Marlo

Surprised you're labelling yourself a diffuse thinner, it's not apparant from these pictures. Anyway I think you're an excellent candidate for some frontal work, though 2400 grafts does sound a little high but I guess you're looking to lower the hairline quite a bit? What does Ferreira charge per graft now?

This photo is altered though. If you watch the video where the clinic presents the case (including this photo) the hairline isn't as low as in this altered version. The hairline was still taken too far down (especially when not adding temple points) but not to this crazy extent.

You are the first one in this thread to state anything about 7 EUR being the price for repairs. If you go to the poster's history he is not actually a repair case, based on that your assertion doesn't seem to be correct. Of course there are different markets. You confirmed it yourself by stating "In America, patients wouldn’t think twice to pay $7 per graft for his skill". Now I do agree, that anyone considering a HT should be open to travelling, but then we could include doctors outside of europe and the US that have comparable skill to Bisanga, are significantly cheaper and don't have very long waiting lists. Not sure why you are so down on Pekiner. In my opinion he is actually superior to Bisanga because he doesn't transplant grafts with patterned regularity and Pekiner performs all surgical aspects of the procedure. What does Bisanga do so well that they are "not even close"?.

Of course it is high when virtually no one else in Europe charges such a price. Doesn't make much sense to use US as the basis for comparison. You wouldn't have to wait years to get a date with surgeons like Pekiner, Freitas or Mwamba and they are by no means a compromise.

Not saying there is anything wrong with it, market dictates price. But I would never advice anyone to go there at that cost, imo there are enough equally good (or better) surgeons in Europe at lower price points.

7 EUR per graft + VAT is wild. Don't know another doctor within Europe that charges that much.

Agreed. I generally don't see a notable cosmetic benefit to the results this clinic posts, see this as another example.

Since you need quite a lot of grafts what about Pitella? He does a lot of high graft cases and gets good results and from what I know the prices are very reasonable (not totally sure what he charges though.)

Well, JT considers Asmed a top clinic. If that's the standard then sure.

Ugh, $1800 for 15 mg sounds prohibitively expensive for usage in hair transplants. Do we know how long Bausch & Lomb can keep the patent going?

Some of the responses you received sound a bit strange to me. Which clinics specifically did you contact?

Agreed, couldn't really ask for more considering how far he was gone. Looks like his donor is fine shape too, if he was ever inclined to have additional work done.

I have bought twice from them. No issues.

Wow, insane level of growth at this early stage 👍

Laughable statement. Anyone who has any insight into hair transplants would tell you that there are more FUEs performed.

No, it's not absolutely necessary to take oral minoxidil for a hair transplant to be succesful. There have been way more people that have done hair transplants without taking oral minoxidil than the other way around Of course it's highly recommended to be on a some hair loss preventition treatment to minimize further hair loss (finasteride/dutasteride), but that won't have much impact on how your hair transplant grows in.

That is really not a lot of work for the surgeon to be doing. This LHC clinic that you're talking about is clearly a hairmill (quantity over quality) and I could never recommend going to such. It's certainly possible that you could get a result you're happy with by going with a discount clinic, but you are taking unnecessary risk by doing so imo. Remember that a hair transplant is for life. If 10k Euro is outside of your budget I honestly suggest saving up. There will usually be a good amount of wait time anyway, if you wanna book with a good clinic.

Pekiner is the only one in Turkey I would personally go with. He does every single surgical aspect of the procedure so that's a big plus, but costs more than most Turkish options.

Damn, you have fantastic hair characteristics. These two are actually the surgeons I've been looking at myself. I prefer Pekiner for the following reasons: Pekiner places the grafts more naturally as they aren't put in any sort of rows wheres Freitas implants in horisontal rows Pekiner performs all surgical aspects of the procedure himself, whereas technicians will handle some parts with Freitas Pekiner speaks English, Freitas speaks close to zero english Freitas does, however, have a very extensive portfilio of good results. One thing that personally worries me with Pekiner is that there are some examples on this forum where he has stopped the surgery after beginning it because he found the donor caliber to be too poor. This clearly wouldn't be an issue for you, however.

Impressive result, a lot was achieved here with 2800 grafts.

How did it turn out?

Certainly looks like retrograde which I have myself. Would be odd if the onset was as quick as you've described, however. Really doesn't make much sense to transplant into the retrograde area. Save your donor hair for the top.

So the scars from Pekiner's extractions turned out more noticable than the the ones from Ferreira's?

Clearly doesn't look good right now, but I think there is a high probability that this is shock loss. I have seen donors that made dramatic turnarounds later than three months post surgery. Too soon to panic, hang in there.

Really don't think a valuable cosmetic change was achieved here.