Al - Moderator

very nice

This is totally normal. There's certainly not a "new level" here. Many people with frontal loss have more loss on one side.

If it's only a color difference you can always start coloring your hair. I didn't mind using my gray beard and chest hair because my scalp already had some gray in it and I was coloring it every few months anyway. Now with the beard and chest hair there is a lot more gray and I have to color it once a month instead of once every few months. That minor inconvenience of coloring it more often is worth it to actually have hair growing.

Your hair looks great. If you do the blue line you will almost certainly look like you had a horrible botch job. If you do the red line you will still probably look like you had a botch job. There is very high risk and very low reward in doing what you want. Lately I have seriously been thinking that guys looking to get hair transplants are seeing so many bad hair transplants in their youtube, instagram, etc searching that they begin thinking that those bad hair jobs are what a normal hairline looks like and they start to want a bad job done on themselves without realizing it.

This is the right way to do it. If you see him without ever knowing him before, you would never guess he had anything done. He still has minor recession and didn't get some low, aggressive, completely new hairline that practically nobody over 35 has naturally. More people need to get a "less is more" attitude when it comes to hair restoration.

I don't understand. The man in the thread posted had a front hairline transplant. Years later his native hair receded back further. Here are two of his photos. The first is the post transplant and the second is years later. It looks like all the transplanted hair is still growing. What am I missing?

I don't have a problem with doing FUT. The problems with this procedure are: 1. HE IS USING A TRIPLE BLADE KNIFE!! I haven't seen FUT done with a triple blade knife in probably well over 20 years. I'm surprised none of you have commented on that, but perhaps that technology is so old you guys don't even know about it. 2. Mini grafts!! This entire procedure looks like it was done in like 1992. The reason it's 1131 grafts and he says it's 6000 hairs is because he is doing mini grafts which are probably about 2mm to 2.5mm graft sizes, so rather than 1 to 3 hairs per grafts there maybe 3 to 6 hairs per graft. The hairline looks like smaller grafts, but everything behind that are huge.

The hairline is too low and the donor area went too high on the sides.

If you already have a plane ticket to NJ, True & Dorin are in Manhattan NY and usually still have a few spots open in the 3 month range. Is the flight to Newark Liberty International? You can take the bus or train to Manhattan. It's only a few miles. Take the bus to NY Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42 St. Or take the train to Penn Station NY (make sure you go to Penn Station NY and not Penn Station in Newark NJ!). How many grafts were you planning on doing? True & Dorin don't do very large FUE sessions, so if you are looking for a megasession FUE then they are probably not for you. Anyway I thought I'd throw this out there since you already have the plane ticket.

It looks like it's in the 4000+ graft range. All the things you are mentioning are normal. You had a lot of area to cover, so the crown is going to be thinner. They should be putting about half of the grafts into the frontal third and the other half into the other two 3rds which looks like what they did, so I think the overall graft placement planning looks OK from the pictures. You don't want to spread them all out evenly because then the front will look too thin and you will have a thin, diffuse look when it's grown in and still look bald.

Technically you can always extract more until you've gotten every single follicle out of your donor area. Different Drs stop at different points. Some will say they can't get any more because you will look too thin in the donor. Others may still try to get a few more out. So there is no certain number. It's just what a particular Dr thinks is best.

Right. I was going to ask the same thing. I was trying to upload a picture yesterday and there was no way to do it.

If you have diffuse thinning that looks like it is in a defined area, some people claim that your pattern is already known, but the area can still widen/expand a lot over the years.

I wore a hair piece before I had a hair transplant. I absolutely hated it. From my personal experience even if I got the front to look perfect I still constantly worried that it was noticeable any time somebody got up close or especially if there was some wind blowing. It can look great at home when you comb it in front of the mirror, but the hair is not going to stay perfectly in place all day. At work I did a lot of walking, moving around, and constant interactions with people and I kept running to the bathroom to check my hair all the time. With the color not matching, it could match perfectly when you first get it, but the color fades after a little while especially if you spend a lot of time outside in the Sun. The sun fades it pretty quickly.

He went from creepy old bald guy to hot model. Great work.

Temporary shock loss of any native hair you may have had before the transplant is normal too. Any loss in the area of the transplant is normal whether it's the transplanted hair or hair that was already there. It grows back in a few months.

Most of the hair is going to shed. It's normal. I'm surprised we continue to get so many of these same questions about hair shedding. Can it be that so many guys don't even research hair transplants even just a little bit before actually getting one? Everyone who has ever posted about their hair transplant mentions that their hair fell out. How do people not know this happens.

I used to wash my hair twice a day because it was so oily, but now I mostly wash it once a day. I don't think it matters really. I think most men wash their hair daily.

A lot of Drs have a 6 month to 1 year wait time anyway, so if you're setting the HT date for a year from now with the agreement that you'll use meds from now until the HT day, so you can get the best result and not need as many grafts then that makes a lot of sense, but if you are going to use meds for a year and then set a date and have to wait another 6 months to a year then I would have a problem with because now you are potentially waiting 2 years.

You are not wrong, but what's the alternative for someone who doesn't want to be bald? Do nothing and the hair will continue to get worse and you're more bald. Shaving your head makes sure you are completely bald right now and forever basically. SMP is just coloring your head and having a fake buzz cut look which still never lets you actually grow your hair. There aren't any other choices. A lot of guys come on here saying they finally went for the hair transplant they've been thinking about because they got to the point where they couldn't stand it any longer and felt they had to do something. What if that person got to that same level of hair loss a year earlier? Wouldn't they have felt the same thing a year earlier? What if they got to that level of hair loss 5 years earlier?

They probably had a bit of thinning or miniaturization that just wasn't noticeable yet. You have to lose a certain amount of hair before it starts to be noticeable, especially if it's very gradual over a period of many years. Finsasteride probably works great on guys like that to really thicken up their hair.

There is some evidence that if you are too afraid to ever try to get the scabs off and never even let water from the shower touch them and let them stay for 3 or 4 weeks then that can have a bad effect on the growth. You do have to let them start to breathe instead of being covered constantly. It's the same idea as wearing a hair piece constantly can have a negative effect on the hair transplant growth. 15 days for all the scabs to be fully removed is fine. At 8 weeks you won't have any growth yet. Don't worry about it. I do think that if the scabs come off in a week then those hairs have a better chance of growing without shedding, but that is my own thinking.

It looks normal for a little more than one month.

Most Drs usually have a certain hairline style that they almost always do with a small range of variation to fit the patient, so look at the hairlines they've done and see which ones come closest to what you would want and pick that Dr. Most people are trying to get back to what they remember themselves looking like, so I also suggest looking at some older pictures of yourself and comparing your old hairline to the two Drs hairline work.

His medical condition was he was losing hair just like everyone on these boards. He was just going through it earlier than what is generally considered normal. But a good question that I always asked... if it's not considered normal then perhaps it is a medical condition ?? I was balding since 14 too and I was a NW 5 by 19 and NW 6 by 22.