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Wait, never mind, I just read your comments above. Good luck with your new growth...!

Grateful, why the switch in doctors?

Dude, really, it's getting pathetic now. Your case is hopeless and you'd best just piss off. The doctor's name is Bobby Limmer and he's a member of this coalition. He was using microscopes as early as October '88, 10 years before the Gallagher paper you link to. Even Dr. Bernstein, who's credited with publishing the classic papers on FU transplantation, acknowledges Limmer as the first to have used microscopic dissection and to have introduced that innovation into contemporary hair transplant surgery. If you're happy with the results from your mediocre doctor, then kudos to you. But you don't know your history and you don't have any photos.

you have no reputation online, mr. paper tiger. that's everyone's point. we await your photos (that will never come).... as far as any of us know, dr. gallagher is still doing the subpar, bristle brush work that B spot and all the rest of us have seen at the top of this thread.

dccapital, unless you post some pictures and document your transformation for all here to see, i have to say that your testimony is hard to take seriously. yours is the classic shill post--made the same day you registered on this site, confused as to whether you received micrografts (NOT the latest technology, btw) or true follicular units, outrageous in contradicting certain matters of fact (Dr. Gallagher was most definitely NOT the first doctor to use microscopes for dissection). if you're not Dr. Gallagher himself, i'm sure you must work for him. please prove to us that this isn't so....

mishmash, if i remember correctly your surgeon was Dr. True, correct? are you not happy w/ the work, or are you planning to go back to him for the additional grafts? also, can you elaborate on why he chose to go FUE rather than strip on you. don't think i've ever seen a female FUE case before. also, do you have any before/after pics? they might help w/ assessing your result here. best of luck to you.

I agree that Feller does some great work, though I'm not always a big fan of his hairlines. Some look great, some really don't, as is the case with many other doctors. But I think you also need to consider that one of the reasons everybody says Feller, Feller, Feller every time New York comes up is b/c he maintains a more active presence on this forum than the other 2 doctors. And he has a paid showcase who posts here all the time as well. If True or Epstein were as aggressive about maintaining the same kind of presence, everybody would repeat their names all the time as well. But as Pat has pointed out many times, many surgeons are quietly doing comparable work with little fanfare, so you should make a decision based on comparisons of photos and patients that you've seen firsthand.

Pat, I know that Dr. Wong is a fan of Dr. Pathomvanich's work and has spoken very highly of his work on one of the other forums. He may be a good person to contact for more information--I know that he's watched Dr. Pathomvanich perform surgery on several occasions.

agreed, John_in_NC. might want to take down the gay exhibitionist photos before the Marine Corps get wind of them.

well, as far as hair loss is concerned, ayurveda is totally bogus. first, this is spam. second, i could tell from the prose alone that it was written by an indian and not by a girl named maggy. third, at least the before/after pics of the male on the home page appear to have been stolen from the toppik site. and last, in the patient galleries, what's the use of putting bars over people's faces if you are going to call them out by NAME?

cancel and keep doing your homework. you haven't done enough if you're going to Bosley. cancel cancel cancel cancel cancel right now.

guess we'll need to see your pics, but "too much hair" never sounds like a bad thing. i'm sure there must be some styling solutions you can look into....

outstanding results. no two ways. thx for the new pics....

well said, B_Spot. i second your response. 21 is _too young_, etc, etc.

didn't look bad to me pre-HT, but i'm having a hard time figuring out where nearly 2000 grafts were placed. i'm sure you'll bounce back after the shock loss regrows.

who was your original doctor, though? if i remember correctly, it wasn't somebody with a reputation for being very good. as young as you are, i wouldn't go any lower on the hairline. it looks like your overall thinning pattern is quite extensive.

you might want to look up the word "curetage"--it's a gynecological term in French and should dissuade you from taking this product at all seriously. in fact, it should make you really afraid...!

i agree with JakeVig. i think Dr. True made a very interesting argument in tony71's thread a while back for doing a strip for this amount of grafts. even Dr. Feller argued on hairlosshelp recently that given the current state of FUE, anyone needing more than *400* grafts should go with a strip. so all this "concern" about strips for smaller numbers isn't even supported by the position of arguably the best FUE practitioner in the country. that being said, i see no reason why this guy should have waited. i think a lot of the handwringing is just covert jealousy that the guy has a lot of hair left and all the attention here always goes to the extemely bald posters. it's like, "how could he possibly only need 700? he doesn't need a transplant...!" it took a while for anyone to even respond to this guy's thread, and he didn't get the welcome message and backslapping every 4000+ graft case seems to get. not everybody needs a Hasson & Wong miracle, but i can understand why a modest case like this doesn't elicit much sympathy and flies under the radar. and if he were going to be a nw7, we'd probably already see him well on his way by now.

doesn't look like hair loss to me, but maybe your other pics will flesh out what's bothering you. i see a mature hairline, but i wouldn't say it's receded.

looks like you could easily use that number of grafts, depending on where the hairline is placed (and it should be placed high), but where does "5860" come from? how can they be so precise? i find that ludicrous, and to get that number you'd also need the proper scalp laxity, which isn't something Armani can assure you of via an internet consult. i'd like to see "Shane" (Armani's virtual mouthpiece and junior alter ego since he doesn't ever respond to online forums like this himself) appear and address these puzzling issues.

who was your doctor?

i must say our new friend Mark H always manages to impress me w/ a heartfelt and quiet eloquence. kudos to him for his hard-won insights. and for recently hijacking one of the most ridiculous threads in forum history...!

it needs to be said yet again: don't get a hair transplant in India. period.

Mark H, wasn't trying to find fault, just thought you'd be interested to know. I studied classics and "Achaean" was an all-purpose word for "Greeks". Homer refers to the Trojan expedition collectively as the "Achaeans". See, since you've hijacked the thread, the tone has improved already. Who thought we'd end up referencing Mencken? Agreed about Jotronic, but a distasteful catch nonetheless. Spam_007, get out of Mark H's thread!!!

No, Mark, I think they were the "Aegean" stables, and they were filled with SPAM. He wanted SMG to prove their mettle, but he had to "find attention elsewhere". What he doesn't understand is SMG doesn't employ somebody full time to "troll" these boards every day; i guess the person who fished him out of the muck of this thread and helped sign him up for a procedure is a "troll" too? and now he's insulting Shapiro's lead tech? i think Troy is suffering from Stockholm syndrome.