Hi,
My first post to the forum as I try to gather more information and advice facing my future transplant procedure.
I have always been dissatisfied with the shape of my hairline (norwood 2ish) which change late teens, at 30 now with the advances in FUE and affordabilty in Turkey I am ready to embark on minor FUE to sort out my hairline.
I have been on finnasteride for the past 2 years due to the fact I became concerned there may have been some very slow and slight thinning of the vertex, and its definitely stabilised if there was.
I reached out to I believe two of the big names in turkey Dr Bicer and Dr Erdogan but was quite suprised with the number of grafts they want to do.
My objectives from a transplant would be to fill my temporal corners and align my hairline, not lowering of the central point, to creative a easier aesthetic for styling, and therefore not to transplant into the vertex which i believe is fine.
https://forum.hairsite.com/t/rahal-fue-norwood-2/28647
The above is a result by Dr Reddy, which is similar to me I feel and what I want to achieve, dense packing of the small temporal areas to align the natural hairline. However I am surprised that both Drs instead want to do a low and juvenile hairline on me with a high number of grafts. I even wrote in my original emails to them what I exactly hoped for conservatively.
The photo with the green line is Dr Erdogans response "your surgery should consist of 2500 grafts - from the image I can see that this would go into both the vertex and extend well beyond the original hairline!!!
Dr Bicers outline is more akin to what I want, maybe a little overkill but but surprisingly gave me
"FUE with approx. 3200-3400
grafts for front area. (red line) And one session satisfies you. But for higher
density, you have a chance to have another session since your donor area is very
effective. (green line)
-You have risk to lose your current hair as I draw (yellow line). Because you are
30 and generally hair loss continues until 45’s. This hair loss is not related with
the operation."
This seems like an awful lot of FUE for this small area!?
Since I was surprised by the more intensive fue than I was expecting for my hairline goal, I thought I would post here to see if anyone could advise me what my next move would be. I wanted to adopt a conservative approach and fill in my temple areas, not give myself a juvenile hairline that I never even had and may not even suit me and be obvious to what i had had done. Budget is also an option and I was hoping I could get an expert surgeon for a small area resulting in a large impact, not to have as many grafts done as a full top head restoration job
Any feedback would be appreciated I've attached pictures of my hairline wet and dry and also the drs evaluation images