Al - Moderator

Thanks for coming back and posting because we really do need more long term results posted here. It looks like your hair has been holding up pretty well.

This looks good for 5 months. It's a big difference from the pre op picture.

That is only the case with medically necessary procedures. It's very different for elective procedures. Drs don't need any special training or surgical background to performa a hair transplant. Any dermatologist, general practitioner, or any Dr in any field can start performing hair transplants tomorrow without any training. That's how low the bar is for this type of elective procedure. There's a completely different level of training required for procedures that are deemed medically necessary. That would pretty much be everyone who goes through a hair transplant. Even all the ones that come out great, the patient usually goes through mental anguish and has to cover his head for months. That's not going to be a determining factor in court.

I can 100% tell you that that is not even close to true.

Lawsuits like this are extremely hard to win. Lawyers don't even want to take the case because it's elective surgery. It's something that wasn't necessary, but the person wanted to try it. We can all sit here saying how bad it looks, but in the courtroom and in real life most people are going to think he looked just fine before he did anything, so doing something when nothing was wrong is on the patient, not the Dr. You can think the Dr shouldn't have done anything then, but that's what cosmetic surgery is. Unless the patient is left with other issues besides the hair then he is going to have a major uphill battle with a case like this. There are two sides. As I said, we can say all day long how bad it looks, but the Drs lawyers are going to point out that the patient didn't like how it looked before either, so just because he doesn't like it afterwards that doesn't mean it's the Drs fault... and as I said, most people are going to say he looked normal before, which you may think helps his case, but it doesn't because if everyone thinks it looked normal before then it's on the patient to explain why it didn't and he felt the need for surgery. You won't get much sympathy with that from most people unless you had extreme hair loss and very young. That's the only time most people will feel bad for you. Otherwise everyone thinks its normal for men to lose hair and these days they will tell you that you should have just shaved it off.

You didn't have any hairline at all before and now you do. You were growing your hair extremely long and combing it all forward from the back to cover the top. Now it's not as long. Let it thicken up over the next few months and you may feel a bit better. You can also try some different hair styles. As I said it looks like you ave a hairline now, so you may not need to comb it all forward to cover the front. Try combing it back or maybe a bit to the side. You may be able to get better coverage with different styles.

You took 6 months off from work, so I’m thinking you had a pretty good idea that you’d be a mess for a while. That means you have 6 months to let it grow and see how it turns out before you have to go back to work and let everyone see it. So just relax and don’t panic. Don’t do anything stupid. You had a hair transplant for a reason, so wait a while to get used to it before trying to ruin it.

Hair only grows about 1 to 1.5 centimeters per month, so let it grow a few months and see.

The first time around you didn’t have any hair to start with, so there wasn’t much hair to lose in the shedding phase. This time around you have a lot of hair, so it’s much harder to get through it mentally because now you have to see yourself go backwards. Try not to worry too much. It will all come back and you’ll end up with more than you had.

I was going to say the same thing. It looks like your hairline is fine and you need to fill in all behind it so I don’t think it’s going to make much difference which package you choose. For someone in your situation you may be just as well off with the cheaper option. None of the Eugenix Drs are bad so why bother with an expensive package for a Dr who is better at hairlines if you’re not doing that area. Just my opinion.

Without seeing it from the front there is no way we can give you an opinion if the hairline is too low or not. Why would you go through the trouble of having a hair transplant to then suddenly want to shave your head?

This doesn't look bad from what I can see. It will thicken up over the next few months, so you may not feel its too thin by the time you get near the one year mark. Keep us updated.

I agree... and if, as you say, it looks full when gown out, but you can see it's thinning when you shave it then right now you caught it early. If you start on meds now you may be able to keep it looking full for a lot of years. The longer you wait and let the hair fall out, the harder it is to bring it back.

I hope you create your own thread and update us on the progress once your surgery date comes.

It looks great with the buzz cut at this stage.

There's nothing wrong with trying to change dosage or change how you take it (oral vs topical). It does make a difference in some people, so for someone who is trying to find something that works, it may be worth trying to make some changes using the same drug before giving up on it. Everyone has to decide for themselves. We are just telling the OP what possible options there are.

Yeah I won't take it either for the same reasons. I had heart palpitations when I tried it long ago and got off it right away. However some people seem to have no bad effects, at least not noticeable to them.

You could try oral minoxidil. It should give you better results than the topical.

Yes. Good point. With all the comments about hat wearing, it should be noted that you should definitely wear a hat when appropriate. I wouldn't suggest anyone not wear some kind of head covering in below 0 weather either. Thanks.

But I think you would be wise to do as @Gatsby says and let them grow for now and see what it looks like once the entire new hairline is grown out. Then you can play around with shaping it the way you want by plucking a few if you still feel the need to.

If you pluck them regularly as they grow in then yes they will eventually stop growing. That is basically what happens with traction alopecia. The hair keeps getting pulled all the time and eventually stops growing. Also you can ask all the 45 and up year old women who used to pluck their eyebrows when they were younger because thin eyebrows were in style. Now that thick brows are in, those women can't grow eyebrows, so now they color them in.

Right. The FUT strip was in the back. They didn’t get enough grafts so he extended the strip from both ends.

Man! You still have a lot of beard hair left. You can still add some to your crown if you wanted to.... or at least you know you have a lot left in case your area expands some over the years.

If it's only those few hairs and you don't mind eliminating them and not reusing them then you could consider simply plucking them with a tweezers whenever they start growing in. As long as you're consistent with plucking them they will eventually stop growing.

People wanting hair transplants with low hairlines need to read that. This patient, by going with a higher hairline, was not only able to fill in his frontal area, but also got grafts into his midscalp and crown using only a total of just over 3000 grafts. I think it's usually better to have thick hair everywhere with a bit higher hairline than to have a low hairline with grafts spaced further apart and end up still being thin everywhere. Very nice work.