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His clinic is run under his own name. Use the forum recommended list at the top of the page and you'll find him on there, as well as many other surgeons in Europe that you can then find patient results for on here. Dr Sethi is also a fine choice of course, but it's in every patient's best interests to thoroughly research as many options as possible.

Seeing as you seem to be in the UK, Dr Mani is doing some great work in this price range, plus you've got several great options in Europe for around the £3-4 per graft mark as well.

I know, and your hairline looks too low, as you've been told before.

Why do you want an aggressive hairline? In one of your previous threads you said you're a NW5 or so... Going aggressive is risky due to the possibility of future hair loss and in virtually all cases it's totally unnecessary - an appropriately placed hairline will frame the face and give a great aesthetic outcome. It doesn't have to be needlessly aggressive. You'd almost certainly be better off going for a dense, conservative approach rather than chasing density AND being aggressive with a low hairline.

There's several, but it would be helpful to see some pictures so we can see what you're dealing with and make more relevant recommendations based on your specific circumstances.

Personally I think this would be madness. Better to use available donor resources to improve density behind the hairline (so the weaker parts of the frontal third and going into the midscalp). Your current hairline and temple points look great and will continue to look great in later life. I wish I’d been more conservative with my own hairline and if I do one day decide to take it back up, it’s costly and multiple surgeries. I honestly think you’d nail this by keeping your hairline exactly as it is and focusing on density. Lower hairlines do not automatically look better just because they’re lower.

Looks fine at this stage to be honest. Some of those gaps can appear larger than they really are because you’ve only just removed the scabs. You break a few hairs off in the process removing the scabs (but not the grafts under the surface of the scalp) and you’ll also get rivers appear during the scabbing process, both of which can contribute to a more uneven distribution. Regardless, there’s precisely zero you can do about it at this stage anyway, so not worth stressing over. It’s going to get a lot worse over the next 8-12 weeks before it starts to get better again.

Go on mate, give us a glimpse!

Are you in India now Stew?

Better to add these to your original thread so that people who are following it can see the updates, rather than start new threads for each update. A lot harder to for people to follow across multiple threads!

I'm slightly surprised to hear you say that Dr Ball & David Anderson at Maitland were "dismissive". I've had a consultation with them myself and I found them to be thorough and not at all pushy. In fact Dr Ball openly recommended at I seek additional consultations and there was not a hint of trying to get me in the chair. If anything, they were more keen that I pursue other avenues first to address problem areas and not at all keen to have me part with my money in haste. I appreciated that a lot. I can't speak to your experience, but I do wonder if what you interpreted as dismissiveness could simply have been a reluctance to push you down the surgical route?

One for @Melvin- Adminto help with I think. Really interesting case and the hairline design along the amended SMP is really nice. Was the goal to simply add hair across the scalp to enhance and improve more of a 3D buzzcut effect? I don't think you explicitly stated this in the OP (or I missed it - apologies!). If so it's an interesting strategy and you can throw the kitchen sink at adding density using basically any donor hair resource you like if the long term plan is to keep things tight and short up top.

It's not not normal. Some people do scar a bit more prominently than others, and hair at this length will expose dot scarring. Also donor areas can sometimes look and feel better when more hair has been extracted as you get a more even and homogenous extraction. In your case, you had a small number of grafts used for the temple corners so probably a lot of singles, soft singles (from the nape as we can see) and finer doubles will/could have been hand picked. You've also got jet black hair set against white dot scarring so the pigmentation contrast is exaggerated compared to someone with lighter hair or salt & pepper. You could maybe argue the punches look a little on the larger side, or that maybe some hair around the extraction sites looks a little thread-bare in places, but otherwise I don't think it's too much of a concern. A tiny bit more length would conceal it easily and you'd probably be an excellent candidate for donor re-stocking if it really bothers you.

To echo the sentiments of others... Why Aus vs Turkey? Turkey is mostly terrible as a HT destination and Australia has no reputable surgeons that anyone can recommend. You have far better options in Thailand and India and it would also cut down on some of your travel time and expense.

You're not "f*#ked" and I'm not sure I understand the apoplectic tone really. First of all, you have a lot of hair. Some diffuse thinning yes, but you've got a strong hairline and therefore a nicely framed face. With that much hair on top, you have a lot of styling options nd can easily make things look thicker which product/styling choices. Secondly, you're young. You have plenty of time and there should be no rush to surgery, especially when surgery could actually accelerate your hair loss through shock loss given there's limited space to safely get grafts implanted. Lastly, stick to the medication you're taking and review the situation in a few years. Your hair loss should naturally slow down as you get out of your 20's and in combination with the meds, you could be well placed to have a density session with a surgeon who is more comfortable and has a track record with diffuse cases. You may also want to consider switching to 2.5mg of oral minoxidil.

Ok so that's useful in so far as clarifying what you'd like to achieve. 1. Pitting, uneven tissue etc... Will this be visible with a buzz cut? Depends how bad it is, and how much buzzed hair you have to hide the scalp. In most cases, you're probably fine. If you have any particularly offensive cobblestoning, pitting etc, usually this can be remedied by punching some of those grafts out and it will smooth things over, but this may not be necessary in your case. We're our own worst critics remember, so what seems obvious to you probably isn't to others. 2. Attempting to achieve a credible buzz cut look across your areas of hair loss might be tricky in your case; you have a lot of scalp to cover and not a lot of donor (do you have any photos with your beard grown out to a decent length that adequately conveys how dense/thick it is?) to utilise. Of course, if the intention is to keep it tight and trim, you can throw the kitchen sink at it (scalp, beard, chest, armpit, pubic hair!), but you still need to be aware that you won't get anywhere close to a dense buzz cut, and you might not be able to cover the entire scalp. If you went down that route, you're going to likely need to compromise somewhere, meaning you may only be able to address the frontal third and get that looking decent. The challenge then is making sure that the areas that aren't covered still look like a natural balding pattern. You don't want a dense patch in the frontal third and then literally nothing behind it. What you really need to do is get some in person assessments where possible from top surgeons who can do a thorough assessment of your donor resources. I think you might struggle to get enough coverage even if the plan is to buzz it down, but I'm only guessing based on the donor pictures you've provided. If I were you, I'd start with the FUT scars only. Get them filled in and then buzz down what you have and see how you feel. If you're happy with how the FUT scars look, then you could see about throwing the kitchen sink at the recipient area. In that scenario, the worst case outcome is that your FUT scars look better and your recipient stays the same as now (your bank balance will thank you, too). What you probably don't want to do is go all in and be left disappointed.

This is basically a duplicate of your other thread. But yes, in a word, you can have grafts punched back out and if it's done well, it will heal very nicely (usually with very little to no visible scarring). But for such a good outcome, you do need to select a top repair specialist. It will often take at least two surgeries because you cannot extract everything in one go without causing excess trauma. Normally this is done when someone wants their hairline fixed or taken up a bit, so the extracted grafts will be placed further back and cases range anywhere between having a couple hundred grafts removed and in one case I'm thinking of, 1,300 grafts. Your case would be a bit different as there's questions as to where you'd put all of those grafts (some into your FUT, obviously), and different parts of the scalp heal differently. The back tends to scar more easily (hence most FUE patients have quite visible dot scarring when their hair is buzzed very short). Extractions from the frontal hairline area tend to heal much, much better and often won't leave visible scarring (again, if the work is really good). As for the very top of the head... I honestly don't know (I've never such a case). It seems a little risky to me and I think you'd be better just addressing your FUT scar and rocking a buzz cut.

So you've got plenty of hair all across the donor area to have grafts extracted very spaced apart (meaning you won't really notice any dot scars even at shorter hair lengths), which could be used into the FUT scar. Plus you can always use beard hair as well. You typically don't need many grafts to mask a scar (depending on how big the scar is and how many grafts survive in the scar). But it seems to me you have that option. I don't think you'd have enough grafts to do very much with the recipient area so if you were leaning towards buzzing the hair down and moving on, I'd personally get as many grafts into the scar as possible and see how that goes. You could also take hair from the recipient area and go into the scars as well as another option but I don't think it really matters which way round you do it.

You’re probably not out of grafts. What I would do is look to have grafts from your beard, chest and/or scalp donor placed into your FUT scar. That’s going to give you a much better chance of wearing your hair very short and not having to worry about the scar being too visible. Can you post a picture of your donor area?

Ok cool. It looks like you’re using witchcraft and wizardry to be honest! 😅

What are you using/doing to get your hair styled like that mate? Looks class.

It's gash. What are these reviews and the list even based on? Right behind FUECapilar is Clinic Centre, which is utterly terrible. I'll say it again... Stop shopping the Turkish HT market. If you can't afford to go to a better clinic then you are putting yourself at risk. You'd be much wiser to slow to the hell down, do some proper research and save up some money. If that means waiting a year or two for surgery, so be it. It's your head and the results are for life.

Wow mate. Incredible transformation!

You can get the blood tests done in India and it'll cost you whatever the Aussie dollar equivalent of about £30 is. You need to arrive a couple days ahead of surgery to allow for time to get the results back, and you pay the blood test guy cash (they will come to your hotel room). Speak to your coordinator about it in advance and again pretty much as soon as you arrive in India.

You seem quite dedicated to getting botched in Turkey. Why are you disregarding the initial feedback you received in your first thread? Your approach to getting a HT seems to be similar to that of buying a car. This isn't some kind of "shopping around" exercise you're supposed to be going through. Why don't you use the forum recommended list as a starting point - not to find a surgeon, but to have a look at results and get an understanding of naturalness, first? Once you've learned how to evaluate and distinguish a good HT from a bad one, then you start speaking with clinics. The fact is, you wouldn't be talking to the sub-par bargain basement hair mills in the first place if you knew your stuff. So take some time to properly understand best HT practice and come back with fresh eyes in a few months. As another poster has noticed, we know nothing about your hair loss or circumstances to even guide you towards surgeons that might be best suited to your needs. All we can really deduce at this point is that your budget must be quite limited (based on the clinics you're talking to), and your underlying research and understanding isn't doing much better!