Al - Moderator

Yeah it will definitely fill in more if you are not even at 4 months yet. You are just at the point where it really starts coming in. The next few months you should see a lot of improvement.

If you aren't seeing any problems then as you said "Hell no you're grafts are fine"

If you are planning a hair transplant then I would forget about SMP for now. You can think about it again later if you feel you need more density after the hair transplant and don't want to use up any more donor hair with additional transplants.

You should be doing normal showers at this point. You can usually start normal showers at about 6 days after.

I'm not commenting against Dr Epstein here because apparently he did what the patient asked for. My comment is about the patient and those like him. What is the point of going through a hair transplant just to go back and get it all removed to hopefully end up where you started??? If you are OK with the hair you had then why go through with a hair transplant??? This boggles my mind and this guy isn't the only one. We see a number of people post on here just after the transplant asking how to reverse it. Please think about what you are doing before going through with surgery! This just doesn't make any sense.

From looking at the pictures you don't need a hair transplant. You only have some minor recession. This is exactly what I said earlier. Some guys look at other procedures that were done on young men and think they can get a hair transplant done also, but the hairline they are trying to "fix" is probably already lower than any hairline being done on the other 25 year olds they are looking at.

You can certainly use beard hair from below the neck if you have a lot there. In fact those are probably the best grafts to use because the hair will match the rest of the beard correctly.

Yes. I was just going to say that as well. That's what I would want.

Of those two I would pick #2 because the curved down corners that is shown is #1 always looks fake and is an easy way to spot that the person had a transplant. A lot of guys want #1 because it looks like they are getting a lower hairline, but what they should be looking for is one that looks real and natural.

You have a lot of redness in there, so it's possible it could be something else going on. Check with a dermatologist.

Tap water is different everywhere you go. It's probably a good idea to filter it anyway even if you didn't have a hair transplant, so just go ahead and get a filter.

It depends on where you are at on the hair loss scale and what your expectations are. Young men with hair loss who want to get a hair transplant need to go with a high hairline and somewhat low density. The problem a lot of times is the high hairline they would need to receive is where the receding hairline they already have is at and they are trying to bring it lower to where it was a few years ago.

I don't think anything went wrong. It wasn't just his hairline that was done. The grafts went back into his midscalp. If you look at his before pics he had no hair up front. Then look at his after pics. You can see that entire area is covered. The problem is he has such wet/greasy look in the after pics that is making it look thin. If his hair was dry it would cover so much better.

Looking great

You don't see anything because he shaves down to the skin. The recipient area doesn't usually scar as much as the donor area and isn't noticeable at all in some people. You can see the hair transplant if he lets his hair grow out a bit.

I don't know his prior situation, but you have to be lucky enough to only have frontal loss or only very minor crown loss where the crown doesn't have obvious thinning until well into your 40s. You can take 2 people who look exactly the same from the front with a lot of frontal loss, but from the back if one has a large bald crown then they are not going to have anywhere near the same results. My hair loss started in the crown and I had a completely bald crown several inches wide when I started my hair transplant. If I only had to transplant the front instead of an entire NW 6/7 area it would have turned out much better.

I hear this a lot, but I always felt the opposite. When my hair is gray it's almost invisible against the scalp and looks so much thinner. Besides that it also makes me look older with gray hair.

My opinion is it's usually a waste of time and effort to do this because you will end up with a scar in front of the hairline which you are going to want/need to add transplanted grafts to anyway in order to cover the scar. Just go with transplanting a new hairline to begin with and forget about the reduction.

It looks great. MUCH more natural than you started with and it looks like you gained some density.

This is what I would do because I don't like flying either, so I totally get it.

Good plan. I give you high marks for thinking this through logically and for the long term.

This is common at the time frame you are at.

To be fair, this person had 2000 grafts done somewhere else before going to Dr Yaman, so he had 4500 grafts total which is probably reaching the limit that his donor can handle without looking depleted. It looks like the 2000 grafts were probably done in the back, so perhaps Yaman only had the sides left to take from. I don't think you can blame this one on Yaman without more details of the first transplant in Russia which the poster did not seem to give.

Now that you have had some great growth over the course of one year, it may be time to start looking into a hair transplant to really add density to it all.

You can try Dr William Lindsey in McLean VA.