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7 hours ago, mtb said:

You’re right. 

Crown getting thicker by the week. 

Yeah the problem is there remaining donor grafts should be used for density rather than lowering the hairline. We’ll see. I’m pretty happy with things. 

Pitella, H&W, and Eugenix are great options with shorter wait times. No other doc can gets as many scalp only FUE grafts however. Grateful I found Dr Zarev when I did. 

Yes, sir. 

ha ha. For real. 
 

Attached are some pics from the gym this week. Didn’t put up the Dr Zarev yellow paper at the gym. Ha. It’s getting thicker by the week  

 

You look perfect, from 40 to 29. 

On 5/29/2023 at 6:52 PM, general-etwan said:

For sure, I will make sure the plan is to first attack the lower crown and side ridge areas. Get that all uniform so I can grow hair out to some length and still have it look OK without any big thinning areas. And if that uses up all the available donor grafts I have left, then so be it. I can always keep the sides of my head buzzed super short or shaved; not a big deal at all. 

The temples would be so tricky like you said. I don't doubt that we could find the grafts to use from some donor, but the big risk would be creating too dark/thick hairs at the front of the temples with hairs that may thin over the years right behind, closer to the ear. I wouldn't want to deal with that visual issue.

I absolutely want to go all-in on getting rid of all the disconnect of natural hair on top/sides/crown. I'll make sure to plan with Dr. Das and Dr. Somesh that that thinning ring is 100% taken care of so that all the hair looks uniform.

Thanks for this input.

I expect the side ridge areas will be a bit tricky. But as Mr. Cross told me on Instagram, it's super important to get some hair as far forward as possible on the side ridges. Will help with visual appearance of thickness from the front if I want to be able to grow a medium-length fluffy hairstyle.

Something like this?

I agree with this last picture.
Two thousand grafts are like an area of 66 cm2 with 30 grafts per cm. I hope they can extract more if needed.
I think you should leave the temporal reconstruction and focus on both lateral sides + a decent connection with the frontal hairline. If some grafts are over left, they should use those for the frontal hairline to make it more symmetrical.

Your donor might take a hit but you can always do an additional smp at a premium clinic which will improve the overall; significantly. Your hair skin contrast ratio is relative low which gives you an advantage.


 

I advise keeping your hair long, with no haircut, until you meet Dr Zarev.
Keeping your hair long gives more information about the coverage/hair structure, which is essential.
If you feel insecure about your hair and have a meeting with that woman before meeting Dr Zarev, you can use some premium concealers to decrease the balding effect.
I hope this helps you take care.


 

I hope that Dr Zarev can help you. For me, he is the number one doctor in the world. 
He showed me back then many incredible comebacks which I could never expect from any other doctor in the world.

 

Phenomenal result. You look excellent and healthy.

It looks perfect. You are going to be a solid NW 1-1.5. If they give you the option to do a touch-up in 9 months after the first procedure, do not hesitate and take it  

You already made the best decision by choosing Dr Zarev.
I recently (1 week ago) started with oral minoxidil after my second procedure with Dr Zarev.
I currently use 2,5 mg oral minoxidil once a day Lonolox brand Pfizer.
It's too early to talk about the sides. So far, I haven't noticed any side effects.
I was lucky I never had any side effects with finasteride. I have been using oral finasteride since early 2021.
So my current protocol is 2,5 mg minoxidil and 1 mg finasteride a day.

On 5/3/2023 at 5:53 PM, Melvin- Moderator said:

It sounds like you’re demanding something out of the ordinary, which is why you got this price. It’s almost impossible for a doctor to do the entire procedure by themselves. It sounds like it was a price to essentially say no. But it probably would’ve been better to tell you that hair transplants are a team effort and that the doctor cannot feasibly do everything himself. 

As a patient of Dr Zarev, I assure you no technician touched my head. He did all the extractions and implantations by himself.
His current price is 5 euros per graft. 

If you want the best result and have the patience to wait a few years for consultation and surgery, I would go to Dr Zarev.
You probably need between 9000-13000 grafts to become an NW 1.
Dr Zarev is, in my opinion, the best hair transplant surgeon, especially with high Norwood cases.
 

16 hours ago, Dieter987 said:

Zarev mostly has bulgarian patients with good hair characteristics (curvy, probably thick, and >3 hairs per folicle). 

Hopefully the user mtb will also have good results with his thin hair.

When I saw Zarev's results for the first time, I thought it can't be real.

I am a diffuse NW 5 now, probably will end like my father (NW 6).

Unfortunately I have very fine blond hair. I would be very satisfied with a dense NW 3 result. But I don't know if that's possible with thin hair.

Most of the time, there will be some trade-offs in hair transplant surgery.

For example, I have curly hair with an average graft density of 65 per cm2. The curly hair helps with the coverage, but my hair-to-skin contrast is very high.
I have dark curly hair, but as a trade-off, my skin, especially my face, is white for a Mediterranean/North African guy.

If you are, for example, Scandinavian blond, your hair-to-skin contrast is lower, which can help you get a nice visual appearance. 




 

20 hours ago, HugoX said:

Difficult how to rate, but visually I feel a have the hair I had when I was 20,but of course not same density. 

You are an NW 1 for sure now
Phenomenal result

2 hours ago, Gatsby said:

How good are those scalp donors that Dr Zarev chooses in his high Norwood cases?

He showed me some tough cases in which I can assure you no other doctor could reach a similar result.
It's a different league. 

On 5/1/2023 at 4:29 PM, Dieter987 said:

@HugoX or the others: How would you rate the Norwood status after the operation?

I recently got my second procedure (2465 grafts).
Before my first surgery (7235 grafts), I was between a Norwood 5A and 6. 
Looking nowadays in the mirror, I see a Norwood 1 with phenomenal donor management. 
His experience and technique allow him to extract significantly more grafts from the donor without any visual appearance. 
This gives him a huge competitive advantage compared to other doctors.
He can make life-changing results for people who are NW 5,6 or 7 without even using beard grafts. 

On 4/13/2023 at 10:22 PM, johnto said:

Any before and after photos? It would really help the community if you shared your results for all of us.  

I might do that after the second procedure.
For personal reasons, I don't feel comfortable yet putting my pictures on the internet.
However, I understand others can benefit from it, especially by deciding to choose a surgeon.
Dr Zarev put a lot of examples on his website. 

My hair type and diffuse thinning looks a little bit like this case 
https://www.hairtransplantation.bg/index.php/bg/event/4450-Grafts

I have curly dark brown hair with an average donor density of 65 grafts per cm2, Mediterranean.  

22 hours ago, Fox243 said:

Would you be willing to share your details of your first procedure?

I started doing research in 2017 and looked at many physicians funny thing is that I am a physician myself.
My biggest problem was that I was a diffuse thinner, so I needed an HT specialist to get the maximum out of my donor. 
I considered Couto, Lorenzo and Freitas back then, but my hair loss was progressive, so I was delaying it. Then in early 2021, a friend of mine who is a dentist was also researching and found a doctor called Zarev with phenomenal results on his website. His results blew me away, the best in the world. I never saw that kind of results before. So I immediately contacted him in early 2021 and did my consultation in September 2021. While I was waiting for my consultation, Hugo opened a thread about Zarev with a phenomenal result, this encouraged me much more.
The consultation with Dr Zarev was very detailed. I had my surgery last July in 2 days he was able to extract 7235 grafts.
The best money I ever spend! 

 

I want to thank you, Hugo, for this topic. It helped me in my journey.
This month I will be having my second surgery with Dr Zarev.
The first procedure is, so far, a phenomenal result.
I just opened an account to thank you for sharing your results with the rest of the world.