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Unless you have a terrible diet then I cant see how any vitamin will help, the vast majority of us will get everything we need from the food we eat, thats what all the studies suggest.  And unless you're deficient in a certain vitamin you could be causing more harm by taking them.  So if you are thinking of taking vitamins get your blood work checked.

Try hair masks, or a leave in conditioner.

On 5/23/2023 at 1:29 AM, Gatsby said:

It gets very hot wearing a hair piece on really hot days in Summer. It’s just easier to wear a cap or just not wearing it. 

Never had an issue in the heat, i have swiss lace thats breathable.

I assume if the client has recession and just wanted hair transplanted there, then there wouldnt need top be shaved as they would have no hair in that area?...apart from shaving the back for the extracted areas.

Is it possible to have a FUE with a top doctor without shaving the entire head?  

Thank you.

I doubt the ease and effectiveness but the health issues are pretty severe.

Why would you take oral Min?  Seems very risky.  

Yeah not sure how it could come off.  More likely is it could lift in a spot...but even this is unlikely.  

My advice is the sooner you do it the better, I started wearing when I had a tonne of hair that made the transition not noticible and much easier.

On 2/13/2023 at 2:46 AM, safwan said:

I’m also planing to go to long hair Center I’m having good/bad reviews…some people r saying that is hair mill…as u have done the transplant there…how was the environment??!and how many surgeries take place in a day at long hair Center??

I would do your research and go to a renowned  top doctor.

15 hours ago, london1982 said:

Can’t be believe you get one system to last you a year, I guess I played football in mine and surfed so it got battered, I also only went for a low density so after 3 months you can see lace.
 

Even at £300 a piece over 10 years it’s £3k and you can get them done in Turkey for that price but you need to do your homework.

The worst part for me is now, 2 months post op, I’m just waiting for growth and I will need a 2nd one too to fill the crown.

Don’t miss regrooms. Also I didn’t want my kids to reach teenagers years and rumble me.

Yeah but i guess its only a small expense compared to a very large one, and I would be looking at a lot more than £3000, I'm sure you'll have great results, but I would have to go to a top doctor and I'd be looking at £10,000 even for 2000 grafts.   But its never been the cost that concerns me.

There are pros and cons of wearing as there would be if i decided to have a HT.

I'm happy i've found a solution that I like, that's easy, cost effective and flawless, the only downside is its not all my own hair lol.  But i would never rule out having a HT because in the end nothing beats having all your own hair with no help.

On 10/22/2020 at 4:09 AM, BeHappy said:

This is the sort of idea that I wanted when I went for my first hair transplant as I was already wearing a hair piece prior to that. The biggest issue with a hair piece is the front is always noticeably fake unless you have curly hair like Gatsby and can hide the hairline. I wanted the front half transplanted and wear the hair piece for the crown and then maybe 20 years later when I was into my 40s and didn't worry so much about the crown being thin I'd get rid of the hair piece and do a thin transplant to the crown so it wasn't completely bald. Today with body hair grafts being available I could have had several thousand grafts done on the crown. I was discouraged from this plan by the Dr who insisted that I could have a full head of hair with just hair transplants. I wish I would have gone with the frontal transplant and crown hair piece. I would have had a full head of hair for the past 30 years instead of being bald all that time. This is definitely something some guys with extensive loss should consider.

 

True the hairline is the toughest part, what really helped me was going grey...no knots and i'm amazed how it looks, there's just no way you can tell.  Having said that there's people with jet black hair who wear completely slick back Hair pieces and look incredible.  Hair pieces like HT's have progressed so much over the past 2 decades.

I agree with Grincher, but if I had to pay £2300 a year I'd be going down the HT route.  I spend around £450 a year that's everything i need.  But I'm in a similar position to London1982, i don't have as much hair loss, I'd imagine I would need around 2000 grafts and that would be me done.  I would go to Canada or the US for mine.  I would be very concerned about Turkey although i have seen good results there are some scare stories.

But its looking good mate I hope you have great results, I'm 47 and I wonder if I'll take the plunge in the next few years.

The transition might be a little easier for me as I wear a hairline piece and i might need to wear it a little lower.  I do think of it from time to time, but i guess your never ready for a HT until your in the chair.

That's a long tome I've worn since 2007.  Sill think of a HT every now and again.  I disagree with the above post.  Wearing has been amazing for me, and its probably one of the reasons I never had a HT which I'm thankful for given I would have done little research and got bad results.  At least now if I did a HT the surgery is sop much better now and the top doctors are well known. And the pieces you can get now are incredible. I don't know if I'll ever have a HT but its nice to know the option is there.  of course being on Hair loss forums for so many years I know people who've had HT'S and just not happy they end up wearing anyway.

If you have thin or short sides a thick mop on top can look odd, i would either thin the piece out or grow your sides out.

On 8/23/2022 at 1:53 PM, Vic said:

I wore a hair system for about 2 months; keeping my natural hairline and getting the front, mid and crown shaved for the hair system. It made wonders to my confidence getting that awesome density and making me feel 10 years younger! However, I very quickly got tired as it felt like a mat sitting on my head and scratching my head felt so odd. Also, i stopped going in water not due to fear of it coming out, but due to my natural hair and system hair not looking same after getting wet. I was wearing a Swiss Lace system and it was perfect with the place i got it from doing 3 maintenance sessions within the package; however it got expensive after i had to get off the package and get on a monthly payment schedule, was around $400.00 per month to maintain, colour, clean, re-apply etc.

As a result, I made the decision to get an HT as my donor is pretty good. Once I took the system off, my scalp thanks me every day as feeling of something holding your head is gone and I can feel my own scalp when itching!

Blimey $400 a month?  I only pay around that for a whole year...you really didn't need to pay that kind of money.  Never had a feeling that I was wearing or itchiness.  Good luck with your HT.

On 8/19/2022 at 12:56 AM, BeHappy said:

 

I wore a hair piece before I had a hair transplant. I absolutely hated it. From my personal experience even if I got the front to look perfect I still constantly worried that it was noticeable any time somebody got up close or especially if there was some wind blowing. It can look great at home when you comb it in front of the mirror, but the hair is not going to stay perfectly in place all day. At work I did a lot of walking, moving around, and constant interactions with people and I kept running to the bathroom to check my hair all the time.

With the color not matching, it could match perfectly when you first get it, but the color fades after a little while especially if you spend a lot of time outside in the Sun. The sun fades it pretty quickly.

Yeah its not for everyone.  I remember as I wore a hairline piece deciding  that I'll  keep my hairline and instead fill in the recession, but I was so obsessed I kept looking in the mirror.  But as soon as I went back to my hairline piece I hardly ever thought about it, so the opposite was true for me I thought about my hair more when I wasn't wearing it.  Of course if the colour doesn't match that's a big problem, I don't have that issue. Some people just can't seal with it, for me its been incredible.  Not ruled out a HT though but so thankful I have other options in the meantime.

On 8/6/2022 at 3:27 PM, SeanToman said:

It's definitely the best solution if you're wearing a hair system.

From time to time during travels I see people with a hair system that has an exposed hairline.  It looks awful.  No matter how 'thin' the base of the hair system is.
Having a hairline or transplant prior to a hair system goes a long way.  It really does a great job blending it all in.

As @Gatsby says, it's a lot of maintenance.  The glue and tape is an absolute nightmare to work with.
Personally I wore one for half a year, couldn't stick with it.  Even had issues reapplying it from time to time (ie. accidently getting glue into my natural hair and pulling it out by mistake). 

Another big issue with hair systems is that the color will never be perfectly matched to your native.

You only spot the bad ones though, like bad HT's.  And if your  system never matched your native hair then someone made an error.

Are you sure that above pic isn't a piece?

Theoretically its a good idea as the hairline is always the hardest thing to look realistic.  You would still have to match the density correctly.  But its certainly an option if you dont have enough donor.

Not sure about that Crickhair especially severe loss, you'd have to have very good donor hair and a very good surgeon, Besides we've all read the advantages and disadvantages of Ht's and Hair pieces so i won't bore people listing them but there are reasons why some people have HT's and some choose to wear.

2 hours ago, Gatsby said:

I had long, curly hair when I began losing it to MPB. It was always styled forward just by the nature of the hair itself.

Yeah and I know people (not wearing pieces)who have hair brushed back that actually doesn't expose the hairline it kind of comes out the scalp at an angle if you know what I mean lol.  A bit quiffy.

19 hours ago, SD1984 said:

Truth is most men, at least for the average western white male, look best with an exposed hairline. I remember there was a recent article, maybe it was GQ, on the top 10 most popular hairstyles for men and literally every single one of them had an exposed hairline. Me personally, I simply don't look that great with a combed down/fringe look. 

And while sure the average person doesn't stare at a persons hair during conversation, my point was there likely will come that day where something is ever so slightly off with your system/hairline which WOULD in turn draw the attention of someone. Will they call you out on it? Probably not. But if they do, the wearer better have an excuse ready to go. 

I actually prefer the look of hairstyles that don't have an exposed hairline, well its a mixture really as there only so may styles you can have either way.  I wouldn't take what a certain magazine says is or isn't 'cool' as another magazine would probably say the opposite or the next year styles have changed and the list is totally different.

But if you do completely expose the hairline then yes you'd have to know what your doing and be confident about it.

A ht + system could work be a little tricky matching density with the hairline.  Some people like those posting on this thread had anxiety about wearing yet others have the opposite effect the anxiety dissipates when they wore because it stopped them feeling insecure about their hair loss, everyone's different.

I wore a really small piece and have gone through times of not wearing, i can achieve a similar look with my existing hair, and if anything i felt much more conscious when i wasn't wearing even though i pretty much looked the same.  The piece did make me feel more secure and i actually thought less about my hair with it than without it.

Not sure I understand the logic here.  Surely if you shave your head then get scalp micro pigmentation people will know you had hair loss?  So why does it matter?  But i might be missing something here.

13 hours ago, SD1984 said:

This really hits home with me. I've studied and researched hair systems for the better part of the last 2-3 years. No doubt they've come a long way from the days of the brutal looking toupee's. They can look absolutely 100% undetectable today if done right. Unfortunately that still doesn't change the fact that you are in fact wearing hair and yes there is maintenance required and yes it can be a hassle (i.e. Better make sure you got a hat or bandana on at the beach on that 90 degree day).

But for me I feel I would just have general anxiety or paranoia about having it on, people possibly noticing something being "off", and the overall idea that at the end of the day I am wearing fake hair. Having that "don't give a F" mentality works for a lot of people, but it can only go so far with certain things. I'd be much more comfortable if I at least had a real hairline up front and could maybe wear a system behind it, but a complete full topper always kinda wondering if my hairline looks sharp and clean anytime I leave the house or the next day after a clean up I just don't think I could do it.

Yeah like everything in life wearing suits some people doesn't suit others, that's a given.  People do keep mentioning hairlines but how many people get really close when they talk to you?  How many stare at someone's hair when they speak to them?  Plus plenty of people wear and don't expose their hair line at all solves that issue.