Al - Moderator

It doesn't look too bad for 3 months.

I agree. Too many people and Drs continue to insist that the frontal third is the most important and you shouldn't worry about the crown because people see you from the front. I have always said that makes no sense. What you just described is a situation where the patient believed what everyone keeps saying about the front being the most important, yet you can see that it didn't turn out well to do that.

Before the BHT I didn't have enough hair to realistically pull it off. It would have looked fake. But now after enough BHT to get some better coverage all over I can probably look like I have a completely full head of hair. I'm tempted to try it the next time I go away on vacation, but I still wouldn't do it for my daily routine because then I'd be forced to do it every day and constantly worry if it's noticeable in different lighting than in my bathroom. My job includes meeting too many people every day, some of them regulars and some not. I definitely wouldn't want to ever miss a day of using concealer once I start doing it and look like I have a full head of hair one day and then look like I'm thinning all over the next day and then back to looking full again the third day. Too much worry. At least what I have now I know what I look like. What you see today is what you will see tomorrow, but now that I'm getting BHT it's slowly improving over time, so nobody sees any big, sudden difference. This works for me right now.

I agree. I took finisteride for about 11 years and my body hair was slowly thinning. When body hair transplants started being a thing, I knew I would get that done, so I stopped using finisteride. The hair on my head had started falling out again anyway even while still on it, so there was no real reason to stay on it any longer. Since then my body hair has increased (except in areas where grafts have been removed for transplanting, of course).

This looks like it's growing OK for 4 months. It may end up needing a little more density, but at least the grafts are growing and it doesn't look like a botch job. Let's see how much it thickens up over the next few months.

And that is why FUT is still a better option for some people. He probably could have gotten 6000 grafts in 2 FUT sessions and still not have a problem with the donor. People get FUE so they can buzz it short and then some of them end up trying to grow it longer to cover the depleted areas as this guy is doing. FUE works great if you have excellent, thick, high density donor, but not everyone has that.

You can never predict these things because even good results come down to the patients perceptions and expectations. You may not need another hair transplant, but you will probably have some areas that annoy you a bit because you can't quite style it the way you want because certain spots may be a bit thin. Then you end up debating with yourself if it's worth going for a touch up to get more density. Even if it turns out really great and you are totally happy with the density, you may start focusing on a thinning crown that didn't bother you before because the front was in such bad shape, but now that the front is filled in the crown has become the worst area and you start giving it more attention and thinking to yourself that since the front came out so good why not go back to get a bit in the crown. These are just some examples of what most people go through in some way or another.

They should be taking blood one time and testing it for everything needed. As for cost I imagine it's probably cheaper to have it done in Turkey where Dr Pekiner is than it would be in some other places around the world.

Finding a new Dr seems like a simple and easy solution. The female Dr you found doesn't seem to care about mens issues.

Let's say you later get more hair loss and want to have another procedure to fill it. You have to either use (1) body hair or (2) scalp donor hair which is now actually a lot of body hair. So either way if you ever get another procedure you will be using some body hair. Why not just use the body hair as normal donor from the beginning rather than continue moving it all around wasting time and money as well as sacrificing some grafts due to a percentage not growing after each move. If you have a 90% survival rate, 100 grafts will give you 90 growing grafts. If you later extract those 90 grafts from where they are now growing to place them somewhere else you're down to 81 growing grafts. Why do that? And body hair grafts may have less than a 90% survival rate.

I have my next hair transplant scheduled for January, but with the COVID-19 virus cases increasing and more restrictions and lockdowns going into effect I'm getting worried that it may have to be cancelled and I'll have to wait until next Autumn to go again.

For me the beard area is a little more painful than the scalp, but the injections for chest grafts are extremely painful. It's hard to get through it and it takes a while.

Wow. That looks amazing. Much better than mine did after a few days. How many grafts were taken? EDIT: Oh I read it wrong the first time. I thought that was 3 days after the procedure! Still looks great though!

Very minor. The first few weeks it was a bit red, but once I got past that nobody can notice. Even my close relatives don't know I did anything. Sometimes I do still get a bit of redness, but that area has always been very sensitive on me and I've usually gotten a few red marks after I shave for years before I had any beard grafts removed, so it just looks like that. If you know I had work done and you look for it then you can tell, but that's true even with scalp FUE where most people would never know unless you point it out or they knew you had FUE done and know what to look for.

If you lose a lot of hair at a fast rate in your teens and 20s then it has to slow down later because you won't have enough hair to keep losing at the same rate. That doesn't mean that hair loss always slows down as you get older. If you start out slow it can certainly sped up later. I've seen a 40 year old with a full head of hair become a NW 6 by his mid 50s.

There are filler ingredients in pills, so if you start cutting them too small you may end up with some pieces not having any of the active ingredients in them. You are better off cutting them into quarters and taking it every other day. You can cut down slightly more by skipping two days once a week. For example take it every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so you'll be skipping Tuesday, Thursday, and then skipping both Saturday and Sunday. These methods are probably much better than trying to cut pills so small that you get powder all over the place.

Why do guys go for these super low hairlines that are never going to look good? People need to stop trying to get the hairline they had when they were 15 and get something that looks realistic. What's even worse though are that there are Drs out there doing this!

I guess I missed it all.

Voxman might disagree with you there. I don't think he is ever cutting it 😀

A lot of guys end up going for a touch up procedure to make some minor changes or fill in any areas they think are still too thin. Just remember to think about the long term picture. Don't try to get one area too thick without saving enough donor for future hair loss.

It depends on where you are to start with. If you have some hair and just need to thicken it up or if you have a decent center tuft and need to transplant around it or if you already had a transplant and you are going for some thickening then it can definitely be better not to shave your head. You can sometimes get back to having the transplant work not noticeable in less than a week. I've gone to work as soon as 6 days later with nobody knowing I had anything done. Smaller procedures, of course, are much easier to conceal. If you tend to grow your existing hair very long it can be even easier to cover the work done. Check out Legend007 who did have the area being worked on shaved, but had enough existing hair that was left long, so he could cover the area and get back to work with nobody knowing anything.

You may still get a bit of maturing over the next few months. I haven't sen any pictures of you, but something to be aware of is that most clinics will put more density in a band along the hairline to create a dense look from the front and then grafting less dense behind it, so you don't use up too many grafts. The thinking is you can be a bit thinner going towards the mid scalp as it's an easy area to cover with your existing hair combing over it and isn't as noticeable as the front.

I've had almost 2400 grafts taken from under my chin and I think I can get another 400 to 600 more.

It looks to me like if you just cut it all the same length it will just look like you got a short hair cut. Your hairline was high and thin up front before and it sounds like you mostly kept your hair long, so if anyone asks you can just say you decided to cut it real short to try something different and see if you like it.

You guys need to realize that Biden's hair transplant was considered a good result for the time, so calling it the worst transplant in history is a major stretch. Anyone who had a hair transplant prior to the 1990's looked like that. Mine was a FUT strip which was cut into 3.75mm plug grafts which means 3.75mm sections were punched out of the recipient area and the graft was placed in the hole. Later sessions were slightly smaller plugs. It's not like today where they just cut a slit or poke a hole and place the graft in.