Al - Moderator

I also think most guys should try shaving their head before going for a transplant or at least seriously consider shaving their head and think about whether that might be a better long term solution. Some guys end up liking their shaved head and some guys hate it. I am one who hates a shaved head look on most men and it's definitely not for me especially since I grew up in the 80s when shaving your head meant you were a neo nazi skinhead, so that wasn't an option for me back then. The sad thing is that most younger guys don't want to shave their head because it makes them look much older, but those are the ones who are the worst hair transplant candidates because of their hair loss at a young age while the older guys over 45 who shave their head don't really look too much older and it's more acceptable at that age, yet they are some of the best hair transplant candidates.

Thicker, stronger hairs hold on to the surrounding tissue much better, so when a FUE graft is pulled out it is much more likely to be intact and have a good follicle root. Thinner hairs have more tendency to easily rip out of the follicle and also is more delicate to implant, thus they have a tendency to not grow as well. FUT grafts are cut from a strip of hair, so the techs can cut thicker grafts that will stay together even if the hairs are thin.

You should avoid that even before the transplant 😊

At 6 months you will still have some growing and thickening to go for a few more months, so you are not at the final result yet.

I didn't have much styling time. I have to go way back. Here's me in 1985 at 17 years old vs 1989 at 22 years old.

My scabs always started coming off earlier than I always see everyone elses come off too, maybe day 6 or 7 to start and by day 9 or 10 they are all gone, so I don't think there is any issues with that.

Looks good.

If you're concerned about losing a lot more hair down the road then the best thing you can do if you are getting a hair transplant is go with a conservatively placed hairline and not try to get extreme thick density. That way you don't use up too much donor hair now.

Dr Lindsey has several examples of a double layer closure for scar repairs. He cuts the scar out and then uses dissolvable sutures below the surface to pull the area together, so the tension is mostly on those sutures. Then he does a top layer of sutures to close it all up. He explains it much better than I can. With that said you may be better with some FUE placed into the scar instead of trying to cut it out.

You are not even going to want to do anything the first 3 or 4 days anyway. Take about a week off and then start light training. No heavy weights. You'll know you're doing too much if you get a burning feeling on your head all over your recipient area and maybe the donor area as well (but probably not as much from there) from straining too much. That's when you stop and take a rest and go lighter if you still want to train more that day. After two to three weeks you can get back to normal. Like I said you can feel your way really. Just start easy and see if you are able to increase each day and then stopping if your head starts feeling some pain. Mine is like a burning all over my recipient area. That's when I knew had enough for the day. Don't push it.

Sometimes some of the hair never sheds and does start growing immediately, so the 25% that hasn't shed and is growing can certainly happen. As for the other new hairs growing in do you think it could be the results of using minoxidil for the past month or so? Either way it's new growth and with the ones that never shed it sounds like you could end up with great results. Good luck!

I think it's much better to incorporate some body hair grafts into the original recipient area in the first place mixed in with scalp grafts. With your way you are transplanting twice. Once to remove it from the donor and again to replace the donor. Body hair grows just fine on the top of your head. Mine grows longer and faster than the native scalp hair. It will grow longer than 3 inches on me with no problem.

How did the back graft extraction go? True and Dorin tried a test on my back, but it didn't go well. I think he did about 20 attempts and only got 4 or 5 good grafts. Plus he said it was really tearing the flesh apart and he was afraid to try more for such a low yield if it was going to leave bad scars there. I may eventually have them try again with a different punch tip. I think he used a straight tip rather than a flared one, but I'm not positive. So far I've had a little over 4600 body hair grafts total splitting it almost even between chest and beard. I'd love to be able to get near 10,000 if I can. We discussed the possibility of using arm hair if we get to the point of not being able to get any more chest or beard hair.

Exactly. He was responding to the photo that was posted which was a white person with a M shaped hairline. His response was "For males, the M shape of the hairline is natural and normal."

I agree. I had that happen to me on a date. We were making out on the sofa and she put her hands in my hair and felt the hair system and then stopped and just stared at me. It was extremely embarrassing. Right. I felt exactly the same way. I was sick to my stomach anytime someone looked at me and I had to run to the bathroom to look at myself in the mirror to make sure it wasn't noticeable. I felt so old because when I was a kid I thought only 40 something year old or older men wore a hair piece. I was only 20. It was absolutely horrible. I wore one for about 8 months and I will never wear one again. If you don't tell a new date she will find out and look at you completely different if she even wants to look at you ever again at all. She will probably be running away as fast as possible. At least that's been my experience.

Some of you are not understanding what Melvin is trying to say. He isn't saying price is not a factor at all. He is saying price should not be the most important factor. You want a hair transplant because you want to improve your hair situation and look better. That is the goal. That is the main priority. Improving your hair and looking better. You cannot disregard that and make the lowest price be the main goal. There has never been anyone with a bad hair transplant who feels great about it because he got the transplant at a lower price than anyone else. However there are plenty of men who had a great transplant and maybe paid more than they could have or should have, but they feel great about it because they accomplished the main goal which is to improve their hair situation and look better. If you can accomplish the main goal at a low cost, then that's fine, do it. But make sure you are getting the best chance of accomplishing the goal of looking better and not going for the goal of the lowest price. Ask any repair patient if they think they ended up paying less than if they went somewhere else to begin with. EDIT: I thought I'd add a final thought. If a low price is more important than the outcome then don't go and pay 0. That is the lowest cost without caring what you look like. You will never beat that price. Why pay even 1 cent per graft if you don't care what you will look like. You can do that for free.

It looks good. I'm in a similar situation and wondering what I can do with the nape area and the area just above my ears where there is hardly any hair anymore. I will certainly think about truing some arm hair at some point. You say you just had another 3000 grafts. Where were they taken from? I know you already had a lot of beard grafts and maybe chest grafts. How many body hair grafts are you up to now?

No. There should only be one scar. Multiple scars from FUT stopped being a standard about 25 years ago. It creates more scar area which you are trying to minimize. Why does it keep seeming like we are going backwards in hair transplant techniques lately?

Yes! Exactly.

Wow. Did this Dr specifically try to put multi hair grafts in the hairline? Because it doesn't look like he got many singles in there at all.

Most people end up going back for another procedure to add density in some areas. It's not an issues unless it's a repair of a very poorly done transplant.

You have great hair that's better than almost anyone else your age and even better than a lot of men 10 years younger than you, but you'd rather round the corners of your hairline down to your temple peaks to make it look as unnatural as possible because somehow you think it will look great on you even though nobody in the world has ever had a natural hairline like that. Here is my prediction if you go through with it. You will be back here within 6 months of the operation complaining about the unnaturalness, lack of density, and poor design. You will be trying to blame the Dr and everyone else except yourself for the bad design and look of it even though there is NOBODY other than you who thinks you should be getting it done. I seriously don't understand why someone like yourself would even be thinking of a hair transplant. Please come back after the surgery and reread these posts from everyone. Maybe then you'll get it.

You have hair that goes very high up on the sides, so I think you can get away with grafting only very lightly in the midscalp. That way you can concentrate more grafts to both the front and the crown where it's more noticeable. Perhaps something like the breakdown in the picture below for 4000 grafts you mentioned. You still have some hair at the hairline, so I think you can get away with not using up too many grafts in the front at this time, but you will probably have to go back at some point in the future to fill in some areas as the remaining hair falls out. The idea I think you are trying to do is to be strategic with placement to get the most visible thin/bald areas filled in with the first procedure, so you can hopefully hold off for a few years before needing an update.

Yes, but I don't look quite that bad now. That picture is from last year before I had an additional 1000 or so grafts put all around the fringe to build it up a bit. I'll be going again probably in December for another round to hopefully finish building up the sides and back and hopefully get a few hundred grafts in the midscalp as well. Putting this back to Wayne Rooney because I don't want to hijack the thread. You can see in his before picture he has very high sides and still a bit of hair in the center and midscalp. If he gets the front area filled in he had enough to do a comb over by parting his hair with some of the high side section and letting it grow over the center. 9 years later the sides have dropped a lot and he lost almost all he had in the midscalp, so he can't do the comb over anymore. That makes it look like the hair transplanted hair has fallen out. Probably a bit of it may have as he may be thinning on the sides now, but if you look at the immediate post op pics it looks like he only had grafts placed in the frontal area.

I'd have to have my entire head filled with topic. It does work in that I can make it look full with enough of it all over (I actually tried Dermatch I think it's called), but I don't want to be like Wayne Rooney and have full hair one day and be bald the next day and on and on back and forth. I mean what do you do when the first date you have a full head of hair and then at some point she will see me completely bald. What about at work? I don't want to have to keep doing the cover up every day for years. It's too much pressure wondering who can tell and if they will tell everyone else. I have to meet hundreds of people daily. As hard as it is to deal with my freaky looking head of hair every day it's still better than trying to hide under some fake crap I'd be putting in it hoping nobody notices. Even if I look great, if everyone already knows it's some powder or whatever in my hair and I don't really look like that then what's the point of doing it?