Al - Moderator

I think it will probably be fine. Obviously everyone's mustache hair is different or else you wouldn't need to put any hair there if we all had a lot of mustache hair that all looked the same. I just looked at my own and my hair goes higher up to my nose than yours does. As for the bottom, I assume you will grow it at at least some length, so that will probably cover the lower area above the lip.

Have you posted any pictures of your hair loss? That would certainly help. Your age is very young for a hair transplant, but I would say depending on what it looks like and if you are willing to be very conservative for now then it may be OK.

Was that area transplanted previously? Because if it's already all transplanted hair in the mid scalp then you are probably fine as it shouldn't be thinning any further. I think if you have a lot of area to cover it's better to have some thinness in the mid scalp rather than the crown because the top of the mid scalp is the area least likely to be seen by anyone. It's the easiest area to cover with surrounding hair if you do a side part.

If that's the case then you should look into doing another FUT with a Dr who doesn't require you to shave the recipient area as I mentioned earlier. You already have a FUT scar and they will cut out along the same scar line, so you will not create a new scar. Also since you already had a HT I'm guessing you probably have some hair in the area you are trying to add hair to either by adding more density to the existing HT or adding more hair where it continued to thin over time. Again, if that's the case then transplanting into those areas without needing to shave the area may work perfectly for you. I've done several smaller procedures in thin hair without shaving it and each time I went back to work after about 10 days with nobody noticing anything.

I think it would rarely be worth it. It depends on how much hair loss you have and what your goals are. Most of the grafts placed in the recipient area are going to fall out anyway, so it's not going to matter in the recipient area. I can see wanting to keep the donor area looking like nothing happened especially if you like to wear your hair long, but then you can look at doing FUT with a Dr who doesn't require shaving the recipient area which would give you the same basic effect of not looking like anything was done after the first 10 days and then gradually growing over the next year. The FUT scar would be covered by the surrounding hair. If you really want FUE and you're not doing a large procedure you could also keep your hair extra long and shave the area where the grafts will be taken and let the long hair cover it. I have mentioned @Legend007 case a few times before as an example as he managed to do that.

I was taking finasteride for 11 years from roughly 1998 to 2009. My body hair definitely decreased over that time. I don't know about my beard hair as I shave daily, bit I don't think my beard hair changed any. I'm sure the decrease in body hair was from the finasteride because since I stopped taking it my body hair increased and is still growing more now than it was before.

Not sure what you mean here. This clinic has been posting results every 1 to 3 weeks for a long time. This result look really good. I wish we could see the graft placement just after surgery though.

This is why you can't trust the reviews online either. A lot of it is fake that the clinics pay to put online or just have their staff make up themselves.

I don't think the hairline is really the issue. It doesn't seem too high in the pictures. I think the actual problem is that your sides are far back which makes your forehead appear large. I think if you just add temporal peaks and some side hair you would look much better. I wouldn't go as aggressive as your drawings (your red line), but I think the green line that I drew (see picture below) would make your entire front view look much better without actually lowering the hairline.

The transplanted hairs are usually thicker hairs than what is naturally found in the hairline. That's because they are taken from the back which has thicker hairs than the front. A lot of people don't realize that different areas of your scalp have different graft densities, hair shaft thickness, even curliness sometimes, so it's very hard to get a truly natural hairline that perfectly matches because natural hairlines almost always have some fine baby hairs or very thin hair shaft hairs just along the front which is very hard to duplicate unless you take fine hairs from the nape or perhaps just above the ears in some people. However those hairs tend to not be from "safe" areas and may fall out over the years.

I should add that what matters more is to get the grafts into a solution that helps preserve them. Making sure they don't dry out is key.

I think there was a study done on this. I can't remember but I think there was basically no difference for the first several hours and not any big difference until you get past 8 hours or something like that. I can't remember the times and how much it mattered, but basically 2 or 3 hours was no different than if it was only 15 minutes. With organ transplant (which hair transplant basically is) such as hearts, lungs, kidneys, etc, those organs can stay outside the body for several hours and function fine after being transplanted, so I would think hair grafts should be OK for at least a few hours also.

Clinics that remove all the grafts first, then look at them, sort them, and then implant them are going to have less multi-grafts in the hairline because they are actually sorting them out and can then say to themselves "We have 300 single hair grafts, so we will use these grafts in the hairline." and then specifically use singles in the hairline, doubles behind that, and the rest of the doubles and the triples behind that. Clinics who remove the grafts and then immediately insert them into an implanter pen and then implant them can't spend the time looking at them and sorting them, so they are going to have a higher chance of ending up with multi-hair grafts in the hairline. There is one person removing the grafts, maybe 2 others putting them into implanter pens and handing the implanter pens to the person implanting them into the recipient zone. This is fast and they can get high numbers of grafts done in a day, but the quality as far as making sure singles are in the hairline will drop.

Most of the grafts are going to fall out. All you can do is wait the required amount of time for the hair to grow.

What I did was apply for a credit card with no interest on transfers for a year. It did have a 2% fee on the amount transferred, but I got around that by putting the hair transplant on another card that gives me 1% cash back rewards. So for example (not the actual amounts) I could put $10k for the hair transplant on my card with 1% cash back ($100 back) and when that first months bill was due a month later I paid $5k on that ( I did have some money saved for the HT) and transferred the other $5k to the no interest card and paid $100 for the 2% fee which was the same $100 I got cash back from the first card. Then I had a year to pay off the $5k I still owed. So in the end I paid $5k up front and had 1 year to pay the other $5k without paying any extra money. That is not the actual amounts I paid, but that is a rough example of how I paid for several hair transplants. The bank continued to give me "No Interest for one year" offers on that credit card every year, so I was able to do the same thing for several hair transplants.

Some pimples are normal at the 3,4,5 month range as hairs are trying to start growing, so those may be completely normal.

It doesn't look horrible, but it's not the greatest either. Your donor looks fine. I'm not seeing an issue there. If your issue was only the density then you could go back to the same place to add a bit more, which is rather normal. However since it seems your issue is also the multi hair grafts in the hairline then you should probably go somewhere else. If they couldn't reliably get singles in the hairline the first time around then how can they do it later? I don't know who you went to, but someone asked how anyone can do multi grafts in the hairline. I think this is one potential problem with DHI where they take the graft from the donor and immediately place it into the recipient without ever handling or seeing the actual graft. They can try to pick single hair grafts, but they are only seeing the surface and not seeing what may be underneath, so it could look like a single hair graft, but have a new 2nd hair just starting to grow and not yet have broken the surface. When you see the actual graft under a microscope or at least some magnification, you can usually see if there is another hair growing and place that into the multi hair graft pile.

It looks great from the front and both sides. The crown is still very thin, but that's to be expected as you had a lot of area to cover. I'm sure it will all improve more over the next few months. The crown could be slower due to probably most of the beard hair being placed there and in mid scalp, so you may see a lot more hair coming in there still.

I don't recommend an 8500 graft procedure on a 26 year old. I'm not saying you don't need that many to cover the entire area you have because you do, but at 26 years old you don't know how much larger the area will get over the years. You don't want to use up your entire donor at 26 and not have anything left for later. I would opt for around 4500 grafts now and then see where you are at in a year or two. You can then possibly go back for another session. That doesn't necessarily rule out Dr Pitella (he was the one who said 8500) if you like his work. I would ask if he would do a 4500 graft range session.

Mine is just under 8 cm. I wish it was slightly lower, but I don't have the donor for it.

The only way to know which grafts will grow is to wait and see which grafts grow. We can only take some guesses and really with all hair transplants even if you had a perfectly clean and easy first few weeks you would still have to wait to see if it all grows to know for sure how well it went.

Just to add... many years ago I had a 3.75mm graft get infected. Once it healed it actually grew hair, but had to be punched out anyway as it was so distorted by the time we got it to heal that the hairs growing from it were growing sideways and into the skin causing ingrown hairs. Anyway, it only affected that one graft, so it was not a major loss.

It looks like you had two small infections with pus and blood oozing out and covering the surrounding areas making it look like the infections were larger than they were. So I will guess that except for possibly the grafts that were directly infected, the rest of the area will grow just fine. For example if you had a neighborhood with one house on fire in the neighborhood, the smoke would spread out above the entire neighborhood, so if you saw it from above it may look like a large fire because you are seeing a huge area of smoke covering everything, but it's all from that one single house fire. Once the fire is out and the smoke clears, all of the houses will be fine except for the one that had the fire. In any case, at this point you just have to wait some months and see how the growth is.

Then perhaps what you need is a small session to add a little bit of density improvement.

Just for reference for guys who think you are going to ruin your grafts after the first week or two by putting something on them or even touching them. Back in the 1980s you were supposed to apply rubbing alcohol several times per day on the recipient area beginning on the 2nd day and you were supposed to apply hydrogen peroxide on the donor area (the FUT scar) several times per day also beginning on the 2nd day. In fact a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide were always included in the take home bag.