HappyMan2021

@TravelPlugs have your vacation/tourist experience before the surgery There is no reason at all you can't fly back home the day after surgery. Nonetheless, if it still makes you nervouse flying home right after surgery, staying an extra day or 2 is fine. But 1 week is way excessive I maintain my position that you will not enjoy being a tourist/vacationing after your HT Worst case it can adversely affect the results

Its probably better to get to thailand a few days early and have your vacation before the procedure. After the procedure you are likely going to be sleep deprived for the first few days. Your post op instructions may direct you to spray saline spray on the area frequently. Your scalp may be very itchy and mildly sore. Not to mention your scalp will have a bunch of red scabs on it which will likely be noticeable to others I also wouldnt risk wearing a hat (even a loose fitting one) for the first 3 days as the grafts are still getting anchored then. And if you cant wear a hat then all the tourist stuff is impossible for you to do sun exposure, etc.

I had a HT yesterday and was in the window seat on the way home. The airline apparently has a policy of forcing the windows to be open/down during the descent and while we were taxing back to the airport. It was a bright sunny day and the window was super sunny adjacent to my recipient area for maybe 30 minutes or so. Could this have adversely affected by result in any way? I ask because i know we are supposed to avoid sun exposure for up to 6 months, let alone 1 day post op 😬😬😬 Just not sure how much protection the airplane window gave me from the sun. Thanks.

Im curious how or why Mwamba offered you 800 grafts on the house? He really doesnt seem to be offer any free touch ups or refunds. You are the only patient of his ive heard of him doing any sort of free work.

as far as I am aware it should be a super easy fix. Looks like a super small area and only a handful of grafts needed. I'm also really not sure its a scar either unless you specifically injured yourself there at some point. It's definitely not related to MPB as there is no direct correlation between beard loss and MPB I would say the majority of guys naturally have some patchiness, bald spots in their beard, so i would just say it is natural and non MPB related

I could be wrong, but as far as Im aware you can implant on scars, scar tissue, etc. There may be lesser yield than there otherwise would be due to the scar, or perhaps growth will you be fine. Can you also take a more zoomed out picture of your entire face and beard? I am curious how big of an issue this actually is for you. I think there is a good chance merely growing the neighboring hair even just a few millimeters, will be enough to start concealing it

off the top of my head, one of the techs could do something that causes the patient's skin to start necrosising. Necrosis is a very rapid process and would require a doctor's quick wits to fix I had surgery with one of the elite doctors on the forum. There was one moment in surgery where he suddenly looked pretty concerned and halted everything in order to examine my scalp. Apparently a section of the recipient area was turning exceptionally dark really quickly and my doc thought it could have potentially been the start of necrosis Luckily after a brief examination the surgeon saw that this section was just normal bruising/surgery trauma, and after taking my blood pressure, the surgery resumed But the point stands that even though hair transplants are casual surgeries on the grand scale of things, they very much still require rigorous monitoring and a doctor present in case things go south. No - you won't die from a hair transplant procedure. But the unexpected can still happen and I wouldn't trust the techs to be my last line of defense. And also just in general, do you not see anything wrong with the doctor leaving early? Some patients might take out a loan for surgery and make other big sacrifices, perhaps traveling internationally, such a big commitment, so much faith and trust in the doctor, just for him to leave early so he can attend his golf game 🤷‍♂️

I am really curious what Dr. Hasson is so busy with that he cannot even be present at his clinic for the duration of surgery. He has demonstrated this poor behavior in previous cases as well IMO it goes beyond bad manners and poor etiquette. for example, what if there was a true emergency with your procedure that only Hasson can take charge of? As good as his techs may or may not be, there are simply some situations that require the surgeon/medical doctor to respond to. The techs cannot independently respond to any critical, fast moving situations that may arise.

I can 100% confirm there have been multiple unsatisfied h&w patients on here who have gotten free touch ups after voicing their complaints on here I cannot speak with any certainty on what is done by Hasson vs the techs as I have not been a patient. But feel free to read some reviews and Hasson appears to be pretty hands off - especially for a doctor with "elite" status h&w appears to have a very large tech team, whereas many of the other elite docs have smaller teams. Having a larger tech team indicates the doctor is more hands off, and vice versa Lastly there is one patient review on the forum from either 1-2 years ago, where Hasson left the clinic early while the patient was still in surgery, and the patient was unable to have a post-surgery debrief with Hasson. The techs were the ones who wrapped up the surgery and sent the patient on his way. If I am paying tens and tens of thousands of dollars for surgery, at minimum I would expect the surgeon to be present at the clinic for the entirety of it. And for bedside manner, manners in general, custom, I would expect the doctor to be able to spend (at minimum) a small amount of time with a patient after surgery to give concluding details on the surgery, answer any patient questions, and in general just to properly say goodbye and see the patient off after surgery. In NO WAY at all is the above meant to criticize Hasson's surgical skills. I have no comment on that. The above is just meant to say that Hasson may be suprisingly hands off given his prestigious reputation

@jbd123 maybe you should ask Dr. Hasson for a free touch up. There are multiple other threads on here from h&w where people have gotten free second rounds. You will have to directly ask the clinic though as I doubt they will offer you one unprompted. I also understand you must be really frustrated and disappointed with the work. But if the options are spending an additional 20k elsewhere vs putting aside your feelings and working out a remedy with Hasson, the latter may be most effective That being said, I do think your concerns about the techs may be valid. Hasson is one of the few "elite doctors" who seems to dictate all work to the techs. whereas the modern trend for other elite doctors is for them to have a hands on role, and the surgeon may be just as hands on if not more so than the tech I don't think this is a make or break item in you having a repeat surgery, but you can certainly bring it up

do you have any examples of this from the forum? I personally have yet to see anyone with oddly curled hair revert back to normal. Perhaps yes if there is at most only a extremely subtle degree of wiryness and kink, as the grafts should ultimately get thicker and softer. But for anything more than a very very minor degree of variance, every case I have ever reviewed on this, the hair has not gotten better. when @head mentions his hair is "curly", I feel like some/all of this hair is perpendicular/badly angled which will not improve I think it may be most prudent for @head to assume he has been botched, but maybe leave a 5% miracle chance open that the hair will be fine I feel that alot of repair patients have a hard time accepting they have been botched and this really impedes/delays their repair journey. It's a shame that clinics will never ever admit to any mistakes, because it leaves patients gaslighted and makes the road to repair alot more difficult.

It won't. Clinics hope to delay delay delay in the hope that you will just go away. Can you please provide more pictures? It is hard to judge with just one As of now I cant speak to whether removing the hair is a good idea or not, but i can tell you that the only solutions for this are: 1) extract then reimplant the bad hair elsewhere 2) laser/electrolysis 3) bandaid solutions like using gel to mold the hair into proper shape. Or growing your hair longer. Longer hair can really help with bad angles The surgeon inserted the hair at an incorrect angle, that is why it looks odd When you say separate issue, i am unsure what you mean As of right now, I am assuming you just have 1 issue, which is badly angled hair.

it is badly angled hair. It will not return to normal unfortunately. the clinic 100% knows they messed up, but they never ever EVER will admit to it. It is in a clinic's best interest to never admit they botched a surgery. Sadly, they have no reason to tell you the truth. I understand if this is all hard to take in, but the sooner you can accept the reality of your result, the better your repair journey will go.

I am 100% certain this is badly angled hair. Unfortunately it will not get better, it is permanent. You should laser/electrolysis the bad hair off and start over again. It is the simplest option and ultimately the less stressful and less costly route. The alternative is to extract the bad hair and then reimplant it elsewhere. This will be 2 surgeries minimum, and could likely be more depending on how much bad hair you have and any other complications.

5 days is definitely an excessive time to stay somewhere after a hair transplant. Not any harm to it, but you really could have left the day after or +1 day after and had a less expensive trip I've stayed an extra day myself with a different surgeon for the post op cleanings and - while the cleaning is nice and helps feel more freshened and hygenic after surgery, i feel like a post op cleaning (done by a tech) really has no effect on the HT.