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Looking great. What is the length of your sides there, do you know what you asked your barber? Because I can't see any FUE scars, it looks great. Is it a 2 or 3 guard?

Fresh haircut, went for a high fade at 0.5mm guard. I quite like this look and also a bit sad I will not be able to rock this post-HT due to FUE scars, a 2mm/2.5mm guard is the minimum I would need to have I think to hide the scars. On the flipside the meds continue to do their magic and I can really see my frontal half fill in, crown still lagging behind a bit. Hair is wet in these shots:

HDC is a good suggestion, affordable and seen some great results. @Doron Harati can give you more info

Results look fantastic! Give the crown a few more months to fill in more. But what a difference from the before photos. Congrats, bet you’re well pleased! Who was the doctor/climic and how many grafts did you have done?

Yes you can definitely wear a hat! Most doctors advice holding off with gym until the 1st month is completed. So you should be fine but I would advice you to check with your surgeon on his particular advice.

Ultimately most posts on the Internet are anonymous anyway, people have their own alias/username so I don't think that is an issue at all. But you're right this person provided no evidence so needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. I saw this randomly this morning on Facebook, I'll take another look later today and if he adds some photos I'll be sure to post them here too. I don't deny he has satisfied patients, even hairmills have satisfied patients, but I am just giving my opinion based on what I have seen and came across in my research. I also considered Yaman and even got a quote about 6/7 months ago but I quickly decided not to proceed based on some of the reviews I seen on the forums. Not talking about the good ones, I mean the bad ones.. there just seem to be too many bad reviews and unhappy people. The bad reviews are 1000x times more valuable than good reviews. I know he is on the recommended list but I don't think he is up there when you compare him with the likes of Dr Laorwong. I certainly would not advise anyone to go for Dr Yaman. If price is an issue, I would say FUEcapillar is a better choice. Just my 2 cents, OP asked for input from others so that's all I'm doing, anyone is free to disagree with what I said.

Another reason to avoid Yaman:

From that list I'd 100% go for Laorwong, but you might need to wait until next year as I heard he's full for this year Avoid Yaman, a lot of questionable results on this forum, even ones he posted himself - have a look at the Reviews and Clinic Reviews sections. Here is one Yaman case probably similar to you and there is basically not much difference compared to baseline apart from some density at hairline due to poor surgical planning by Yaman where grafts where not implanted in the right areas but instead distributed over a very large recipient area:

Looks good! The work is exceptional as expected. Happy growing! PS: Are you on any medication (Fin/Min)?

In all honesty, it does not look like 5000 grafts to me, closer to 3000-3500 I'd say. The main issue you will have is the coverage, because the grafts were so loosely placed in the crown and mid-scalp area, it is going to make hardly any visual difference once the hair grows out, especially because your crown is on the larger side and nearly 100% bald. I hope I am wrong but I have seen this sort of thing before on other cases and that's always the outcome. What would have been a better approach by the doctor is to focus on the frontal third with those 5000? (3500) grafts, and it would have given you a much better visual difference, framed your face and then allowed you to come back for a second surgery in the future to treat the remaining mid-scalp and crown if donor allowed.

Would you be able to show some photos of your top with harsher lighting? It's hard to assess the result due to dim lighting in those shots. Same light source as the crown shots would suffice (which appear to be under a natural light). I certainly do think you have more donor hair left to do a 2nd procedure, but whether or not that will be enough for full coverage + address the low density in the front remains a question. I also noticed your crown dips quite low, even though it is not completely bald it is showing signs of miniaturization and this will unfortunately impact your available donor/safe zone.

Yes I do not disagree with that, it is expected to have visible scars when you go close to a 0-guard. My gripe was the fact Eugenix state there is "No Scarring" in the OP which is totally misleading.

The result itself is great, but how can you say there is "No Scarring" lol: EDIT: It appears Eugenix have now edited their post to remove the false claim of "No Scarring"

Both the implantations and extractions look great, great work by Dr Bicer. Happy growing!

I believe Dr. Bicer charges 2.5 EUR/graft so for 4000 grafts that equates to about 11k USD EDIT: I have been corrected, she now charges 3 EUR/graft as confirmed below

Clearly if you have no donor hair left then it is not possible to do another hair transplant unfortunately. You could try regrowing your hair by using medication (finasteride/dutasteride, minoxidil, hair vitamins. ketoconazole shampoo), some people are hyper-responders and I have seen cases where someone has gone from NW6 TO NW1. You can then re-assess if your situation has improved. If all else fails you could always consider a hair system. They look super natural these days and require maintenance every 2/3 weeks or so.

Thanks Al, yes I agree, if there was more frontal increase I could probably get away with a single surgery of 3500-4000 grafts. Still a couple of months until September so will see what happens by then, if not then the original surgical plan should still be right for me (2 surgeries, frontal third, and mid-scalp + crown)

Thank you, the work looks very good!

Thanks but the video quality is very low (360p) any chance it could be uploaded in 1080p / high quality so we can assess better?

Just checking in with my latest photos, these photos mark 2.5 months of growth since I shaved my head and approx. 9.5 months of medication. I'm just out the shower, and have gently pat dried my hair using a towel. I am facing out the window so this is under the natural day light: Things have thickened up for sure, but I don't think there's much regrowth since my last photos, there's a good chance I have now plateaued which is fine by me! My biggest concern now is hoping the dr will be okay to implant in-between the existing native hairs without causing permanent shockloss, I will provide the clinic these photos and see what they think. As a side note my side and back hair have gone very long, I definitely need a hair cut to tidy that up!

Thanks appreciate the info! I'll take a look at that!

Glad to hear that motivated you! I do need to update my thread with more photos, since Dr Ferreira saw me, I would say I've had about 30/40% increase in terms of hair density so I am hoping the original plan will be altered and less grafts are needed. I will drop Ines an email I do have a bunch of questions I'd like to ask. Thanks for the photos, that's very insightful. The work looks super clean! One last question, is there anything that you wish you'd known prior to your surgery (whether it's related to the surgery, hotel accommodation, post-op care, etc)? Just looking for any little bit of advice possible!

Thanks for the write-up! Good to see more Dr. Ferreira posts. Excellent yield, there is something about Dr Ferreira's method, all of his patients have amazing growth by the 5/6 months mark, and you've still got 6 more months for the newly transplanted hair to mature so the result will be even better by end of the year! Interesting approach doing the crown first, it definitely paid off in your case. By the way I would not worry about the FUE donor scars, those are just part of the game and you honestly cannot see them when the hair longer than a 2 or 3 guard. Like you, I am also a Norwood 5V (but with a diffuse element) and I have my 1st surgery with Dr Ferreira in September this year (3500 grafts in the frontal third, and then 2500 in the crown for the second surgery, + an optional third touch-up surgery). Looking forward to the procedure and hopefully I can replicate your success. I have a question regarding your surgeries, you obviously had some hair on your mid-scalp/bridge and frontal-lock area, did Dr Ferreira mention anything about transplanting in between hairs and whether or not that could be risky/cause shock loss? Just curious on his approach because I am a diffuse thinner I have quite a lot of native hairs and I am hoping he can transplant in between them without transecting.

Bruno Ferreira's price is 4 EUR per graft not 3 EUR. I am guessing that the Best Hair Clinics web page has not been updated recently.

For Dr. Bruno Ferreira the price is 4 EUR