Al - Moderator

Excellent crown improvement here.

Very nice result.

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.

Yes. Most of the transplanted hair will shed in the first week to 1 month. It starts growing back usually at about 3 months after the transplant. There's a lot of time variation in all of this though.

I disagree here. I could be wrong, but I believe any new follicles would be created to be the same as those surrounding it. It's not a hair creating serum. If you had a scar on the palm of your hand and you put verteporfin on it, it's not going to create hair on your palms. It looks at the surrounding cells and creates new ones based on those. So if you get a scar on your scalp and use verteporfin on it, it's going to create new tissue to be the same as what is surrounding it. If the surrounding hair follicles are thin and miniaturizing then that's what the new follicles will be. At least that's my understanding based on what (little) I know of other research into cloning and cell regeneration. I hope I'm wrong and I admit I haven't been following this enough to know for sure. If there is evidence of something else, please let me know.

Very nice result.

Incredible work. This guy really needed this. I bet he feels so much better just doing regular every day things.

Hi @hairyhopes. Welcome to the forums. Thanks for posting about your experience with Hattingen Hair. You are just getting into the worst phase where the hair all falls out and you will look like crap for the next 2 months. Sorry to be a downer, but it will get better after a few months and it will be well worth it. You went to a great clinic. Keep us updated on the progress.

You had 4000 grafts, so there probably wasn't any way to add more density to the crown without taking away density from the front. Most people would rather have a nice frontal 3rd and a thin crown rather than be thin all over because they tried to get more into the crown. Don't let it bother you too much. As long as it all grows then you'll be in good shape. You can always go back to add more into the crown, but at least you will have a nice improvement even without doing that. If you added more to the crown on the first procedure then you'd probably be going back again anyway to add more to the front.

This is around the point where growth really starts to kick in. You should see some rapid growth over the next 2 or 3 months. Please update us again next month.

Our webmaster Hans has just created this Beard Transplant section. I figured the best way to get this started was to post links to beard transplants that have been posted in other areas. This way anyone coming here looking for beard transplant results will be able to view and research them easily right now rather than waiting ages for some to get posted here.

Don't get a hair transplant just because you happen to be there (wherever that may be, not just Turkey). There's a lot more to a hair transplant than just adding some hair to thinning areas. If it's not done right you'll be in much worse shape than not doing it at all.

If you want to start off with FUE then I think you should just focus on the FUE. If you leave an area for possible FUT later then you're leaving out the best grafts with the most DHT resistance. I don't think that's the best idea. I'm saying this as someone who is still a fan of FUT in some cases, but at the same time not using the best section of donor doesn't seem like the thing to do. In fact the biggest reason I'm still OK with people choosing FUT is because it takes the grafts with the best chance of long term survival. Why skip those grafts?

It's great that you were able to keep and even increase your hair for 8 years just on meds. Unfortunately in some cases the hair loss genes eventually over power the meds and you may start to lose ground again. This could be where you are at. There's no way to really tell for sure. If you just noticed it recently then it could be just a shed that will grow back. Do you have any pictures of your current situation? That would help. Most people are getting FUE these days. Not many Drs even do FUT any more.

You may have blown some out with the blow drying, but those hairs were about to fall out anyway over the next day or two. For example suppose you were going to lose 100 hairs in a 24 hour day. You blow dry your hair and make 50 hairs fall out. Then you'll only lose 50 over the rest of he day. You're just pushing them to be all at once. It happens if you vigorously run your hands through your hair too. You'll get a few hairs fall out, but they were about to go anyway. It doesn't really make a difference overall. EDIT: I should add that as long as you're not actually pulling them out you are fine.

Your face seems to look a bit thinner. I know you said somewhere that you started working out. It's weird how when we improve one area we then get motivated to improve ourselves in other ways.

Thank you for posting about your experience. Good luck with the growth. Keep us updated.

Those extractions are spaced apart very well. That's how it should be.

Hi. How many grafts do you think you still need? Do you have any pictures of the previously transplanted area? Spanish Translation: Hola. ¿Cuántos injertos crees que aún necesitas? ¿Tiene alguna foto del área previamente trasplantada?

Have you seen our recommended list of Drs? See this link: https://hairtransplantnetwork.com/best-hair-transplant-surgeons You may be wondering why you shouldn't get a hair transplant without researching some clinics. The reason is because a hair transplant is a lot more than just putting some hair on your head. 1. The grafts need to be angled correctly. Hair doesn't grow pointing straight up out of our scalp. It's angled in different ways throughout your scalp. They have to match these angles or where there is no hair at all they need to know what angles usually occur there and create something that would look natural. 2. The hairline design. You can't just get a line of hair straight across your forehead and think it's going to look right. It won't. The grafts need to be staggered a bit along with using finer hairs and single hair grafts to give the hairline a natural appearance. This is in addition to #1 above with the correct angles. 3. The donor area. You can't just take out grafts any way at all. The graft extraction needs to be spread out and spaced apart or else you'll have donor depletion which is when you don't have enough hair left afterwards to cover it and you end up with a bald or vey noticeably thin area on the back or side of your head. 4. The grafts have to be placed close enough together to get enough coverage, yet spaced out enough to allow proper growth and to cover the entire area that needs to be covered while leaving enough donor hair in reserve for additional hair transplants in the future to address continued thinning of your natural hair as time goes by. 5. The hair that is transplanted has to actually grow. If the grafts aren't handled correctly or not extracted correctly then you may not get good growth. That's not a complete list of reasons why you shouldn't simply take a vacation and go have a hair transplant, but hopefully it gives you an idea of some things you need to be thinking about.

We try our best to encourage open and honest discussions and personal reviews and experiences, both good and bad. That's why I always felt this is the best hair restoration forum there is. Sometimes it leads to arguments, harassment, and rudeness which are things we don't tolerate. Otherwise this forum would end up being just a bunch of arguments and wouldn't be very useful. Thank you for your input and for contributing to these message boards.

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!