Al - Moderator

This is normal during the first year of growth and it will improve over time to match the rest of your hair. It will also thicken up a bit over the next few months as well.

I agree with you. My body hair grows back really quickly after I pluck it. Now that I've had over 4600 body hair grafts transplanted to my scalp I can say that my transplanted body hair grows faster and longer than my native scalp hair. It does take a bit longer to get started once it's first transplanted, but after about a year it really kicks in and the growth speeds up.

If traffic on the site is down it could be mainly due to all of the hair transplant clinics being temporarily closed. There isn't going to be any new patients posting their experiences and questions if there isn't anyone getting hair transplants. The clinics also won't be posting many results either. Hopefully the world will start getting back to functioning more normally soon and we will get a lot more patient experiences and results being posted.

This turned out very good. I was a bit worried about the mid scalp when you first posted in another thread, but so far it looks good.

Get on finisteride first and try it for a while before scheduling your hair transplant. This way you'll know if you have side effects or not. You need to find this out before having the hair transplant. Eugenics seems to be doing great work and presumably they will use a lot of beard hair for you which will really help your situation as you will actually be adding hair to your head rather than just moving some around. High NW men really need that.

Yeah. This is what I was worried about earlier. It looks good when it's short though.

I have a lot of back hair too and we tried a small test session of back hair to see if we could use that area, but the grafts were just not coming out intact and it was tearing apart the area, so it wasn't worth continuing. I may or may not try to convince them to have another try at it in the future if I think extraction methods have improved over time and if I run out of other hair to use before getting to the point I'm trying to get to. We'll see.

Definitely not easy to do. If you look at the top of my picture you can see I also had beard grafts taken out as well, so between the mix of areas and grafts we did I really can't tell which ones grow and which don't. In a previous session I had only chest hair done and they grew ok, but not great. What I mean by that is the ones that grew are good and grow long and faster than my head hair, but I think there was definitely a higher rate of non growth than if I used head hair, but not bad enough to stop me from doing more. I also had another session where we used both beard hair and chest hair and separated them using the beard hair in the crown and the chest hair towards the front and I think the beard hair did a little better in growth, but again I have no problem using more chest hair or stomach hair as I feel it does grow well enough to make a difference.

I had lots of thick chest hair, but most of that has already been used in prior body hair FUEs. You can see they shaved my entire chest for this session, but it turned out that there wasn't really much good grafts left to take, so we decided to try going down lower where we hadn't touched yet. The grafts came out easy, so we plan to do another session on the rest of the stomach area in the future.

I have some lengthy growing stomach hair as well and I've used some in my last transplant about 5 months ago. I seem to be getting a decent result but it's hard to tell as I also used beard grafts as well. I think in general most men don't have much stomach hair and if they do it's very fine and thin and doesn't grow much at all, but there are always going to be some men who have much better quality chest and stomach hair.

If you only do a small FUE session and then switch to FUT, then it may not matter so much. If you do 3000 or more FUE then it's going to make more of a difference. It doesn't usually work out that way in real life. If you have FUE and it turns out well then in a few years when more grafts are needed just about everyone would go with FUE again. Why wouldn't they? It worked well the first time with no linear scar and perhaps no noticeable difference in the thickness of the donor area. Some years down the road after a few FUE sessions when the person starts getting some donor depletion and still wants/needs more work done, it's not a good idea at that point to switch to FUT because the scar will be much harder to hide with less donor hair around it, plus you won't get much good hair from the FUT strip anyway because much of the hair has already been removed with FUE. On top of that since the person has getting older now it may become more acceptable to them to shave their head if they have to because they are no longer trying to fit in as a 20 something year old. That is probably not the best time to switch to FUT for most people. There's really no right or wrong answer on choosing FUT vs FUE. It really depends on what the patient is looking for and where they think they may be heading and what type of hair styles are acceptable to them. You really have to try to think down the road to the future about what you think you will want. You have to be honest with yourself and not just say you won't care when you get older.

Wow. That is a totally awesome result without having a hair transplant.

This is interesting. I always had stitches and they never hurt being taken out. It actually felt so good having them removed and no longer pulling on my skin and hair while they were in for the 10 to 14 days.

A few things: 1. FUE cost in the USA is very high and it can be even higher if you use body hair grafts, so if you need many thousands of grafts the cost is usually too high for most people in the USA and FUT would be a lot cheaper. It's impossible for USA clinics to do large sessions of FUE and compete on price with Turkey and India FUE clinics 2. Most Middle Eastern men who make up the majority of the Turkey and India clinics have very thick, coarse hairs which provide excellent coverage without requiring as many grafts. They also usually have very thick donor areas even though they may be completely bald on top. This allows them to get more grafts without looking thin in the donor area. They also usually have extremely thick beards which allows them to get thousands of beard grafts pretty easily. 3. Thick hairs are better suited for FUE than thinner hairs because the follicles hold together better when removing them if they are attached to thicker, stronger hairs, so those Middle Eastern men have the FUE advantage there too. This is partly why American clinics say FUT provides better quality grafts than FUE while some foreign clinics say it's the same quality either way. They are getting different types of clients for the most part. 4. If you are looking for a top notch Dr in the USA who does large FUE sessions and lots of body hair, then search for Dr Sanusi Umar in California. His clinic doesn't post here much anymore (I don't think), but he was one of the first (maybe the very first) to use body hair FUE and had a lot of excellent results in men who were turned down by other places. I personally have been going to Dr Dorin at True & Dorin in NY for body hair grafts, but they don't do extremely large FUE sessions. I think they stay at 1500 grafts and below for FUE, but that may have increased in the last few years (I don't know).

I always get some shock loss even when doing a small session in a previous transplanted area. There's not a complete loss of everything in the area, but I do lose some density for a few months until it grows back.

Even natural full heads of hair can look like they have thin areas in certain lighting or when the person is facing certain angles. We just don't really notice it because we're not paying so much attention and staring at someone's hair for long periods of time unless you're looking at hair transplants results.

Smoking can narrow your blood vessels. When you have a hair transplant the blood supply and flow needs to reattach to the transplanted grafts, so in theory there is a possibility of not getting optimal growth if you start smoking too soon after the hair transplant, but everyone's body reacts differently to things. Some people smoke and get great results from their transplant. Nobody can tell you how your body will react to these things. Why take the chance. It's like any medication. There are long lists of side effects that can happen. Some people will get a lot of the side effects and very severely while others will hardly get any side effects at all. You just don't know how your body will react before hand. With that said, smoking is bad for your health overall and I think any Dr would be telling their patients to quit. If you want to quit smoking then wanting to get the best results from the hair transplant might be a very good motivator to stop especially since you are spending a lot of money for the hair transplant. Besides, quitting smoking will save you a lot of money since you won't have to buy cigarettes, so you'll have all that hair transplant money back in no time.

Looks good so far.

Basically the hair will grow the same way it was growing before it was removed from the donor area and will continue to grow just as it would have if you hadn't moved it from the donor area to the recipient area. As you get older if the hair in the donor area on the back and sides starts to thin out, then the transplanted hair will be thinning at that time as well. The transplanted follicles have the same life span as they would have before and will react to medications, external forces, etc just as they would have reacted if they had not been moved and transplanted.

This is true. I have an ex girlfriend who is a critical care nurse who works in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. She drives 5 hours back and forth every week to work several days at one location and then several days at the other. Anyway, she has been telling me the past few weeks that both places keep calling her and telling her not to come in because they don't need her. She is working less now then she did before the pandemic and she says they've been told layoffs may be coming soon.

Why are Walmart and Target allowed to stay open selling clothes, shoes, small appliances, lawn and garden equipment, etc while all other stores selling those items must close? If it was really necessary to shut businesses down so people would stay home then wouldn't they be closing Walmart and Target and only allowing actual grocery stores to stay open? Or at least close off all sections of the store that includes non food and related items? If you are going to respond that they are open because they sell food then why can't all stores open up a food area in an aisle or two and stay open? Now states want to start reopening, but they have many more new cases daily now then when they first shut down, so if it's OK to open now with say 200 new cases per day then why was it necessary to close when there were only 20 new cases per day? . None of this makes any sense at all.

It's certainly a higher hairline than I would want, so I would want to lower it if it was me, but without knowing what your donor looks like and if you have any thinning in the crown it's hard to really say if you should get it lowered or not. Definitely ask about lowering it and see what the response from the Dr is.

It sounds like you're asking of there's anything a person can do or not do to make the grafts grow or not grow. Assuming everything was done right and the grafts are going to grow, there isn't really too much you can do that will affect it unless you are really trying to. Once the scabs fall off you should mostly just treat it as you would your normal scalp and hair except for maybe trying to stay out of the sun a bit more than you normally would and cut down or stop smoking if you smoke because that can restrict blood flow.

I would definitely stick with doing the frontal 3rd for now and then see how the rest progresses over time.

Yes. Great idea. Are you also going to show some worst hair transplants or contrast the best ones with some not so great ones? It would be good to give people an idea of what the difference is.