Al - Moderator

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.

It could just be your eyes playing tricks on you because the worst ones are no longer there to compare with. Here is what I mean. Let's suppose you had 100 badly angled grafts and you figure if you get rid of the 50 worst angled ones and replace them with properly angled grafts then it would look a lot better. So lets assume you do remove the 50 worst angled grafts and add 50 correctly angled grafts. The remaining 50 of the original bad grafts which were the better 50 now look like the worst 50 angled grafts because you are comparing them to new, much better angled ones rather than the old, much worse ones. Without having those really bad angled grafts there to compare against, plus the fact that the newer ones are now the best angled, it's hard to get a correct focus on it all. Does that make sense?

It's probably much better to get a hair transplant for the front and then if you lose too much in the crown you can get a partial system for the crown. This way the front is real hair and nobody would ever know the crown is not your real hair.

Drs who do not require shaving the recipient area. Dr Robert Dorin (True & Dorin) Dr Robert Bernstein (Bernstein Medical) Dr Bernardino Arocha (Arocha Hair Restoration) Dr Carlos Wesley

This happens to just about everyone. It always looks and feels like you have a nice buzz cut. It will probably all start shedding very soon.

She just needs to trim it and maintain it every couple of days and it would look better. The growth angles look OK.

I've had about 3000 chest grafts transplanted over several sessions from True & Dorin. If they didn't grow then I wouldn't continue using them. Are they the best grafts to use? No, of course not, but to say the survival rate is almost 0% is far from accurate. For me I'd say it's been higher than 50% easily.

You are 48 and you it sounds like you don't have major hair loss and just want to be able to style yor hair a bit easier without worrying that it's getting to the point where you can't hide it any more. If that's the case then go for a minimal procedure just to bulk up some of what you already have. This way there is minimal chance of any big disasters and even if it doesn't turn out great it should be an easy fix or even be hideable for a while with your existing hair. Most USA based Drs prefer the conservative approach, so you may want to look at some of their before and after pics of guys in the 50 year old range who just wanted to improve their look a bit.

You may want to wait a while before doing anything. The beard hair may straighten and soften some over the next year. I had numerous sessions of beard and chest hair transplanted to my scalp and on me it takes 2 to 3 years to really soften up enough to not notice it.

You have to make sure you go to someone who has experience doing eyebrows because the grafts have to be placed at specific, extreme angles for it to look right. It's not easy to get it right.

Yeah I get what you are saying, but as far as John Travolta, he was born in 1954, so he was already 43 in 1997 when finasteride came out and he still had a decent amount of hair at that time, so he probably wasn't rushing to get on it as soon as it hit the market. I agree it's interesting to wonder how he (or anyone) would have done if he was on finasteride for years because ultimately that's the real question. Do results you get in the first few years last 20 or 30 years. That's an important question that is hard to answer because if you're using it you really don't know how much hair the drug is holding on to vs how much your thinning may have naturally slowed. As for hair transplants there just wasn't anything good around in those days. You have to get into at least the early 2000s before enough Drs are doing folicular unit transplants. Sure there were a few Drs doing it a bit before then like Hasson and Wong, but there was no internet in those days like there is today. You couldn't look up hair transplants and find Drs and results. The only ways to find a Dr was to either see an add in the newspaper or magazine, watch an infomercial, or look in your city's phone book, so traveling for surgery wasn't really a thing. You were pretty much confined to whoever was local, so it was just luck if you had someone good near you. For myself I just look at todays hair transplants being done on NW 6 guys and I wish I would have been born 30 years later because I would have been able to get an almost full head of hair with a decent looking hairline rather than the pluggyness I had for years and without all the scars I have.

I took it for 11 years. I lost hair anyway, so I stopped. It doesn't work for everyone. He had a hair transplant. That's completely different than someone using finasteride. Also, just because people can do something doesn't mean they want to. We can look at all sorts of men who we think would look better if they took finasteride, had a hair transplant, or styled their hair differently, etc. But it's their life. They can do what they want. I personally would never want purple or green hair and think it's stupid looking, but some people want their hair those colors.

Your hair looks great. There's no way you need to wear a hat to cover that. Nobody messed up your donor area. You had 7800 grafts removed from it and placed where you needed them more. Once you take hair from the donor area it's going to be thinner there. There is no way around that. You don't gain any hair in a hair transplant. You can only move around what you have. Overall it looks 100 times better than it did before. You reached the goal. Leave the hat at home and go out and enjoy your life.

Yes. Not so much for NW 6 because they don't have a bald crown that goes far down the back of the head, but for a NW 7 I feel it's better to transplant the lower and sides of the bald crown and leave the upper portion of the crown with less grafts. I am a NW 7 and am in this situation. It would look totally ridiculous if I leave the lower crown completely bald.