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If you get new growth along the hairline with fin and min it usually starts off as very thin wispy hairs like you are experiencing.

I would go with the two surgery approach, with 1 now for the front half and another in about a year for the crown. I can only think of 2 Drs I would trust doing it all at once and they are Zarev and Pitella. Doing it in 2 stages gives you less risk of donor depletion. Even if you try to do it all at once, it's likely that you'd go back a 2nd time anyway to fill in any weak areas. If you plan on 2 sessions, then you can address the weak spots in the front half during the 2nd session. That also lets you decide on how many grafts to use to fill in the crown and how many to add density up front. If you do it all at once and you end up not as dense in the front half as you'd like, you may not have enough grafts left to fully address it the way you'd like.

It's normal for it to be more rough and wiry than the surrounding hair at first. It should soften up over time. You're only at 4 months. It looks great for that point in time.

Dr Pitella is one of the best at these types of cases. I'm looking forward to your updates as it progresses. Good luck with the growth!

Great result so far at 6 months.

Hi @Erik59wolf Welcome to the forums. Thanks for posting your photos. I'm looking forward to your updates as the growth starts coming in.

Good luck with the next procedure. I'm looking forward to seeing the updates.

You are looking good. It's normal for transplanted hair to grow in wild/kinky/curly/wiry, whatever you want to call it. It should soften and straighten to be more manageable over the next year. At 6 months you should still get more improvement over the next few months as well.

Hello @Baldie1008. Welcome to our forums. Thanks for posting your pictures. To answer your question, you had a lot of area covered, so it does look like a large number of grafts were used. Who did you go to? I hope you keep us updated on your progress.

Looking good so far. I re-uploaded your pics to make them face the correct way.

Thanks for posting about your experience with Dr Bicer. The work looks good so far. Please keep us updated on your progress as the months go by.

Hi @Matt Kheder. Welcome to the forums. Thanks for posting about your experience with Dr Parsa Mohebi. Your results look great.

A lot of people experience a shed in the first few months of use. It speeds up the fall out cycle, so new hair can start growing in. It's like acne medication. You get really bad very fast at first before it all clears up. You should start to see regrowth in the next few months.

There are two things going on here. First is when can you be active at a normal level without breaking open the scar. When I had FUT surgeries I usually had the sutures removed at day 11. That's what they suggested. Sometimes it would be day 12 or 13 depending on the day of the week it ends up on. I always waited another day or two before doing anything strenuous to make sure the scar was completely closed and didn't break open since there was nothing holding it closed after the sutures are removed. That's your 14 day period where you are OK do do any activities past that point. Second is scar stretching. Although you can do most activities after 14 days, there is still a chance the scar will stretch over the next few months. To reduce the chance of that you should avoid any activities that will stretch the back of your neck. That is usually suggested to be from 3 to 6 months.

This is a NW 6 with 4610 grafts. If you look at any NW 6 who had spectacular results (Gatsby, Zoomster, Melvin, etc) they all use 10,000+ grafts to get there over several sessions. This looks very good for 4610 grafts.

The staples need to come out within about 2 weeks or else they can end up leaving permanent marks at the staple holes. As far as the pain along the scar line, that tends to be normal for FUT procedures. It can take a long time for the nerve endings to completely heal to where it doesn’t hurt during stress.

Hi @Benjymu welcome to the forums. Do you have any pictures you can post? That would give us a much better idea of your situation because any answers really depend on how you style your hair and how big an area you need to cover.

It looks like it's held up pretty well over 8 years, but it would be great if you had 1 year results to compare with the 8 year results to really see any changes.

Finasteride reduced my body hair. It slowly grew back after I stopped using finasteride.

It could be that the difference in graft count estimates depends on where they are thinking of putting the hairline at.

No. It's just normal growing hair at this point. I'd be more concerned about your head depending on how hard you hit it.

It's hard to tell without seeing a picture of the hair combed back to expose the hairline. I would say if you're happy with it then leave it alone. It seems to look OK with the side combing in your picture that mostly covers it. You have a lot of area in the midscalp and crown to cover, so I'd try to focus on that. Then once that grows in you can see if you have any more grafts you can use to have a touch up to enhance any spots you think need it.

This is the point where it really starts kicking in.

It looks like there's a nice improvement in the front and it looks like the rest of it has some minor improvement as well.

Nothing to worry about. You may get a few more of those lines that look like grafts are missing show up before the scabs all come off. It’s normal.