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I'll try to take some pics, but if your goal is to swim in the summertime, I'd just go au natural. Put on a baseball hat when you're out of the water. We're all looking for maximum density, but achieving perfection post transplant is not an easy task. 

I had smp done for an unsightly scar in the back and it didn't work very well. I use caboki to conceal the scar and it looks 100 times better than the smp. I used to use derm match, but I found that caboki looks way more natural as it gives the illusion of thicker hair while derm match looks more like a colored scalp. I had negative comments about using concealer when I used DM, but nobody ever noticed anything when I used caboki. I wouldn't do it just for the sake of convenience. SMP is actually less effective than a good concealer. 

Thank you very much, 202

In 4-6 months the newly transplanted hair will start to grow, but they come in extremely thin and it's hard to see at first. After 7-8 months, you'll see a lot more growth and the hairs will be significantly thicker by then. Remember that it takes a full year to see the final results.

Thank you, Abi. I have a pretty good looking hairline at the moment, but the grafts behind the hairline are so stalky that I can't part my hair the way I'd like. Unfortunately, my doctor chose to camouflage rather than remove the old style pluggy grafts and this led to a less than perfect result. Although the hairline looks good, the hair behind the hairline points in the wrong direction. 

Has anyone here had large grafts excised and then replanted? I mean the mini grafts of old containing 5 or more hairs per graft. Can a transplant be done in the same day or is graft excision and transplant not done on the same day?