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Sounds like a complete garbage clinic...

Also, one of the things Dr Mwamba says regarding shock loss is: 

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Factors that promote it:
-No respect of hair angle while making incisions sites. ( you must stay parallel to the existing hairs to avoid any damage )
-Dense packing
-Fragile hairs ( hairs in end phase of anagen cycle )

But he will also be implanting some grafts to camouflage badly angled grafts (i.e. planting the new ones at the correct angle compared to old ones). Has anybody had this before? I hope it will not damage the older badly angled grafts (I do not want a bare area, despite them not being angled correctly).

Hi all,

I'm scheduled for a HT in June with Dr Mwamba.

I've had a previous HT (largely a botch), but the hair on the first 2/3rds of my scalp is pretty strong according to Dr Mwamba. My vertex is however starting to miniaturise. I have started topical dutasteride and microneedle weekly.

Is it worth starting Minoxidil before the procedure to strengthen the hairs and minimise the risk of permanent shock loss of some of the surrounding hairs?

Ideally, I don't want to take Minoxidil long-term, but if it mitigates the risk of permanent shock loss I'm happy to take it before the procedure.

Great work. I love the music FUECLINIC use on their videos, it's addictive 😂

How is your donor area Ajamilo?

Hopefully you can have one final pass and it would improve it significantly. What type of skin issue do you have?

Don't get why OP was banned?

Would love to know what happened with this guy

Considering buying some Tongkat Ali on the recommendation of Dr Andrew Huberman, but of course, this is an eternal battle, because if it raises my test, pfft

I'm sure EVERYTHING plays a part.

If you have twins, and twin A lives a fantastic lifestyle, sleeps well, works out (although I suspect lifting may accelerate hair loss), eats well, he may end up having significantly different hair to twin B who does everything 'wrong'.

Everything we do affects everything we are to some extent.

Edit: I see this was about graft survival rather than hair loss. I still stand by what I wrote above, although it's such a short-term thing I doubt what you eat and drink has THAT much an impact on survival of hair grafts.

3 hours ago, David20 said:

Did you go for a top up after a year? One of the artists I spoke with told me that a top up is required every 1-2 years. I’m just a little concerned that after a while it could end up looking like Lego hair! 
 

 

A touch up after 5 years seems really reasonable. I’ve thought of going down the transplant route but I don’t think I’d be a great candidate for it, plus I think I would always still be worrying about my hair. SMP seems like a great solution but I’m only in my early 30s and I’m worried that over time and various top ups that it could lose it’s realistic look. 

I didn't do a top-up tbh, I decided to just get another HT instead and grow my hair a bit longer

I may get it to bolster my donor area but I still don't like the idea of constant top-ups etc, very expensive business

I think trust is a huge, huge aspect of getting a HT. But what you said definitely is viable provided the person doing the second, simpler procedure still has a solid and reliable reputation.

@J.A.Chow can I reach you privately? You don't seem to be accepting PM's

22 hours ago, J.A.C said:

Thanks for the update 👍🏽 

J.A.C, can you not receive PM's? Trying to message you

Wow

Great result and excellent hairline

5 hours ago, Euphoria said:

Bro, you went to a hair mill. This problem isn’t exclusive to Turkey, the butchering I have seen from some clinics in US lol. There are good clinics in every country, just have to find them.

Saw news about one person even dying in India from hair transplant on the table, I mean by that criteria you will say whole India is bad? No of course not. 

 

That's why I gave specific names as recommendations. But by and large anybody asking about Turkey is liable to walk into a hair mill if they're not guided properly.

Avoid all Turkish clinics apart from Dr Bicer and FUECAPILAR, who have many case reports on this forum.

Most Turkish clinics will botch your hair as they did mine.. four years later I'm going to try and repair it with another HT.

How does a tablet cause penile scarring? I'm not doubting the side effects at all, but that seems very very far fetched

7 minutes ago, BoredMassively said:

“Not good clinics” meaning what exactly? They botch transplants? Presumably if they weren’t good clinics they wouldn’t get good results and the pitchforks would come out. Not sure what you mean by that. 
 

So you’re suggesting there’s only 2 good hair transplant Drs in the entire United Kingdom? for a relatively straightforward procedure I find that staggering. Unbelievable, actually.

Only 2 surgeons worth their salt in the entire UK. Fascinating.

Why are you getting so defensive? There are definitely better surgeons abroad, and for cheaper prices

Honestly, without seeming to be negative, I really don't understand why they shaped the temples like that. Seems very unnatural to me.

I will keep going with this, I genuinely feel there is something to it

4 minutes ago, J.A.C said:

I have everything crossed for you 🤞🤞

Thank you sir

God willing Mwamba can help me finally sort this mess!

On 4/24/2022 at 1:14 AM, MrFox said:

I felt like this video was relevant to this/our discussion @DrTBarghouthi. The case study of the 78 year old man in this video received full thickness burns to his scalp. The total surface area was rather large and he refused any sort surgical intervention. This is an example of hair neogensis and skin regeneration occurring naturally in nature, given the right circumstances. If verteporfin works to elicit this process doesn't it stand to reason that even large wounds, such as from FUT, would be able to reproduce the lost skin? Would be great to hear other's opinions on this as well!!!

 

Fascinating.. I took this on board a few months ago and started microneedling (1.5mm) with castor oil once a week, even on areas with supposedly no follicles.

Yesterday Dr Mwamba examined my hair under microscope and noted some very small hairs on my recipient area (which weren't implanted hairs). My receipient area is very barren due to poor implantation from my Turkish botch job, but I think these small hairs have been regenerated by microneedling!

I am going to keep going with this experiment, I've also done the same to my donor area.

Sun will make it fade

Probably lots of sweating too although this is just speculation

Mine seemed to fade after about a year, and I wore caps and sunblock always (it was still there, just didn't seem as strong)

Not sure what the point of topical finasteride is if it goes almost completely systemic anyway