctors in the clinic. They extracted 7 grafts, they said my grafts were ok so I decided. to give them try. (For the record, I sent the dame days my tricopsocy images to bruno Ferreira and he also said my grafts were healthy. I will never be able to show how much I appreciated his diagnosis and I will go into deeper details in the next future). The very hard part was the hairline design because I pekiner shaved my head and because he said that my grafts were weak and he supposed that they weren't going to grow so I was scared to be very aggressive. So I went for a conservative hairline. The op: day 1: Dr. Ozgur made the extractions the first day (about 900 grafts) and dr Ali made. the insertions. I suppose that dr Ozgur wanted to be sure that my grafts were ok. day 2: Dr Ali made both extractions and insertions. In my humble opinion, that used a lot of grafts for a such small area. They calculalted 41 cm2, 50 UF/cm2, 2050 UF. Anyway, if you see the pics, I had my native hairs for about 20 cm2 so something doesn't add up. Post Op customer care: it is their weakest point. They do not contact the patients to ask if everything is ok and they barely answer to the email. I suppose this is because they know their job ...but for me it wasn't easy. Before. op I was using: finasteride 1mg/die topical minoxidil 6ml/die locoidon 1 ml/3 times per week dermoroller 1/week nizoral After the HT, I started to. use oral minoxidil. As you can see, it improved a lot my hair density and thickness. It is incredible. At 4,5, I'm happy with the result. Hope it will improve in the next future. Pics taken at day 0 day 10 day 45 day 60 day 75 day 90 day 120 day 135

They extracted seven fu to see if my donor was ok!

Hlc made me a small test. hope it can help!

When I saw your first pic, I thought "he was not a good candidate for HT.. He had a lot of miniaturized hair so he should have stayed on medication for a while before getting an HT" But, after seeing your results, I shut my mouth up! Great result, congratulations!

There several study on oral and thousands on topical. Both show hair growth and if you compare the results, oral is slightly better. But I am not aware of any study created for the purpose to compare oral and topical. @Min12 I buy it at pharmacy in Italy. It is a bit hard to find in any case.

I read 3 papers on scalp massage. It can't be used as a single treatment but if a person has time and patience...can add massages to his treatment.

I don't think she is a doctor. The one that takes responsibility for hairline design is Ozgur. The patient talks with ozgur not with her.

ah ok, sorry. I didn't know

How can you say that dredd77 had miniaturized hair?

Thanks Bismarck for you recommendation. I check my BP and HR daily and they are perfect. I pay attention to my words because I know that they can help or hurt someone else. So, when I wrote "no sides at all", I meant "no sides at all". In any case, the small for hair growth is so low (typically is 1,25/5 mg) that is harmless. All the researches show no sides at all on heart and blood pressure.. @Melvin-Moderator my post on dermorolling is "hidden". why?

I looked for a research: NOTHING I asked to several doctors: one doctor said 10 days, other doctors said: 6 months another doctor (she worked with dr C and pays a lot of attention to regenerative treatments) said 8 months. Anyway, considering that hair follicle length is something between 3 and 5 mm, I think that 1,5 mm DR shouldn't be harmful. Scalp massage (does it sound strange, uh?!*), in any case, can be a good alternative. *kevin mann made a great video in scalp massage 3 days ago

no sides at all. But, during the last 2 weeks, I'm suffering "puffy eyes". I don't know if it is because oral minoxidil or because I'm sleeping too much during quarantine or just because I'm getting old

According to research, the higher % of minoxidil you use, the better are the results. According to research, oral minoxidil works great. Here my story: I used 5% minoxidil, 1ml, 2 times daily and I had some results I started to use 5% 2 ml, 1 time per day and nothing changed. I started to use 5%, 5-6 ml, 1 time per day and had very good results. I added 2,5 of oral minoxidil to topical minoxidil and the results are AMAZING!

First of all, except you are below 7-8% BF, it is not stubborn. It is just fat. Fat loss is primarily a matter of calories and protein. Given an adeguate amount of protein (2-3 gr/kg BW), if you eat less than your burn, you'll loose fat. There is not magic equation or slimming food. that means: eat less and/or move more. don't give a sxxt to useless thing like "when should I do cardio" "how many calories should I burn from cardio?" "should I have empty stomach cardio?" "how many meals?" "should I eat carbo at night or not?" Eat less than you burn. If you are below 7-8%, you can take care of "stubborn body fat". The main reason you have more fat in some areas is because you have more a2 adrenoreceptors that slow down lypolisys. What can you do? a) starving b) cardio c) food timing. (eat around wait training, have just a few protein during the day, walk a lot/make cardio on empty stomach). you can read "the stubborn fat solution" Lyle McDonald. It can help you a lot

@Irry88, he shaved only the recipient area..but he didn't shave the whole head, right?