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Not many videos about long-term transplants aside from a couple who had a bunch of touch ups in that period.. Found only 1 where 2500 grafts were made 10 years ago. However, I am VERY surprised to hear that this person is looking for a touch up and that the touch up is going to be 3K grafts!!! Hard to understand for 2 reasons. 1) based on the video, he doesn't seem to need a touch up at all, they are pretty good. 2) I am surprised density will be 3K grafts while filling the empty area was only 2.5grafts. not sure what I am missing. Plus I am even more puzzled because my assumption this guy would run out of grafts and he looks to be about 30-35 years old. So...I am just curious to know what he will do when he'lll be 40-45 and barely any grafts left!!

Well, wouldn't it also depend on the progression rate? I am also assuming transplant doctors would cover the bordering area thinking ahead. I took me 20 years to get to NW3. I am Not a 20 years old guy with NW6 getting 5000 grafts I am trying to understand if with my slow progression I can expect not do anything else until I am around 60 or so.

I am trying to understand how it works. So say you are norwood 3ish, you do the transplant, all great, yet what happens with the old hair behind, the old hair? Would hypothetically, 2-5 years later there will be a line, separating your new hairline with the old hairline that would keep receding?? Would there be like a line separating the transplanted hair, that will grow every year? Is that how it works?

Thank you for the link to th list Jdeeo. Helps to at least understand some options I did not consider.

It is very easily noticeable... I get that the forum needs advertising so they are trying to promote those who pay, but it certainly doesn't make things fair as the same doctors are being "pushed" as the best. Some of these have a lot of bad reviews or hardly any.. so after spending 2 weeks reading this and other forums, I am still quite puzzled and concerned as to who I can trust. The forum is a great resource, but it is taking a lot of time trying to weed things out

I am quite impressed at the hairline actually as it looks natural. I've been looking at 100s of pics, youtube videos and images from known clinics and I can clearly see that the hairs are transplants within a second or two due to very symmetrical lines the hair follow this one has irregularities which are present in real hair.. What I am surprised about, there are not a lot of reviews out there about this clinic or doctor.

My hair are very similar to the guy in this post: https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/34555-fue-by-dr-reddy-46-year-old-man-with-norwood-3-1471-grafts/ This is why in the title I estimated it to about 2,000 grafts +- I haven't contacted because I do not want to spend hours randomly sending price requests to 100s of doctors without understanding the process, costs,etc. Plus having real-world feedback from non-doctors and suggestions is the reason to post on a forum such as this, to have non or less bias opinions and suggestions from own experience.

I've taken it some years back. It basically gave me A LOT of dark freckles and a much faster tan. Good if you want the tan,but rather avoid the sun. In my experience, the freckles were too much to deal with so I stopped after 3 weeks. I got very dark with some sun exposure( which you need) but had to stop. Took 1+ years for those freckles to disappear. Never heard of it having any sort of correlation of hair at all. Not sure who would even spread this rumor.

I am very new to hair transplants. I thought about it for years as I am not young, but never researched it and just let it be until recently. Living in North America, prices vary, I've seen $4.5/graft to $12/graft quotes. but then I've seen quotes from doctors in Turkey and nearby countries with quotes around $10,000usd for a the same thing as well, which hardly makes any sense to me. I mean, why would I travel and risk in a 3rd World country when I can do the same thing for the same price(or even more if I budget travel,time,+ lack of oversight, risk,etc). I am starting to learn about "hair mills" which seems to be an issue with Turkey and maybe a few other countries. Here in N.A, only actual doctors can do the procedures. I've seen quotes online for a HT in Turkey as cheap as $1500usd but my understanding it would be from a hair mill? Are all hair mills bad or there are good ones? I suppose there are 2 main questions. If a hair-mill technician is doing his/her job every day for say 5-10 years, wouldn't the quality eventually be on par/better with a doctor doing the same? Which brings me to my final question. What realistically I can expect to spend for a good job for what seems like about 2000-2500 grafts for my Norwood 2.5(maybe 3) hairline? I am currently looking at Turkey or Mexico as I am trying to find a place I can afford to fly to and do the procedure and those are very easy to travel to. Seems like most other places would be un-affordable for me, including any in North America as I don't have 10K to spend. I will certainly take any tips or recommendations of places and clinics(except in Asia) if you have any.