JohnBob

I'm not an expert on this, but I saw a lot of pictures were dudes had a ton of grafts extracted via FUE and their donor looks perfectly fine when trimmed very short. For example, that guy looks flawless (from what we can see on the pics) in terms of scars after having extracted almost 13K grafts via FUE:

This is atrocious. Try be like that when you are young and not a celebrity. You will be the "scar dude" or "the Frankenstein" and the stigma will stick with you forever.

What you did was smart. First you tried the shaved look. It didn't work for you then you went for the HTs. Sounds good. The vast majority of people lose the option to shave after getting a HT (specially if it's FUT), that must be clear.

lol good post

3 more patient reviews from the spanish forum: https://foro.recuperarelpelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=84205 https://foro.recuperarelpelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=60731&start=225 https://foro.recuperarelpelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=79795 That's all I could get. Even there he doesn't have that many reviews. De Freitas patients, on the other hand, are all over the place.

You are a seasoned patient that got home run results, your feedback is important man

Another one by Dr. Couto, a 2k graft reparation of a previous transplant done in Turkey by the patient. https://foro.recuperarelpelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=84771 Look how clean the procedure looks immediately post op. Very similar do Konior's.

Maybe it's not that he wants to shave his head, but that he would like to keep that option in the case the HT doesn't work out as planned? I believe that's the reason Joe Rogan shaves his head. I have seen two random people in public with shaved heads sporting a huge strip scar on the back of their heads. Maybe they shaved for the same reason Joe Rogan did.

I'm considering going to Dr. Zarev for a HT but it worries me that we only have one case documented by a patient of him on the whole internet and it went bad.

Let's be honest, comparing pics it is obvious a lot of grafts ended up not growing. Maybe his scalp has some sort of a condition and should have been checked by a dermatologist - would explain the redness of the skin. 10th day post op: Almost 4 months post op:

Well, it sucks but comparing these two pictures bellow it is obvious a lot of grafts ended up not growing. You should see a dermatologist to and check if you don't have a condition on your scalp. 10th day post: Almost 4 months post op: A

There are more reviews in that forum. Feel free to browse there.

This is the largest Couto restoration review I could find in the spanish HT forum recuperar el pelo https://foro.recuperarelpelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=82358&start=420

Love the fact that Dr. Bisanga does a careful and quantitative examination of the donor area during the consultation. A very important step that I think most HT doctors don't take, as far as I know.

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Damn, sorry to hear that. Just curious, does that other dude have a full head of hair by any chance?

It could be the flash but seems like you are losing hair in the donor area as well. So not only your donor area is not sufficient, but if you do a HT you may end up losing the transplanted hair too. If you want to talk to a HT doctor, make sure to talk only to a top tier one as your case is ultra complex. Maybe there is a solution that uses body hair, I don't now. But be careful as you may end up really worse than you are right now.

Maybe the technical term would be "not a slick bald NW 6" lol

That's why I believe the only way those huge sessions Dr. Zarev is doing without destroying the donor is possible because of a breakthrough in FUE tools. By the way, Dr. Feller believes making thousands of tiny FUE holes can affect the quality of the skin throughout the entire the donor area and make you lose the not extracted hairs too. This is argument sounds possible in theory, but that same doctor states that sessions bigger than 1500 grafts should be done only with FUT and we know for a fact that aint true (at least anymore), so I don't give him much credibility in this topic. (Source: https://www.hairtransplantweb.com/hair-loss-library/hair-transplant-scars/).

Not a full NW 6, he still has a considerable amount of hairs all over his scalp no?

Have you tried finasteride and or needling+minoxidil? The people getting getting the best results with these kind of treatments are the ones with a similar hair loss pattern that you have. In 3 months you would find out if it's working or not.

This makes sense. Maybe for the average HT doctor, it's safer to do bigger sessions via FUT as FUE makes things more complex. But for the more skilled surgeons I don't see why FUE can't achieve the same quality of donor harvesting as FUT does.

True. However the same problem (too many grafts and/or bad technique) can happen with FUT too:

I may be missing something, but "the area is over harvested because too FU are taken" reads like a circular explanation to me. Hence, if you take too much FUs via FUT the donor area will be over harvested too.

Proven how exactly? I don't mean to sound harsh but I get the impression that we repeat "truths" without actually thinking what's the basis of them. Sure, FUE is a much complex procedure so it would be very hard to competently extract 9,000 grafts in a single day, probably impossible with current tools. But good doctors can spread it between two consecutive days with no apparent problem. Also why nobody talks about the donor hairs lost because FUT strip cuts, stitches and scars? How many hairs are lost there? With FUE we don't have that problem.