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  1. Understood, thanks for clarifying. I’m not gonna count the donor holes in the pics, but I hear you. I was at the clinic 730a-330p. As I recall, the doc extracted the grafts and cut the recipient slits, then the techs slid the grafts in.
  2. Not to get too sensitive and defensive, but it seems pretty implausible that they pulled 2k grafts from the back of my head, and left upwards of 1500 on the table to get me out the door sooner. That really doesn’t match with my general experience with the clinicians. @EvoXOhio I remember that you weren’t happy with your crown and followed up with SMP for density, which is another reason why I mentioned your post. I’ll follow up w pics over the next few months.
  3. I am not concerned by the density nor blending up front. I was just trying to stop the islanding in its tracks, and already the modest sprouting is accomplishing that visually when I look in the mirror.
  4. I don’t think my post-op crown graft density looks significantly different than this post by @EvoXOhio He covered a marginally wider crown area, and it’s easier to see what he had done up front. I’d be glad to see similar results in the end.
  5. Bosley KC. I know how people feel about Bosley so I don’t need a piling-on there. I’m open to critique, as I also have my own concerns, but I do think it’s a bit conspiratorial to eyeball and assert a 500-750 count when the doc gave me a specific post op figure of 2027. A lot of the temple grafts were covered up by longer hair so you can’t really see what’s going on there post-op. Unfortunately, I don’t have good hairline post-op pics because I didn’t want to touch the area and pull up the existing hair for a better photo. The clinic had recommended more like 2200-2500 grafts, but I went conservative mostly for financial reasons. TBH, I’m already pretty okay with my hairline. The crown, we’ll see, but I don’t expect full density. Rather, I am hoping for a significant improvement as compared to the situation before. As mentioned, I will continue fibers until SMP for density is viable next year. Anyways, here is post-op donor area:
  6. 3 months FUE 2027 grafts, crown + hairline. Min spray & 1mg Fin daily. Signs of life & optimism on hairline, prayer hands & patience for crown. To add: I was on 1mg finasteride daily for 2-3 years before procedure, but only began minoxidil following procedure. I used cabooki hair fibers (on the crown only) for the last few years, which generally did the trick. I was worried that as time passed, however, I would continue to lose hair and the Velcro effect, leaving the fibers to look caked-on. My crown went through shock loss and the fibers did in fact looked badly caked-on for the first two months after procedure. I also had lots of pimples during the second month. I’m feeling better about the concealing effect now at three months. I’m feeling good about the hairline. I was pretty conservative there. I did not want to lower the hairline drastically but, rather, buffer it to a more solid mature hairline. My biggest concern is the mid scalp gap and crown density. I’m not sure why they didn’t do a better job blending the crown into the frontal hair. Best case, I will be combing over; worst case (and more likely) the doc knew the crown would never reach that density anyway. My pragmatic guess is that after a year I will still have to use some hair fibers on the crown but that the velcro effect will be much improved and more natural looking. Eventually I will look into SMP for density to finish the job. My hair is currently clipped with a #8 guard on top, #3 on sides. I would like to get to a #5 buzz, so that there is less contrast blending into the thin crown, but right now I still need a little extra length to cover the ripe temples. 3 months: 1 week: Day after: Morning of procedure: A few weeks before, lines I photoshopped for Doc reference:
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