Henry

Have you been on fin this whole time? Your result from your 1st transplant was great but looking at your hair now, that is a significant difference, you almost look like you didn't have surgery for how thin it is and considering you had a strip for your first procedure, there should be a low chance of that hair minitiurizing. How old are you if I may ask?

Are you on meds?

How do you differentiate them from vellus hairs?

Anyone with knowledge or have experience with the same type of hair. Will surgeons be able to safely transplant in between these native hairs? I don't know if these short hairs are (in the first picture) minitiurized or vellus hair (is there a difference?) but they don't grow long.

Well something needs to change, what's stopping recommended doctors from posting their great results with a good comb over, perfect angles, hair fibres and or photo shops? I'd say that is a useless source of information.

Couldn't surgeons disclose the tests they need to take and let the patients do these tests locally to them and then email the results to their prospective hair transplant surgeons?

Let's say a guy goes to an elite doctor, operates on him for 3500 grafts after a consultation, gets a poor yield after 12 months and after a biopsy it turns out that he has some scalp disease that prevented him from having a great result. To me, that's the doctor's responsibilty to make sure his patients has the best chance to have a great yield. Why don't they require a careful examination of the scalp first before operating? Edit: A poor yield is always the doctor's fault in my opinion (unless the patient goes out of his way to sabotage his results)

I'm not talking about him specifically, I'm talking about recommended doctors who only has one or two patient reviews in years. Reviews posted by doctors or clinics themselves I guess helps but isnt this community supposed to be about/for patients, if we search a doctor here and all we are seeing are results posted by themselves, then how is that different from results being posted on their own clinic's website?

If this was the case then one or two good results in years also shouldn't warrant a recommendation, don't you think?

In your consultation, did they ever predict what norwood you're gonna end up with in the future?

Looks good, if everything grows well, you'll have a killer hairline and can always get a 2nd procedure for your crown. How old are you if I may ask? Cause we almost have the same exact hairloss pattern. Are you on meds?

10 years later and higher up people are deleting posts and banning people, ohh how times have changed.

The recommended list for this site, like any other lists, do not mean much. It means they had a few good reviews during their screening, but it seems to me like once they have been recommended and pay a monthly fee, they pretty much can do whatever they want with their practice. Like Dr. Diep, who just got removed from the list after years of bad practice.

Any updates brother?

Looking forward to your journey.

Oh yeah that's uneven, but I think it looks natural, your hairline pre transplant on that side looks to be more receded than the other. It's also less obvious from a straight angle you might be fine.

Maybe it's time to give dutasteride a try.

What is this based on? I'm not trying to question your knowledge, I'm just genuinely curious if there are studies or reliable doctors who mentioned this.

Yes, even without anykind of alopecia you usually lose density in your hair. There are rare ones that maintain the same number of hairs up until their 60s but in general, you have less number of hairs when you were 30 compared to when you were 18, it's just part of aging. I haven't done much research about minitiurization in the sides though. You might want to look into that yourself, i have significantly thinner side, and sideburns now that I'm 30 compared to when I was 18 but when i let them all grow out, it's still thicker than what i have on top, and my balding isn't that aggressive, so there's that. I can't really advice you to have a hair transplant now since from what I'm seeing based on your picture, i don't see any problem areas. Having a hair transplant with a lot of hairs in between is tricky. You'd have to find a really great doc for that. This is just my advice and by no means should you consider everything I'm saying as absolute truth. I hope you can find other knowledgeable opinions as well.

I don't know much about COVID related hairloss but it looks like you're going through maybe a shedding phase? Also, do you always go to the same barber and get the same exact haircut? Maybe your hair was cut differently recently also so it grows differently. How old are you? A lot of people lose density in that side area of the hair but they tend to really not lose all of it. A transplant is definitely possible but where would your focus be? I don't see much thinning really. I would advise against lowering the hairline unless you're absolutely sure that you're not gonna lose all of that hair on top, or if you're taking finasteride or dutasteride. Also, if you think you doctor is stringing you along ( i feel like a lot of doctors do this, they recommend things that they know porbably won't work just to get some money out you, like recommending PRP for diffused hairloss) you should find another doctor.

Doctor knudsen, who is insanely smart (mediocre ht surgeon though according to some members here) won't just willy nilly prescribe dutasteride since it blocks all dht and, they do not know what other uses DHT is needed for our body, it might have some important functions that they don't know about, and there aren't enough studies to safely prove it doesn't.

I'm looking at this clinic and they just told me via email that they do surgeries 6 to 8 times a month, now they've been around since 2010, would you say that's good enough?

No no no, lol, I don't wanna get in trouble. They don't have bad reviews, and the clinic posts results frequently enough. The one good result for years that isn't posted by the clinic is what bothers me.

This is a little bit off topic but, does the list really mean anything anymore? I've spent a lot of time in these forums and I've seen some recommended doctors have 1 positive review FROM A PATIENT in 5 years and still be an elite coalition member. Now I don't know how administrators do things behind the scenes but, one positive review in the last 5 years doesnt really scream "reliable doctor" to me. I think this whole recommendation thing needs an overhaul.

From the front it looks good, from the top it looks thin (based from your month 10 photos), I guess that's what they meant about hair transplants being an illusion of density.