JordanJames

@gillenator No, there was a licensed doctor at the clinic, and he came a few times to oversee things. The "Technicians" were Registered Nurse Practitioners. I live in Canada, where things like this are monitored pretty strictly, so I'm assuming it was all by-the-book, even though the Doctor didn't actually participate directly. @Melvin-Moderator I've come across these forums years and years ago, but did most of my research on google. @DenverBuff1989 I think I will voice my concerns when I have my first post-op checkup. In the meantime, this is 7 days since the transplant, so I might as well post more pictures, right? Things are a little cleaner up top. I still don't know if this is good density or not. I've seen some post-op HT's online where they look like actual Chia pets.

@Captain Haddock Yeah, they really spread out the donor area well. I am more worried about the transplant area. @Egy You want to compare my original hairline to the post-op pics? Or you want to see the line that the surgeon drew when my head was first shaved?

@JohnAC71 Pic of the back attached. The dark spot where the technicians skipped was a spot where I had a psoriasis patch, so they chose not to harvest any hairs from that immediate region. This pic is immediately post-op, and by day 7 (today), its barely noticeable. @Melvin-Moderator Canadian Clinic. It is a local neck-up cosmetic surgery clinic. I know, I know. I should have picked a place that specializes in HT. However, the lead technician here was the lead technician at the only HT clinic in my city. The doctor of the former clinic retired, so she moved to this clinic. Their team has done about 60 HT's since opening the doors in 2018 (COVID slowed things down, but they generally do 1-2/week). She has probably done hundreds of others at the former clinic. They used a microscope for proper follicular sorting and dissection, and did the drilling and implantation manually. They have a SmartGraft machine, but didn't like the success rate of grafts using that method. I know I am being impatient. I guess time will tell. I guess probably everybody goes through this same buyers remorse where they second guess everything, especially when it looks like a weird patchy blob of scabs..

Just had an FUE transplant. Around 1500-1600 grafts. I didn't do as much research as I probably should have, mostly into the procedure itself and not the actual clinic. It was a team of technicians (not a doctor), but the lead technician had many years of both FUT and FUE transplant experience., and they did use microscopes to separate the grafts into singles, doubles, multi's. Of course, after the fact I started reading into improper density, and horror stories about multi's being used in the hairline, and red flags about the procedure not being done by an actual doctor, etc etc. Is the attached picture indicative of either a good surgery, or a poor surgery? Or is it still too early to tell? I realize I am still pretty scabby. For reference, this picture was on day 2 post-op, and I am currently on day 7.