Al - Moderator

Well if you do this I do hope you post your experience and progress on this forum. Of course I hope it turns out great and I would love to see more verteporfin results, but I also have the same concerns as the others.

@jjsrader I knew you had some hair transplants long ago, but I never realized you started that far back in time and had so many FUTs. Did you ever post about your experience with any photos? I seem to remember you saying you'd rather not, but that was a few years back. I had many rows of FUT scars myself. For a while I was thinking of possibly SMPing some of them, but then I'd be stuck coloring my hair twice as often as I do now to keep the gray hair and the SMP to both be the same dark color. Then what happens if I ever decide to stop coloring and just go gray? I decided it wasn't worth the effort.

How does it look if you just let it grow slightly longer and don't shave it completely down?

You have very little donor hair to use. You have severe retrograde hair loss with almost no hair on the sides above your ears and at 37 years old there is has a lot of time to possibly get a lot worse before you hit mid 50s. The only way I can see you having any chance of getting a good result is if you have at least 5000 beard and chest grafts available to use. This is going to cost a lot more than your £6k budget.

3 months is early, so don't get depressed. An itchy scalp is common after a hair transplant and can last for months. It's certainly annoying. Keep using Nizoral shampoo a couple of times per week. If Nizoral is helping, but you still have some issues, you can use it 3 or4 times per week if you need to.

Everyone's opinion on who the best hair transplant Dr is will be different, so you're not going to find a number one best. Dr Nader is a fine Dr and odds are you will turn out looking great. Everyone gets nervous when the surgery date starts getting closer.

It's hard to tell how the donor is because there is a lot of gray hairs in there and at such a short length you can't really see them good enough.

I think I missed this one before. That hair line looks incredible!

Looks great. Thanks for posting an update.

Welcome to our forums. Thank you for posting about your journey so far. I'm glad you did the proper research and didn't end up at a cheap hair mill hoping to save some money. You made a good choice. It looks good so far. Keep us updated.

The donor area looks great. I want to see this in another few months to see how well it turns out.

You had practically no hair at all in the entire front half, so for 3000 grafts it looks very good. Could you have gotten more grafts? I personally would have wanted a slightly lower hair line, but that would have required another 1000 grafts probably.

Hair growth is kicking in early. This already looks like it's going to be a great result. I hope it is. I like the hair line. It has just enough irregularity to not look like a straight line.

This is really something that I think needs to be discussed with Dr Pitella probably just before and during the surgery because being a NW 7 with only a small amount of scalp donor and using lots of beard donor, you really don't know how dense you're going to be able to get even if you used up as much grafts as possible. You may have to decide at the time you're going through the process because some of this is going to depend on whether he will be able to get either more or less grafts than he estimated and if you need either more or less than he estimated. I'd let him be aware that you'd rather be more full in the frontal half and are willing to leave the crown low density if he can't get enough to give full coverage everywhere or if he reaches a certain amount of grafts due to your budget or because you want to save some for later or don't want to be depleted. With that said, at 52 and a NW 7 I'm guessing you'd be thrilled to have a rather full front half even if you're still very thin in the crown. Be aware though that hair greed hits a lot of us and you'll probably eventually be wanting to go back for another session to try to get enough grafts to fill in the crown anyway, so keep that in mind.

It's not an issue. Some Drs don't even shave the area being transplanted. It's fine if surrounding hair lays on the grafts. just be careful with combing to make sure you don't grab any of the grafts with your comb or brush.