Al - Moderator

The average FUE grafts done by a Dr per day in the USA is under 1500 grafts. They don't make anywhere near what you are saying. They also have to pay a team of techs and a consultant which probably averages $35 per hour for each one and more like $40 when you factor in the social security and medicare tax and cost of benefits the Dr has to pay. The anesthesiologist will be making a lot more than that. Then there's rent for the facility which can be over $25k per month. Plus there's utility bills, equipment, etc.

I have an ex girlfriend who lives in California and makes $300k working as an ICU nurse at a hospital. If the Drs are not making more than that then they are not being paid enough.

Yep. I'm a NW 7, but I still have a couple of those hairs.

It looks like the hair has grown in, but at 6 months it still needs a few months to thicken and mature. Wait until the 9 month mark and then take more pictures and compare those with the 6 month pictures.

There is only one picture, but from looking at that I'd say your hair looks very good. I think you should leave it alone. You don't want to risk getting an unnatural hairline from a hair transplant for what seems to be very minor issues that you have with your current, real, natural hairline.

You are getting good results on meds so far. I'd stay on it and just wait and see how that goes for a few more months at least. It looks like you have a good donor area, so a hair transplant may be a good idea to at least get a more defined hairline area.

Make sure you let your hair grow a bit before the consultation.

My beard hair grows faster than my scalp hair. There is a lot of variation between people.

Feeling tired and sluggish can be a symptom of iron deficiency, so it may not be low T. I'd also check for low levels of vitamin D and Zinc.

A lot of the difference could simply be the thought process of the Dr. After looking at the pictures one may feel like you don't have a large supply of donor grafts and it is probably not in your best interest to start down the HT route. Another Dr may see that you had SMP done and figures that even if he isn't able to get a large number of grafts, even a small amount done in the SMP area and kept in a buzz cut would make your SMP look much better. In cases like this it's hard to say which is the right or wrong answer. Some of the determination is going to depend on how your conversation goes with each Dr.

The way you describe it being done seems like there would be a bit less time that the grafts were out of your body than if they were extracted before making the recipient incisions which is a good thing, so I don't think this was going to be a negative factor. Without seeing before and after pictures none of us can tell you if it turned out well or not, but I'll make some general comments to you about crowns. It always seems to take more grafts than you would think to get good crown coverage. There are several factors to that which are the shape of the crown (it's a dome shape and not a flat surface, so there is more area than there appears to be) and the fact that the crown whirl makes the hairs grow out away from each other rather than all in the same direction. This doesn't necessarily mean the Dr should have done more grafts either. You don't want to put too many grafts into the crown and then not have much left to cover the front half if/when you need to do that in the future.

Years ago this forum was the first in the list, but these days you have to pay to get your site listed on the first page with most general search phrases. There's not much you can really do about it.

Don't change it. I think it will turn out fine. The Dr is right that it will look more pronounced now than when it grows in. The actual hairs that grow will be much thinner than that scab/graft size that you see now, so it won't be as noticeable then, but you do want it to be a little noticeable once it grows because you don't want a straight line.

There are a few possible reasons. Every clinic will be different. It all depends on what the Dr and staff are more comfortable working with. For example if your hair is gray, but you dye it then they may ask you to dye it the night before the procedure, so when they buzz it down it will still be dark which is easier to work with and see on your scalp. If it hasn't been dyed in a week or more then when they buzz it down the grafts will be all gray and they may not want that. That's just one possibility.

I don't know if more density is going to help very much. From the pictures it looks like the hairline is too low especially at the sides and the hairline hair is pointing up and outward. It seems like those grafts should be angled more and laying down closer to the scalp. I think adding grafts is just going o use up a lot of your donor for a small area that may be too low for the long term if you lose hair behind it.

This kid will have no problem sleeping if he ever needs a hair transplant when he gets older. This is how you do it.

This is the reason why doing a smaller procedure is the right move for some people. You don't have to tell anyone, you can get right back to work after a week without anyone knowing, there's no ugly duckling phase, you didn't deplete your donor area, etc. You just continue living your life as if nothing happened, but in 6 months or so you will start to look a lot better than you previously did. It looks like you had a lot of multi hair grafts, so I think the density may turn out well.

Dr Sanusi Umar has taken underarm hair in extreme cases, but I don't know how well that particular hair grew.

OK. Since you have already been a patient of Dr Bloxham I would simply ask him what he thinks of FUEing the scar and if he has done that before and does he have any pictures he can show you. That's the first place to start. Then if you aren't happy with his FUE answers or past work then start looking elsewhere for FUE.

It's not an extremely thick hair line, but when you compare it with how much recession you had before, it looks great.

Thanks. I'm going to try this out later as I had tried to upload a short video once before.

@Melvin- Moderator can you help him with this?

A failed graft (does not grow) and a lost graft (pops out during the first few days) are two completely different things. A lot of people come here saying they rubbed the grafts or they bumped their head and they are worried that they lost some grafts. In those cases there are some obvious signs that you would usually see if some grafts came out. You would be bleeding from the area. Being able to know if a graft will grow doesn't usually have any signs. Everything can look great after the surgery and you may still not get good growth. This could be because the grafts did not have intact follicle roots or the roots may have been damaged. This is something underneath the surface once the grafts are placed, so you can't see it.

Good choice. Eugenix does very well with cases such as yours. Good luck with your hair growth over the next 12 months.

The reason you need to be extremely gentle with the grafts in the first few day is because they can easily be dislodged and popped out, so you don't want to be rubbing them or having high pressure shower water hitting them. As long as you haven't seen any obvious issues then you should be fine. This is why I always say if the clinic allows it and/or encourages it you should go to the clinic the day after the procedure to let them do the first cleaning and check if everything looks good. If it's your first hair transplant that can really make you feel a lot better knowing that you didn't screw anything up the first night, plus they will get some of the dried blood off which helps a lot over the next week when it starts scabbing.