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Keser is a fine option. But waiting 1 year is literally nothing. You have your whole life to enjoy the transplant, trying to rush it a few months is a bad trade for not going to your #1 pick.

Easy Dr. Nader.

Gotcha. But if we look at results published, there have been a ton of Pekiner's work, and lots of it recently, that surpasses Bicer's work on most metrics (Nothing against Bicer, his recent work surpasses most HT surgeons). I'm not debating whether Bicer does good work, I'm just curious why you don't recommend Pekiner when people bring up Turkey. You're a guy who's very much in the HT community and I personally believe you have tons of knowledge on the topic. I assumed there was something you simply didn't like about him, so I decided to ask. I'm always willing to learn, no better way than asking

Sure, you can absolutely train your hair to sit in a specific way. That doesn't change the fact that it still grows out at the original angle it was implanted to grow out of.

Curious why I've not seen you recommend Pekiner for people looking in Turkey. Is there something about his work that is off to you? Personally, I think he's by far the best surgeon in Turkey.

Pre-diabetic, or Type 2, you're best off trying to get that sorted out via diet first, before undergoing a HT. This can easily affect the outcome of a HT due to poorer blood circulation, which can lead to lower yield. It also makes it more dangerous to dense pack, and chances of necrosis go up (again, due to poorer bloodflow). With that out of the way... Can a HT be done while diabetic? Yeah sure, absolutely. Many have done it.

Surprised nobody mentioning Pekiner. I'd easily put him top 5 hairlines in the world, especially if you're in Europe.

Seriously, look to double that budget, then maybe (considering cost of travel).

In my mind, 50-55+ is dense packing territory.

Mine was between 76 and 81 grafts/cm2, with a very good yield.

Sure, I can answer those. 1. They don't give a graft estimate. So basically, when you show up to him on day of surgery, that's where he plans the surgery, sees your donor, sees how many grafts you need/should use and plans out the hairline and everything. Day of surgery he'll do whatever he considers "best" for your case, regardless of what you paid. Thiago most likely has no idea what you paid. His philosophy is "this is today's patient. I'll do the best I can for him". He has a separate team that deals with payments, and they simply make an educated guess on "how much work" they suspect you'll need and charge based on that. For example, they might have suspected I might need 2k grafts. But when i showed up to surgery, I spent quite some time convincing Thiago to go for a more aggressive hairline and I ended up getting at least a good 800+ grafts than he would have gone for if I didn't ask, but I wasn't charged any extra. 2. Thiago does all the extractions and incisions, to the best of my knowledge. I say this, because you're fully asleep for the whole surgery, so I couldn't "remember" what he did exactly. He doesn't do the implantations. He has a very large group of techs working on sorting grafts, loading grafts into pens, and implanting the grafts into the slits he made. I believe the team working on me was a total of 10 people. I personally think this is better, as the grafts are out of the body for a very short period of time. He does the incisions first, then the extractions, so the grafts are pretty much immediately getting put back into the head after havign been removed. 3. 14k USD sounds about right. I'm not sure though if this includes the anesthesiologist (you have one accompanying and monitoring vitals for the whole surgery). I believe it was around 500 USD for me. Also, I don't know if this would include the consult, if you were to opt for one. 4. Pretty hard to find reviews of ANY Brazilian HT clinic, I've never found a good place for them. Pittella is the only one you'll really find reviews on, because he's affiliated with these forums and obviously lets his patients know that they can post here. There is a recent case of a guy on reddit who made a thread of his HT at Smart Hair (Thiago's sister clinic), but that's not Thiago's work, but a doctor trained by Thiago. Hope that helps. Any other question, let me know.

So these aren't actual patient reviews, but uploaded by a Pittella assistant?

Why are people calling them "wires"? This is the second thread I've seen with a Pittella patient calling them that.

Mexico with Dr Nader is your best bet if you don’t want to travel too far

Just a hypothesis: Is it possible that because all that hair was freshly transplanted in the same time, they are following their normal growth + shed phase, and just synchronized in their shedding? I've not seen this happen, but I've heard of it happening before. Supposedly in the first few years, this can happen if all the hairs reach their end growth phase at a similar point in time. You don't usually see this, because all the hair on your head sheds at random times. Like 50-100 hairs a day. Now just imagine if for 2 weeks straight, 100 hairs a day shed from the same spot, that's 1400 hairs gone in 2 weeks, you'd have a bald spot. 2.5 years sounds about right for some people.

Started for me around 3 weeks. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones and will never shed. That rarely does happen!

Looking good for 3 months!

If your friend needs a cheap but good option in Turkey, try to get him to look at Dr. Gur.

Thiago would be charging 12k+, probably more. His sister clinic, Smart Hair, would be within the budget. 6k at my best guess.

As for cheaper options, don't even bother. For example, I'm personally a fan of Nader's work, and would recommend him to anyone considering Mexico. But his temple points? I'd skip them. This is true for most surgeons. There's a reason most themselves just don't do temple points. They've VERY hard to get right.

I think Thiago Bianco is amazing at temple points. Here are mine 4 months in (cut very short): And here are mine over a year in (longer):

Nader is simply better than all of them. I used to have HMR and Nader kinda close, but have seen some pretty meh results from HMR recently.

Like many others asked, why Turkey specifically? Best in Turkey is Pekiner. If you're doing it strictly for budget, considering your list, I think Nader in Mexico is both close to the US, and also better than everyone on your list.

Hard to know, as there's no research per say. But one thing is for sure, not fasting won't cause harm. Why risk it? Maybe the temporary lack of nutrients causes your body to go into a starvation mode where it prioritizes fast scarring of skin to block up injuries, and less so on creating new capilaries and blood sources for grafts, ending up rejecting them? I don't think it's worth experimenting with someone like fasting under very niche conditions that we have no information about.