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Looks like, he needs to have some filling in above his temple bottom.

Here's a link to Dr Shapiro's gallery result page: https://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Share-info/gallery-by-doctor-ver2.asp?DrID=16 And here's to H&W docs Hasson: https://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Share-info/gallery-by-doctor-ver2.asp?DrID=9 Wong: https://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Share-info/gallery-by-doctor-ver2.asp?DrID=632

To the OP, is there a growth recovery point where you would actually style your hair like your avatar for at least one day and post the pic? Cracks me up when I read you, can't help but picture the Willow brownie mouthing your words. Great thread btw and thanks for sharing.

Hair styling with concealers can definitely become a pain in the ..., but its also a great way to delay procedures while still looking ok. Sounds like the meds have stabilized you for now, your crown periodically looking even thinner due to more of your remaining hairs being in the sleeping phase of the growth cycle. 31 is pretty young in hair restoration terms. You could still have some loss spurts as your body chemistry changes going into your late 30s/40s middle years. The longer you delay the more certain you can make your final result, how much time and hatred do you have for your current daily concealer ritual? There's another active crown thread in here now, some good info and comments here

Its where your temple sides and hairline top meet in the corners -a sign that you are getting older, closer to dying and leaving your poor old lady a widow with nothing but your post op pics to remember you by

Looking good along the front -how are the temple sides coming in? I see you are combing your top side hairs forward to cover your widows creep -do you hope to eventually be able to comb that down or back, or is that how you style and plan to style your hair?

While I agree with your general skeptical stance, which is why forums like this exist, there are variables like how well the patients follow post-op instructions and unforeseeable physiological factors that go into whether the hairs will take root and survive in the new location.

Thanks for sharing. The hair styling in your baseline pic conceals it a bit, but that's some good improvement. Did you try or get any results from finasteride first, or just start with dutasteride? And a few more questions here if you don't mind -How old are you and when did your loss start? -has it been more aggressive lately? -Since you are taking it weekly do you purchase 3/6/12 month supplies, and how much?

Yea that's where alot of guys break down and go get their first procedure Less scarring is always better in terms of giving you more styling options, even if you are one of those guys that has more visible FUE scarring it wouldn't be as bad as a strip scar. But since you aren't going to take the meds your final outcome is more in doubt. So maybe split the difference, start off with some FUE to give you some acceptable density for now, then see how your loss progresses, if more aggressively have your middle procedures be FUT, and then do your final procedures and touch ups with FUE. This is a link to one of the top clinics on here about disadvantages to fue etc, worth a look. http://shapiromedical.com/procedure-page/follicular-unit-extraction-fue/disadvantages-of-fue/

Some clinics do say they are good enough to get similar yields with FUE, but the way I look at it why risk the extra handling of your grafts during extraction and insertion prep (esp if its being done by lab techs instead of the doc) when you know you will always have your hair longer in the donor area anyway. And with all FUE procedures you also need to be concerned about un-even density in your donor -depending on how evenly they extract the hairs across your donor area, and if you have any permanent shock loss spots. This would be more noticeable the shorter you cut your hair of course.

With FUT you are less likely to damage the individual grafts during extraction/insertion prep, but eventually you will run out of scalp elasticity due to removing the skin strips. If you've already lost alot/or have an aggressive loss pattern, and know you are always going to wear your hair long enough to cover the FUT scars, start with FUT procedures until your scalp skin starts to approach the tightness limit and then do FUEs

Nic Cage hasn't looked better since the 80s here, anybody know how much one of these full metal jacket procedures cost?

If only that pic was known from the start I think this would have changed the race! That pic actually looks decent. I guess he sticks with the the goofy styling he's been doing for decades as like a part of his brand, or a signature.

It can definitely cut both ways, especially if the bad transplant zaps the guy's confidence and he obsesses over it, neglecting the relationship. and like @Behappy says not doing anything can be the end of it too.

A banner that BOTH parties can unite behind this year: MAKE OUR HAIR GREAT AGAIN!! 😂

No, I'm not that hard on the ladies -and I'm between loves making this pandemic more difficult in some ways We men are even more obsessed with physical appearance and still have the capacity to emotionally bond. Transplants are a foot in the relationship door, and something to help keep the fire burning, not a foundational element. And a kind of stick in the eye to mother nature/evolution too, since most of our history we were lucky to live to 30 yrs old, so the traits for longevity didn't get priority. The hard truth is we still inhabit a physical biology that formed when becoming less attractive with age was a good thing -decreasing the likelihood of having children we won't be around to raise, and reducing gene pool pollution since our reproductive systems, from performance down to the egg/sperm quality, decline with age.

Thanks Dr. Khokhar, I started the 1.25mg and I have a follow up with my doctor in November. Assuming I have no side effects in the meantime I'm going to print those pages out and talk with him about the 2.5 dosage.

The donor area is healing nicely and your redness around the front in the tranplanted area is pretty mild too. Some guys with denser packings in the front especially can have some pretty pronounced redness for months. The waiting game starts, don't let the ugly duckling phase sheds get you down. In a few months you'll get to start saying hello to your hairs in their new home!

You got to wonder if he trusts hair stylists to do his hair -the what if of that someone taking a pic or putting a camera where he can't see it and then that getting out. And what about going to bed at night and getting up ...with your wife? He must have some wicked bed head.

For the dry itchy scalp alot of guys have that, a dandruff shampoo from the store (with Ketoconazole, or Zinc Pyrithione or Selenium Sulfide as the active ingredient), and use that a few times a week for a few weeks, if it doesn't get better see your doc to have it looked over and prescribe something. Looks like you are thinning on top, how about cutting it a little shorter and just shave it all off? Some guys have a good face shape for that, and even if you are not so crazy about it now, your face should mature as you get older, more angular features, etc and that may help to make the shave look even better. Because being only 21 you have a long road ahead of you, the earlier it starts usually the more aggressive it will be, and you may not have enough donor hair to give decent coverage to what you will lose over the course of your life. Ethical doctors will want you to wait some more before considering a procedure, and see if you can handle and respond to finasteride to stabilize and maybe recover some of your loss first.

Ha! good catch, thats still a pretty good fut scar though ...or maybe it was a boating accident scene where he was nic'd by a propeller? lol I've seen pics of him at various times from the front and wondered if he was doing some concealers, or maybe smp. Thats a bold crazy way to frame your face, its strange how we can sometimes look in the mirror and find satisfaction with ourselves but then 3rd party perspective seems to indicate otherwise, mirror vs pic vs video vs someone's perspective actually looking at you. Maybe in person being with him it looks fine and its just the camera and angle.

Cowboy hats work too! :D

Had to google Juri Flap, man that is crazy!

Yea, if not some Toppik could thicken that up and give some more coverage. If he were to step forward into that sun these spots would look alot thinner. Sunlight, especially direct sunlight, is BRUTAL in terms of making thinner areas detectable. Back when I used toppik and dermmatch, I took pics like that in direct and indirect sunlight situations and compared with the ones I took in the bathroom lighting where I was applying the concealers, that way I came up with a way of applying them that would give good coverage across the different lighting situations. Lighting can be almost as bad as DHT!

Shampoo under normal usage is just apply to hair, lather for maybe up to a minute, then rinse. The medicated shampoos for stuff like dandruff recommend leaving it on for up to 5 minutes and then rinsing. While Dove has a general reputation for making mild/sensitive products, I don't think even they make any cleaning forumulations mild enough to leave on 30 minutes -this bottle of Dove you have does say on the side that you are supposed to rinse it off, right? I've heard of 'dry shampoos' that are never rinsed out, mostly used by women who don't want to wash their hair so much. But back to this shampoo you are using -I would imagine your scalp skin is almost completely dry within 5 minutes and the rest of that time you have the soapy residue laying on it drying it out even more, I don't see how that doesn't cause skin surface irritation. Did you travel to get your procedure done? Does the doctor and their staff speak good English? nothing lost in translation as a possibility here? Did they give you printed instructions too? -Check their website if they have one and see if they have post op instructions there too. Maybe they have a new/bad receptionist. My doc's shampooing instructions were for first 48 hrs to lather the shampoo in my hands, gently apply, and then rinse it off with cups of water or gently running water right after. Then after those two days he recommended after shampooing to apply and leave a conditioner on for up to 5 minutes, then rinsing off, to help limit scab formation.