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Good move deciding not to go Vera.

Save up and go to a better clinic where you know exactly who the doctor is.

Cheaper Turkish options include Demirsoy and FUECapilar. Giorgio Michalis and HDC in Cyprus are also superb options

Great choice and good luck

Pathetic 

Nice work

That graft splitting fee is 100% a money gouge.. they should be charging by grafts extracted only

Looks great so far

3 minutes ago, Melvin- Admin said:

Definitely old punch grafts. Salah looks like he just grafts. 

What does that mean?

Wow

This is brilliant stuff, they have done a great job.

I was considering going to Dr Ball and met both him and David Anderson. I was impressed with their approach and honesty.

Ask his patients for a number

The co-ordinator however is very rude. Takes weeks to respond then tries to act annoyed when you don't give smooth answers back. Pekiner should replace him

Photo update

No reviews in itself is generally a red flag.

11 hours is honestly way too long for such a straightforward procedure imo

Keep us updated

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Weightlifting doesn't most likely. But even if it did, anybody who would rather be soft and weak but have a head of hair needs to have a look at themselves.

Michalis is an excellent surgeon and good guy. Interested to see how this goes

13 minutes ago, FaganBecker said:

But why would you advise against doing these things at the same time? 

Repairs are tricky, and trying to do everything at once is not optimal.

If I am honest I haven't really read through the thread properly, but trust me, doing things slowly is better. Break down the hairline and then rebuild it.

10 minutes ago, Berba11 said:

On the basis that I’ve never seen any such case from them, never heard anyone have this done with them and that they seemingly haven’t talked about this with you. In fact, it’s extremely rare for any clinic in Turkey to do hairline punch outs. Most people who get hairline punch outs do so because they went to Turkey the first time around! Unfortunately Turkey is the place that people tend to get botched - the repair job will usually be somewhere more expensive in Europe. 

I would agree.

You don't even know which doctor at HLC will see you on the day.

With Dr Sever we discussed the plans months in advance.

Do not go to them

Because you're worried that removing grafts would be counter-intuitive as it's already thin, but in order to fix things sometimes you have to take a step back. Removing some grafts now would leave things thinner yes, but then you can go back and re-implant properly in a few months

Taking half measures with a repair does not work out well, take it from me

1 hour ago, FaganBecker said:

Thanks for your response.

 

I think the thing I find tricky here is the idea of removing healthy multiple grafts would obviously thin it out a bit, and particularly on the left side the density is already poor. There are very few lightings in which it doesn’t look very sparse. 

 

The other issue is £££. I don’t have much of a budget for it, so if I don’t go back to HLC, I may have to wait years before I can justify another essentially optional cosmetic procedure, such as a hair transplant. HLC have guaranteed that there will be no cost if I go back.

 

However, the thing that does unnerve me is that they have refused to left me speak to a doctor and maintained that the only repeat ONLY way that they can gage what needs to be done, is with me sat in the hot seat with them in Ankara. Seems an awful expense in both time and money (getting there) to just be told that they can quite easily add a few singles in the front. Especially when the line is already so bold and unnatural looking. 

 

What do you think of the result so far? A glaringly unnatural result, or something that looks fine if you don’t look to closely at the line itself? 

Then your best bet would be to do this over 2-3 sittings. Remove, wait a few months, then add. And yes, as Berba said, the grafts removed would be recycled further behind, i.e. in the sparse areas.

Hattingen again mate

Looking much better my bro.

I thought I was looking at Patrick Bet-David's hair at first lol

Great work by Feriduni, this is gonna change everything for you. Hoping for quick healing. 

I also met Dr Sever in London this weekend (and Dr Laura). You are in good hands if you choose to go with them! I'll ask them to send photos

Will the punched out grafts be put back into the donor?

22 hours ago, Faisal Alsubaie said:

 

Hey nice progress brother.

Removing a few mm of the hairline with multi grafts then reimplanting singles at a later stage is the best way to go here I think. However you would always need to keep in mind the small risk of the reimplanted hairs not growing properly etc. but I think in this case, it looks promising