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@Speoj @Melvin- Moderator thanks that’s what I thought. I thought the deposit would be enough, just doesn’t really leave me with any security if I were to pay a whole 21 days in advance. I’ll enquire with the clinic.

Hey guys. Is it normal to be asked to pay the entire balance of a hair transplant procedure a month prior to actually having the surgery? I know a deposit is mandatory but paying for everything before even having the procedure makes me a bit nervous, especially as I will be having it abroad etc. I’m just wondering if this is standard practise? thanks

@Leos Looking forward to following your journey! Did you have an in-person consultation or just a FaceTime consultation prior to booking surgery? What was the consultation like?

@StillAlive ah so that’s the translation 😅 I was so confused. Thanks haha

Hey all, currently in contact with clinics with the goal of finding the right one to carry out my HT. I’ve been asked ‘what is your capillary goal’? I have no idea what this is, I have googled it but that hasn’t been too helpful. thanks!

Thank you 🙏🏽

Thanks! I’ll try that. Do you know if WHTC is a separate clinic from FUE or if they just rebranded? Bit confusing with the 2 websites and broken email address

Hey guys, I’m currently in the process of contacting clinics to see if they can advise me on my hair loss situation. I tried to email Dr Mwamba (FUE clinic) but the email bounced back and I received an error message ‘a message you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: info@fueclinic.com mailbox is full: retry timeout exceeded.’ I know Dr Mwamba has (or had?) a clinic called ‘my world hair transplant center’, this website is still online but I was told previously on this forum that FUE clinic was his new website - hence attempting contact via info@fueclinic.com I would ideally like to make contact with clinics via email. If anyone can help me with this I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

Apologies if this has been asked already, but I’m curious as to whether there’s a specific way that growth is measured to assess whether 80% of grafts have grown, e.g. 12 months post-surgery. Do you generally have a check up and have the area measured etc? Main reason being, when I had a consultation with a UK clinic a while back, they said that 80% yield is classified as a success - I asked ‘how do you measure this’ and the consultant said ‘it’s just obvious’. I’m wondering if reputable doctors generally have a more sophisticated and accurate way of measuring this, or whether it’s just a case of the dr taking a quick look at the growth and saying that it’s 80%. Thanks!

Which part doesn’t make sense? It sounds like we agree 🤨 all I said is that it’s the surgeons job to tell the patient how many grafts are needed to achieve the required visual density, and not vice versa. In the time I’ve been on this forum I haven’t seen any patient posted journeys with hair type resembling mine, there’s no way I’d personally be in a position to be telling the surgeon how many grafts I need, plus that’s not my job. Obviously the required amount of grafts to achieve the desired result should be discussed between patient and surgeon prior to having the transplant, that just seems like common sense.

It’s the surgeons job to tell the patient how many grafts they need in order to achieve the required density in my opinion - that’s part of their job… obviously we all do research but we’re not experts. It also doesn’t help that there are barely any afro / curly hair results on here so it makes it a bit harder for us to make an accurate judgement. @Ajamilo did the clinic say they will do a second procedure to achieve your desired density free of charge, or will you have to pay for this? (Sorry if you’ve already mentioned it in the thread).

It would be good if the doctor could give you some reasons as to why the density is lacking, hopefully you will get some answers. How did you make the decision to choose Dr Mwamba? One frustrating thing is that there are barely any patient posted results on here for afro or curly hair, so it’s difficult to make an informed decision. 😕

@Gatsbyout of interest, have you seen any patient posted results (Afro hair or curly hair) done by either Bisanga or Mwamba? I’m aware these two doctors are very well respected on this forum as their names keep getting mentioned everywhere but I can barely find any results. I’m finding it particularly difficult to find many results from Mwamba - the only patient posted results I’ve seen have been on straight hair. If any threads come to mind that would be really helpful.

Sounds like you had a good experience. Do you have a thread where you’ll be documenting your journey? I’ve heard good things about Mwamba but it seems like there aren’t very many patient posted journeys of his work - unless I’ve somehow missed them!

Cool, thanks Melvin 👌🏽