Al - Moderator

Most of them will fall out. Some of them most likely have already fallen out at 20 days, so you can't look at the density you see right now and determine that's how it will look. However it will be thinner than the rest of your hair. Once you get growth and are able to let it grow to some length it will cover much better and blend better with the rest of your hair than it does when it's very short.

It looks like you have a good frontal hairline band where they put a lot of grafts, so I think the grafts probably grew pretty well. You had diffuse thinning all over and they spread grafts spaced far apart throughout that entire area. With your diffuse thinning you may have probably continued thinning since the hair transplant and need a lot more grafts in a large area behind the hairline.

I agree. The safe zone is a myth. It doesn't exist. Do some men keep thick hair in that area until they are 90? Yes, but some men have thick hair on top until they are 90 as well. Is the top a safe area then?

If you can get another 2100 to cover the area marked you will be looking much better.

If you wanted to cover your entire bald area you would need 7000 grafts or more. You only did 2100.

I have not had hair like that since I was 13 or 14 years old. Some guys are so lucky in the hair department.

This is why I don't like SMP. All it does is color your scalp an unnatural color.

If you are 22 with only a higher hairline and thick hair everywhere else then do not get a hair transplant. You probably don't need one at this point (although I haven't seen pictures of you). Wait a few years and see if you start to lose hair behind the hairline or in your crown or if the hairline continues to recede. Right now you are too young to be lowering your hairline to where it was a few years ago because you may need those grafts if you lose hair later and you will not look right with a thick, low, transplanted hairline and nothing behind it.

I'm trying to get there. I do like seeing high NWs getting great results, but at the same time I'm kinda bummed that I can't seem to get there.

Don't wait that long. I went from full head of hair to completely bald in several years less than that. I'd wait until you are 18 and if it's still getting worse at that time then get on finisteride to try to keep what you have and maybe add a little bit for a few years and then go from there. Don't go too crazy over it though because it doesn't look bad right now.

Well you are asking if you are going bald, so if you can be going bald at 16 then certainly you can be doing better than that and only receding a little into a higher mature hairline.

You can have the area I marked (or something similar) removed by FUE and replace the removed grafts behind it to thicken up that area.

They use a lot of beard hair grafts mixed in with head hair grafts. If you use 2000 to 3000 beard hair grafts then you can get much better coverage than if you only used head hair grafts.

Without seeing any photos I will just give general advice on crowns. It's OK to transplant a low density amount of hair into your crown, so that it's not bald, but don't try to thicken it up too much because if your crown loss widens a lot you will need to fill in the outer crown loss area enough to match the original loss area that you already covered and that can leave you completely out of donor without even getting any in the frontal half where you may need it later.

I know someone who had a full head of hair at 40 and went to NW 6 in his 50s. As for myself I started losing hair at 15 and was NW 6 by early 20s and went to NW 7 (if I didn't have a hair transplant) by late 20s and now I'm in my 50s and still losing hair. It never stabilized. The amount of loss slowed down after 30, but that's probably more because I don't have too much left to lose. I hardly have any native hair left now.

It looks really good on you.

What is wrong with these Drs who have no idea what a hairline actually looks like. I just commented in another thread about something similar. If you were a Dr who wanted to start doing hair transplants for some extra money as a side practice wouldn't you at least look at a few after photos from high quality Drs and look at some real natural hairlines too. I mean isn't that an absolute requirement to know what a hairline looks like if you are going to be doing surgery to create hairlines!? These Drs only see money and don't care at all about what they are doing to people. This is so disgusting. This industry should be so much better by now, but instead some Drs like this are turning it backwards. I really wish some of the better Drs would start speaking up about this and start pushing for some kinds of standards.

Definitely stay away from this place. This Dr has no idea what a hair transplant can do. It is obvious that there will not be enough donor hair to accomplish filling in the rest of the area in the future. He even drew the corners of the hairline rounded down. I don't know why Drs do this. It is so unnatural. You'd think that any Dr wanting to get into doing hair transplants would AT LEAST take a look at some real hairlines and see what a hairline is supposed to look like.

The problem with this is that some people don't have a safe donor area. This is one of the biggest lies in hair transplants. Your hair will not always be permanent and grow forever. It all depends on what your donor area (so called safe zone) would look like in the future. If in 10 years your "safe" donor area will start falling out then if you have a hair transplant the transplanted hair will only last those 10 years before starting to fall out. When I was going for my hair transplant way back when I was young I knew my donor area was going to thin out a lot over the years as I had several older relatives with almost no hair left on the sides of their heads and I could see I was following the same pattern. They were much older than me and at that point there was no way these men could have had a transplant as they didn't have enough remaining hair to work with. Everything I read or was told about hair transplants always had the same answer when it came to donor hair claiming the reason hair transplants work is because once the hair is transplanted to another location it will never fall out and will grow for the rest of your life, so I went and had as much hair transplants as I could to make sure my hair would never fall out. I didn't just go an do it without thinking about it. I actually didn't believe it could be true, but the "Dr" (I found out 5 years later that he wasn't a Dr) was so sure that it would work that he told me I could pay extra for a guarantee that they would double the amount of hair in my donor area by moving it around while also moving a lot of it to the bald areas on top, so I would have a totally full head of hair and I could never run out of donor hair that way. The thing is if they actually tell you the truth that the transplanted hair could fall out in a few years plus you'll have less hair in the "safe" area so when that starts falling out it will look thinner even sooner than it would have since they already removed a lot of it, then hardly anyone would get a transplant. So they can't tell you the truth. I'm not against hair transplants. They do work if you aren't going to end up a NW 7 or have thinning donor areas in a few years, but some of those NW 3 and 4s getting hair transplants are going to lose a lot of donor area hair as they get older and some will end up NW 7s, so plan accordingly an really think about where you feel you will end up. This is also why I think beard and chest hair should be used from the start rather than waiting to use it as a last resort. Body hair to your head is the only actual way to get more hair growing on your head from a hair transplant. Moving it around your head doesn't get you any more hair. If you have plenty and only have a small area to fill then moving some around will work, but if you have a large area to cover and a small donor area then moving it around will never get you anything worth it. Use body hair. This is what Eugenics and a few other clinics have realized is the only real way to go.

It grows the same as it would have grown in it's original location. If the hair in and around the donor area that the transplanted hair was taken from starts falling out then the transplanted hair will be falling out too as it will be going through the same process as the remaining hair from the area it was taken.

Mustang, Why did you opt for 10 small surgeries over 14 years? Was it because you could only spend small amounts of money at a time or was it because you didn't have a lot of loss at the start and continued to fill in areas as they thinned? I'm just curious.

looks great.

The most painful part is the needles for the anesthesia. Once you're numbed up you won't feel any pain from the actual surgery being done. You will feel some pulling and tugging while the Dr cuts out the strip, but there's no pain.

You can try alternating them both. Take fin one day and dutasteride the next.

The beard area heals extremely well. Plus if you keep the donor area to a section under your chin it will be in a location that won't easily be seen by anyone. I've had over 2300 beard grafts removed and I still shave regularly.