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Very difficult to say from these pictures to be honest. Would be easier to tell if you’d shaved the native hair and once the scabs are off.

Other posters will doubtless take a different view but personally I’d save the money on the PRP. I don’t think there’s any compelling evidence that it does anything worth parting with your money over. It may have some benefits from a surgical perspective, but I guess I’d ask… What are you/your partner hoping to achieve from PRP?

Everything has grown in very nicely here for sure. If I were casting a critical eye over it, the hairline looks a bit artificial through lack of irregularities and breakup to give it a softer appearance closer to nature, which is kind of par for the course with the types of clinic you went to unfortunately. That said, if you’re happy then so be it!

Have you asked Eugenix to send you your pre and post op photos? They'll send them to you no problems at all. Would be great to see the work. Problems you encountered during surgery aside, you'll still likely end up with a great result in any case so would be cool to see some pics.

What? At 5 months? OP this is looking right on course as far as I can tell and you’ve gotten yourself a pretty dramatic improvement from where you started (never lose sight of that!). You’ve come through the first big growth phase in great shape and you will hopefully notice another round of larger improvement between roughly month 8 & 10.

Still the most radical and transformative NW3 case I've ever seen. Great update, Armen!

Look forward to it mate

You feel like it based on what, exactly? If that can be shown to be true then great, but I'm not sure it can. It's also not what the OP asked... Feriduni's hairline work on both male and female patients is exceptional, no doubts about that.

For amazing hairlines AND top-notch repair work, Dr Feriduni would be my personal pick, along with Hattingen. There's too many surgeons to list though when it comes to just great hairline work. All of the top docs - most of which are on the recommended list here - do refined, natural hairline restoration.

99.9% likely your hair was not the issue. That's just the realities of the dating game. She ghosted you after the second stay over... That's barely even dating at that point really. People get ghosted in those early stages all the time.

If you're waking up with a girl then you're already in, aren't you? She likes you already. Some visible balding on the crown isn't going to be a problem at that point. There's really nothing to worry about. The best way to deal with hair loss in front of others is to own it; joke about it, make light of it. It's honestly fine - nothing bad will happen!

If I were in your situation - factoring in your age - I'd genuinely save myself the hassle and money. As I've said before, maybe what I'd do is look to have grafts placed into the FUT scars so that their visibility is reduced and you can wear a tighter buzz cut all over and move on with life. I'd also maybe look to have some of the old transplanted hairs punched out if they didn't quite look right buzzed down or they were bothersome in some way. It really comes down to your propensity for risk; you'll be spending a lot of money on something that may end up disappointing you. This is a risk calculation that all HT patients make, but often their starting point is superior to yours, which mitigates some of that risk. If anyone can get you at least somewhat close to where you want to be, it's Dr Pittella. You'd be in the best hands possible. Nevertheless, there's only so much that anyone can do in cases like yours so there is still more risk than usual. Would I want to take that risk on? I don't think so personally.

Density looks good. Can we see the hairline itself?

I too recognise some of things outlined here by the OP & @maintaining from my own surgeries at Eugenix.

The NW scale isn’t too important and in many cases it’s hard to give a specific point on the scale. Based on your temples most would put you around a NW2, give or take. Whether that reflects your final pattern of hair loss requires a bit of guesswork really. As long as any first HT you undergo is conservative and leaves as many grafts in the donor bank as possible, you’ll likely be absolutely fine long term. Having not lost much hair by age 30, it seems unlikely you’d end up as a full blown NW6 or 7.

Nobody needs a HT. The benefit from a hairline restoration is that the hairline helps to “frame” the face, often giving a younger look. However it’s a misconception that a strong or low hairline is needed to achieve this. In most cases, you only need enough of a hairline to give the aesthetic benefits. In your case, you have a strong forelock, with good density and minimal recession. You have enough hair at the front to frame your face and be able to have some fun with different styling options. Point being that a HT would only offer you a marginal & subtle enhancement from your current position (unless you did something radical and lowered your hairline unnecessarily) because your starting point is very good. As I see it - and this is just my opinion - you have two options: 1. Do nothing (but consider medication to slow additional loss). 2. Have a very small & conservative HT with a top surgeon who does really refined hairline work, who can fill in the corners without lowering the hairline.

I’m just a regular guy! And last I checked I’m a bloke… 😃 I’ll take the compliment though, thanks!

Other than looking weird as hell if lowered much, lowering a hairline requires more grafts to be extracted, therefore reducing the number of available grafts to meet the needs of future hair loss.

I don’t really understand your strategy to be honest. You have minor hairloss - a bit of recession in the temple corners. To restore them (without lowering the hairline) to a nice, conservative and long lasting result would require very few grafts. So why are you fishing around in the budget end of the HT market? If I were you and only needed one small session I’d be targeting some of the best guys around. It will cost more per graft, but you’d be getting closer to a guaranteed result. If you had a lot of scalp to cover I could better understand the budget considerations but you’ve little hair loss and seem well placed to get a nice, smaller surgery from a top surgeon.

The best placed person to answer that would be a surgeon, but my best guess is that any lumps, cobblestoning etc could be improved or even eradicated by punching out the grafts that are causing the issue. Try reaching out to some surgeons that do a lot of repairs, such as Dr Bisanga, Feriduni & Sever.

Sorry you're going through this. If the grafts are causing irritation to your scalp in some way, then theoretically punching them back out should resolve or improve this. However, you'll likely be looking at two and more probably three trips to a top clinic in Europe who specialise in punch-out repair work and much bigger costs. In the short term, steriod solution like Betacap might help the scalp irritation and redness.

Whoooa - stop a second! You're visiting Turkey (I assume for other reasons than a HT) and thought you'd just get a HT whilst there? Does this sound like the start of a story with a happy ending? Does this sound like a thoroughly researched and intelligently thought out approach to getting a permanent surgery on your head? None of the better clinics in Turkey will be available at short notice to book you in, so if you're going soon your only options will be some pretty bad clinics. The good news is you have a lot of hair and only need a small-ish surgery on the crown. Your hairline looks good (I see no reason to lower it personally). When are you flying to Turkey?

Let's learn to crawl first before we attempt to sprint with a somersault at the end.

Forget about putting your hairline where that green line is. That’s off the spectrum aggressive and will look weird as hell tomorrow, let alone in another 30 years time. Everything else you’ve posted sounds fine: take your time, try to improve/slow hair loss and address the biggest problem area (crown) further down the line. A small, conservative enhancement to the hairline would be fine I’m sure - your donor looks good.

I'm not sure putting Dr Hakan's name forward after one single 4 month post-op update is particularly wise. We've never seen a finished result from this Dr as far as I'm aware.