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    Transplanted hair does not fall out based on where it is implanted. It falls out based on wehre it was taken from. If the hair was taken from an area that later begins to thin then the transplanted hair will start thinning as well, just as if it was in the original donor area location. Every HT Dr will tell you that they take hair from safe areas or DHT resistant areas, so that it will be permanent once transplanted and will never fall out. THIS IS FALSE. It will start to fall out and thin eventually. On some men it will be much sooner than others. Spend a bit of time looking at pictures of men who are over 50 years old when they have a hair transplant and compare them to pictures of younger men with the same type of loss pattern who have a hair transplant. You will find that nearly all of the older men get less coverage and less grafts transplanted due to lower donor densities. Ask yourself why this would be. The answer is because nearly everyone starts to thin even in the so called safe donor areas as they age. Most of the time it's not noticeable until the person gets to a more advance age, but even that is not always true. Even though it may not be noticeable thinning, the density is still lower and the yield will be lower from a HT than on a younger person. The younger man who has a HT will eventually start thinning in the donor area as time goes by. Even though, as I said, it may not be noticeable in the donor area for some time, it becomes more easily noticeable in the recipient area because even the best HT when completed is not at full thickness and is generally at the level of beginning to look slightly thin. So since the recipient area is already at a level where the thinning is noticeable from certain angle or lighting, any amount of hair lost in that area will be more easily noticed. This WILL happen. You just won't ever hear anyone tell you this. See my profile and pictures to understand it better. Al
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    I just had a FUE session of 610 grafts with True and Dorin last week (Dr Dorin to be specific). It was BHT, so the grafts were removed from my chest, but he did not shave the recipient area.
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    5 days is definitely not enough time. You are risking splitting the scar open because it hasn't fully healed. You should wait at least 7 days, but preferably about 10 days.
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    Wylie, Now you have me worried because I have a 500 - 600 test chest hair session scheduled with Dr Dorin in September. I was hoping to be able to push him to do 1000 or more, but now I'm not so sure. After 25 years of living with pluggy, thin hair with multiple scars, I'm finally hoping to get this corrected with several BHT surgeries.
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    I would have thought it would be a lot thicker and cover a larger area for having so many grafts done unless you needed to use a lot of them in the scars. Without seeing before pictures I can't tell. It does at least look natural.
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    Way below 0. Hair transplants have ruined my life for the past 25 years.
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    I'm scheduled with Dr Dorin (True and Dorin) for September to use 500 to 600 chest hair grafts.
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    I went bald as a teenager. I ate the same things the rest of my family ate. My dad had a full head of hair. You will never convince me that it has anything to do with what we eat. AL
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    It looks like you only had crown work done. It may not turn out so horribly bad as the crown can accept somewhat larger grafts before being too noticeable. You will have to do a 2nd pass with FUT or FUE from someone other than who you went to to fill in some of the spaces. AL
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    and Well I don't think it was very funny. I started losing my hair at around 14 or 15. I went to a dermatologist who didn't know what was wrong. I eventually ended up seeing a hairloss specialist who said I had a scalp disease which was causing my hair to fall out and that I was already an extreme case and should have seen him much earlier as I was in danger of not having enough hair left to ever get any coverage. I think I had 5 scalp reductions to try to cut it all out. When there was no laxity left for scalp reductions I had a few hundred of 2.5mm to 4mm punches cored out and sewn closed. While that was going on I had HT grafts to cover any other areas and the scars. AL
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    Wow. I waited less than 2 weeks because they told me it was an emergency and I had to have surgery right away. Every procedure after that was a simple phone call and schedule me in within a week or 2. Of course that was years ago, so perhaps the wait time was different in those days.
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    This is exactly what I wanted to do - IF it wasn't possible to do a full hair transplant. I had been wearing a hairpiece for a while and the biggest issue was with the fake hairline. I figured if I could at least make the hairline be real nobody would ever think the rest of it is a hair piece. The Dr saw me with and without the hairpiece, so he would know what type of thickness I was looking for. The scumbag insisted that he could transplant the entire area at the same density as the hairpiece and to prove it to me he started on the crown first. I eventually ran out of grafts before getting the front portion completed. They even had to resort to removing grafts in the crown to place them in the front just to try to get some sort of decent frontal area.
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    I had a similar problem as you when I was young. My hair was noticeably thinning by age 15, so it probably actually started falling out a year or 2 earlier. I have a lot of hair on my chest, arms, and back, but the hair on my legs sort of comes and goes. Right now one side of each leg from just below the knee to my foot is nearly completely bare. It grows back to some degree eventually and then eventually falls out again in a slightly different pattern. It seems to be a larger area that goes bare as the years go by. My front thighs do something similar, but to a lesser degree. Currently I have a nearly bare area on the right thigh and a little bit of scattered thinning on the left thigh. It changes slowly over the years. My head was pretty much completely bald except for the sides and back by my early 20s.
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    I feel like my gray hairs are the ones that stayed.
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    No kidding! I think a lot of people who don't lose much hair until after 30 don't really get it. Some of them will say understand because they've been losing hair since they were 18, but you see pictures of them at 35 and they still have some hair. I was doing a combover and getting teased about my bald spot at 16. If I was able to just have some thinning for a few years into my 20's it would have made a big difference. As it is I honestly can't remember having enough hair to not have to do a combover to cover the thinning. By the time I was at the age where boys start caring about their appearance I already was losing hair fast. My mother used to yell at me about my hair fallout when I was 15. I finally had a HT at 22. That was a big mistake!! I thought I was finally getting rid of the nightmare, but turns out it was only just starting and got much worse as the years went by. Now at 47 it's been a completely wasted life.
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    Just putting my vote in. I am for a repair category. Thanks for bringing it up Wylie
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    Dos anyone ever take a medical leave of absence from work for a hair transplant? Do any HT Dr.s do this? I get paid up to 6 months of MLOA, so that would be a great option.
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    Once you lose your hair it's sort of impossible to have both hair and money. You can either have money, but no hair. Or you spend all your money to have hair and end up with hair, but no money.
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    INeedHelp, How long ago did you have the hair transplant? It sounds like it was very recent. If so then just stop even thinking about it. I know that's hard, but don't do anything else to your hair right now. You will only make it worse. The hair that has been falling out due to shock loss will grow back, but it takes several months to even START to grow back, so just try to relax and forget about it for a while. Just lay low for a few months.
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    I think I hold the record. 20 strips + 5 scalp reductions + over 180 mini reductions (5mm punches removed and sewn together to eliminate space between grafts). These were all done from 1989 to 1994. ... and I still need a lot of work done to get anything near resembling a half decent head of hair.
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    Pulpedfiction1 I know you're talking about me, so I figured I'd clear a few things up. The actual amount of time was 5 years and 3 months. In my other post I was adding an additional 9 months of waiting for the HT to grow. My first HT was on September 7, 1989 and the 25th one was December 2, 1994... an average of about 2.5 months between sessions, ranging from about 6 weeks to around 4 months. There was a total of 1393 grafts in sizes between (I think) 2.5mm and 3.75mm. 90 of those were grafts that were removed and redistributed. These were grafts that were originally placed in the crown and later redistributed throughout the frontal zone when they realized they weren't going to be able to create a reasonable frontal area. I also had multiple scalp reductions. For sessions where actual grafts were done (other than just a scalp reduction), the least amount performed was 12 in a single session. There were 4 sessions that had 50 grafts or less. Also note that they did not reuse the same scar back then. A new scar was created for each surgery, so my entire head is now a mess of many rows of scars.
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    Just wanted to answer a few questions that were asked of me. I have a lot of body hair. Some of my chest hair grows about 3 inches long if I don't trim it. Yes, I've been looking into doing BHT, but there's a small matter of between $40k to $50k that it would cost for between 5000 and 6000 grafts which I think I would need... so I haven't been able to do it. Have I spoken to a lawyer? Yes, back in the day I certainly did. I think I went to 5 of them before one finally took the case based on consumer fraud. The ridiculous laws in NJ don't allow a medical malpractice lawsuit against someone who doesn't have a medical license, so it's actually better for someone in NJ to practice medicine without a license! There is apparently nothing illegal about it. The only thing we could claim was consumer fraud for not providing the service that was promised at a cost reasonably close to the estimated price. There were other lawsuits against them as well. One was a class action with about 120 claimants. The HT company claimed bankruptcy and sold the client list to another company started by the same people using the same offices and phone numbers. So we had to file motions for the right to sue the new company claiming they were actually still the old company. Once that was allowed, the 2nd company simply did the same thing over and started a new company again. At that point it was obvious they would keep doing it forever and there was nothing we could do. They've since merged with other Drs and changed names several more times over the years.
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