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@Niko1 How's your progress coming along? All well?

I concur, it'll be closer to 12 months, maybe even 18 before you'll really notice the crown kicking in.

Massive improvement on your starting point and the haircut really brings it up a notch. And with more to come! Congrats man.

Hey Niko, coming along nicely, looks very good from the sides and on top. Are you able to brush the back of the crown down or do you have to push it up out of necessity? Just curious whether that may improve the overall look. Have you got any further in your deliberation of whether you'll get smp or not? @Niko1

Hi Niko Should be your 8th month update around now, how are things progressing? @Niko1

@Bill-Dr-Rahal Hey Bill, yes these grafts all shed at around the 3 week mark. They started coming in again at around 2.5 months. I haven't contacted Dr Bhatti, I wouldn't go back to him for any revision or further procedure so I didn't feel it was worth it. I may yet contact him though. Just wanted to get the community's take on things. I'm going to be looking to get another procedure in around January 2022 so 14-15 months time. I basically plan to keep up the meds and the dermarolling and see if the stunted grafts kick into gear. Do you think if they have been damaged that they will correct themselves or are they likely to be permanently like this? Thanks for your reply.

That would be great, thankyou Melvin.

I actually didnt keep any pictures that I took, I got sick of looking at them, taking them etc. Just wanted to let my hair grow and get on with it. Im 99% sure no hairs were taken from my nape. It was what looked to be a very standard harvested donor area, not too high up and not too low down.

No, none whatsoever. I'd be delighted if I knew these hairs were just growing slower and would fall in line with the rest of my hair eventually.

Haha, well it's nice to know im not a complete anomaly. I'd be delighted if some experts could indeed, chime in.

That was my thought too, it's as if they are stuck inbetween being miniaturised and being terminal, Very odd.

Theyve definitely grown as i shed almost all my grafts at around the 2-3 week mark. I had relatively early growth at about 2.5 months including these ones that just wont grow any longer in length! Weird.

Do you think they may well be dead, despite initially growing and growing to a certain length?

The thing is, they have grown. They just havent grown beyond their current length. Im hopeful someone might know whether it's possible they might kick into gear still or maybe if i plucked them they might grow longer once they get going again. Anyone else have any ideas?

This is pre procedure. My surgeon was Dr Bhatti which is why the density whilst not great was ultimately to be expected, even though I voiced my concerns to him about sub par density of results id seen on this very forum. I'm not too concerned as I do believe what grafts were implanted have grown but if only they would grow longer it would make using concealers a lot easier until I get a 2nd procedure at a better clinic. Basically, is there any reason why a portion of my grafts arent growing like normal hair, to a normal length and can anything be done before I get a 2nd procedure? Thanks for your reply. most appreciated.

Hey there, here are some pics. For reference, I cut my hair with clippers that had a 2 inch guard on them. every hair on my head is 2 inches long except the short grafts that dont seem to be growing longer. As you can see the hair on my left temple (pics 1 and 2) are a mixture of short hairs and my right temple (pic 3) are again the short hairs but the very front ones have grown. I know the density is not great but it was obvious immediately post op that even if I had a great graft survival rate, it would still be thin. I do believe that all the grafts or close to have grown, it's just the short ones that I need help with. Many thanks

Hello everyone I had 3500 grafts implanted 18 months ago. 1300 to the crown, 1950 to temples towards mid scalp and around 150 on each temporal point. So, first the good. Everything that was implanted into the crown seems to have grown and I'm very happy with the result. Both temporal points grew perfectly and im very happy with the result. Now, the bad. I would say that the grafts that were implanted on the temples/hairline/towards mid scalp have all grown however many of them seem to be stunted in their growth, infact it is only the right side of my hairline that has fully growing, long hair. Everything else just wont grow beyond 3/4 of an inch and many shorter than that. I currently take finasteride, oral minoxidil and topical minoxidil in conjuntion with dermarolling. I have grafts left in the donor area but I would be reluctant to use them up if the same thing were to occur again. So my question is, what is going on here and is there anything I can do to help give them a kick? Is this something that is relatively common? Would it be an idea to experiment on a couple of grafts by plucking them out and seeing whether they grow back longer? any advice greatly appreciated thankyou