shiba1985

Cradles your neck minimizing the risk of rolling over, less pressure on donor area, and if crown transplanted, than may provide some barrier between crown and the conventional pillow, or recliner head.

Quality > Quantity any day. Long term natural results and planning > short term WOW results any day. Just saying.

Hard to say anything about the donor area from that type of photo and that type of hair length. Bosley will probably not relay to your surgeon, but they may give you a printout of their dermascopy findings and you can email that to your surgeon of choice. Alternatively take a much better donor area pic i.e. have someone else take it. Wet the hair to be able to see down to the root if needed.

please dont make the mistake of getting a strip for 1200 grafts. While your donor are was poorly managed by the first surgeon, it is no where bad enough that you cant get 2000 grafts from it let alone 1200. Once you get a strip you will have a linear scar, and say good bye to the tight fades on the side and back. get a few other opinions from reputable surgeons

it looks similar to a telogen effluvium type of look. any crazy diets, stressors in your life ? are you on topical minoxidil.

I think your opinion maybe biased by the fact you chose a surgeon that relies heavily on Techs. The biggest benefit of a doctor only, or doctor mainly involvement is quality control. If you go to a doctor only or doctor mainly, you know the results you are going to be getting. they are consistent. Good, bad and ugly. YThey are the face of the clinic and responsible for the surgical results. With tech involvement you dont know what you are getting. All clinics say their techs have been with them for a long time and are highly skilled. there is no way for you to verify this. What if the day of your surgery the best tech got sick and they called in a per diem help. you will never know. Even the best clinics have staff turnover and there are new techs coming in. Is the tech going to care if they are jamming the follicles in during placement or transecting the follicle during extraction? or do you think he/she will think more along the lines, ok I have to be out of here by 4 pm. how do i finish this by 4 pm? because of this there is more variation in the quality of the results that are put out.

did he give you a graft breakdown post operatively? how many 1,2,3 FUs were there?

i understand you have had a hair transplant and are anxious about all the ways you can possibly mess up post op, but rest assured it takes a lot to mess up and dislodge a grafts. If you hit your head hard on to a cupboard or getting into the car thats the amount of force that will disoldge a graft. If you use basic common sense your hair follicles are not just going to jump out of the scalp on their own, not even if you touch them, or walk in the wind or what have you. Relax man.

A doctor has a right to set whatever price he wants and a patient has a right to choose whatever he will or wont pay. Reading in between the lines, it seems the reason for such a high price is to discourage anyone from booking and asking for Bisanga only, and forcing patients to choose the Bisanga+kostis option.

Go with Zarev book off schedule for 9 euros or wait 12-18 months. This is a permanent surgery, no point in rushing

Regenra Activa does have promising results. The problem is no one knows the permanence of the results - 6 months? 12 months? 24 months?. You also have to have three 4 mm biopsy punches to make the injecting progenitor cells. So basically you are giving up some of your existing donor hair in return to rejuvenate the miniaturized hair. IS this trade off a good long term decision. Only time will tell.

your results are as good as it can get for a hair transplantation. you can only make this worse by going to anyone else. i would just get on the wait list with heitmann. can you PM me his contact information if you have it?

its not that elite surgeons cant do them, it is that they know how ridiculous those temples will look in 5 years when you continue to have progressive hairloss. There is a difference.

Dr Diep made a whole empire out of posting videos in his darkly lit office. So much for “clinic” supplied photos. I can assure you, even at the best clinics, much less turkey, maybe 20% or less patients return for the 12 month visit. This is not a heart valve replacement surgery where you have to monitor. If everyone is happy usually patients go about their life.

Assuming large portion of his patients are based internationally, and supposedly people that want to pay a lower cost, you expect them to spend $1k+ dollars to go back to turkey at 12 months just so they can have the clinic take pictures? Come on man be real. you keep saying you are not a hater, but the only person you are fooling is yourself.

I can understand your skepticism if there were one or two results. but he literally has a large number of results posted by patients. There are post op photos as well. The reason he doesnt post on the board is cause he or his clinic is banned or maybe there are some other forces at play behind the scenes that we dont know about. But to say only clinic posted results are valid is ludacris. If the results are only clinic posted, then people say there are not enough patient results. If there are a lot of patient results, then people like you say there are not enough clinic photos. make up your mind lol

this is a question you would have to ask him directly. I doubt the average patient understands or will be able to witness the sterilization of equipment which happens AFTER the surgery is over. Having said that, the impression I get is it is unlikely that they skimp on this. But you are correct outside of NA, EU things are much less regulated. I remember being a "3rd world country" where dentists were working without gloves and phlebotomies were being performed without gloves. Something that you would not see in USA

I don’t see any problem. Your front still has some hair coverage (albeit miniaturized hair) so he is protecting these and back is more bald so he has placed more grafts there.

unlike this forum, which has an actual owner, who is the Dr Diep representative going to take legal action against for the subreddit posts? the mods and the posters of the subreddit I assume are anonymous. And suing Reddit would be expensive and unrealistic.

Since you harp so heavily on transparency, how about including the medications (hairloss) your patients are on. It is clear from multiple results that a patient who starts finasteride/minox pre or perioperatively will have results that are much more impressive than a patient not on any medications, everything else being equal.

Insane results

R u from Congo? Otherwise it would be very unusual to go deep into the country just to get a hair transplant as opposed to Belgium. nothing against Congo, woild love to visit but not sure if I know enough bout it to trust the healthcare system

I am not for or against eugenix. I think they do ok work for the model they have established. Multiple surgeries driven by junior surgeons and techs. but your results are good, Are they perfect no. But even the best in the world that will cost 6-7x what you paid at eugenix get perfect results in one attempt. There is always fine tuning needed.

1 session of prp = life time supply of finasteride tablets if based on cost solely

Prp is infinitely more expensive than finasteride and no where as effective as finasteride. So not sure the point you are making.