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Any patients wishing to learn more about the procedure and my experience with Hasson And Wong can contact myself. I regularly hold consultations in London where you can see my results in person and I can take photos for either Dr Hasson or Dr Wong to give their recommendations. I will next be in London on Wednesday March 2nd, I can be contacted on ukconsultant@hassonandwong.com

Whether it is a failure should not be judged at this stage but yes the grafts appear to be very sparse and the incisions really big it does look like mini and micro grafts of the 90's I went through the same repair. That said it would be unfair to judge at this early stage and besides your head needs time to recover before considering your next move, I hope things turn out for you.

ast123 Am I right in thinking we spoke the middle of last week you are suffering from alopecia 2/3 patches and you were going to send me some photos for an evaluation by the doctors? As for the questions all payments are through the clinic in Vancouver and would be in US dollars not pounds, you are correct in stating that the clinic does offer a discount towards your flight and put you up for 2 nights for all patients receiving over 2000 grafts. With the pound doing better against the dollar than it was it may work out better than you expect it to but again without seeing any photos it is impossible to tell what can be done for you. Let me know if I can help any further.

I have had five strip surgeries do I win anything? Seriously though if you have the laxity you can certainly have more than two the question is will you need more than that at your age and looking at your pics it is difficult to tell much. You should take some clear photos and consult with various doctors for better idea of what is possible.

Dr Ashcroft is a good guy and knows his stuff when it comes to propecia etc.

I have taken some new shots of my hairline these represent a 6 month update, I have kept the original thread alive so you can see how the progress has been made over the years. I have noticed over the last few months that the hairs have really started to fill in now and help hide the old pluggy work further. Whilst the new hairs are there they are still quite fine and short and don't at this stage make a huge cosmetic improvement yet.

Hi Bill, Thanks for sharing your updates with the forum, things are starting to look good for you as everyone else says it will get better still for you. Hope you are keeping well?

As the November date was booked up so quickly I will be holding free consultations again in London on Wednesday the 1st of December. Those people interested in meeting up please contact me by email. It will be an opportunity to talk about the procedure at Hasson And Wong, travelling etc and for you to check out my results in person. At the same time I can take photos and send them to either Dr Hasson or Dr Wong for an assessment. ukconsultant@hassonandwong.com

Justin P, You onlylivetwice offers some very good advice here, as a norwood 6 I have been there and have the tee shirt. Have you met any patients of the doctor in person? Is 4k of grafts going to give you the coverage and density you want, it's unlikely on a norwood 6 but it depends on what your expectations are, also why 2 sessions for 4000 grafts?

Dr Rogers definately did Francis Rossi quite some time ago when he was working for Wellsbourne which then became the hospital group, so I guess they use his photos. I remember the add with a picture of the doc and Francis was always in the back of FHM or similar. In a interview with Francis i saw on TV he was very open about it, it looked ok as the hairline was mature for his age but he scrapes it back flat over his head into that famous ponytail. There is some good advice here for you shinemaster to take in.... never grow a ponytail:)

Thanks for the excellent photos, things are really starting to take off for you.

I will be holding free consultations in London on Wednesday the 10th of November. Those people interested in meeting up please contact me by email. It will be an opportunity to talk about the procedure at Hasson And Wong, travelling etc and for you to check out my results in person. At the same time I can take photos and send them to either Dr Hasson or Dr Wong for an assessment. ukconsultant@hassonandwong.com

Things are really looking great for 6 months, thanks for the update look forward to seeing your updates from now.

I really shouldn't worry about it 7 days is not going to make any difference, most of us have all done it.

Thanks for updating the forum with your 4 month progress, things will be starting to happen now for you, as we had surgery on the same day I have been noticing new hairs appear in my hairline too over the last month or so, grow well and please keep us all updated. I replied to your propecia question in the other post.

Hi Bill, Thanks for keeping the forum updated with your latest pics, it looks on track as you say in the early days the hair comes through fine and is difficult to pick up in photos particularly when you are taking the photos yourself, you still have some lingering redness, have you tried aloe vera for this?

1/5 of the proscar tablet is 1mg so as a last resort you could try 1/5 tab every other day and see how you get on.

Hi Illuminated, I hope you are doing well my friend Epiletic has given a very honest reply but everyone has different reactions, personally I would agree with the change in semen quality but I have had no other problems, you are well advised to try to ride out the current problems that you have and keep on it, if you are still having problems you could lower the dosage and see if that helps this will still give you some of the benefit.

Hi Ben UK Scalp exercises do work and if you were to spent half an hour a day every day for 3/4 months leading up to your procedure you will improve this and thus enable the doctor to harvest more grafts, as for just how many no-one can be sure, but I greatly improved my laxity to vastly improve the number of grafts I got and I know lots of others that have done the same. There is a video on our website that Joe posted showing more information on how to perform them, I don't think I can link you to it. And yes they are only usefull for strip patients.

Thanks for your kind words guys, the new hairline is starting to take shape and I am liking what I see. J1985 - Glad to of helped you make your choice and thanks happy days indeed. Spex- we keep saying this, it would be good to meet up, I don't know how often you are in London but let me know when you could do.

I thought I would update my case at what was the 3.5 month period after my 600 grafts into the hairline, I have some early growth into the hairline which is easier to see in certain light than other, this started around the 2.5 month mark with an odd baby hair this has become increasing more rapid over the last month. The hairs don't really make any contribution to my hairline at the moment as they are still short and baby fine....here are some pics

Hi Ken, relax....... none of what you are describing sounds abnormal, most hairs shed but not everyone of them, if you have existing hair where the grafts were placed then it is really difficult to work out which ones have shed and which are your original hairs growing back, temporary shockloss can occur but the best advise is not to obsess over it as it won't make it grow any quicker or make the result any better, the stress will just make you feel worse. Rest up and grow well.

You are feeling the same as most people feel 1 month after a ht, these feelings are nothing new, you have the comfort of the fact that things will get much much better from here. Try not to focus on it too much, I know it is hard but it won't make it grow any quicker.

The other 90% have the option of posting their pics on forums like this under no control of the clinics, just look how many blogs are on this site to scrutinise.....hundreds, but the vast majority want to remain anonymous, this is not something that anyone can control. I always tell people to do their own research, look at the results on the websites is part of this but these forums provided the greatest help to me when I was deciding on a clinic.

Ok as I have read through this post from start to last I feel I would like to address some of the points and comments made. Danielkiwi - Hasson and Wong are indeed booked up and between the two doctors they are averaging more than double your guess of patients each week, but out of these just how many patients give consent to post their pics on the internet somewhere between 5-10% and out of these 5-10% how many do you think actually return to the clinic to get proper before and after shots. In most cases it is patients coming back for another session, or for a check up. Just how many people will travel miles to have their 1 year after pics taken? The clinic posts the most transparent pictures of ht's anywhere on the net these are taken in the same location infront of the blue wall, they post hd video with comb throughs and expose the scar how is this deceptive advertising these are the results in the same conditions and lighting, they do not grab pictures from patients blogs which are dimly lit to use as after pics, so you are comparing apples to apples. Joe posts at least one new result on this forum each week, do you think he has a list of ten fully grown out results to choose from and just cherry picks the best one? No he has one or maybe two if lucky each week to go with that has given consent. If you see more home run results it's more than likely that the patient himself is happy with the result and therefore is more likely to give consent to post. As for K2009's results after 16 months I have never met the patient as I am miles away in the UK but 4600 grafts spread over a norwood 6 entire area is not going to give a dense result.This is apparent just looking at the placement post op. as everyone else has said it would take somewhere in the region of 7-10k to give a much fuller look.I do not also know what plan of attack was discussed but I assume that k2209 wanted coverage all over as he maybe didn't want to come back a second time, what he does have is a stand alone result albeit a bit thinner than he was maybe hoping for.He has the coverage and it has framed his face and he looks much better than where he started, he also has the option to have another session in the future, anyone with his level of loss is not going to have a one and done surgery. In my opinion your 16 month pics show an improvement over the 7 month ones, I am sure Joe can give us more details on the case.