Mark Wolfer

1 hour ago, BartSimpson said:

 

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask, I’ll try to be as transparent as possible and won’t sugarcoat anything. Getting a HT procedure is not an easy decision and it’s good to get all the informations before. 
 

 

Well said bro. Glad you had such a strong result and that you're happy!

16 hours ago, Raphael84 said:

As a community we need to encourage patient posting. I do not believe that such back and forth provides that encouragement. I do not believe that this is either just or fair for the patient to visit his own thread and have such posts. If I was a patient insecure in the days after surgery and was looking to the community for support and therefore potentially considering posting my case, witnessing this thread I am not sure if I would continue to do so.
 You will likely not be satisfied with aspects of your result.

Patients like myself come here to hear realistic opinions from people who have gone through the same journey we are going through. I do actually want such back and forth, I'm not here for "encouragement", I'm here for feedback, facts and informed opinions from other members.  I know that I need to work through my insecurities around my hair and my efforts to keep my hair, and so does everyone else. We shouldn't be telling people to censor what they say to protect people from possibly feeling bad. So long as the feedback is honest and backed up then it's fair game as far as I'm concerned.

OP didn't seem to take any offence at any of the feedback he got here and while I appreciate that you would want to protect your client's feelings about his transplant results, he is a big boy and handles himself very well.

lol... hey OP this forum isn't here for you to build up your youtube channel. Why won't you share the name of the surgeon / clinic?

Your hair looks awesome by the way, congrats on your result.

4 hours ago, Huncholini said:

I can copy and highlight the area that I'm referring to if I get permission from the thread owner to use his pictures. It's the birds eye view on day 299.

You've reached max hyperbole, I have no issue with the clinic, I've never had a procedure with them. This forum prides itself on apparently being objective, your critical comments on a simple and not completely unfounded query bring that into question. If you want an echo chamber of praise then feel free to delete my account and turn this forum into every other hair transplant forum on the internet.

People should be able to ask questions, provided they are constructive, I see no issue with my question in that regard.

I also noticed this in the day 299 pics (two of them) ... but I think the density there is fine, it seems to be caused by how OP styles his hair, his frontal third is brushed up and back, and his mid section is brushed left to right (i think) and light seems to be bouncing back differently in the area closest to where the different direction of brushing intersects. In all the other photos including when wet, the density seems consistent throughout. Day 236 for example would clearly show a difference in density but it doesn't exist there either.

@BartSimpsoncongrats on a terrific result man, you must be so pleased with the difference this has made in your appearance!

56 minutes ago, Carbon said:

I’m hoping all the early growth are from the transplanted hairs and not from the medication. Hard to tell at this point. Hopefully someone can chime in about that. Glad I’m passed the ugly duckling phase though.

I'd hope it the other way round. If you were this good of a responder to the meds, and your transplanted hair still on its way, it would make you a very hairy man by the end of this.

Looks really good for 2 months in... congrats, will be following the next few months should be really fun for you

Hey buddy, results are looking terrific. Still more to come too, that's going to be the cherry on top. Donor looks thick and bountiful too.

Keep on keeping on!

To me the difference is barely noticeable and I don't think it's right that the surgeon took this guy's money. But I'm just some guy on the internet. If it made the patient happy, that's great for him.

Do you have pics from directly after the extractions were taken

39 minutes ago, Huncholini said:

I do agree that it would be ideal if patients followed through till the end, genuine patient reviews are far more trustworthy than clinic posted results, which tend to be cherry picked. I guess some patients don't for a few reasons, a couple I can think of are that a patient has had such a good result that they no longer consciously think about their hair, or a patient has had a bad result and have bigger problems than keeping the forum updated, in the case of the latter you have to feel for the patient and really appreciate when a patient in that situation posts updates.

Yeah or maybe they get results that aren't bad enough to be here gathering opinions to bolster their "case" to go back to the clinic to complain and ask for refund / additional grafts. And the results aren't so amazing that they're here to share their lovely locks with us.

I'd like to see more results all the same either way.

Maybe there's a way to add flair or a tag, or change the subject line for a thread to indicate that final result pics are included.

There's that saying... "my body my choice".

But really??

EDIT: I just noticed that was posted on April 1st... but there's no way that was a 40 min April Fools prank. That dude butchered his head!

Who was the doctor?

From what I understand, proscar and finasteride are the same thing. Unless you changed the dosage there should be no difference with your hair. 

Did I miss something here?

12 minutes ago, BDK081522 said:

You needed more grafts for the area covered. Your clinic mislead you in saying survival would be low if implanting at a higher density. You will not be satisfied with the density based on your post op photos. 

We'd need to see pre-surgery pics to say this for sure, no way of knowing how many native hairs were there before the FUE.

Unbelievably good result congrats.

I bet some SMP into the donor area would go a long way.

I paid what I consider to be a lot of money for my procedure but I considered it a good deal and excellent value for two reasons:

1) I can't buy more donor hairs at any price so they're highly valuable and I want a true expert handling and conserving them

2) The cost of a cheaper procedure that then needs to be fixed by an "expensive" surgeon makes it even MORE expensive.

No shedding... lucky duck, instead of ugly duckling!

Cabellos sounds cooler than hairs.

Congrats on this terrific result, appreciate the high def pics of before and after. Like the others here said, great presentation.

Fantastic result bro and only half way there... congrats on this great work by Dr. Hasson.

How's the crown coming in with the fin?

Are you still off of minox?

What I'm not understanding really is the decision to go FUT for a relatively low number of grafts. Do you have a weak donor area? I get that you're 26 but your hair is pretty thick and full looking from the angles you've shown and I'd have thought you'd do well with FUE in this case. If you're not on fin / duta you should really consider this.

Wowzas you are looking like you never had a hair loss problem. Incredible result and still so much more time with expected new growth too. Must feel so good...

55 minutes ago, MillenialHT said:

Thank you! Yep he brought in my temples as well. We didn't do that for my first procedure so I definitely wanted it done for this one. 

That worked out great... congrats!

Looks great, did Dr. Diep do temple point work for you as well?

In thinking through my long term plan I am trying to understand to what extent body hair and beard hairs can help me on a second or third surgery (still contemplating my first one and am hoping to pull the trigger soon).

I am gathering that it's best to mix extracted body and beard hairs in with real scalp hairs so that it looks natural together, and that beard and body hairs should go into midscalp and crown, not on the hairline.

As I'm sure the techniques for dealing with beard and body hair is slightly different to regular scalp FUE, I'm curious about which clinics have good reputations for this kind of specialized work. I live in Canada, but as I'm less concerned with the "artistry" side of the work for these gratfs, I'd consider Turkey, India etc. clinics especially if they work with beard and body hair more than North America clinics do (is this a thing?).

Thanks for inputs and advice on this.