Bert

you only take oral minoxidil?

40 minutes ago, Bandit90 said:

Id say Dr Pradeep Sethi if you need to use body hair from multiple sources (beard, chest pubes ect). But not sure on wait times. 

thanks man

just looked at your result, good stuff!

replied there

astonishing result

two questions:

1- are you on any medications? since all of the hair on scalp is now resistant to DHT

2- 2500 BHT are all from the beard? and could the surgeon have taken more from the beard? and how did it heal?

Hello

who is/are the best surgeon(s) in the world when it comes to body hair transplant (using beard, chest, leg as donor for scalp)?

if you wouldn't take price into consideration... and can operate before 2024 

bert

On 8/4/2023 at 5:31 AM, Gatsby said:

Body hair has a much lower survival rate but more importantly it has a much shorter anagen phase. When I saw Dr Sethi 12 months post op he told me that practically all of the chest and (pubic hair in the scars) were growing. I believe that using oral minoxidil helps to extend the anagen phase of all of my hair growth.

did you have any sides from oral minoxidil? and how often do you take them

7 hours ago, AGL77 said:

I’m 2 weeks out and only had 300 come from my beard. It has healed well but I am getting a bumps around my neck which I assume are ingrowns.

in the front or the back?

1 hour ago, mustang said:

Probably, they are all singles, low coverage value but you don't need coverage value for the donor. As long as a hair is growing where a white dot was then it can be entirely repopulated.

I did mine with Mwamba, not sure who else does this.

right, so chest hair is better for donor area (to cover white dots) and beard hair for mid-scalp and crown... in case of body hair transplant

On 6/6/2023 at 11:56 PM, mustang said:

Do you have pics of your donor area?

That's one hell of a dense chest. Not only dense but thick hairs as well, you have over 10.000 grafts there. Man if I had that chest hair I would repopulate my entire donor area!!

After beard chest is the best source. 

Make sure to get PRP into the recipient area (your donor) and to request for the grafts to be stored on PRP as well outside of the boy as for some reason body hairs are not as strong in survival as scalp hairs. 

It will definitely make a cosmetic improvement and also the white dots go away as blood returns to the area when a graft creates blood vessels.

 

Interesting. One guy on this forum was saying 1000 chest grafts give you 250 graft coverage.. is this true? and who'd you recommend for BHT..

Thanks

17 hours ago, mustang said:

So it’s been 6 weeks for the right side and 2 weeks for the left.

I got a buzz cut at day 14 (guard 0 and 0.5)

Ill update monthly now after getting a buzz cut to see if the gaps start filling out and at what stage. 

Only 2 nasty pimples (ingrown hairs) left 

would you recommend using nape/back neck hair as donor? this is the first case of nape donor i come across

On 9/11/2023 at 4:29 PM, mustang said:

I still haven’t shed and found this old pic of my donor.

Before an after BHT restocking and SMP

Before repair  (10.000 grafts extracted)

 

After (3.000 BHT into donor and one SMP session)

 

are the pimples/ingrown hairs in the nape area (second pic) caused by the surgery? 

On 10/19/2022 at 4:06 PM, Etownone said:

Curious... 

Couldnt you use the nape hair for the crown?  I'm sure you can get a good amount.   

I had a repair surgery with Dr Mwamba,  and he used a lot of nape hair for my hairline and I it left zero scarring.    

 

I wonder if anyone can help with this ^

is nape hair any good?

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and @track_rat , thanks for your insightful posts.. how did your beard and sidelocks recover? are there any ingrown hairs or acne? or redness on your neck or face?