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yeah it does look quite good from the front, I will say that, he did a great job on the transplant and I'm very happy with that result, just highly questioning his choice to harvest the donor hairs in the manner in which he did. He did get back to me and told me to give it at least another 6 months as the area is still healing, so maybe I overreacted as it's only been 3 months...I was under the impression the donor area wouldn't really change much since those hairs are basically just gone, but I will give it a little more time before making a final assessment on how I feel about this procedure and whether or not I want to have some kind of repair job done

Hmmm...Ok well thanks for all the info and the pics, your results do look pretty good but I have a few questions regarding this procedure What is the approximate cost when compared to a transplant? Somebody mentioned regular/ongoing upkeep costs after the initial procedure...what does that entail? How often is the maintenance and what's the cost to have it touched up? Also, I'm interested in as long term a solution as possible - as you mentioned, I do have dark hair now, but it is slowly going gray...what will it look like in 20 years when it's fully gray and I still have dark colored smp marks in two narrow stripes? A transplant is invasive and I'm assuming also more expensive, but it is also a one time deal...not saying i won't do smp, just wanting to look at and compare all the variables

Ok yeah I'm inclined to agree with you, I assumed smp was some kind of tattoo scenario and I'm not really into that idea...having to get a patch job for my patch job is incredibly annoying but whatevs, my hair is thick and it grows fast, in two weeks these streaks will be mostly covered, I'll wear hats until then and then keep my hair longer for a while until I can get it fixed

Are you by chance a doctor who specializes in such things?

I agree, also super annoying, especially since I kind of asked him beforehand not to do it that way and he said he wouldn't but then he did it anyway when I was all drugged up I'm going to withhold the name for now, I contacted him about it and am waiting for his response...I was thinking I might post a full review here and how he responds will enter heavily into how that goes

There's ongoing maintenance/cost with SMP? What does it entail?

Well technically all cosmetic surgery is unnecessary, is it not? But I do agree, I really didn't want to have to do anything beyond this either...that being said, I know it's a long shot but I'm hoping if I complain enough maybe the surgeon will agree to fix it for me If not I suppose smp could be on the table...any recommended places? I'm in NY but happy to travel, either US or abroad

What is smp? would it be fixable with an additional transplant? I know it's far from ideal to fix a bad transplant with a second transplant and extremely frustrating that I'm even tempted to ask about having it done in the donor area, but hypothetically can it be done?

No I didn't take a pic immediately following the surgery of the donor area, only from the implanted area...but I agree, I also thought it was odd that he harvested from the donor area in such a fashion, after the surgery he showed me with a mirror where he took all the hairs from and I kind of initially freaked out initially because I was worried about having a stripe, and he assured me it would become unnoticeable when it grew in a bit but it's been over 3 months, I can't imagine this is going to improve much

The surgery was about 3.5 months ago (late December). The quote I have was for 800 FUE grafts It was actually for a beard enhancement procedure, I had hoped that he could take the hair from my neck and fill in a few patches on my cheek, but he was insistent that head hair would be best and that the harvested area wouldn't be at all noticeable when it grew back in. Boy was that off the mark.

Well this is just a bummer, I had some work done with a very highly reviewed surgeon, and I was very happy with the results of the transplant thus far but then I got a haircut the other day and finally looked at the back, and I now have these glaringly noticeable and in my opinion awful looking lines in the donor area. I'm a little surprised and disappointed it turned out this way, this guy had overwhelmingly positive reviews and he reassured me specifically before and after the procedure (because I was paranoid and I asked) that no he wouldn't take too much, and that yes he would spread it around so it wouldn't be noticeable Well so much for that obviously but now I have a few questions: Will it look like this forever? (I'm assuming so) If so, Is it fixable? If so, how many grafts am I looking at approximately? And is there any surgeon in particular out there who specializes in fixing bad jobs? I still can't believe how bad this is, I really thought you had to go absolute bottom of the barrel, hair mill-type operation for this kind of thing.

Hey ya'll, got my hairline redone at HLC in Ankara back in March, just wanted some opinions on how it's growing in...now I'm not complaining, I'm pretty generally happy with the results thus far but I was starting to think that the way it's growing in on the left side is a little weird. The hair at the transplant area seems to be kind of doing it's own thing compared to the original hair, which is making it look a bit odd when I style it, almost like it's two separate hair masses that each require a different styling solution, which I guess technically it is but I was hoping they would blend a little better. Will this effect settle down as the hair grows in more? It's not a big deal if not, worse case scenario I could just start training my hair to part on the other side, the left is my natural part but the hair implant on the right side is so far perfectly straight, just looking for some opinions. Included a few before and after pics for reference.

I hit the 8 week mark on my first transplant today, just wanted to get some feedback on how it seems to be going... A bunch of the hairs fell out, that seemed to be kind of delayed - my understanding was that that would likely happen in the first weeks but actually they held in there for over a month before falling out, only a few weeks ago did I start noticing that happening. Is this kind of more less what to expect at 8 weeks in though? When should I be expected the transplanted hairs to grow back? Included a pic of the original transplant, on the day of

I lost the most recent before pics, these are a little older but nothing really changed, they still apply...not really sure why one of these photos flipped itself I don't remember the exact breakdown, it was around 1700 total I think, 50/cm on the sides and I think maybe 20/cm in the middle...they explained it all right before loading me up with drugs, it's all a bit of a blur at this point

ok well thanks for the feedback, I feel much better about and will leave it be and see how it grows in Still pretty bummed about this head-shaving thing, is it really true that I may not be able to do that again? That's going to make summers for me so much harder...is there really no type of touch up or follow up procedure that can be done to facilitate that?