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6 hours ago, Otis james said:

Lads, just wondering…. There is this one hair, in the red circle that has remained as a very small stubble! Every so often it turns into a little spot kind of thing, then goes back to that small bit of stubble! What’s that all about? A hair that isn’t going to grow? 

is it stuck under the skin, a bit like an ingrown hair?

On 4/25/2024 at 4:12 PM, Myles23 said:

Three months and two weeks since my procedure.

I sent the clinic some updated photos yesterday and thought i would share them on here. Very happy with the early growth. Last photo is under a light and in a large window. Growing my hair out for the next 5 months. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the design really suits your face - nice one.

On 5/3/2024 at 5:19 PM, hdr13 said:

Would love to see update 

About 6 months post-op now, a lot of it is mostly long enough for the headband to hold it back now and blend in with the rest of my hair:

Front:

Left side:

Right side:

There are a couple of doubles in the hairline but I have to look pretty close to see them. 
If I try to part my hair to make it look bad it looks something like this (i'm facing natural light coming in through a window in all these pics.

right side (which is the worse side, needed more transplanted area):

left side:

These pics sort of show some of the mid scalp which wasn't transplanted but the natural hair was already a bit thinner

because it is a bit thinner i don't feel confident to wear it up, but pretty happy wearing it down like in the last photo. i've ordered more of a thickening shampoo / conditioner so ill see how that goes.

Overall pretty happy with it at this point though. Looking at the above photos, do you think you'd be able to tell I'd had a transplant?

thoughts?

On 4/18/2024 at 9:50 PM, SeanT1 said:

Day 9

Scabs have fallen off.  I'm happy!
I noticed the left side of my head looks less dense than my right, I assume some hairs may have fallen out with the scabs.

 

I think realistically the density won't really be improved, you've just lowered the hairline. Did this doctor do other cases of improving density before? Seems lost in translation unfortunately- might’ve been better to just message them saying you only wanted density improved.

Its come in really strong and looks like you have great yield

16 hours ago, Lemmingtons said:

Great post. I am actually booked into have my procedure tomorrow with Dr Laorwong. Did you think the stem cell helped at all ?

 

Not sure, I think it's impossible to tell really.

On 4/4/2024 at 4:04 AM, Sitries1 said:

Dr Ferreira implanted hairs in between the grafts from the 1st transplant. It didn’t cause any shock loss what so ever but I guess it all depends on the skill of the surgeon in that regard. 
 

My density is good but i still feel like the actual ‘widows peak’ of the hairline could be dropped 1.5mm lower and shifted 1.5mm across! Then some additional density could be added to the part of the hairline that was slightly lowered last time (that section has obviously only had one pass). 
 

To be honest, the perfect result is hard to achieve but possible with 3 passes!  Need to consider at some stage though if hair greed is at play  lol 

 

Yours is looking good and will be a top result. 

For what it's worth I think your design looks amazing, I wouldn't change it. I don't think lower hairlines look great. Also I really liked your hair when it was short, probably more so than when its longer. I think it emphasises the hairline and goes well with your face / bone structure.

things will never be perfect, no matter how many you do you'll always find something. If you've got the time and money it's not really an issue though I suppose. I thought the 2nd pass moved it 1.5mm over to make it more symmetrical? 

I haven't shown my face on here but I think my hairline to eyebrow is 7cm but I'm OK with that, my eyebrow to nose and nose to chin is 7cm too so I think I've just got a longer face, the harmony is more important. And not wasting grafts and money for the future. But I'm only early 30s and not made of money yet.

16 hours ago, Ake said:

24 weeks update. Very happy with my results so far.  1st set of photos are outside and I was facing the sun the other day.  2nd lot are today after a haircut with some stying wax. 

Looking awesome. Even in a fully natural non balding head of hair the crown looks see through under harsh light. A 1000% improvement over baseline, congratulations! 

Month 5.
Both with wet and dry photos. Generally happy with the progress from month 4.
Hope density keeps increasing as it is less than native but I don't expect it to match.
Also hope the hair texture begins to soften a little and resemble the native density more - but i'm confident this will over time.

Wet:

Dry:

turkey wins hands down, just make sure you find a good dr and don't go to a hair mill! do some research and you'll be OK.

@Himothy26 are you on medication? if you asked here people probably would have told you not to pull the trigger being only 22.

it looks like a lot more to me

Month 3 was really looking like most other transplants then... LOL that month 3 to month 4 transition, safe to say this 'enhanced recovery' protocol seems to work. i haven't seen anyone with a pretty much complete HT after 4 months.

i was curious to do this myself but didn't know where to get any of the meds without the hassle of going to a doctor and having to explain some crazy theories i heard on the internet, so i didn't do it.

looking amazing!

Seems like both our month 4s looked similarly crap, but damn you had an explosion in month 5. I'm hoping for the same result 😆

On 3/13/2024 at 4:26 AM, Sitries1 said:

Absolutely love the hairline design. This will be a top notch result. 

Thanks i'm a big fan of your hairline design also. I actually used some photoshop to try and make my hairline more symmetrical to try and work out what i wanted, i got that from your thread here hahaha, this was what i was going on:

when you say "all HT's can be improved with a 2nd pass to add density" what do you mean exactly - if the head was fully shaved, you mean the dr just going over it and putting some hairs in where ever they can fit them to try and get the per square cm of hairs higher? my native hairs are thinning a bit at the font (they thinned before i started using DHT blockers but seemed to have stopped now) so i wouldn't mind them getting thickened up either. although perhaps because they are native hairs i need to be a little wary that transplanting in this region could cause some stress / loss to the native hairs.

it was incredible that he did another 1350 grafts on you for round 2 - i wonder what your transplanted density is now. also it looked awesome almost straight away at the 2 week mark. i saw some of your pics at week 2 and probably someone could tell you had something done then, but by month 2 just looked like a regular dense head of hair. i guess because it was almost all behind the existing hair.

 

don't lower the hairline more than the first picture from laorwong or pekiners design. the density isnt the same as the native area and lowering it too much makes it look like diffuse thinning.

also, you're only 29. might need those grafts for a future top up depending how you respond to medication.

agree with the comments here, 6.6k grafts at 25 is ALL IN.

why are you not on finasteride of dutasteride? if you're not on them and you have this much balding at 26, your balding will progress and you a likely to not have enough grafts to keep up with the balding if you wish to pursue further transplants

people have tried topical dutasteride on a very low dose and experienced reduced side effects if they had them from the oral medication
 

6 hours ago, Jamos1982 said:

One month post op temple repair work by Dr laorwong, 

I feel they look much better then my first attempt at getting them re constructed . Much less linear this time around

What’s everyone think? 

its excellent work, definitely looks more natural. this photo quality is really good too, new camera?

also note how its a month out but it doesn't look like you've had a transplant or anything done a month ago thats for sure

On 3/13/2024 at 11:16 AM, Melvin- Admin said:

Honestly, the way you drew it would look worse. Sharp angles in the hairline look fake. 

this post was after i plucked it:

the right side with the rounded corner doesn't match the left side, and the left side IMO looks more natural. i have more sharp features in general. now that i've plucked it i prefer it a lot, it just clicks together more.

5 hours ago, Cyzkm said:

Cool. Why did you choose him over surgeons in the U.S., was it based on quality of his work or lower price? 

Both. I'm not from the US either

On 3/11/2024 at 2:02 AM, Cyzkm said:

How long was your wait for larowang? 

i didn't have to wait, he was available when i wanted him. but i booked maybe 4 months ahead of when i was going to be in thailand.

6 hours ago, Ake said:

It’s coming up nicely. I’ve got one side that is more sharp and one more rounded too. I like the more rounded look and was thinking about plucking the sharper side as well. 

Ah interesting the opposite to me, I like the sharper side. Probably depends on the rest of our faces in terms of what suits more.

How would you pluck the sharper side to make it look more rounded? 

Awesome, really starting to fill out now. Great hairline too.

15 hours ago, Otis james said:

You drew your own hairline and the doc just went with it?! Is that normal? 

I had something very specific that I wanted with the asymetric recession. Doc drew one initially but I thought it was too low.

Here's some pics after I plucked the corner to make it sharper.

Still month 4, the last month 4 pics were a little early and these are a couple of days after month 4. With shorter hair.

Plucked corner:

General pics:

12 hours ago, Otis james said:

Why do some docs round the corners off like this? Looks a bit “Turkey” to me….. Having said that, when it’s all grown out I bet you won’t notice… 

not sure, one was rounded and one was more straight. i drew the hairline on myself so perhaps it was my drawing! i only had some hairs added to the temple on the rounded side though, i think having to reconstruct that point was probably tricky.

overall though the procedure was very clean and it seems to be going well so far. i plucked some hairs out of that rounded corner today and it looks much better to me, will post some pics tomorrow.