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Hi B Spot, Thanks for the info. If possible I'd like to hear a little more about this aspect of Mops question. "I know Surgeons take grafts from a wide area. Just wondering whats possible without shaving your entire hair off and you wanted to keep extraction zones on edge of your hairline, eg around the ears for example, and keep it discreet." This interests me as well because for someone who has previous donor scars from an old Bosley session I definitely couldn't live with shaving the whole back of my head down for FUE. Would it be possible or feasable to extract donor grafts from a linear strip shaved down across the back. Similar to how the donar is shaved down for a strip just not as wide? _______________________________________________ Shaved down donor area about this wide _______________________________________________ Length of the strip would depend on how many grafts are needed. Obviously you couldn't obtain nearly as many grafts as if someone shaves the whole back of their head, but for someone intersted in FUE into an existing scar (like Spex had) or for someone looking for hairline refinement this would allow them cover the area with exisisting hair and go relatively unoticed. Thanks

Hi William, Like others have said, definitely don't be afraid to travel. I'm from CA as well and went to Dr. Alexander in Phoenix AZ and I'm super happy with my results. Simple 1.5 hour flight for you on Southwest from N. CA. I liked getting away for a few days and made a mini 3 day vacation of it. Stayed at the Ritz which was included in his fee of $4 per graft. I Went on a Tuesday and came home on a Thurs. I Took friday off and relaxed at home all weekend and was back at work on Monday. What's the severity of your hair loss? If you post a couple pictures of your melon you'll get some good feedback here. If your loss is minimal you may want to consider waiting. Do your research and don't rush into anything. Good luck.

Thanks Dr. Feller. I was just looking at the graphic which I thought was the same as the link. VERY Impressive! Your process looks extremely precise and meticulous which I'm sure must help achieve the best yield possible. The video of that NeoFUE tool makes your process look even that much better. It's like comparing a fast food McDonalds process to a Fine Restaurant.

Hi SoCal, Eman has given some good advice. You're young and you've got a great head of hair which would be ashame to mess up by doing something on the cheap. I think most people would think you have a great hairline. If after some time has passed and you've saved up some $10,000 and still feel modifying you're hairline is something you still really really want to have done then that's your perogotive. If I was in your shoes and just Had to have something done then I think I would definitely look into FUE for such a small area. If your pretty certain that you won't have any additional future loss then I think you would be best served by looking into a FUE procedure with someone like Dr. Feller. I'd hate to see a strip cut from that donor scalp just to fill in some temples :-). Good luck! As far as finding a wife goes (don't rush it :-), I think that the only thing holding you back is your confidence and not your hairline. Meaning that I don't thing 97.62 % of the ladies our there are going to really even bat an eye at your hairline so the issue probably is more in your head than with the ladies. (If you were actually balding and 24 then the ladies would likely bat an eye at your hairline and that does affect most peoples confidence.)

I'd also be interested in seeing a video of the actual proccess of Dr. Feller FUE in action. That NeoFue tool (fue vacuum) on Dougs link looks like an assembly line process and it seems to me that it probably would result in a very low yield. I think I'd much prefer Dr. Fellers approach.

Onside. Your results look awesome. I saw your pictures before but didn't tie the two together. Looks like Dr. A only slightly shaved some of your recipient area and it looks like you had a pretty easy recovery time. TC17, from what I recall I believe Dr. A is something like $4 graft. I didn't get shaved down and had like 2700 grafts for my firts HT with Dr. A.

Hi Skeegs, I'm right there with osidekid. Went to Dr. A and I'm extremely happy with the results. Just spent 3 days poolside in Vegas and didn't put a hat on once :-). I've never told a soul I've had something done and no one's ever even asked (or stared at my head :-) so that speaks volumes itself about how natural the hairline looks. Here's a link to some photos I posted in patient results. Best of luck to you and I would definitely highly recommend Dr. A! Patient Results

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. At 42 with a NW7 I would STONGLY not recomend an HT at all. I think the NW7 in Comb's links went through a lot for NO improvement at all! Good luck!

I concur with Dakota 3 100%! Too bad the internet and sites such as this weren't as prominent back in 1993-94. Gotohairforlife. I'm sure everyone here would be happy for anyone who is extremely pleased with their results regardless of where they went. BUT, If Bosley was deserving of a good reputation you wouldn't be seeing the number of unhappy former Bosley patient outnumbering the happy ones by such a wide margin. I'm sure there are some great Bosley results out there but as a whole they're not even close to the top doctors here. With the best docs here you probably would have had fewer procedures, paid much less and received a far superior end result!

Thanks Bill! Just to clarify though. The first HT was done 12/07 which completed the front 1/3. I then went for a second on 11/19/08 to fill in the mid to back top since the front 1/3 had grown in so full I wanted the mid to back top to match. So that's the part that's 5 months out and it's definitely coming in good. I can tell that the mid to back top takes a little longer than the front 1/3 though. Thanks for your work here. I wish everyone looking for an HT would find this site first to become better educated and speak with other in order to be able to make an educated decision before getting an HT.

Excuse my writing writing below but it's late and I kind of rushed putting this together Back in the mid 90's I had several small mini/micrograft sessions with the craptastic Bosley Medical. My results never really looked awful because my native hair blended in pretty good. As I hit my 30's more of the native hair started to go. I was able to use Toppik pretty effectively but it was becoming more and more apparent that I was getting pretty thin. Especially from a top view. I wore my hat more than I would have liked. Thanks to this site I finally decided to take the step to take care of things. My hair is very thick and my donar is extremely dense and I have alot of it so I knew I could achieve some pretty good results with the right Dr. I chose Dr. Alexander and went in for my first HT in 12/07 and received 2680 grafts. Besides the fact that Dr. Alexanders work was incredible I also required a Dr that would not require me to shave down. I couldn't take off work for very long, hat's weren't an option and I definitely didn't want to go through the akward phase when having to shave down. I was a pretty fast grower and HT1 started to come in very nicely and I was loving the results I was getting in the frontal 1/3 where I received the grafts. After about 11 months from HT 1 I decided to go in for HT 2 with Dr. Alexander on 12/08 to fill in the top since the front 1/3 was much thicker. I recieved about 2500 and I'm now just over 5 months out. Much more to come but I'm super happy with the results so far. I've never told a soul that I've had anything done and no one has noticed. They just think I've been on propecia and have had some great results. I always used toppik before the last 2 HT's so the change wasn't as obvious as you'll see in the before and after photos below. THANK YOU DR. ALEXANDER and STAFF. You're the best! I'm 40 Years old . I look like I'm 30 though Day of HT 1 with Dr. A Day of HT 1 hairline Day after HT 1 top 5 Days after HT 1 Front and Donor shot. Back to work with some Toppik. My recovery time went quick. Fast forward to 5 Months after HT 2 Just out of bed spiked up a little. W/flash Right side bedhead spike w/flash Wet Right Top No flash Top Flash Front Wet flash Front Dry No flash

I very much like Dr. Lindeys school of thought about not going too aggressive. Regardless of whether it's a women or a man, the results that always tend to look the worst are those of individuals who have overdone it and it definitely comes across as surgery. I'm sure many other aging actors such as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt etc have probably all had very subtle things such as laser treatment, botox or restaylne but because it's so subtle it doesn't come across as unatural and they simply look good.

I think the final outcome primarily depends mostly on the quality/experience of the doctor and your individual case/characteristics more than on whether not you shave the reciepient area. Spex points are very good and I don't think anyone would argue that it's definitely optimal for the Dr. and staff if you shave the recipient area. With that said there are some such as myself who for many reason (work, desire to keep it my little/big secret, not wanting to go through the ugly duck phase, inability to live under a hat for a while etc.). Also, if you barely have any hair in the area then you've got nothing to lose by trimming it down. I myself had somewhat diffuse thinning and wasn't lowering or really altering my hairline so I was able to conceal it very effectively. As I've said on other posts about this topic, there's no way top Dr's such as Dr. Alexander, Dr. Konior, Dr. Ron Shapiro, Dr. Keene, Dr. Cooley and others are going to risk their reputation of producing sub par results simply by not requiring that the patient shave. These Doctors consistently produce TOP results with or without requiring shaving. The doctor needs to make the call in each situation since session sizes definitely need to be < 3000 and each individuals characterisics are different so in some cases they may make the call to only do it shaved. It's definitely a decision to think about and you should at least meet with 1 or 2 of these doctors to help ease that decision. My own personal choice was to not have a soul know that I've had this done and I've been able to succefully do that without a problem (being single at the time of HT's was definitely a big factor in making that possible). I chose not to shave down and chose Dr. Alexander and I would do the same thing again without question! Good luck in your search.

Hi r4hair, This was also a requirement of mine. I chose to have my procedure done with Dr. Alexander in Phoenix AZ. My first was 2700 grafts and I was super happy with the results. So much so I went back for a second of 2500 a year later. Check out his work. He's definitely one of the top HT Dr's around. If you're not going to be shaving the recipient area you should definitely plan on having less than 3000 grafts as it is more difficult for the Dr. and staff to place the grafts amongst existing hair and this seems to be the max # of grafts clinics will do without shaving. In both I had my procedure done on Wednesday and was back to work on Monday without anybody knowing at all. Best of luck!

Too bad your first three weren't with Bosley at about 600 grafts a pop. Then you could probably get about 4500 on your 4th with H&W . My magic 8 Ball tells me 2467 1837 singles 420 Doubles 210 3 & 4's Good luck Bill!