shiba1985

to me this looks closer to 1800 grafts. The work looks ok. Nothing spectacular but definitely not a botch job regardless of what you have paid. just my opinion

I am personally not a fan of rahal. I am not a fan of any clinic that outsources patient evaluation to “assistants” cause a lot of them are incentivized based on commission. Even if they are not I think it is the duty of the surgeon to guide the patient.

you went to a surgeon who is an expert in surgical treatment of hair loss. He told you you are NOT a surgical candidate. Maybe in a bit blunt fashion. I dont understand. you are complaining he is too callous? do you know how many patients he probably sees in your situation in a day or a month. does he have to sit and hold everyone's hand? Would you rather blow smoke up your ass and take your money and give you surgery. If you want medical management see someone that specializes in medical management of hair loss. most surgeons are sub par at this.

No I have not but the amount of coverage I have seen konior provide with relatively lesser grafts I can extrapolate from that, that If the patient went back for seconds and thirds he would have relatively full coverage. even mtb doesn’t have full coverage it’s relatively full but you can tell behind the hairline in mid scalp there are gaps that are covered by hair sleeking back but that’s just the limitation of hair transplant.

sepculating zarev uses smaller punches and tries to use all scalp hair and is more detailed in planning pitella uses bigger punch, and uses a lot of beard and body hair eugenix uses scalp and body hair, planning is not as detailed as zarev and it is similar to pitella but less personal care as multiple patients a day. placement wise zarev uses sharp implanters with no pre made incisions pitella i know uses implanters but not sure if pre made incisions eugenix has pre made incisions and then implanters.

I dont think you can worry about that stuff. every doctor has his own technique. someone like konior can put 2000ish. grafts and make it look full and someone like zarev does it with 4000 and make it look full. They are both putting out good results. dont worry about "per graft" cost. go with who you like and who you can afford.

good planning, partial (Zarev) vs full follicular units (“average doc”), and minoxidil. my educated guess.

Unless you are some genetic abnormality, most likely your T is more than normal. Check it again exactly at 7 am after a good nights sleep. It will be higher. Chances are you have boy image issues, or anxiety around erection such as size of your penis, lasting longer etc. All that has killed your boner. Unless you have taken some medications or done anything major with your hormone system you need to get over your mental stuff. I read somewhere that even castrated eunuchs can have erections. there is no reason that you cant have erections at those level. Also TRT is not a cure to libido and erection issues. Since 99% of this is mental TRT will not solve it. You will just be a little muscular and hornier without being able to get it up.

Prior to surgery his crown looks more attention drawing (negatively) than his hairline. If you are going to go through the whole process you want to address and prioritize what bothers the patient first. his crown is still gonna look bald given the density distribution and he is going to have to go through the whole process again, not to mention the juicier follicles are used up for the hairline. but I guess that’s the trade off or sacrifices you make when prioritizing cost.

they should honor the may 2024 if they are the ones dropping the ball. you cant magically know what their price will be.

the fallacy in your argument is that beard hair on scalp will become and look as natural as scalp hair. IT DOESNT . if it did the solution for advanced baldness in all cases would be very easy. It is only an option for people that are willing to accept that beard hair on scalp will never look completely natural, but it will look good enough or better than baldness. All of those are very subjective opinions

ask him to see example of a patient he has done this for. if that look is acceptable for you compared to balding then go for it

that picture with the "titans" in hair restoration screams so much irony.

You can’t transplant a Swedish blonde fine hair and Mediterranean patient with thick jet black hair with same amount of follicles and expect exact same coverage.

how bald the area need to be covered is only one part of the puzzle. A lot more complex and nuanced and hence often ignored part is how thick the individuals hair is, and what are his follicular groupings. A small increase in the cross sectional diameter of hair has a 4 time impact in the coverage it provides. Measuring the bald area, or recepient area is relatively the easy part