rambo man

I think Dr Bisanga has a shorter wait list than most given he is one of the very best.

probably because he is dearer than some of the others but if you want not to wait but not give up the quality he is an option if you have the money

10 hours ago, CharlesBarkley said:

Looking very good Rambo. Keep photos coming.

 

@CharlesBarkleythank you and no problems at all shall keep them coming and updating

15 hours ago, Dillpickle123 said:

Looking good Rambo this should be a great result! Looks very dense packed 

@Dillpickle123thanks pal for all the help

19 hours ago, Gatsby said:

@rambo man this is great work! Happy growing!👌

@Gatsbythank you I appreciate the encouragement 👍

22 hours ago, Gasper20 said:

This is super dense. Going to be a great result

@Gasper20i hope you are right 😊

3 hours ago, Big Rome said:

you using straighteners to manipulate your hair like that to cover the recipient area?? 

@Big Romeno it’s just how I have styled my hair for years to hide my right temple so it just falls like that when brushed forward and then a tiny amount of wax to hold the hair there 

14 hours ago, airporteffect said:

Very nice. I got the same amount of grafts but your recipient area is about 1/4 the size. This should be a great result.

Thanks hopefully both get great hair after 

This look great and very natural which is the aim. You should be very pleased this is a great hairline now

This looks good work. You should be happy in twelve months 

On 2/12/2023 at 5:48 PM, Dillpickle123 said:

Haha that’s great mate! One thing I noticed is that the first couple months you’ll have increased hair fall the shower all normal though 

Thanks I have been doing three washes a day to get the scabs off and have noticed a few more strands than usual so thanks for the advice it’s all normal

Good hair. This should work out well for you

Hair in there is sprouting between months 4 and 6 this should really pick up for you

This looks great you probably never need anything else doing here

23 hours ago, Calihome1 said:

Did you get the temples done?  It looked like there was intent on the temples but can’t tell in the post surgery pics

@Calihome1in the end no. They were planned but when Dr Bruno Pinto had a look with his magnification tools he said all the hair was present and there were no pores where hairs used to be so I hadn’t lost any and they were always like this and not to recreate something that wasn’t there originally

On 2/10/2023 at 12:46 AM, Dillpickle123 said:

Gone look great 👍 I about a week the scabs should start to fall out 

@Dillpickle123thanks I am following yours as a guide haha happy hair growing

On 2/9/2023 at 9:49 PM, Sitries1 said:

Looks excellent. Very densely packed. Pinto's work is fantastic. Nice hairline design too. 

@Sitries1thanks if I get anything like yours I would be happy 

10 hours ago, Archan said:

Very densely packed and it needed to be to match density if ur existing hairs..ur hair looks enough thick to give u a very good density and tht too whn they are so dense packed ..

How many grafts per/cm2? 

Are you on medication ?

@Archan yes I am on propecia and oral minoxidil every day.

the are was 37cm2 and the grafts were 2352 so around 63 grafts per cm2 but probably more in the hair line and less further back I would think

Just now, rambo man said:

8 hours ago, HappyMan2021 said:

@rambo man can you clarify these pics? These are pre-op? You look like Wolverine in them lol. Just wondering where the pain points are in these 2 pics. 

@HappyMan2021no problems yes these are both pre op photos. I don’t looks as good right now haha. As I say I was lucky my loss didn’t get that far considering how early it took. From front on I have always looked ok but from a side profile especially the right where I comb right to left to hide recession you would clearly see a comb over. Again like that was ok until there was wind or rain or water and then it looked ridiculous 

8 hours ago, HappyMan2021 said:

@rambo man can you clarify these pics? These are pre-op? You look like Wolverine in them lol. Just wondering where the pain points are in these 2 pics. 

9 hours ago, bear56 said:

2352  grafts in such a small area= super high density. should turn out real well !!! 

Thanks yes Dr Bruno Pinto said he was trying to eyeball the front lines and match them up close to native density so it would only need one pass. He did say though with elastic skin and such high density there would be a lot of fibrin which I have now in day 5 with basically one big scab each side

Hello All

Before I get on with this post I wanted to give a public thank you to anyone I have messaged privately on here and that has replied. There a quite a few of you and you have all helped me so much

I have been a member of this forum for quite a while now. I have read nearly all the threads on here but don't often comment. This was pretty much mainly because up until now I had never had a hair transplant myself and felt that commenting on someone that had without any experience of it didn't seem fair. Now that I have had mine I wanted to post a thread in order to help other people like myself that have spent years daily looking on forums and threads for updates and trying to navigate through this hair loss world the best we can in hope of one day having great hair again.

I am a 32 year old male and I have had temporal hair loss since the age of 18. I receded at the age of 18 into a NW3 where it has stayed for around 14 years. At the age of 20 I went on propecia and topical minoxidil and took both of these for around 6 years to good effect. It held and also enhanced my NW3 hairline.

At around the age of 26 years old I had a lot going on. I was engaged and moving house and working my way through promotions at work that for some reason or another I just gave up on the medication. Don't get me wrong after getting married we wanted to kids and stopping the medication a year before that was always the plan but I didn't need to do it quite as early as I did. Luckily for me in the 6 years that followed my hair loss didn't seem to get any worse. I had perhaps a 5% drop in density but on the whole without being on medication for that time it has done really well. I have now been back on propecia and also oral minoxidil 5mg for over a year and plan to use these for as long as possible

I have always been able t style my hair to cover recession and most people would generally not know that I had any hair loss at all. Hiding it did come with some sacrifices though. I remember on a lads holiday at about 20 years old I had to pretend to have food poisoning to get out of going to the water park and had to spend the day by myself when everyone else was out enjoying it purely because I didnt want them to see me with my hair wet and the high corners. People will probably think that pathetic and it is but to me thise things were important. I would also not turn up to football or asked to be substituted if it rained and always wanted to avoid photos where possible. I was happy to live like this and basically miss out on this to avoid people seeing my receded hairline

However fast forward to the present day and I have two beautiful kids and don't want them missing out on things like swimming and being out in the rain because of me so I finally decided to do something about it.

After years of research I narrowed my picks down to Dr Bruno Pinto and Dr Bisanga. From all the threads I have read and consultations with both of them I have only good things to say about both and felt I would trust both of them 100%.

In the end i decided to go with Dr Bruno Pinto. He is one of the highest rated doctors in Europe and on the Spanish forums is probably recognised with the most thread pretty much all of which are fantastic results

There are not many things a patient can control in a hair transplant and a lot of things that can go wrong. The only thing I could control was picking a surgeon and felt that the doctors on my short list were as good as anyone anywhere. The reason I ended up picking Dr Bruno Pinto was because the whole procedure himself. He is the only person that touches your head all day. He is really passionate about his work and could talk all day about hair and the satisfaction he gets out of helping his patients. He only operates one person a day so you are the only person in the clinic and he only operates three days a week or at most 100 patients a year so he can dedicate himself to his patients that he has got and use any free days for consultations and monthly check in

I arrived at the clinic around 8am and for the first 2 and half hours was just talking and planning. Drawing a hairline on that complemented my aesthetics but also didn't go against nature. He showed me that I had high frontalis muscles and that we must not implant lower on to them or my hair would move every time I frowned. On one side the muscle was higher by 1.5mm. you wouldn't know this to look but the curve of it bugged Dr Bruno Pinto as he could tell by eye one side was out. He checked through all my native hair and said there were no signs of thinning anywhere else which was a relief to hear.

I had booked this with him over a year ago and when I sent through my photos and videos of my donor area he suggested 2000 grafts for the hairline and 300 grafts for the temporal peaks. Which I agreed to and paid for 2300 grafts. On the day of the surgery we discussed the temporal peaks and I mentioned that I haven't ever had them and he agreed as he could tell by look with the scopes that there was no hair loss in the area and that they had not receded and were just not very pronounced so he said he wouldn't want to create something that wasn't originally there as it could things off and I agreed but asked if he would use the 2300 for the hairline and get it dense around the front. Looking at my donor he estimated I would be able to get around 8000 grafts and still have a short haircut but if I wasn't bothered about the sides being kept longer than a grade 3 I had potential for a thousand or so more if needed.

I wont keep boring you with in and outs of the procedure but wanted to list a few key points for anyone who might be having one soon and find it useful. I thought the injections on the donor and extractions were a 2 out of 10 pain wise. Hardly felt any of them. However on the recipient site the injections were a lot more painful I was gripping the chair but its only a few seconds and then its done. Dr Bruno Pinto said I had very good vascularisation and elastic skin which meant the grafts should bed in well but I would have a lot of fibrin which is a yellow liquid seeping out and that it would not effect the result.

We did all extractions and got 2352 which was 52 more than paid for but was a gift from Dr Bruno Pinto. I had read he does this with his patients. The graft breakdown is below. We had a quick lunch and then onto implantation and I think we finished around 8pm so it was a long day.

Grafts:2352
1s:622
2s:586
3s:1007
4s:119
5s:17
6s:1

A total of 5382 hairs at average of 2.30 which he said was really good considering a quarter of the grafts were singles.

I am day four post op now and have really scabbed up more so on one side. The donor is perfect and I have no pain and able to massage and wash normally in the shower. I had swelling for two days which deformed my face but that passed soon enough.

From getting in touch with the clinic over a year ago with Emilio who is absolutely great and so helpful all the way through to Dr Bruno Pinto coming in on a Saturday to do my hair wash personally I cannot thank them enough for the respect they have shown me and how much they have helped me. I am now hoping like everyone else for a great result

Below are photos of my hair pre-op and post op as well as a donor photo straight after extractions and how i generally styled my hair.

Please feel free to comment good or bad. I shall try and update very regularly because during my research it was my biggest annoyance with people start threads and not updating. I understand why and that they just get on with their lives but shall try my best to give you a full thread to 12 months.

Any questions please ask I shall try and reply to any you have

This is a great result for a natural hair transplant. You were basically bald on top but not have a great head of hair.

Family always has to be out first and I agree and did the same as you with stopping finasteride or propecia as I take in order to start a family. It’s not worth the risk the babies health is much more important. Hopefully you get pregnant and have a healthy baby soon and get back on the DHT blockers to keep the hair

I think your hair looks great. 

i have been on the oral minoxidil for a year now and it does keep the hair in a good quality. 
 

you also have 5 months for the hair to thicken but honestly it’s looks great as your photos 

Hi All

I am booked for a hair transplant in feb with Dr Pinto but need to get my blood tests done next month for him.

has anyone in the UK got blood tests done and if so where please? 
 

these are the tests that are needed to go

many thanks Rambo man