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What are those mini scars on the 3-month mark?

4 hours ago, FaganBecker said:

Yeah just watched that - thanks. Definitely what I was hoping I’d get. Soft V with a naturally matured look, the appearance of natural density with a natural look right at the front. 
 

My V shape has very bold lines, emphasized all the more by the number of doubles creating a very pluggy look. 
 

don’t you think lowering it by half an inch now is dangerous? I don’t think I have much room to play with for adding more?

I'd say get a clear understanding from HLC of what they plan to do with your hairline. Also have a consultation with Dr Bisanga (BHR clinic) and reference that video. 

This may be a private question but other than your girlfriend and family members have your friends and colleagues noticed or mentioned something about your hairline? Thankfully, the fix is an easy one and it requires add-ons of grafts and not removals of grafts. If I were you, I'd go to Doctor Bisanga!

I agree with the previous comment that the V is too sharp. There's a guy with a very similar head shape to yours who had surgery done with Dr Bisanga. We can't post links here but if you go to the BHR clinic's YouTube page "BHR Clinic hair transplant specialists" then go to the shorts tab and click on the second video on the list. The thumbnail has a red background with the number 52 in the top left corner. The guy on the clip has a very soft V and it's lowered by only half an inch. He has the same head shape as yours. Watch the video and let me know what you think 

11 hours ago, PowerLocke said:

microscop camera 20 € on amazon. pretty funny little toy.

 

How can I imagine things to happen? Will the hair that's already grown and the babyhair just become thicker, or will there be hair appearing out of nowhere? 😀 Ot both of them?

Is it the one with a long wire connected to it? We can't post links to websites here but on Amazon all the Microscopic cameras £25-£30 have a long wire. I'm assuming that's the one you are talking about. 

How did you have a microscopic picture taken? Do you have a special camera or did your dermatologist take the photo?

You can't afford to take risks with the female hairline...It requires too much expertise! If a man gets a botched job on his hair he can always shave it bald. That's not an option for most women. Just save more money and do research at the same time and go to a clinic that has a lot of experience doing female hairlines. Dr Edward Ball (the Maitland clinic) from Portsmouth has some amazing results with female patients. On his website, it says for 1000 grafts he charges £5500. That's all you may need . At least have a consultation with him and see what he says.

Where did you have your original hair transplant? 

I'm assuming now that he has a new state-of-the-art facility, he will expand his staff and train more people. Hopefully, the wait times will be shorter moving forward. 

When clinics deal with "repair" cases, they have to work around what the previous clinic did and the priority is always on fixing the hairline and badly angled grafts on the temple recession area. There's only so much they can do to a destroyed donor area. You should have made it clear to the clinic that repairing the donor was more important than repairing the hairline. Instead of "Just homogonize the donor and put those grafts in the hairline. Killing two birds with one stone"

Also "Hairline before second surgery (not a big problem at all, as you can see)." If the hairline wasn't a big problem to you why mention it to BHR?

Did you come to accept the hairline of your first clinic (which you won't name) was okay after the second surgery or before? Or was it after experiencing the stress of the second transplant you thought to yourself "The hairline of the first clinic wasn't bad anyway" 

BHR clinic is among the top 3 best Hair transplant clinics in the world. We are lucky that they take repair cases because very few do and even fewer get it right.

And why don't you name the first clinic that made you have a repair?

3 hours ago, jjalay said:

He stopped the surgery because the patient had a lot of miniaturized follicles and in this case this is what an ethical doctor should do. Pekiner only does one patient per day and he is focusing on quality not quantity, and this is why he is booked for more that a year ahead. If you go to one of the hairmills on turkey you will get your termine in two months and telephons via whattsup with the "consultant" anytime you want. But the result is going to be dissapointing.

Didn't he know/see the miniaturized hair follicles during the consultation/planning? lol. He doesn't do one patient every day. It's more like one patient every 3 months. Like I said he runs it like a side hustle...When he wants some extra cash, he'll answer emails (I'm still waiting for an email I sent out mid-October) to work on 2 patients for the next 6 months and best be sure they won't be higher than NW2/3. I'm not saying he's a bad doctor, you can work with him if you want to. I just sense that with his slow correspondence and lack of zeal in running the clinic effectively, there's no point in chasing after him or advising patients with high Norwood to go for Pekiner (since he's likely to reject you as a patient). He's mentioned so often, I wonder to myself wait until these guys actually realise the guy is not serious when they contact him!

On 1/29/2024 at 1:48 PM, Eli_Avdikian said:

In Turkey, the only good surgeons to consider are Pekiner and Kesser. If you live in Australia, you might want to consider Dr. Laorwong in Thailand

The problem with Pekiner is he runs his clinic like a side hustle. He hardly works! It's very difficult getting a consultation with him! And I haven't seen results from him above Norwood 3. Also on two occasions reviewed here, he has stopped mid-surgery and told the patient "Sorry you are not a suitable candidate!" after having a consultation and after taking out several hundred grafts! Stop with this Pekiner...Pekiner...Pekiner! The guy is not serious! 

I noticed you didn't post a picture of the board with the amount of singles, doubles, and multis they extracted. Do you have that photo by any chance? 

Any update?

Any update?

1 hour ago, Drew-83 said:

Hi everyone.  I wanted to let you know about my current situation, after I have integrated oral minoxidil for three months with the finasteride that I've been taking for years.  I have to be honest, it seems that the situation has improved slightly, especially in terms of hair quality and the density also seems better.  What do you think?

Interesting! It looks somewhat dense!

That's good you got deposit back 👍👍. Shocking HLC quoted you that after you told them you had 4k already taken. And that's with HLC being considered better and more professional than Asmed. Shocking honestly! That's why I recommend people to avoid the Turkish market all together if you can. There are better Drs/clinics all across Europe 

14 minutes ago, jjalay said:

Regardless of the outcome of the first surgery quoting a 23 year old patient 6000 grafts after a first hair transplant with 4000 grafts and without even having the final result is really criminal.

It is yes! But that's the thing...I want to know the exact correspondence between them. Did the guy tell them he had 4000 grafts already taken? and he just came out of a hair transplant? Or did he just email them with photos and an inquiry about transplants without mentioning anything else that happened previously? These details are important. And for some reason, OP doesn't want to tell us where he got his first transplant from!

23 minutes ago, botchedguy95 said:

HLC claiming 6000 grafts is criminal.. avoid at all costs

"3500  for the front part then 6 months later another 2500 for vertex" is what they actually said to him.

Having 6k grafts spaced out like this in several transplants exists even in the best of hands.

The problem is he contacted them when he thought his first transplant was a failure. He sent them photos without seeing the full outcome of his first procedure.

The problem here is you panicked too fast and started contacting clinics without waiting 12 months after your first hair transplant. And you sent photos of what you assumed was a failed hair transplant. They say wait 12 months for a reason. Not 4 months, not 6 months and not 8 months. 12 months! Who did your first transplant btw? You still haven't told us. 

Having 6k grafts spaced out over several transplants is normal and happens all the time (If it was your first transplant!). But the problem here is you already had a transplant and got decent results. 

Try your best to get a refund for the deposit you dropped. If you can't, make sure you insist in the in-person consultation that you want to focus on the crown and only want to take out 3k grafts maximum. 

6000 Grafts!!? No way! I understand that you sent them the old pictures a couple of months ago. Contact HLC with the new pictures and see what they say and please update us on what they said after they saw the new pictures. Who did your first transplant btw?

Dr Karadeniz from what I gathered from his YouTube channel seems professional but overly arrogant. If what you say is true about cleanliness not being up to par with medical standards then that is a problem!

This is why people have to continue taking medicine! You have to tackle hair loss holistically and from several angles, not just surgery. 

Eugenics is definitely up there among the best for temple points along with Dr Couto. 

On 10/23/2023 at 6:22 PM, Melvin- Admin said:

It honestly didn’t look bad before, this procedure is very aggressive, excited to follow your progress.

Way too aggressive! Dr Couto's skill in hairlines and temples is phenomenal and second to none! The only problem is people get older and they age. So what looks appropriate for a guy in his mid-twenties may not look right for a guy above the age of 50+. Imagine having wrinkles on your face with saggy facial skin with a teenager's hairline?! It just doesn't look right. That's why the majority of top doctors refuse to go aggressive with the hairline and temples. JT on the Bald truth said as he got older his own expectations for himself and his hair changed over time. In his twenties and thirties he was fanatical about it but now that he's in his fifties he is not that concerned about his hairline.