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Personally I would leave the hairline alone, and focus on creating the correct angles between your temple points and temple - hairline closure corners. I would then aim to improve density in the reconstructed temples, and soften them with very fine haired grafts.

Good overall growth, but a shocking design. The implanted density appears to be sufficient on the hairline. I’m glad they have agreed to rectify your concerns (and rightly so, you shouldn’t be made to feel they are doing you a favour by agreeing to this) - how they go about doing so, well I hope it turns out the way you want it to. Anyone commenting that this is a good result is either gas lighting or uneducated. Yes the growth and density looks to be good, and from a layman’s perspective the previously bald areas now have hair. But the design and angles are totally off, emulating an Anime bad guy - far from what you should expect or accept from a $35k surgery at what is supposed to be an elite clinic. OP - I wish you all the best, and I’m rooting for you to get to where you want to be from your next surgery.

If you suffer from androgenic alopecia, PRP will do nothing apart from swallow money from your bank account, and hurt your head with multiple injection sites. To tackle the problem in the most effective manner, you need to address the root cause and find some form of regime that reduces the amount of androgenic activity occurring on your scalp - the most proven and researched of which, would be in the form of oral 5AR inhibitors. If you feel comfortable in doing so, posting pictures will help people direct you down the most beneficial route for yourself.

Disagree. To get to the stage of being a proud owner of the so called ‘mature hairline’, it means that the individual has had to have endured some androgen induced balding, albeit to a much lesser extent than somebody with what we would consider as the average rate or extent of androgenetic alopecia - however regardless of this, it doesn’t take away the fact that they have still experienced hair loss via androgen induced miniaturisation - the hairline doesn’t just magically change when the clock strikes midnight on your 21st birthday. Whether or not they are still ‘balding’ , would be determined by checking for miniaturisation throughout the scalp. But this is a dud point - because you could have an individual presenting to be a NW5, who technically wasn’t balding should a trichoscopic exam uncover there is no miniaturisation in the remaining regions of native hair. He would have endured miniaturisation of the NW5 region follicles to get to where he is, in exactly the same manner as to which the individual with a ‘mature hairline’ had done, the difference being, one individual had a much larger amount and area of follicles sensitive to androgens than the other. I agree with the points I think OP, is trying to make. Androgen induced balding is balding - no matter the size or location of the area that has been lost or is thinning. The term age appropriate would be better replaced with a label such as ‘facial dimensionally appropriate’ or ‘appropriate in line with your balding pattern’ etc.

Yep, looks like a HT to me

Your density is perfect , it’s genuinely one of the best results on here in recent years. Without seeing your full facial proportions it’s difficult to assess - however given your solid regime and the unlikely nature of your balding worsening to an irretrievable state, are you tempted, or do you feel a few hundred grafts in each of your temples benefit you in anyway? I ask, because I’m in a similar dilemma. Excuse the very rough design drawing, obviously you’d opt for a more aesthetic design. 😂

Man approaching 50 is in the upper lower range for total T - hardly a shock. Man taken the most potent 5AR inhibitor for 10+ years has low serum DHT - again, hardly a shock. What’s going to be next on here, someone’s going to write a post about how they went outside on a rainy day and got wet and people are going to be alarmed ?

The softness is down to correct hair selection, correct angulation, and appropriate density. The ratio between hair colour: scalp colour usually relates to the overall illusion of density. The goal is to prevent the scalp being visible - therefore light coloured hair on light coloured skin, naturally provides more of a camouflage.

Pretty hard to tell tbh, however I’m leaning towards it being a hair whorl, which is oftentimes exacerbated in asian males due to the ratio between the lower density of FUcm2 : thicker hair shaft, which are the most commonly found characteristics in the demographic. To be sure - I would book in and go for a check up with a qualified hair specialist in your area, preferably a reputable hair restoration surgeon.

I think 99% of holllywood are on either finasteride or dutasteride. It’s similar to pondering whether the likes of Chris Hemsworth or Huw Jackman take PED’s for certain roles. Multi billion dollar industry. You do what you’ve got to do.

Depends on your hairline placement. Going off how your hair calibre appears, a design something like this will require at least 2500 to achieve satisfactory density.

Yep, certainly uncommon. But certainly not a hair transplant.

Just to step in and address the confusion here: The guy in Melvin’s original post has NOT had a hair transplant. Gordon Ramsey, however, has had a hair transplant, and it was revealed to be by Dr Baubac by Perez Hilton in Australia’s version of ‘Im a celebrity, get me out of here’ , in which he claimed David Beckham had also had his surgery with Dr Baubac. You can find the clip on YouTube. Im presuming Melvin thought you were referring to Gordon Ramsey with your initial question, rather than the screen shot of the guy.

I would only ever consider surgery in the UK with Dr Reddy - and at a push, perhaps Dr Ball also. But they are both too conservative for my personal taste, and are priced quite significantly higher than better quality surgeons (in my opinion) only an hour away on the Eurostar. They’re capable none the less - won’t destroy your donor, won’t implant grafts incorrectly or select the wrong grafts for the wrong places, and should achieve a decent yield growth wise. I guess it’s like caravanning in Devon for a week vs. an air bnb on the Amalfi coast.

Looks like it was transplant after all. Zoom in on the hairline.

I was referring to if you were struggling to get a reply or any form of communication from them - one way to address that would be to go into clinic directly and speak to someone face to face. I wouldn’t have thought you could just walk into the clinic without an appointment and ask for a consultation there and then.

Some transplanted hairs require more cycles than others to ‘un kink’. I am 7 years post FUE and even today find the odd one or two that appear zig zaggedy and wirey - however over the years, there have been less and less. I agree, that cutting down the ends with maintenance cuts will likely help a straighter shaft start to grow out, until it eventually sheds and then hopefully in its next run it will be more like your native calibre.

The quick head nod down and back up again? Come on - if that was genuine regrowth to the amount as to what the appearance suggests it to have been, they would be doing close ups, comb throughs, wet hair, harsh lighting, you name it. Second hand car salesman that guy

Well I know for a fact exosomes didn’t do that 😂

Exosomes were a fun one, especially as clinics were charging thousands, and I mean thousands of dollars for them. There was even a Dr who works alongside Di Muzio who went on YouTube covered in toppik, and claimed it was regrowth from his exosomes treatment 😅

Huge improvement from the frontal view - amazing what hair can do. Patients donor looks like it’s in the top 5% percentile of candidates, hopefully he will go back and have his crown completed. Good job.

Ask your surgeon, and go with his advice.