Curious25

Just a question out of curiosity - and this isn’t specific to you, or this case . . If a patient opts for a frontal hairline restoration such as this gentleman, and a higher, more mature hairline is deemed to be the best approach at the time; if in 5-10 years down the line, and the patient has maintained with little to no further loss, and wishes to then lower his hairline - would this have essentially created a waste of utilising the band of single and finer haired grafts in the original restoration, and they will now serve less of a cosmetic purpose in what would become more of a mid section of the patients hair? Or would it be best practice to re-extract these same singles, and re-utilise them in the new hairline?

Nice improvement with such little grafts. Is your philosophy within hair restoration to be conservative in general, or were you working with limited donor in this case ? By no means a critique, I’ve just noticed your results to be less aggressive designs, using low graft numbers relative to the amount of loss that patients present with.

Lol have we created a junior Spex in the making ? 😂

Quality reply from Konior, and it is the absolute truth in what he says. The fact that he’s willing to take you on as well speaks volumes as to what other misinformed people have advised you in terms of saying you’re unsuitable. The doctor who chimed in on your other thread isn’t even a surgeon, his username on here is misleading to many. 25k . . Pricey but worth it,

Yea agree with this. I think his pricing is partly to do with the lower volume of work he takes on, compared to other top tier clinics. I could be wrong, but I think he may only operate a few days a week, and Nadimi on the other days - perhaps someone could confirm or disprove that? OP - you have since edited your original post after my initial reply. As JD says, you will never need to pay such large amounts for even the baldest of scalps. Elon went to H&W, as have many other high net worth individuals, such as former professional footballers.

That advice is from amateurs. Trust me, you are not a risky case as far as risk is concerned with hair transplants. You’re an ideal candidate, aside from the fact you don’t take medication (which some would argue would make you even more of a candidate, given your hair loss and age). It’s normal to hair transplant into existing hair, it’s an important part of the surgery known as the transition section. Any good surgeon will give you an amazing result.

Hey. If moneys no object, and you strictly want FUE, H&W would be the obvious choice for higher Norwoods, based on their years of experience and years of great patient posted results. Dr Zarev looks to be amazing with high norwoods vía FUE, there’s a great thread on here by @HugoX - however it is unfortunately the only patient posted result I have came across online. Lorenzo in Spain is another good shout - he has been up at the top for years, and has many high NW transformations vía FUE, however his strategy is usually to split the surgeries into 2-3 passes over a period of usually 2 years (which might fit with you considering you aren’t fully NW 6 yet anyway). Dr Mwamba utilities donor and beard very well. Eugenix are also creating themselves a Niche of high NW experts vía FUE. Good luck, and let us know how you get on

The important thing to look at is the consistency and volume of good results a clinic puts out. If you continually see amazing patient posted work over a sustained period of time, who cares if they have a team of monkeys using hedge trimmers on your donor, it’s obviously working well.

Shah, you are in great shape. I understand your question, however I think even most doctors would struggle to answer this just going off your photos you have provided - you need to undergo a dermascopic analysis to measure your density. No surgeons would try to match your original density (not from a one pass surgery anyway) but they would be able to create the illusion of the density being the same as your native hair behind. Theres a thread on here at the moment named something like ‘ultra high density forehead reduction’ where an American patient went to a doctor in Brazil, who is unknown to the forum, however he apparently looks to achieve native density in one pass - might be interesting for your research. That said, personally I still prefer the idea of the traditional methods of creating the illusion of density as opposed to actually having it, over 1 sitting. I will happily go back to other areas to add to it, down the line.

Interesting Melvin. What ingredients are you looking to compound together?

Go visit an andrologist/endocrinologist/urologist . . . Explain what you are doing, and ask them to run a full hormone analysis for you before you begin, so you have a baseline knowledge of where your body naturally sits at. Very important.

Yes fueclinic.com He also operates in Atlanta, and I’ve recently read now New Jersey too.

Dr Mwamba

More so the FUE extraction patterns that go into the lateral humps and upper occipital/lower crown areas. Again, not suggesting an issue with this, because I believe there are patients where this is safe to do so - it’s more so about finding out how he feels he can establish when it is safe to do so, eg. Age, miniaturisation analysis, family history, current level of loss etc

+1 for an update

Graft thickness; a range of 50-70 microns is usually defined as medium, 70-80 grafts per cm2 in the donor is usually the average range HGI - anything under 2 (hairs per graft) would be considered on the lower end of the spectrum, There are compensations for each of these measurements, such as; - Finer haired people tend to have higher grafts per cm2 (see @Rolandas) - Lower grafts per cm2 tend to have higher groupings of hairs per graft, -medium fine hair patients sometimes present a ‘wave’ , which helps with coverage akin to thicker haired patients (see @captaincalico)

Looking forward to this one. Can you ask him about his extraction strategy - I’ve seen various cases of his over the last few years where he’s been willing to go out of traditional ‘safe zones’ , and whilst I don’t disagree agree that this isn’t feasible, I’d like to hear from the horses mouth, what circumstances make him feel confident in doing this.

To take a positive from this, it’s yet another public figure being open about hair loss and hair restoration, further contributing to taking away the former stigma, and bringing more eyes and ears into the hair loss industry. The more social acceptance, the more the industry will thrive, meaning better techniques, better surgeons, and less bald heads on the planet (hopefully).

. . . doesn’t mean you can research Hair surgery efficiently!

And how have you been finding it, positive experience? Considering you’re also using viagra and cialisis, that’s a lot of vasodilator action going on in your body right now haha

Impressive

Who has told you this ? That’s on the lower side of hairs per graft, and lower side in terms of hair shaft thickness also . . However not all is negative, your hair type and average groupings are usually indicative of a higher amount of grafts per square cm, so you may have upwards of 6000 grafts in the hands of an aggressive surgeon. Post more pics of your donor and beard and chest hair , the guys on the board will be able to steer you in the right direction.

Patience my friend. You’re already so much further than most at 3 months, so take that as a positive for sure. What dosage oral Minox are you taking? Doesn’t surprise me your doc prescribed it to you, as I know it is very popular in Brazil.

I still can’t believe how much temple growth you’ve experienced within 3 months, I’ve never seen that sort of maturity occur during my whole 10 something years on forums. Have you been applying minoxidil to the transplanted are ?

You’re good for now. That whorl on the back of your head is a natural part line, some people have bigger ones than others. If your father balded young, then it will be worth checking in every year for the next 7 years - however don’t obsess over it now, because you visually have zero loss.