londonla

Have you found your hair growth is much better with oral rather than topical?

Did ask about it but he said it’s not available in turkey so I’d have to sort it out when I get home. Is it something you’ve tried? I’ve seen it’s way more effective but a bit scared about the side effects (heart rate stuff) and much higher dosage.

yes they said that will be in the surgical Report which they send out a few weeks after surgery.

@Archan added in now

Hi all Currently 2 days post op. Second hair transplant with FueCapilar, went with Dr Turan this time as opposed to Dr Gur first time round. No big reason - I wanted the hairline sorted this time and I’ve liked his work a bit better than Dr Gurs. Anyway, I’ve attached pre and post op pics below. In total went for 2970 grafts - don’t have the post surgery report yet so can’t remember the exact numbers, but hairline was all singles (I think around 1300 were for the hairline), majority of the rest of the grafts extracted were triples and those were mostly in the crown with a few in the mid scalp area (1400 crown and remaining mid scalp). Questions: 1. Does it look like 2970 grafts in total? The hairline is really nicely done imo and should have very nice density. Also got to rebuild the temples which I’m super happy about but a bit more concerned about the crown area, don’t think theres been enough placed to cover it in total. 2. The doctor said a reason for not placing as many in the crown was I’ve been on Fin only a year so more of the crown hairs should stop miniaturising and come back over the next few months and the grafts he’s added in should add density. Does this sound right? 3. In their assessment they reckoned I had 15,000 grafts possible in the donor area. Assuming the hairline comes out fine and crown improves but isn’t completely amazing, how many more of those can I risk before it becomes too depleted? Anyway I’m only 2 days post op so not too worried for now, will post updates over the next few months.

To be honest the doctor I went to see comes highly recommended on here and elsewhere online. Won't be saying his name as had a conversation with him earlier after the negative feedback I received here and he managed to placate most of my fears and the concerns people raised here. I also cant really do anything about it for at least another 6-9 months in terms of getting another procedure so the only thing to do really is wait it out, stick to fin/min and see how it turns out. If it does turn out as bad as people think it will then its a different story but for now I'm just waiting and seeing really.

the clinic has another doctor. Obviously im hoping it all works out fine but i could maybe go to the other doctor if it isnt good enough

hopefully yes

eh?

Hmmm so I dont have the post op report yet, will post the numbers when I get them but I seem to remember it was getting pretty close to 40 hairs per square cm which I think was pretty good. Will update when I have the actual report though.

Yh so basically the bottom white line is where my original hairline is. The doctor asked if I'm happy to see if fin/min and micro needling will strengthen this area within the next 9-12 months. Idea being if it does get stronger he can then reinforce it with a few graphs rather then the extra 1000 he estimated hed need to cover that area, therefore taking that away from the mid and crown area. So if it does get strengthened over the next few months - great, just straighten out where needed and I'm sorted, if not I guess we'll deal with it as it comes. It seemed to make sense to me at the time but I posted it elsewhere this morning and people were really adamant it was a bad idea, ofc none of them are doctors so yh.

Ofc - most are here , let me know if you want any others -

Do you mean the bits in the mid scalp? The mid scalp was the only part of my upper head that still had decent amounts of hair in it tbh so I can see why they'd do it there. Thanks will do so.

Sorry Melvin what do you mean by macro irregularity?

So I had my procedure yesterday. To give some context I am a Norwood 5/5A, started microneedling and fin a couple months ago. I had some growth on the hairline but it was very thin and whispy hair - the dermatologist I was seeing said it would grow into thicker hair over time.. When I talked to most clinics they recommended two procedures - one for the hairline/mid scalp/outer crown and then one for the inner crown a year later. The plan was Fin and Min would recover a fair bit of hair in the inner crown so less grafts would be needed and it would give time for the donor area to recover. The original plan was for the Doctor to go to the bottom of this new hairline which is at the white line in the photo - you can see the little white circles are the hairs already growing back. However he decided instead to go a bit higher with a zigzag pattern. This is as he thinks the implanted hair will blend into the existing hair (white circles) and thus make it look much more natural. If that doesn't work out - if the hair in the white circles doesn't grow out properly - then he would do the hairline properly during the second procedure. Tbh I agreed with it at the time as it made sense but looking for second opinions now - what do you guys think of such a strategy? Makes sense or too conservative?