I'm a 45 year old South Florida resident and have done relatively thorough research on getting a HT, and must admit that I'm a little gun shy. I'm a NW Class 5 or 5A (on my way to a NW 6) with very fine straggly, dirty blond-brownish hair. I mailed some photos to various doctors. Dr. Bernstein in NY told me that if I got a transplant, eventually, the area around my sides would continue to thin out, eventually leaving me with an island in the front where the transplanted hairs would be placed (and reading between the lines from our telephone consult, he wasn't too optimistic that a HT would look that good). That spooked me. I had a personal consult with Jeffrey Epstein (who I was very impressed with), and he advised that he would look forward to working with the fine hair. He recommended around a 2,000 - 2,500 FU the first time around, with a similar amount if I'd like to work on the crown area later on. Epstein advised that I probably had around 6,000 FU's total to work with.
If I could be assured that the work would look good and non-detectable, I'd do it. I'm just concerned that with my hair type and progression of loss, that the results good be sub-par no matter how qualified the surgeon.
Any thoughts or suggestions??