I was hoping to be posting with more excitement, but feeling a bit concerned after seeing the pattern of my grafts. I had a surgery a couple weeks ago with Dr Luis Nader in Reynosa Mexico where he implanted 1,661 in my temples and hairline to fix my receded hairline. I went with Nader because I couldn't find a single bad review on any forum and because I live in Texas. Scheduling was a breeze and I got on his calendar 2 months prior to the surgery, and I was super grateful for the quick turnaround because I know he's super busy and sometimes hard to reach. My experience with Nader was and has been great, he's extremely responsive and is there for you after your surgery to answer any questions and to keep tabs on your progress. He even gives you his phone number to text which he responds promptly to.
My issue is, there's a noticeable gap between my implanted hairs and my old hairline on my left temple. I am well familiar with the shedding phase and shock loss, but this gap became noticeable just 3 days post surgery. And given the pattern of implantation, the gap makes sense. The fact is:
1. My left temple was more receded and thinner than the right temple to begin with.
2. The grafts on my left side don't go as far back as the grafts on my right side and there's a gap in the center left portion.
Double whammy. What do you all think of the gap? Will it be cosmetically noticable when hair grows in? I wanted to be able to wear my hair buzzed or long with no issue and not have to worry about covering a gap.
Left: My origin hairline, as you can see, I'm thinner and more receded on the left to begin with. Right: The graft pattern the morning after the surgery
2.5 days post op:
6 days post op:
6 days post OP birds eye view:
11 days post OP:
I love my hairline design, the right side looks phenomenal, and I would still recommend Dr Nader, but I'm feeling pretty bummed overall. Dr. Nader has been very responsive and has reassured me that he'd fill in the gap for little or no cost if the issue is still there after regrowth, but he wants to give it some time to see how things fill in before making a judgement.
Even though Nader is wonderful, frankly I'm a little upset by the situation when it's kind of obvious (at least to me) that it'll need filling in. My whole goal was to get it right in one surgery and to see results in 8 months, which I feel like is a very reasonable expectation given that I was like a NW2.5/3. Not to have to get a repair job and have to wait 20 months to really get my hair back.
What do you all think? Are my concerns misplaced? Would love to hear that I'm overreacting and this will be fine lol