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 Is my donor over harvested? I’m 12 days post op and there’s a clear difference. 

2 hours ago, digi23 said:

Yes I might sound a little harsh, but as I said above, it just makes me so angry to see these non-serious clinics time after time doing poor work when there are so many good alternatives for even cheaper out there.

The good thing is that it is only money wasted, usually Bosley dont implant enough grafts, but they usually dont destroy the donor area like many turkish hair mills, which if I got to choose anything I rather choose the first.

Here is the uodate

5 minutes ago, JDEE0 said:

Pictures still aren't ideal to be honest - first one is far too blurry to make out what the extractions looked like.

Second picture again isn't ideal as your hair is covering your scalp and I can't really make out the extent of your baldness, however, based off of it, I take back that you need 6000+ grafts. Maybe 4000-4500 total.

Do these pictures help? The first one is a before picture from about a year ago

5 minutes ago, JDEE0 said:

I know you mean well Digi, and whilst I fundamentally agree with your sentiment, just remember that this guy is evidently feeling pretty devastated right now so try not to kick him whilst he's down (not that you are intentionally doing so, I know).

In response to your question OP, it's hard to give an accurate assessment of things with the one pic you've provided so far. It's clear that the work isn't great, yes, but if you could provide some pics of your hair before surgery as well as some directly post op showing the recipient and donor, then we could help more. 

If you had little native hair left up top, which it indeed looks like from what I can see, then 1500 grafts is far too little. For your full blown NW5 pattern you realistically need a total of 6000+ grafts for a decent look with adequate density that would probably get a bit thinner towards the crown. 

As long as it grows though, all is not lost and you can pick a better clinic in 12 months time to really give you what you need; it just means you'll maybe require less grafts when round 2 comes along. 

Here are 2 pics 40 hours post-op, + what my hair looked right before the procedure. What are you thoughts?

4 hours ago, digi23 said:

I cant believe these clinics like Bosley are still around with the ability to research on your own on the internet nowadays, you better give away that money to some homeless person so it atleast give some value.

Is it really that bad

Just now, JohnAC71 said:

From what I can see you have quite a lot of hair already around the hairline? Was the goal for this procedure to boost your current density across the whole area?

Yes it was. The goal was just to increase the density in the frontal scalp

Just now, JohnAC71 said:

This isn’t your first procedure? 

This is my first procedure. Why?

2 minutes ago, JohnAC71 said:

They have gone pretty close to the hairline from what I can see, more pics will help. Just hope for growth 🤞and natural angles 

Here’s another pic. Does this give any more insight or more of the same for you?

Just now, JohnAC71 said:

The planning is poor, the density isn’t going to be anywhere near what’s needed to make a impactful difference. Doesn’t look like a great hairline was created. Let’s hope multi grafts were not implanted in the first row. 
Lets focus on the positives though, they have not used a large number of grafts. And you should definitely have growth ! It just might be necessary to find another clinic to refine and add density where needed. Sorry I’m just trying to let you know what to expect. 

I didn't address my hairline at all - the 1500 are directly in the front graft - im 24 hours post-op. Maybe it'll be okay? What do you think?

1 minute ago, JohnAC71 said:

Yup thought so. Unfortunately it’s not very refined transplant, sorry man but you have noticed it’s different already. Can you show your donor area ? Or any other pre and post op pics ? 

Man  - what do you mean not refined? Can i expect any results at all

1 minute ago, JohnAC71 said:

1500 grafts over such a wide area isn’t really good to make much difference in your overall density. Which clinic did you have it done ? Was this a tech based ht or from a Bosley like chain clinic ? 

Chain clinic ( think bolsey, maxim, etc)

Was this a mistake?

Is this normal? I’m one day post op and got 1500 grafts to the frontal scalp. It looks different than other people post-op. Kind of worried