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Here are a couple photos directly comparing my results before and after a year.

@JohnAC71 yeah for sure! If I do decide on going to a place in India for future work, I would consider Eugenix instead.

@Melvin-Moderator Here's a few photos of the donor. I got a skin-fade about 2 weeks ago.

Hey everyone, It's been over a year now so I thought I'd come back and check in with my final results from this transplant. Would I go back to Dr. Bhatti? No, I don't think my donor area was well managed and has visible scarring on it when i'm in between hair cuts. Luckily it's more noticeable to myself than others. I also think the density could have been a bit better for the "illusion" of a full head of hair. As you can see through a couple photo's that on the left temple, there's a thin patch of hair that had never really filled in (most likely because this area wasn't addressed during my surgery when it should have been). All the recent horror stories from Bhatti and his team on this forum have made me thankful that my result had turned out the way that it did. Overall I would say that I'm glad that I got it done as I do look a lot better than before. My own experience with the doctor/team was okay, as I didn't have any issues. I would say that I'm mostly happy with the way my hair looks albeit the donor area scarring and small patch on my left temple. I'm still on fin/min and lets hope I don't need to go for another one soon.

@arkaZ hey bro from my own understanding I dont think SMP can weaken your hairs but it is advised to do it before a procedure rather than SOON after the procedure in order to avoid damaging the new grafts from growing in. I posted my thread here on combining both because I've seen a few combination's posted by doctors but nothing recent and have not talked to anyone who's had it done on this forum. I would say that doing an HT is not a bad idea even if you have a family history of baldness because if you stick to the lifelong regiment of using the big three (fin/min/niz) it can help with stabilizing and slowing down hair loss. My father/uncles have gone bald and started losing their hair around the same time as me. When I look at pictures of their hair (when they started losing hair) and compare it to my own, they had about the same hair loss. However now that i've been on meds for about 2 years, my hair loss has not gotten worse. Now when I compare photos of myself now at 27 to photos of my dad at 27, his hair loss was much worse than mine. I'm glad I acted on staying on a regiment to prevent it from getting worse. I did end up getting a hair transplant due to the significant recession over the years I was not on medication but the remaining native hair has been around the same or gotten a little bit thicker in those areas. I started taking meds about a year before getting a hair transplant in order to see if I could regrow any significant amount of hair. The reality is that I might lose more hair in the future as the meds start losing their efficacy, but it would be at a much slower rate than it was for the others in my family. I'm okay with either getting a second procedure done in the future (which will be years down the line) or letting the crown area (Where i didn't get a transplant) get a little bit worse as I get older. The reality is, with a hair transplant now, I look closer to my age, feel more comfortable with my look and have masked any signs of baldness. I now have a better frame of my face and can have an actual presentable haircut as you can see with my post about my hair transplant.

Hey @arkaZ yeah i know 3 people who've done the SMP procedure but i find that its usually noticeable when done on its own. Out of the 3 procedures i've seen, 1 of them i think was a little botched/done way too thick around the hairline and the other 2 came out pretty good but theres a shine to both people's head thats noticeable because they dont have much native hair to blend in with it even when buzzed. However, for both of these people I would say that it isn't noticeable to someone who doesn't know about the procedure and does a great job at framing their faces and makes them look a lot younger. I was wondering about a combined procedure because i would think it would interesting to see how much thicker SMP could make a transplant look. I'll give your post a look at!

Here are a couple of photo's with better quality after giving myself a haircut the other day. I've enjoyed learning how to cut my own hair the last few months but because I'm still on that learning curve I end up making mistakes here and there. This time I did a real bad job of fading my own hair in the back so I'm reluctant on posting a photo of my donor area, I've also got some eczema on the back of my scalp right now that makes me a little self conscious about posting a photo. For my next update I'll try to get an actual barber to give me a haircut just so everyone can see how my donor area would look with a proper job done. I've started to get a lot of people recently start asking about where I've gotten my transplant done because the results are speaking for themselves. But anyways here are my almost 8 month photos.

hey @JohnAC71 Here are are few photos from today. I'll post a few better quality one's with the back of my camera in a couple days after a haircut.

For those of you wondering about my procedure and donor area. Here's a photo of me with my fade grown out for about two and a half weeks. I tried to get as a direct of a shot with as high res of a picture. It seems like the scarring would not be as noticeable if I go with a tapered hair style, and maybe the fade job I did on myself showed off some of that scarring more. I plan on giving myself another haircut in a couple days and I'll see how it looks with a lower fade this time. I'll also provide an update of the front of the hair, nearing my 8 month mark. If you look close enough you can see that little bit of a dip in the donor area but there isn't too much patchiness visible.

Hi everyone, I've heard of a few people on youtube/doctor's that some people combine both a hair transplant and FUE to have an illusion of a fuller head of hair, especially those with a lack of donor area/density. I'm wondering if anyone has done it here themselves or has any other useful links of individuals getting both procedures done? I have a few friends that are interested in doing hair restoration and would love to provide some examples of how both procedures can be combined to do so. Thanks everyone!

Looks great man! Judging from the number of grafts you got, your looking at a very dense well filled in result! Excited to see the 6 month and beyond photos

@JohnAC71 not sure to be honest. I think my barber would have done a better job at hiding it. I'm just learning how to cut my own hair due to quarantine/saving money, as you can see in this photo my fading skills are a little choppy haha. Here I think its a 2 faded into a 0 guard. An electric shave blended in at the bottom would have helped my case.

@MichaelD Thank you Michael! I just wanted to be fully transparent with everyone on here as to what my experience has been like. 🙂

Here is a photo of the donor area. As you can see in this photo that there is some scarring in the area, which I did expect (not trying to bail out my surgeon or anything) but it's nothing that a more grown out hair style could cover. I had also already suffered from scarring in that area from previously picking and scratching due to eczema/dermatitis as well as growing up with a top knot and having some traction alopecia in the front back and sides (which is why i required some temple work). If you look at the first photo I posted in this thread, the picture is from about a month of growing out my hair, if you look at the area under my ear it's already quite thin. All in all I'm okay with the scarring in the back (although I think it could be a bit better and less noticeable when shorter), but before giving myself a haircut it was pretty much unnoticeable and no one had mentioned a thing to me who didn't know I had gotten the work done.

Hi everyone, Here are my almost 7 month results after getting a haircut. I'm happier with the progress now that it looks like everything is filling out nicely. Excited to see what the coming months will show.