baldingbosnian

This isn’t even about illusion of density, I understand my hair will never be what it was originally. I understand coming into a hair transplant I would have density 50% of original hair. My problem is how poorly he placed the grafts on my right temple, it just looks silly. I did have my hair longer before buzzing, but it looked bad with the bald areas on my right side, so I buzzed it in hopes maybe I still have some more growth, but I highly doubt it since the clear bald areas have look the same since the beginning. Also, I don’t see any new follicles on my right side. I am happy with my left side, not happy with my crown and my right side. I know this surgeon is capable of doing amazing work, that’s why I chose him because of the results I saw from users on this forum, but unfortunately he rushed my transplant toward the end and left before even doing my crown. A surgeon should always go 100% with his patient, that should be the minimum standard for any surgery cosmetic or not. They shouldn’t treat one patient different from another in terms of time and quality spend with patient. And I understand each patient is different and will yield different results, but this is clearly bad graft placement on my right side with that terrible spacing. I’ll update you guys in 1 month with a bit longer hair. Thanks for reading.

here is an almost 6 month update. I’m not happy with his work, my right side looks awful. In fact so I awful I decided to get a buzz cut because it looks so bad. Like someone else pointed out the right side looks like it was done by a different person. Just look at all the bald areas on my right temple that were skipped over. And I mean it when I said he rushed my right side. Right side: left side:

Update please.

4 month update:

Dr. Turan did not do my crown. I have nothing to gain by lying if you’re assuming that’s what I’m doing. Dr. Turan left and never came back through the door operating room door after my hairline was finished and never came back. The next time I saw Dr. Turan was in the morning. He was not there for the crown portion. Gaslight me all you want. But I will tell my side of the story and my personal experience. Again, I have no reason to fabricate this. I’m not here to fear monger, I’m simple stating what my experience was. This is what this forum is for. I’ll post more results at 4 month mark. Thank you everyone that is following.

3 month update: I decided to get a buzz cut because of the ugly duckling phase. crown: hairline: a lot of the hair here is growing upwards directions. Is that typical? Back donor: Does it appear patchy? Is that shock loss? Would love to know. Bottom left is where you really see it.

False. Dr. Turan did not ask and explain this to me that someone else would work on my crown. I would like to add that the agreement says Dr. Turan does all the transplants. Also, I did not give a verbal consent. All I saw was Dr. Turan leaving for the night after finishing my hairline and someone behind me immediately started working on my crown. At this point what do you do? You travel thousands miles over seas and you have no choice now, might as well have them finish it. I just didn’t think it would be so poor, even if it was another “trained doctor”, which I highly doubt it was. I remember there being one other doctor a woman, and she was not behind me working on my crown. It was a man. And it was more than likely a nurse or medical assistant, as those were the only other people I saw there. And this about principle, respect, and honoring your agreement of Dr. Turan doing all the transplants. By the way, I refused to communicate with FUECapillar any further after they said they followed all hygienic procedures , which they did not. They tried contacting me, but I will not answer them. They rubbed me the wrong way by stating that none of the nurses had their masks down or the fact that one took the same gloves and put them back on and saying it was because of the drug that I misinterpreted it. I was alert and oriented through the whole procedure, and I know what a sterile field is, since I’m in the medical profession myself. I just hope my transplant experience will give other future transplant patients a better one. That’s all. I have nothing to gain from this. I’m just here to give my personal experience of what happened to me so that’s other members can be aware. I’ll continue to post updates on my hair.

Looks great.👍

Yeah crown work look extremely bad, if you look at my crown with my full head of hair, they would just needed to hit small areas tightly. Not in random places so spread out apart, they placed graft where I always have air. Turns out my grafts placed is 2823, which I find really hard to believe, I did tend paying more after surgery consult. No one quote me more than 2000 for the whole case, including 4 other doctors. Again, if anyone is planning to use FueCapillar go with Gur. but yeah, what really bothered me was Tur not finishing up the transplant, which was part of agreement. He left and didn’t say anything to me. Next day he look at my hair for 10 seconds and said “good no infection” and never saw me again. If I was a doctor I couldn’t imagine not giving a patient 100%, especially if I came all the way from overseas. That really rubbed me in the wrong way when he just left without a word and not explaining anything. He just seemed and annoyed toward the end of procedure. I even refuse to follow up with their case manager for photo because I’m not traveling to Istanbul again to have them do any type revision. The hygiene practice of the assistance\nurses and Turan not doing crown implant is all I needed to know about his team.

Yeah, I’m not happy about the crown coverage at all. Dr. Tur left for the night and they had another person do the crown. Which isn’t right because I paid for the service of the Dr. Tur doing the implantation. As for the temples, Dr. Tur did them, he seemed in hurry for the right side, so that’s probably why it looks less dense. Also, it doesn’t even look close to the 241 or grafts they mentioned they did on the crown. (I count a little over 100). It seemed toward the end of the procedure everyone was in a rush to leave. anyway, time will tell how results will look, I will post an update when I hit 3 months.

if I could do it all over again, I would definitely go with Dr. Gur. Also, my case manager contacted me a few days after I made this thread, stating someone reached out them (former patient, must be from this forum, or maybe themselves saw this thread) about some of my hygienic complaints, he said I should keep things confidential. He told me because I was under a “muscle relaxant” I would misinterpret things, such as seeing one of the nurses take off their gloves and put them back on. He said they checked with all the nurses and none admitted they did removed the same gloves and put them on. First of all, I was given Xanax 1mg for surgery, I have Xanax prescribed PRN, so it’s not like I’m very drowsy, I still interpret and see things clearly. I was clear headed but relaxed. I definitely did see one of the nurses take off the sterile gloves and put them back on. Also, the same nurse had her surgical mask under beneath her nose, so her nose was sticking out and only covering her mouth. Toward the end of the surgery other nurses then had their masks off while still working on my grafts. I work in the medical field, so I know what a sterile field is. They did followed it very poorly, luckily I didn’t get any infection.

All my scabs were gone at day 8, but I noticed the recipient area is flaky and dry, like if lightly massage it or scrape the outside area there is this dry almost scaly looking layer. should this be moisturized? I’ve been following operation order of wash with panthenol and the low ph soap clinic gave me. I’m just wondering if this is normal for recipient area now to feel dry and have this dry layer of skin on it. Should I just leave it alone and continue washing normally? Or should I keep using saline spray on it? Even though scabs are gone. I mean is it normal to begin with? thanks.

You as well! Will be following your thread closely since we had the same surgeon.

Day 8 Wash, scabs finally came off. Crown Left side and right side

I'm seeing a lot of conflicting information on aspirin being prescribed after a hair transplant. I had Dr. Turan and it's standard for him to prescribe for 30 days after hair transplant first wash. What are your thoughts? Did you take it? Should I take it? I'm seeing mixed answers when I do my research, with most leaning not to take it. Shouldn't it be avoided so that the blood can coagulate around transplanted hairs? Other things I read is it reduces inflammation and speeds up healing.