mike2007

Hi there, I know it s not the place to post this (sorry - however it s somehow the place since i d like to see the picture) suddenly on my IE 6 i can not see anymore any picture galleries on the forum and get the The slideshow requires Flash Player 9.0.28 or higher ; Off course i have the latest flash player actually a higher version of the one cited above...can t understant what s goign on ? Thanks for your help.

Hi there, I know it s not the place to post this (sorry - however it s somehow the place since i d like to see the picture) suddenly on my IE 6 i can not see anymore any picture galleries on the forum and get the The slideshow requires Flash Player 9.0.28 or higher ; Off course i have the latest flash player actually a higher version of the one cited above...can t understant what s goign on ? Thanks for your help.

Thanks Hairbank You re right that wiser to get a bigger session...however and again for people which are having a progressive balding; i t s hard to wait too much to make big session.. you re always caught in the middle. Not Waiting enough makes it impossible to have a big ession, since there is still hair; waiting too much makes it visible the previous HT... WHAT TO DO then ??? Besides, i didn t get what u said avvording the number of HT. In the case yo have 10000 donor hair. will you be able to do indifereenlty 10 times FUT of 1000 ; or 5 times FUT of 2000 or is there a mximum of excision that your scalp can tolerate ? Thanks Last thing : Besides the fact that i used once minoxydil and when i stoped it i felt like i lost a lot more of hairs; and while using it i didn t feel any better progress... Will it be the same with finasteride...? i mean if i wanted to make a try for one year to see if there s any diofference and at the end don t wanna take it anymore...are the consequence the same as minoxydil..when you stop it s even worse ? Thanks for you all...

Well, thanks Mrjb and thanks Hairbank In fact, no the doc, doesnt require me to shave head. And in fact , my question was oriented to a specidif case. In fact, i need to travel abroad for this HT, and in this same country, i have family and friends...However i ll be ther only up to 3 days after HT; and i wanted to know if it will be possible to see them there before flying back, without them noticing the HT (even if i have to wear a cap it will be ok in fact; my concern is more about the oedema -> does it HAVE to occur ? is it in relation to the number of grafts , the more you have HT, the more change you have to develop an oedema ? ) Besides, As i see that you both have had 3HT; i was wonderning, were those taken on the same places (i mean havin only on scar ?) As i ve heard it s possible.. oR do you have it on different places ? Besides that are the scar on the back different from the one on the sides (less painful ? etc..) And least how many can you ? Does it depend on the amount you already taken ? Say, if you have a potential of 10 000 hairs that you can HT... Does it mean that you could theroically make 10 HT of 1000 each...or is there a limit to HT beside the potential of hair ? Thanks a lot for your answers... And hairbank; yes i d like to see you pre and post pictures asap... Good luck for you all. mike

Hi Guys, I was wondering if the after effect (Post HT) are different from one person to another...(like oedema etc..) It is possible to prevent it as most as possible ? As i would like to go visit people 1 or 2 day after the HT but rather not tell them ;-) Besides that, the funny question, the staples do buzz when going through airport security or not ? this is embarassing especially if you re with relatives whom are not aware about it ? Do you have any tricks for that ? Thanks.

Hi Guys, I was wondering if the after effect (Post HT) are different from one person to another...(like oedema etc..) It is possible to prevent it as most as possible ? As i would like to go visit people 1 or 2 day after the HT but rather not tell them ;-) Besides that, the funny question, the staples do buzz when going through airport security or not ? this is embarassing especially if you re with relatives whom are not aware about it ? Do you have any tricks for that ? Thanks.

Hi truthseeker; Well i also feel for your situation and concern... unfortunately i can not give any better advice that what has been posted here by "veteran" of this site.. however i just wanted to tell you that i wish you the best for your forecoming decision, hoping it will be the best option for you. As for doctors advices , i don t really understand the concept of saying : you have only 1 HT left... If a guy A has made 3 HT of 300 grafts each and a guy B has made 1 HT of 900 grafts. Does it mean that A guy has only one more HT, and B guy can have another 2 ? What is the mandatory field here ? the donor area ? the number of HT... I m in the case of A guy ?!:! Thanks for providing info....

I agree with NervousNelly, and will add... May be we can help you better in decision if you describe a little bit more your case, situation, pictures etc... Good luck...

hi ahlender, Well it remeinds me of someone, 10 years ago :-) In fact, 10 years ago i really didn t neet any HT...However i was so obsessed by thinning etc..that i finally made the step !! At that time there were no other medecins except of Minoxidil...Today with Rogaine and Finasteride, it seems that one can have better result... Nevertheless, once u get into HT, then especially in a case of receding it s going to get u into a spiral of non stop filling in every "x" year...Not to talk about shock loss... If i was in your situation again, i d probably, use vitamin and medecine appropriate to try to control/stop loss... keep the money in saving plan...and see how thing are doing in one year or so... Dont forget, your case is different than a case of a Bald Spot NW4,NW5 or more... Those latter know what they don t have and what they can fill.. You don t know yet what u don t have..since u still have it (and i hope u ll keep it too :-) ) Good luck in your research... Wish u best.

Hey Guys !!! Cuando I ve seen so muchas post, 'Hashavti, que habian some news a propocito de HT Be Eretz Israel Did i miss Mashu

Thanks JoeTronic; Yes i ve already seen your detailed sites... Congrats it s well documented... You scared me a bit by telling 3500...i thought 1500-2000 mx... I m a bit anxious for both reason : i ve never had more than 300-400 hundred graft HT (i know it s a really small amount but at the time i did it 9 years ago that was not a small session..I have to admit , that i couldn t have a bigger HT either as i ve had plenty of hair... and i regret having done that at that time :-( However past is behind... If we take into consideration that zone 1 and 2 are HT, but the front Z3 is not, is there a risk by filling in density in Z1 and Z2 that it might trouble the Z3 ? What is the rule (if there is any) according to shock loss in accordance to a zone Non transplanted , and according to HT zone ? Thanks a lot all of you.

Sorry guys of course i meant B spot :-) Thanks for everything... I ll try to update you on what will be going on

Well i guess, i m convinced.. I haven t paid attention to all the pictures... But again...as i said in a previous post -> pictures are not always reflecting reality...as per my photo album... Thanks for all for your opinions and advices..it really helps... Toda Raba la 'Hevre She Medabrim Ivrit :-)

Thanks GSpot NervousNelly was right, i was talking about Standalone HT, just didn t know how to express it :-) Those are really good remarks... And as you said, i think option 2 is best... I guess we should try here to "advertise" on people progressively balding...that if they start surgery they will enter in an infinite loop...rather they should go on medication and wait and see... Nevertheless, your advice sounds good to me...One thing remains though, i m living very far from Dc Shapiro, and having to manage trip+cost etc... twice is for the moment not doable. But as NervousNelly said, you get for what you pay; so i might start saving...maybe HT price will go down in the forecoming month :-) Thanks

Hi Bill, Thanks for taking time to browse through their website... Yes i know that you re right about "You get what u pay for"... And I guess that s what i ll be doing...but since my hair is becoming hard to deal with especially the fact that HT are showing up... i wanted to do that asap. That s also the prob, for people who are anot B spot and try to keep up with there MPB, since their only solution is to catch up every few years...since they still have har..and Doc can not HT on current hair...Whether they wait wait wait and then achieve... thanks anyway for your help.

Thanks NervousNelly for provding your advice... In fact... in the frontal area (if you see the picture with the drawings)...you can see that just the very middle (zone 4) has not been HT. but zone 1 2 and 3 yes... According to my thoughts, on these zones 1, 2 and 3 what remains is just HT...Now my concern is if i d go through a new HT to cover in density zone 1 2 and 3 ... knowing that i could nt cover that much zone 4 ... because there are currently natural non transplanted hair in this zone... what can i expect in the future ? if zone 4 is falling a bit '(hv('...then i d have Zone 1, 2 and 3 quite dense and zone 4 lighter... would it look natural..? When people go through one pass of 4000 to 5000 grafts .. they generally start from B spot... so they now that they can HT wherever they want... But other that don t have B spot,can not, since they still have hair in some area. Thanks for sharing your views with me... It kinda help.

Hi There; I would like to ask...why in that case..Dr Ron made a Ultra Dense PAck..; According to Hairbank; ultradense packing can result in shockloss for natural non transplanted hair...so wasnt it a risk ? Or i might not understood corectly ? Thanks for explaining to me .

Hi Joe... Waow Great article you put there... Are the picture on Hasson/Wong respect the comments in this article...? Do you have an album with your before/After respecting those criteria ? Since you re working in a clinic... How could you help me by advising me best ... taking into accound my very situation...? Thanks a lot...

Actually i used to take at the time of HT minox, it was 6 years ago...but it didn t seem to give any good effect...or maybe.... worse when i ve decided to stop I m in my thirties now and not taking any medicamentations... I m really doubting...and don t know what to decide...indeed, diving into HT, is not only a matter of expensive cost, but also some spiral you dont want to get into. Personnaly when 6 years ago i achieved my ht, i thought it would one for all i just didn t want to realise that it was just some kind of "never ending story"... except for Type Norwood 4 or more...since they can onlt add.. But for Norwood Type less than 4 it seems that it is a never ending story . What do you say. One last thing, when you compare picture : what s the trick and picture Closeup Outdoor, can u really think it s the same person !!? hard to believe...My concern is ... are the picture we see on all the sites reflect the REAL reality... i mean are they reflecting the whats_the_trick part of the reality or are they reflecting the CloseupOutdoor Reality...???

Thanks for your advices... However what is diffrenece between try to pack and fill in ? i don't understand the concept...in both ways you are having HT ? Besides that...it is always said that after HT , natural hair are to fall, but then regrow..so why are you saying that it could lead to definite loss ? Thanks in advance.

Well this album contains a few pics of me. You can notice that the one called what_s_the_trick.jpg, has been shot same day without any trick, no topic no nothing...just diffe rent light conditions...that s what make me feel a bit worry about picture we see on the net... The album contains other pictures that really reveals the HT in contrast with the shading of natural hair...And Here i need your advices.. you can notice in explanation_of_previous_ht.jpg that zone 1 and 2 and 3 have been HT 6-7 years ago when at that time full of hear..The problem is that there are beeing revealed by the shading.. So first how many grafts do you think i will need in those zones.taking into account all the other pictures ? Besides, if i want it to be a last HT, what should be the approach of the HT taking into concern that Zone 4 and Zone 5 have never been HT; and i wouldnt like to repeat this if those zone were to shade too...? In other words can we do at that stage HT in between the hair in Zone 4 so that to have a good amount of HairTransplanted in case the natural hair will shade...? Is that a risk to loose those hair because of shockloss that might never gone if didnt bother them ? In other words...please provide me advices... Thanks so much for getting interested in my case...

Although, it seems that Hasson and Wong are on the top ten of best surgeons... Doesn't it seem a little bit fake the first picture of their patient before/after that is displayed on many place of their site... Is he really the same...? well if yes...he should be happy to ear that his ht was so good...if he s not...well ?!! Besides that..is not to much advertised on the site... On the Contrary Dr R.Shapiro site is more neutral...without this look marketing... What do you think ?

Thanks For fast reply.... Well waiting...

I wish i could go to the States and get surgeon like Dr.Shapiro and/or Hasson/wong Team...as they seem to be in the top ten... I m located in Israel and there is a HT surgeon : Doctor Alex Ginzburg > http://hairtransplant.co.il/english/ Did you hear about him ? It seems that here you can get 1500-2000 graft for 3200usD.... Going to the States besides the 700$ for airfare, another 300$ accomodation + else and 4.5us$ for graft = 7500 $ (average 1750graft) --> Total = 8500 $ compare to 3200 $... (even if you can have reimbursment for half of air fare it s still more than the double) What good advice can you give me please ?...