Arthur Passos

Quite interesting to see Thiago Bianco work around here. I am also Brazilian and I follow him on instagram for a long time already. I am curious, quanto foi a brincadeira (how much did you pay)?

2 minutes ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Where to unpack? The hairline is WAY too low, the grafts were extracted too high, you can see there’s obvious thinning on the upper lateral hump. I’m at a loss for words.

Yeah, unbelieveable. I even considered questioning him in the video comments, but this would probably make the patient feel bad, so I didn't.

8 hours ago, BeHappy said:

Definitely stay away from this place. This Dr has no idea what a hair transplant can do. It is obvious that there will not be enough donor hair to accomplish filling in the rest of the area in the future. He even drew the corners of the hairline rounded down. I don't know why Drs do this. It is so unnatural. You'd think that any Dr wanting to get into doing hair transplants would AT LEAST take a look at some real hairlines and see what a hairline is supposed to look like.

 

 

Definately will not even come close to that clinic.

13 hours ago, HTHope said:

where is this clinic? What is the blue stuff on the recipient?

In Santa Catarina, Brazil. It seems to be the implanted hair :P.

Hello, everyone.

I was watching this Hair transplant and it seemed interesting. I'm no doctor, but his donor area looked very poor, and the bald area was considerably big. Still, the doctor decided to do what he calls a dense packing on the front, with no distribution to other bald areas, aside from the crown. Also, the number of follicles extracted seems to be more than his got available.

It would be better if you watch the video, but I attached some pictures in case you don't want to.

What do you guys think?

Hello everyone, just an update.

I've been to another doctor, we examined my hair scalp with a trichoscope. There are quite a few hairs close to "full miniaturization" on my bald area and, according to the doctor, those can be saved with the proper treatment (Propecia, rogaine and some vitamins).

Also, he evaluated my donor area as 5.5/10 (very different from what the other doctor (who acted as salesman) told me).

Therefore, I got back on meds and will wait a year before considering a hair transplant again.

I'm so thankful for this forum because it provided me so much information that I was able to "judge" what doctors were telling me. If it wasn't for this forum, I could've gotten a premature hair transplant.

Research, research and research.

Kind regards,

Arthur Passos.

Hi, an update.

I've managed to get a better picture of my grandmother's head.

First of all, thank you so much for your consistent reply. I really appreciate it.

12 minutes ago, LaserCap said:

You're young.  You are balding fast....hmmm.  So, do you see a lot of hair on the sink, the floor, the pillow? There are two types of loss, the type you see and the type you don't.  If you do see hair everywhere, we refer to this as shedding.  This is normal.  Most believe 100 hairs a day is normal.  Hair loss is different - you don't see it.

I doo see a lot of hair on the bathroom floor and some on the pillow.

When you say mom and grandma are thin, does that mean the caliber of the hair is very thin or that you can see their scalp easily? - like in your case?  This is not only thinning, it is hair loss.  And, you do seem to be following a Ludwig pattern.

I've attached a picture of my mom's. She's 47 now. TBH, I didn't notice she had thin hair until she told me. And two pictures of my grandma, she's over 60. I can't get a picture of her top, she doesn't live with me.

Most doctors will turn patients away at that age.  They will typically recommend some type of medical therapy.  The reasoning behind is the fact they have no idea at that point what exactly the pattern is going to be like. Imagine an 18 year old with crown loss. The doctor does a procedure.  10 years later the patient loses all the hair except for the island worth of hair.  Obviously this would leave the patient hanging with an unnatural looking pattern.

You say I have an advanced Ludwig pattern. I'm 22 now, is it "more predictable" now? Predictable enough for a hair transplant surgery?

How did you find this doctor?  Have you seen photos of his work? You've obviously have had a consultation with him.  What area(s) are you considering working?  How many grafts did you discuss? Are you back on meds or not yet?

There are not many doctors who perform hair transplant sirgury where I live. A friend of mine said he was quite famous around here. I've seen some photos of his work. Looks good, but that's on his instagram. So there might be hidden bad cases.

It wasn't a consultation. More like an in person evaluation. He did not give me much attention and hurried up to finish the evaluation. In a nutshell, he said he'd work on the top, that my donor area is really good and that he can get me an improvement of 80 - 90% on density. He said he could put something around 15.000 hair shafts (not grafts). And if needed, he'd take some from my beard. He also mentioned the terms biological age and chronological age, claiming that my biological age is "older" and therefore I can perform it. He acted more as a salesman than a doctor. He kept talking about how good his clinic is and how modern his equipments are.

Currently, I'm back on minoxidil. But soon, I'll check on PRP.

Do as many grafts as you can afford.

Wouldn't that compromise my donor area and ruin future hair transplants? Also, I've read that since I'm young, my donor area is not very well defined. Therefore, the doctor may miss it and extract from non donor area.

Leave the crown alone for now until you are happy with the density in the front and top.  Get on meds if you haven't already and give it a year.  

Okay. So your advice is to get back on meds and wait for a year. A year later, perform hair transplant given priority to the front and the middle? That means it's possible (read possible as good), in my case, to perform hair transplant in such age?

Again, thank you very much for your attention. Please let me know if I'm asking "too much".

6 minutes ago, duchaine said:

"I stopped minoxidil because I didn't see results"
BiG MISTAKE! Minoxidil requires several months (and sometimes more than 2ml daily) to show his results.

Considering you are balding in the crown/middle scalp and you say that your donor is weak, I would try fina.

I would give a try, in your specific casse, to PRP and dermorolling.

Yeah, I know I should have continued with minoxidil. I'll try it again.

I've tried fina 1mg, but the side effects (low libido) were very hard on me, so I stopped it.

Hello everyone.

I'm 22, fom Brazil, and I'm balding really fast. I've noticed I was balding when I was 17. There is no family history, except for my mother and grandmother's thin hair.

Here's the thing: I went to the doctor when I was 18 looking for some kind of treatment. He recommended minoxidil and some vitamins. He also said I couldn't get a hair transplant because my donor area was very poor. I believed him, because, IMHO, my donor area is poor. I stopped minoxidil a few months later because I wasn't seeing any improvements and I thought I could shave my head some day.

Four years later, I can't shave it. I decided to go for a hair transplant, but I've been researching and I see a lot of doctors and non doctors claiming it's usually a bad idea to get a hair transplant in their early 20s. They even say it's unethical to do a hair transplant without thinking on the long term.

Anyways, I've talked to a local doctor who does hair transplants. He said my donor area is very good and there is no problem at all on performing hair transplant on young patients. When I questioned him about another doc saying the opposite. He said: every doctor is going to tell a different thing. I don't know who to believe. I'm starting to think he's saying my donor area is very good only because he wants the money. He asked me 4.738,80 Euros for the procedure.

I've attached some pictures of my wet hair to show you how thin my hair is. It's wet because I let it grow a lot so I can hide it. If it wasn't wet, it'd be harder for you guys to see it.

I need help. Is he lying to me or is my donor area good enough to do hair transplantation in such an young age. What do you guys think? Any suggestions?

This is my first post here. I've read the guidelines and it looks fine to me, but please, correct me if I'm doing it wrong.