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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 

Night and day man

2 hours ago, Melvin- Admin said:

Its my assumption he’s been probably been refunded. If he hasn’t posted it’s probably because he signed something in exchange for a refund. 

Yes I agree

4 minutes ago, OleBaldy said:

Good to hear most of this has rectified. 

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Cosmedica have harassed me non stop by email (to this DAY!), sending me fake emails, requests to take the video I made about this down, and eventually got the video removed from youtube.

I don't believe anything was rectified at all. Up there with the scummiest of scum hair mill mafia

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At this length it is not that bad I think. Nobody would notice but us who are into the minutiae of hair transplantation.

That is pretty bad, the side would be very noticeable imo (one side more than other)

Hair has never looked better. I am way, way less self conscious of it now.

Mwamba did me a solid with the temples, which look superb, and Hattingen made my hairline look so much more refined and natural.

At this point, I think I will do another small procedure to get rid of some grafts around the hairline I don't need. I do want to bolster the density behind my hairline a little.

I also need to fix the right side of my donor as I hate it. I'll look to use beard grafts for that. 

Hopefully can do that around the end of the year 

Michalis is a great doctor and a very nice guy, I had a good exchange with him but ultimately decided I only needed a punchout procedure. But certainly one to keep in mind for others who need hairline work.

On 3/11/2024 at 5:27 PM, asterix0 said:

Mental health is getting more sympathy in the courts. OP could claim bad psychological impairment which affected his work performance, well being, medical expenses for therapy, etc. 

Second, OP, please try to recover your money from these cowboys.

Oh my God.. this is awful stuff man, but it can be fixed bro. Lay up for any decent doctor, I went to Hattingen who punched out some offensive grafts I have, they can easily do this for you. You will come out of this ok.

Michalis is a great shout

On 3/25/2024 at 1:37 PM, Hairwolf said:

I also think Dr Michalis is a good shout. You can find some great refinement work of his online and within your budget. Would give Turkey a wide berth this time imo unless you want to up your budget for Keser or Pekiner. 

4 hours ago, eze said:

This may be a dumb question, but I was wondering wouldn't it be easier to remove all the bad grafts with elecrolysis and then redo the transplant. This way would be cheaper and requires only one surgery.

Of course you could, but you are wasting precious grafts in doing so

Are you two brothers? (F. al-subaei and O. Al-subaei)

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Good luck man, you are on your way back. Great work

Update here --> 

Hi all

I'm going to keep this short because I can't be bothered typing an essay lol

Initial thread here:

I had 200 grafts punched out from across my hairline, and 100 grafts extracted from the donor area. All grafts were placed behind my hairline.

The aim of the operation was to get rid of the chunky grafts in the hairline and create a more natural looking hairline compared to the blocky, ugly, straight hairline given to me by the Butcher of Istanbul, Asli Tarcan. I wanted to create more recession in the corners, which sounds counter-intuitive to most people, but the result is a far more attractive and natural hairline. It no longer looks artificial and weird .

The operation was very short and Hattingen is a class outfit - very professional, fantastic staff, and both Dr Sever and Laura are brilliant. Both very friendly and personable, and Dr Sever is based. The clinic itself is lovely, set in a very small village in Switzerland, which was beautiful. I was in and out in about 5-6 hours, and went back the next day for a hair wash.

Sever did my consultation, Laura did the extractions and the everything surgery related. She used a manual punch. I kept my hair long and had a no-shave procedure, so I was back to normal within ONE week. Phenomenal stuff. The punchouts left NO visible scarring and within a week literally nobody was able to see any remnants of the operation. Zero. For the first week it was pretty ugly though. 

The photos really do not do justice to how much better my hairline looks now though, so please don't take too much from the low quality photos I took for the 'afters'. My hairline looks far more natural, and I barely have any insecurity over it anymore. The density and weird shape are largely fixed.

However, there are still some issues with my hair:

- Still probably have around 50-60 grafts that could be removed (I may address this in 2025 if we are all still alive and the West hasn't fallen)

- The direction of the grafts in my hairline are still awful.. this can not be rectified, unless I remove and then re-implant, which I am not prepared to do. The hairs in my hairline stick straight up and it really bugs me.

- I still wish for a little more density behind my hairline, although this has largely improved due to Mwamba and Hattingen's work. The patches are not as glaring as before.

- I wish I could still refine my hairline a little more, but my donor is in dire straits.

- The donor on my right side still sucks. The only remedy here would be beard hairs.

Overall, I am VERY happy with what was a very small, but very impactful procedure. Big impact on my confidence. I feel like people don't like at my hairline anymore.

I may do one more. but we will see. This stuff is expensive.

Feel free to ask me any questions

BEFORE

PUNCHOUTS

COMPARISON

On 2/20/2024 at 4:10 PM, FormerFutureKrillin said:

Hi all!

As promised, I am back to document the next steps in my HT journey with Dr. Bisanga. This thread is for what I am calling “Stage I” covering the removal of grafts, the first session of which was yesterday. Stage II will be a repair surgery rebuilding the hairline/temple points/frontal third, similar to the strategy for a couple other posters on this forum.

The goal of this surgery was to remove as many grafts as possible in the frontal line and high temple areas within the first half centimeter, with particular emphasis on chunky multi-grafts or misangled grafts. Dr. Bisanga was able to remove 306 grafts during this session. I may need an additional removal session(s) depending on how things are looking. All removed grafts were reimplanted in the strip scar.

Surgery itself was uneventful and was completed over the course of a 3-4 hours. No real pain during the procedure and any time I started to feel anything the team was very good about responding with more anesthetic. 

As many users have pointed out, the pre/post (and during) surgery care, communication and attentiveness of the BHR team is world class and really does help reduce the anxiety of the entire process.

I hope this thread and my eventual repair can be helpful reference points to others in this situation or considering this situation or more generally for those researching. However, I would really like to keep this thread focused on this surgery (and the go-forward repair), not on the previous surgery - I have a separate thread for my original surgery.

Photos below:

 

 

 

This side is harder to see (my hair is falling over half of the scar), but the implantation area was similar to the other side.

 

Love it. Can you show a photo of the skin now?

Good luck with this, this is the right way to go. You will have to be patient though as it will be a long and bumpy ride. But your hairline will look 1000x better.

1 hour ago, DavidFrancis said:

Hello forum, 

In the same way that you helped me, I'm writing this testimonial for those who might be in the same situation as me. 
As a reminder, I'm 25 years old, and I have very, very aggressive and diffuse hair loss, with thinning all over my head. I had a first operation with 2,500 grafts (maybe less, in which case they would have lied to me) in a clinic 2 years ago, but the result was bad. Contrasting density, pluggy frontal line, and grafts oriented at 90 degrees. 
I couldn't stay like that, so I decided to go for a repair with Dr Bisanga at BHR Clinic. 

Everything went really well, thanks to Lina for her support, and to the Doctor and his team for the repair. Now I just have to wait for the results. I had no pain either during or on the night of the operation, apart from the local anaesthetic, but nothing serious. 

457 grafts were removed from the hairline and placed on my left temple (I don't know why they're not placed evenly across my middle, but I trust the doctor. Anyway, I'll be redensifying in 6 months or 1 year). 
On the other hand, i find that i have a huge forehead now, since the hair behind is also oriented vertically, what do you think ? I need to redensify as quickly as possible because it's really not pretty

Here's my plan: 
- Extract 457 grafts from the hairline (which was done yesterday, photos attached). 
- If necessary, re-extract more grafts, or use a laser. 
- Densify the middle + hairline with 1500-2000 grafts. 

I know that with an aggressive loss it's risky, but what can you do?
I am engaged in the process, and according to the doctor, I would have a donor area of 5000-6000 grafts left, I have a big beard, and a lot of body hair. I have also been on oral minoxidil 2.5mg per day, and finasteride 0.5mg per day for 1 year, but I have no effect. I still have a lot of hair that is getting smaller every day and the loss is not stopping. I will probably switch to dutasteride once a week, and move to 5 mg of minoxodil, 2.5 in the morning, and 2.5 in the evening. If anyone is in the same situation as me, I would appreciate your advice.

I will post the progress of the healing on this thread, stay tuned.

I'm confused, where in the timeline is the last photo from?

I feel your pain bro.. hope you can maybe get something in the way of compensation but I doubt it.

By far the most difficult part of any repair is the mental anguish in waiting for consultations and appointments etc.

But schedule them in and start moving forward.. you'll feel much better.

I definitely agree that extractions and then later refinement is the way to go. But it'll be a long process.