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I would definitely pick Eugenix over Smile.

You shouldn’t need to keep your hair tied up more than a day or two after the surgery. 

6 hours ago, Berba11 said:

Other posters will doubtless take a different view but personally I’d save the money on the PRP. I don’t think there’s any compelling evidence that it does anything worth parting with your money over. 
 

I agree with you. 

This looks great. Man I am so jealous! I wish this kind of hair transplant was around back when I was in my early 20's. I'm really happy for you.

On 4/6/2024 at 10:59 AM, BackFromTheBrink said:

That's really not bank commission. It's tax that should be required regardless of how you pay, but I guess it'll go undeclared if in cash.

Years ago when I had my own part time small business my credit card fees were 9%. I know it's generally less now for anyone in the USA these days, but there is still a cost of accepting cards. It may still be closer to 9% in other countries, but I don't know.

Some granola bars or cereal bars or other meal type snacks, so you have something to eat if you are in the hotel for a couple of days after the HT because you probably won't want to go out.

They should be pointing at least slightly towards the temples since it's on the side of the hairline. Do the ones closer to the center point forward more? I'd wait a few more days until the scabs come off to get a better idea of how the angles are looking. Perhaps the scabs forming are pushing them a bit more in that direction than they actually will be once the scabs are gone.

On 3/21/2024 at 4:54 PM, Scarhelp said:

No, I have not had it fixed yet. It's about a quarter of an inch long from ear to ear. I don't think having transplants will help. I don't understand why someone can't just take it out so I can be left with a pencil fine scar... I'm kind of frustrated because all of the doctors that I have spoken with (via emails) all want 7-8 grand to put transplants into the scar. It just seems like they all want to get as much money out of me as they can, and care very little about actually helping me. 

 

I'd really like to have a trichophytic enclosure done, but i can't find someone who does it. If anyone can PLEASE recommend SOMEONE, please let me know. 

Not many Drs still do FUT. If you do find one who will do it, the scar may just stretch again and you'll be in the same situation you are now, except you'll be down about $2500 for the scar reduction. It may work great, but with FUE so popular even some Drs who do FUT would rather just add some FUE grafts into the scar if they feel you may be prone to scar stretching. Some people scar very easily. Did you ever try Dr Robert Dorin in Garden City NY? I think he is still doing FUT if requested.

As for the $7000 price... FUE costs in the range of $8 to $10 in the NY area, so putting 700 to 800 grafts into your scar is going to cost that much. They aren't trying to charge you extra just because it's FUE into a scar.

On 4/10/2024 at 10:28 AM, Hair-here said:

I had heard that nizoral daily is not recommended.

Any thoughts on the topic? Thanks 

My hair was very oily when I was younger. I was told to try Nizoral and I ended up using it daily for several years as my only shampoo until my scalp gradually became less oily as I got a bit older. I don't think it's a problem to use daily if you have a very oily scalp. If it starts drying your hair and scalp out too much then cut down to using it two or three times per week.

Hi @Rolo. Your last pictures posted here are at 4.5 months after the 2nd procedure, so I imagine it did fill in at least a little more than it shows here. If you have time it would be much appreciated if you can post updated pictures. I hope you are feeling a lot better about the entire situation these days.

On 4/10/2024 at 6:17 PM, Gatsby said:

Two months post op

First cut and color post op after the hairdresser tried to water board me!! 😳

 

This picture reminded me of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he is on Mars in Total Recall 😀

This doesn't look too bad for 5 months.  A little thin still, but you have more time to grow. You had some very deep recession with just a thin strip of hair in the center to start with. You always need to look at and remember where you came from.

Looking good.

Not only is is a bad hairline, but he has almost no growth behind the hairline at all.

Be careful how many total grafts you put into the crown. You need to save a few thousand for the front if you ever need them. The first crown procedure turned out pretty well.

If you let it grow out it probably won't be so noticeable. You also have some more time for it all to mature and thicken up and blend in better.

It looks like Dr Saifi extracted a few of the grafts in the corners from the first transplant. This should turn out much better than the first one. Good luck.

Hopefully that will be just enough to make a nice difference. At least you didn't have to shave your head and you won't have to go through the ugly duckling phase... as long as the front doesn't stay red for too long, but it shouldn't since they didn't do a large area.

Dr Pitella just continues to do an amazing job on these high NW cases. It's becoming his specialty.

Oh man this is looking incredible. 

13 hours ago, Ramin said:

can you please delete or archive my previous treats as well i'm going to post a review of my hair transplant, but I would like to cove my face for new treat. 

@Ramin, I edited the post to hide your face.

Look at those first pictures. The transplanted hair is angled to perfectly match the native hair. You can see that a lot of thought and care went into how to create each hole.

Excellent crown improvement here.

Very nice result.

On 4/8/2024 at 11:14 AM, shiba1985 said:

Prior to surgery his crown looks more attention drawing (negatively) than his hairline. If you are going to go through the whole process you want to address and prioritize what bothers the patient first. 

Yes thats true. I don't disagree with you on that. This is a downside of going to a Dr who doesn't speak the same language as the patient. What you want can get lost in translation and you won't even know it until it's too late and it's not necessarily the Drs fault. We really don't know in this case.