Chiku

I had been taking finasteride for 16+ years but never liked minoxidil. Gave it another try in Jan after seeing your post mentioning improvement in your donor. I first used the liquid but had the same problem with itching and then switched to foam version and have been on it until my recent transplant . Your results are coming out amazing!

Still a lot can be extracted. They may need to tap into so called unsafe zone. Though, the picture is overestimating the depleted areas due to harsh light and magnification/zoom which occurs once the pic is posted on this forum.

@Shadman Thanks. It is on May 31st.

You have a good scalp donor. I believe EUgenix can easily work with the kind of donor you have. Another option would be Pitella, he has given some great results even on advanced Norwood 7s. Somewhere you mentioned you were on oral finasteride for five months and now on topical for a month. Just to clarify, you not on finasteride at the time of transplant?

Thank you.

Thanks.

I know you have been, and I value your honest opinions. Thank you.

You can see some of my pre transplant pics on this link. I had three prior FUTs and Eugenix had to work with a very limited scalp donor when I had it done 12 months ago.

Thank you for accepting to do this procedure. Appreciate everything you have done past one year.

I had a hair transplant with Eugenix 12 months ago. I am going back in two weeks to improve density in the areas that were worked upon during the first sitting; hair line, front and mid scalp. Below are my latest pics showing the new baseline.

@GatsbyAgree your and his are similar. With all due respect, I would like to mention one difference I could see is that you had a lot more scalp donor reserve to harvest from. I have seen his videos, many times, there are several of them. Every person is different, but his result does give a lot of hope to those with advanced stage hair loss with severely depleted donor.

There are several links. above is one of them, for your convenience it is at 2:15 where he mentions about the 8K beard grafts.

True. But gatsby also had a relatively decent donor reserve and hair texture was curly as well. Rahul Riachand had 8000 beard hairs, and his results are great.

You did some deep digging!! 😀 That's quite a story. As you can see the results are suboptimal once you start using higher percentage of Body hairs. However I do believe his pics underestimate the actual results as he never posted any pics with long hairs. At the three month mark his pics suggest something very impressive coming up in the months to come, but then he started trimming his hairs.

Is it helping your native hairs.

I still feel that there are a lot of untapped beard hairs, so I will choose to go for a natural way to improve density. They took only 1000 hairs from the beard area on my last transplant.

Look forward to your updated pics. It is hard to salvage the native hairs if transplant is done in the same area to improve density if the native hairs are affected by DHT specially if they are miniaturized. It is hard to grow them back after a shock loss. Were you on Finasteride when you had your HT.

Thanks. I did see your pics through the link you posted. Your recipient area appear to be different fromm mine as does the grade of baldness. You got native hairs all over. Although it is hard to see the full extend of baldness because the pics are immediate post op. But definitely not a typical norwood 6 or7.

I live in the US but am of Indian origin and have a home in India. What makes you think if there could be issue with graft survivability? I am not sure what would have I expected with 3000 grafts, with 1000 being from beard and many scalp grafts coming out of my side locks. There are no egs on internet which I could compare to mine.

Yes I saw the breakdown for @IrishWarrior but he had his crown covered as well with those numbers. I have opted to use the second session to improve density on the area they previously worked on. I still feel frontal look has improved as desired (or close to)despite the suboptimal top and side views. @GatsbyI am planning another session on May 31st with Eugenic with plan to use 1000 scalp and 2000 beard grafts. Hopefully that should improve the illusion of density from all angles.

Thanks @Gatsby for valuable input.

Thanks. Do you have any examples of pre and post pics for Norwood 7 who had 3000 grafts with 2000 scalp and some of them from side locks and 1000 beard graft. Just want to see how my results compare to others with similar stage of baldness and similar pattern of graft use.

I completely agree with the point you made and that's what sets Eugenix apart from the rest, at least the rest of the HT clinics in India, and puts the at par with a handful of clinics in the world. There are at least 15-20 clinics in India itself which can give great results for Norwood 7 with untouched donor. They may not be on the list of approved clinics on this forum, but results posted on youtube speaks for themselves. But giving results on advanced norwood with depleted donors like that of Rahul Raichand, @Gatsby, @IrishWarrior sets Eugenix apart. If Eugenix were to stop taking on these difficult cases like these, they would cede their space to other clinics and many more which pop up every year.

Those Strips were long back, so no before and after photos for them. I had a total of over 3000 grafts from the strips.