rj.

5 hours ago, Melvin-Moderator said:

Can you share some pictures. I’ve often wondered about transplanted hair and exogenous hormone exposure. It seems to me that the additional testosterone is affecting your hair. Are you on a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor such as finasteride or dutasteride?

weird timing, was watching joe rogan yesterday discussing TRT and wondering what it would do to both native and transplanted hair. I'm nowhere near his age, but sounds interesting for middle aged/older guys. 

2 hours ago, JohnAC71 said:

It does vary, that’s one chart amongst many. 

yeah I don't buy it. If you're an early grower, it goes out the window imo. 

I feel that this is the type of discrete SMP that works really well. Aside from on darker skin, I've not seen a good case in person of hairline/mid-scalp SMP and very few online. 

I'm very sceptical. The highest profile (allegedly) smp/ht proponent over here is andros townsend, a footballer. Looks very odd up close, almost a double hairline. Overall he looks a million times better than when significantly balding. 

1 hour ago, Westview said:

I was gonna say 1 in 3. 

Maybe its somewhere in between??

3 out of 10??

2.9/10

Dr B seems to have very fast growers/relatively low shedding post HT (I'd include myself). I'm guessing this is due to the amount of time the graft spends outside of the body. I was a little zoned out from the valium, but from what I recall, the majority of the grafts were left in the donor post punching, prior to transfer to recipient. 

not only 'repair cases', also physician referrals as opposed to just cosmetic. 

On 11/13/2020 at 3:22 AM, Melvin-Moderator said:

 

So basically one side. 

You just said what I said in another thread, except this time it's a surgeon you respect. I have never said that it is standard practice. I haven't appointed myself the authority on surgical and industry standards. In fact, I have always said that there is no one-size-fits-all for surgery. That includes the notion of a so-called "universal safe zone" when I met with Dr. Konior back in August 2018, he took a look my donor, and he said he could take hair from my nape. He saw no miniaturization there, conventional so-called 'industry standards' would dictate that this is a no-no. Is that being negligent? No, it's looking at a case individually.

Dr. Hasson is often criticized for taking the strip high up near the lateral humps. For the life of me, I don't understand how people don't realize that everyone is different. For some, that could be problematic, for others it won't. Things need to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. Do we all have the same balding pattern? No. Will we all end up with the same amount of hair loss? No.

Is it possible that we may not know everything? I'm directing this to the entire community. Are we open to learning, are we able to be objective without inserting inherent biases. It's damn hard to do, I know. But we all benefit if we do.

Dr Bisanga took almost all of my circa 2k grafts from one side. No idea if this is normal practice. I seem to recall him saying that it would leave the other side 'virgin' for the next procedure, if necessary. 

both very good. Dr B may be slightly more aggressive in terms of hairline/density? Little in it.

amazing the difference having it long makes.

and just to keep things on topic, 80% is the customary SMP tip. 

I've seen some great SMP results online, but, without fail, every single one I've seen in real life has been unnatural and horrific. 

edit: except on black guys

3 hours ago, Mycroft said:

It's so upsetting to see people all repeating the same thing about "messing with hormones." Just to be clear, it's the hormonal activity that creates the conditions causing androgenic alopecia. "I don't want to mess with my hormones" in this instance is essentially "I don't want to address the cause of my problem."

rather misleading IMO

just looks like dried blood or a scab. can you not soften the skin and wash it off?

if only someone did an interview yesterday and mentioned taking FUT strips higher than is usually seen 😉

best in the UK from what I've seen, particularly in regard to hairline density/relative aggression in comparison to others here.

I had far less extensive and 'shallower' hair loss/miniaturisation and had just over 2k grafts solely in and just behind the hairline. I think yours looks as if it's moving towards the midscalp, along with temple recession. The closing of the proposed transplanted area looks pretty high on the lateral hump in your first pic, too? I used to go to the gym with a guy who'd had a (poor quality, old school plug) transplant and the top was completely disconnected from the sides. 

others are likely to know more/may disagree, but wouldn't be surprised if this required circa 3k grafts to achieve desired density. 

andros townsend says hi

I reckon mine was gone between weeks 8-10

looks great! I'm at 3.5 months and don't want to tempt fate, but growing well. Will hopefully be around this kind of position in a month's time. 

2,000 for me (vast majority from right of centre, though)

£3/follicle is extremely competitive

On 3/20/2021 at 8:04 PM, Curious25 said:

It can help mitigate shock loss from occurring by strengthening the weaker, miniaturised hairs that are more prone to succumbing to shock loss. 
 

As far as Im aware, it has no impact to increasing graft survival rate. Your theory on creating a more hospitable environment for the implanted grafts is redundant, as these grafts, when selected properly . . are DHT resistant.  

Fair point and very sensible, but why does Dr. Reddy insist on taking it post transplant? Shock loss should only be temporary, regardless. 

Really doesn't bother me. I go to a half quite high on a fade and even if people were to notice, it wouldn't concern me at all. I don't think there's any/much stigma attached to HT's anymore, so just own it. I can safely say I have never looked closely at the back/sides of friends heads, so it's pretty unlikely anyone will yours.

(scars visible if you know what to look for)