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    Who Do You Want To See As Moderator?

    in Hair Restoration Questions and Answers

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    3 hours ago, A_4_Archan said:

    I understand your concern and motive behind this..what you are aiming for is that this will help patients in avoiding those unethical clinics/doctors...i agree the hairmills should be called out but i would TOTALLY DISAGREE to call out a specific country or name it and shame it just because there are many doctors who are following unethical practices...i believe in calling out clinics/doctors who are doing this without naming any country..there are good doctors in turkey and there are many bad ones and this is situation in every country...there are such hairmill/unethical practices being followed in my own country(india) and same thing is going on in USA ,Australia, UK and many other parts of world. 

    A good doctor, regardless of his location or country rules would follow ethical surgical protocols and rules which they have been taught when they get their degrees and this thing is same all over the world...no school or university in the world would have ask them to do such unethical practices and always taught them to follow surgical norms and to keep patient's intrest on the top. So please kindly call out such doctors/clinics without adding any country name to it.

    I agree that no one should call out in general a country because there are indeed many not good clinics which are hairmills, but there are also several great options on that country too. Like you said in every country there are bad clinics (India, USA,Australia, UK, etc...).
     I have seen several members on that community calling out an entire country (Turkey), or calling out some clinics of Turkey as hair mills (because they are in Turkey), which are not..  These should not be allowed in my opinion since it shows bias or other purposes from these members...

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    Oral Minoxidil vs only finasteride

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    3 hours ago, TonTon said:

    Hi,

    I recently had a hair transplant. Currently, I'm only using finasteride 1mg a day and some vitamins.

    My doctor recommended using oral minoxidil after the hair transplant, but I'm a bit concerned. What is your take on that? Can finasteride alone be sufficient? How can I increase my blood flow during this time?

    if you start oral minoxidil then you have to take it in a permanent basis, otherwise you will lose the "gains" that oral minox gave you. You could take 2.5mg oral minoxidil dosage.

    Resul Yaman | 4950 Grafts | 27th Jan 2024

    in Hair Transplant Reviews

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    Happy growing the work looks really clean!
    Doctors do not have to do the whole procedure by themselves, as it may be tiring and they will loose focus and as a result doing mistakes...In many clinics the doctor is doing plan, design and incisions while the extraction and implantation are done by techs. For example in Eugenix clinic implantation and extraction are also done by techs like Dr Yaman. So its perfectly fine. I wish you good luck !!

    Topical Dutasteride

    in Hair Loss Drugs

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    23 hours ago, BaldV said:

    Have you bought from there? Are they reliable?

    yes i have bought topical minoxidil with finasteride from there. It worked fine. They are reliable. You can even order a sample for free to try.

    4,244 Grafts (9,601 hairs) January 2024, Norwood 5/6 Diffuse - AEK Clinic Istanbul Dr. Ali Emre Karadeniz, aka Dr K.

    in Hair Transplant Reviews

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    2 hours ago, Fred2023 said:

    There were three operating rooms, so there was the capacity to do three a day, but on three of the four days, only two people were being operated on, and on the other day, there was only one.

     

    The doctor was heavily involved in the FUT and overall hair design and planning. But for the FUE, he was only involved with the incisions and only one inspection, which occurred during the extraction phase. The only caveat regarding the number of inspections is that the operating seat faces this wall of glass that overlooks the city, so you don’t get to see who is behind you. Therefore, if the clinic said he inspected more than once, I could not necessarily categorically dispute it, but if he was, he certainly did not make himself known to me.

     

    Additionally, to be fair to the clinic, they did not mislead me; I went in with my eyes wide open regarding his level of involvement. Dr Bicer, who does all the work, would have cost €12,732 for the same number of grafts, but at that price, when you add in flight costs, etc., then the value proposition for going to Turkey changes considerably. But as someone else wrote about not being able to afford a good surgeon – don’t let cost be a deciding factor as can you afford not to use a good surgeon and end up with a botched job? I really do hope I made a good decision, and of course, there is that little nagging doubt in the back of my mind that I should have done nothing if I could not afford the very best.

     

    I have seen the recent AEK review (November 2023) of a gentleman who had a FUT with neither his donor nor recipient area shaved. From how I read it, his issue was not about the actual quality of the work, but his concern was that insufficient grafts were harvested from his FUT, and he felt he, therefore, he did not get value for money. They harvested 1,976 grafts from his strip, but he maintains that in a previous FUT, the doctor managed to obtain 8,000 to 10,000 grafts from the strip.

     

    This did worry me when I read it. But when I researched the yield from a FUT, I discovered in a person with average donor density, there are approximately 100 follicular units per square centimetre; therefore, a typical strip of  15cm long strip would yield slightly less than 1500 grafts due to the tapering of the strip ends. In a hair transplant of 1500 follicular unit grafts, one should take out a 17 cm x 1cm strip (that includes the tapered ends). To have achieved 8,000 grafts in his previous FUT, he would have had a massive strip of 25 x 3.2cm removed, and to achieve 10,000, it would have had to have been 25cm x 4cm. Unfortunately, the gentleman in question stopped posting on the 26th of November, so there is no way of tracking the quality of the work. As to whether 1,976 grafts were enough to provide the result the gentleman hoped for, I do not have the knowledge to comment on that.

     

    My strip was 25cm x 1cm, and my calculated FU was 80 fu/sqm. Theoretically, it should have yielded 2,000 grafts. In actuality, they harvested 2,110 grafts.

     

     

    happy growing..The work from dr karadeniz looks really clean!

    Well in many clinics the extraction and implantation are  done by techs, so as soon as the doctor does the incisions, plan and design is fine. In your case dr karadeniz did the overall plan and design, incisions and the fut strip so he was involved in the procedure.
    For example in Eugenix clinic doctors do only the incision part, while the implantation and extraction are done by techs. Freitas and Couto also use techs for extraction.
     

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    Resul Yaman - 4550 Grafts, Sep18/2023

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    3 hours ago, xXFOLICILEDOMINIONXx said:

    120 Day (4th month) update

    Edited out the background because there's some funny stuff going on in the kitchen. No edits to my photo aside from that, promise!

    Lots of little new hairs popping up here and there. If I touch my head, it reminds me of the fuzzy I felt at around 10-ish days when my crown was full bloom before shedding. I'm still not visually happy from a front look, as the transplanted hair is still wispy, thin, and kind of see-through, but I realize that I think I look prety similar to other 4 month patients. Still feeling kind of blue because I grew my hair super long before the transplant and would fluff it out to cover up all my bald spots, so I still look a little worse than before, visually - but I know that I shredded that fake identity for a better me. I would say about 30% of pinkness remains, and I know my journey has much more to come.

    5th month update will come a little bit later, probably around ~25th or so, as I'm going back to Turkey for lower blepharoplasty on Feb19 to get rid of my eye bags, since this turkey plastic surgery stuff seems to be going pretty well. I'll probably get my first haircut around month 5 - the sides are kind of fluffy and dumb looking right now but I just feel like a goofball going to get my haircut when it's still so patchy up top. You can see so many little hairs starting to come in since my last time though! My donor is typically floofy so I hope that my recipient mirrors that forever ( I hear so many conflicting comments about it staying like the donor hair or not, texture wise - i'd be curious if there were any actual studies, because every doctor seems to say something different. )

    I have read lots about the next few months being the "big" ones if something is happening, and I would say from the volume of fuzzy baby hairs I feel that I feel pretty good about moving forward from here. My hair loss pattern from before was quite strange but fortunate ( I kept my hairline mostly forever, though it just inched EVER so slightly back - finasteride if that is you doing work out there, god bless you )

    Anyways, back to growing with me. ONWARDS AND UPWARDS! ...all of me. Including my scalp. Please.

    To me, what is most impressive about this month was my scalp "woke up". Like, look at my last update compared to this one. TONS of tiny baby hairs all suddenly awakened like an ancient evil from their slumber. I hope that my dark children grow to serve their nefarious purpose.

     

    By the way, when someone tells you the hairs are "wispy, thin, and colorless", this is the image used to best describe it in two different lighting situations.

    One makes it look like I almost have a full head of hair already

    the other looks like i'm a freako with like 3 long hairs on my head. lol.

     

    Lighting more often is like the second than the first. So as for right now, i'm not satisfied - but considering the other hairs are probably not fully mature, and i'm on ONLY month 4....I have a feeling things are going well. Much more to come, and the best is yet ahead, even!

     

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    You are right on track for 4 months. Waiting for your new update !

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