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Yes, right now I just want to move past this and see whats the best solution for my resulting recipient and donor area.

thanks for the suggestions! I actually first talked to her about my results and my discontent but then she handed me over to her husband the Manager of the business and he was adamant in saying that they don't do refunds and are not going to give one. And that if i wanted to instigate further that I could talk to their lawyers who would give me the same response.. they offered another "free" touch up but I was like no way im ever letting them put a finger on my scalp again.

I already demanded a refund. Before surgery they make you sign things that pretty much relieve them of guilt if the results aren't successful.. they already told me if I wanted to instigate further to talk to their lawyers so I think it's a battle not worth pursuing... but at least I can warn others.

I've talked to the best in Turkey which are more expensive than Nader and Camacho, don't want to risk it, want surgeons with abundant proven results.

I'm on dutasteride and oral minoxidil. Switched to Dut from Fin after like 11 years, seemed like Fin stopped working. My main concern is my hairline which limits very much what I can do with my hair and if it's not perfectly combed to the side it's pretty noticeable and vulnerable to sunlight and wind.

It was all over the phone and in-person meetings, unfortunately. I did dispute right after the surgery but it wasn't approved given that it was medical. Melvin you've gone through several surgeries as well. The next one would be my 5th and I think my last! I don't have any BHT grafts so given my limited donor I think I have one more HT in me to strengthen the frontal area and add some density to the midscalp and then SMP all over to add density. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hello all, linking my previous post of my first HT with Dr Yeimy Alvarez on April 2021 This was the result after the first HT of 3500 grafts with Dr Yeimy Alvarez. Of course i was dissatisfied with the hairline and resulting frontal density. The doctor offered to give me repair for free so i scheduled it for July 2022. To my surprise, I travel to Colombia and they had booked the wrong date for me, they already had someone else they were operating that day so they double booked us and asked me to get there earlier. The day before the surgery comes and they charge me full price I was like ok i don't really want to fight and get a bad result so I'm just going to pay. The doctor didn't discuss the surgery plan with me I want to focus on the hairline and midscalp but when i wake up from the surgery realize that they hadn't touched the midscalp only a bit of the crown area, of course I was displeased but was like ok hopefully i get good results this time around. Below are the pics after the second surgery. At 6 months I was already pretty sure I wasn't going to get the results I wanted so I got into discussions with the Doctor and her assistants. On December she said that if i didn't get the growth I wanted I would get a refund. Well 5 months pass and I didn't get the results I wanted on the frontal or crown area they worked on, the survival rate seemed low. The Doctor then said she never offered a refund as well as her husband and said that I should talk to their lawyers, I off course was angry and stormed out. Below are my results 11 months post the second surgery. I'm now debating what to do, i want to still fix the hairline and add some density to the midscalp and then cover the rest with SMP. These pictures are after cutting my hair so donor looks more lighter than usual. Not sure how many grafts I can still extract. Was thinking of going to Pekiner since he has very good results. Thanks for the help! Avoid Yeimy Alvarez at all costs. Attaching pictures of my grown out donor below.

Thanks for your response! It hasn't been transplanted previously that's why the skin there is lighter in color compared to the crown and the frontal third. 11 years of Finasteride and 1 year of Dustasteride and Oral Minoxidil have helped maintain it. Initially before the surgery my plan was to cover the mid scalp and a bit of the crown and then SMP the crown, but looks like now I'll have to SMP the mid scalp. I had read SMP is really good in the crown which is why I wasn't happy when I woke up and saw the focus of the surgery on the crown and not the mid scalp.

yes, that was prior to the last surgery. the hair is spread out to the sides on purpose to show the thinning

So on July 7th I went in for a hairline touch up from an FUE i got last year with results I wasn’t happy about. My plan was to additionally get the mid scalp area and a bit of the crown. Well when I woke up from the surgery the mid scalp area wasn’t touched and 2600 grafts went to the crown and hairline. I’m currently on Dutasteride and oral minoxidil and afraid for the mid scalp area that had been thinning out as seen in the third pic pre op. Did the doctor make the right call focusing on the crown and not touching the portion of the mid scalp area that was left untouched? This area is the one that appears in the circled area in the 2nd pic. First pic is a few days post op, 2nd pic is 2.5 weeks post op, third pic is pre op. In total I’ve had around 8000 grafts transplanted with not all of them surviving. Thanks for the help!

This area wasn’t touched and there is some thinning I wanted to reinforce with SMP. I’m already on Dut and Oral Min. Do I have to wait or I can do it now?

Yeah but since I'm already doing another one might as well add some grafts to the mid scalp/crown area. Let's see how it goes. She did say she wanted to do a scalp biopsy to find potential reasons why some of the grafts didn't survive. Never heard of this before, have you?

Hi all, attaching 8 months and 1 week pictures. Looks like it’s certain that I’ll have to get another one, not sure what went wrong, there’s definitely growth but pretty much I’m left feeling the same as before, can’t reveal hairline and have to keep the comb over going which now reveals hair loss more due to the lowering of the hairline which isn’t very dense. Since I’m already doing another one, might as well touch up on mid scalp area (last picture attached). My question is , how many grafts do you think would be needed to fill the hairline/front? What about the mid scalp (last picture attached)? Not too worried about the crown at the moment. I’m taking finasteride 5x a week, dutasteride 2x a week, and 2.5mg oral minoxidil daily. Thanks for the help!

7 months, looks like I’ll have to go in for another one =\

This is how it looks like if I style it to the side, which is what I used to do presurgery which does look better than before, certainly more volume. But yeah I was planning to have other hairstyles post surgery.