Matt3210

Dr.Mwamba gives irregular results and your concerns are valid. Give it a few months and hope that your skin will smooth out. If not, you can hide it with enough density. You can also remove bad Fue grafts with invisible traces. Good luck.

I think it may be a technical error. from some reason, the real top doctors don't have these problems. the FUE graft has a larger disc of skin on top. correctly placed graft protrudes about 1mm above and after 10 days the skin disc falls off together with the scab. If a doctor or technician pushes this larger disc of skin into a small hole, cobblestoning is guaranteed.

Dr.Mwamba have also problems with cobblestoning.

have you seen any good results Dr. Mwamba with afro hair before you decided to go with him?

my source is google. I have a problem with cobblestoning for a long time and I read about it all over the internet heh. cobblestoning, pitting and rimming are some of the HT complications that can be avoided. There are no thorough studies and solutions for non-surgical treatment of cobblestoning. Some doctors recommend trying the fraxel laser. Dermarolling is a cheap equivalent of the laser, it is about damaging, exfoliating the skin and stimulating the production of new collagen. I have noticed that after a few sessions the recipient's skin and cobblestoning have improved a bit so will continue. You can't count on getting rid of the problem quickly, but it worked for me a little over time. I notice differences. I don't know how it might work on Afro people due to the pigment and the risk of scarring. you have to read and be careful.

cobblestoneing is not unpredictable. This is an surgery mistake that can and should be avoided. most doctors (not all) understand this and are able to transplant hair, leaving the recipient's skin clean and undamaged. I don't know if it's worth fighting with this in your case. You can easily hide it with your hair and not think about it. Unless you want a short haircut or bangs slicked back. I can't to hide cobblestoning in my case, I've been using the dermaroller for a few months with the recommended intervals and it helps (at least for me) but it takes many sessions and a lot of time and I'm not sure if it will help enough that it will stop bothering me and I will start living normally again . I will continue until summer and see if I have to remove the ugly grafts. So if it bothers you a lot, read up on the dermaroller, how to use it properly and give it a try.

you are not the first person with this problem. cobblestoning is a complication of bad HT technique. You don't have exorbitant requirements and you shouldn't experience it. It is avoidable and most doctors manage it. Unfortunately, some doctors still don't care about these things.

I also have a problem with cobblestoning from Dr. Mwamba. I use a 1, 1.5mm dermaroller. It's getting a little better, but I doubt it'll go away completely. The only way to get rid of this may be to remove the misplaced grafts with FUE.

I was attacked for my post in another thread by Tiger2050. Am I trashing the thread here? If so I'm sorry.

I'm not proud of one stupid post of mine. I could do better. I didn't use a statement and backed out a moment later. There's no shame in being wrong if I admit it. Why are you attacking me now? I wanted to "call the wolf out of the woods". Discrediting, ridiculing and insulting people in defense of Dr. Mwamba is very specific to one person (those who do research know what I mean).

If scarring and a second operation may have been the cause of the poor growth, why didn't Dr. inform RTC of the risk before the sale? Isn't it the doctor's duty to inform the patient about the risk?

Nobody would be looking for problems with the length of surgery, the number of patients per day and ethical issues if Dr. Mwamba produced regular, consistent great results. There are doubts about that. These are not just my doubts so please don't attack me.

Always treat the doctors offered to you as an item for research. There are no shortcuts and you have to check them all yourself. You have received valuable and wise tips here, beneficial for you. Many doctors will only want to sell you HT, without a thorough analysis of your benefits from it for long years. Good luck.

I agree that doctors are only human and everyone has poorer results in their history. What distinguishes the best doctors from the weaker ones is that the poorer results are single cases over the years. It happens more often in the weaker ones. Just as we should applaud and praise doctors for great results, criticism is also needed when something goes wrong to make doctors more responsible.

Maybe in your case it was enough, but not always everything is visible on the camera. example: someone is norwood 3, and wants a straight hairline norwood 1. On a personal consultation, you can see slightly weaker hair on the top of the head and on the crown. This predicts further hair loss in the future up to norwood 5,6 or 7. Any ethic doctor will not accept the patient's goal of norwood 1. An unethical doctor will sell everything and does not care about the patient's perspective in 10-20 years later. So I consider it unethical when a doctor always listens to the patient's goals (not the doctor's) A more reasonable is compromise between the patient and doctor. I encourage to consult in person before surgery.