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Not only is is a bad hairline, but he has almost no growth behind the hairline at all.

Be careful how many total grafts you put into the crown. You need to save a few thousand for the front if you ever need them. The first crown procedure turned out pretty well.

If you let it grow out it probably won't be so noticeable. You also have some more time for it all to mature and thicken up and blend in better.

It looks like Dr Saifi extracted a few of the grafts in the corners from the first transplant. This should turn out much better than the first one. Good luck.

Hopefully that will be just enough to make a nice difference. At least you didn't have to shave your head and you won't have to go through the ugly duckling phase... as long as the front doesn't stay red for too long, but it shouldn't since they didn't do a large area.

Dr Pitella just continues to do an amazing job on these high NW cases. It's becoming his specialty.

Oh man this is looking incredible.

@Ramin, I edited the post to hide your face.

Look at those first pictures. The transplanted hair is angled to perfectly match the native hair. You can see that a lot of thought and care went into how to create each hole.

Excellent crown improvement here.

Very nice result.

Yes thats true. I don't disagree with you on that. This is a downside of going to a Dr who doesn't speak the same language as the patient. What you want can get lost in translation and you won't even know it until it's too late and it's not necessarily the Drs fault. We really don't know in this case.

Yes. Most of the transplanted hair will shed in the first week to 1 month. It starts growing back usually at about 3 months after the transplant. There's a lot of time variation in all of this though.

I disagree here. I could be wrong, but I believe any new follicles would be created to be the same as those surrounding it. It's not a hair creating serum. If you had a scar on the palm of your hand and you put verteporfin on it, it's not going to create hair on your palms. It looks at the surrounding cells and creates new ones based on those. So if you get a scar on your scalp and use verteporfin on it, it's going to create new tissue to be the same as what is surrounding it. If the surrounding hair follicles are thin and miniaturizing then that's what the new follicles will be. At least that's my understanding based on what (little) I know of other research into cloning and cell regeneration. I hope I'm wrong and I admit I haven't been following this enough to know for sure. If there is evidence of something else, please let me know.

Very nice result.

Incredible work. This guy really needed this. I bet he feels so much better just doing regular every day things.

Hi @hairyhopes. Welcome to the forums. Thanks for posting about your experience with Hattingen Hair. You are just getting into the worst phase where the hair all falls out and you will look like crap for the next 2 months. Sorry to be a downer, but it will get better after a few months and it will be well worth it. You went to a great clinic. Keep us updated on the progress.

You had 4000 grafts, so there probably wasn't any way to add more density to the crown without taking away density from the front. Most people would rather have a nice frontal 3rd and a thin crown rather than be thin all over because they tried to get more into the crown. Don't let it bother you too much. As long as it all grows then you'll be in good shape. You can always go back to add more into the crown, but at least you will have a nice improvement even without doing that. If you added more to the crown on the first procedure then you'd probably be going back again anyway to add more to the front.

This is around the point where growth really starts to kick in. You should see some rapid growth over the next 2 or 3 months. Please update us again next month.

Our webmaster Hans has just created this Beard Transplant section. I figured the best way to get this started was to post links to beard transplants that have been posted in other areas. This way anyone coming here looking for beard transplant results will be able to view and research them easily right now rather than waiting ages for some to get posted here.

Don't get a hair transplant just because you happen to be there (wherever that may be, not just Turkey). There's a lot more to a hair transplant than just adding some hair to thinning areas. If it's not done right you'll be in much worse shape than not doing it at all.

If you want to start off with FUE then I think you should just focus on the FUE. If you leave an area for possible FUT later then you're leaving out the best grafts with the most DHT resistance. I don't think that's the best idea. I'm saying this as someone who is still a fan of FUT in some cases, but at the same time not using the best section of donor doesn't seem like the thing to do. In fact the biggest reason I'm still OK with people choosing FUT is because it takes the grafts with the best chance of long term survival. Why skip those grafts?

It's great that you were able to keep and even increase your hair for 8 years just on meds. Unfortunately in some cases the hair loss genes eventually over power the meds and you may start to lose ground again. This could be where you are at. There's no way to really tell for sure. If you just noticed it recently then it could be just a shed that will grow back. Do you have any pictures of your current situation? That would help. Most people are getting FUE these days. Not many Drs even do FUT any more.

You may have blown some out with the blow drying, but those hairs were about to fall out anyway over the next day or two. For example suppose you were going to lose 100 hairs in a 24 hour day. You blow dry your hair and make 50 hairs fall out. Then you'll only lose 50 over the rest of he day. You're just pushing them to be all at once. It happens if you vigorously run your hands through your hair too. You'll get a few hairs fall out, but they were about to go anyway. It doesn't really make a difference overall. EDIT: I should add that as long as you're not actually pulling them out you are fine.

Your face seems to look a bit thinner. I know you said somewhere that you started working out. It's weird how when we improve one area we then get motivated to improve ourselves in other ways.