Hi Everyone,
Ive just read the Parable/Dr White story, interesting, Parable I have to say I agree with your right to repair or refund. Whilst I have no doubt (and others agree) that your hair would look better longer, the pictures dont lie, there is no excuse for the side with the bruised/purple look or the scar.
There is a guy I have seen in a job a few years ago that has a similar sized scar and its quite obvious (dont know where he got it done).
As I was saying previously I am about a month down the post op track from NHI and cant as yet complain about anything. I received the customer service you would expect-no worries there.
The result since has been very similar to a smaller proceedure I had 12 months previous in the UK from which I had results I expected (620 grafts). Had to get more done because the first proceedure didnt take into acount any future loss and only had a limited amount of cash.
Anyway, I must admit when I found out the techs were going to do all the work I was a little disappointed (but this happened in the UK anyway).
My sacr is 2mm at the most and is still red but not visible as my hair easily covers it (my hair on back about 12 - 15mm long over the scar, basically no one would know).
There is only a very slight bump/ridge on each side of my head but i can feel a ridge on the back but I think it would only be 1 mm high at the most (Ive been checking while Ive been writing).
In terms of coverage there was 2141 grafts.
in the front - just less than a third of my head.
There is some pics of the guy (futzyhead) on the regrow site that my result looked and does look at the same stages except my transplant dosent go back as far as his. Ive looked at those and heaps of other pics on the net and I have no reason (at this stage) to be unhappy, i could see that the density of the grafts was quite good and my front hairline was recreated very close to how it originally was (I took in a photo and said this was my hairline, please fix it). My hairline was irregular and the works appears to have replicated it very well.
However, I am aware that none of what ive said really means shit because I wont know exactly how it will look (or close too) for another 5 months (my hair from the first grew quite fast and was about 1 1\2 to 2 inches long at the 6 month mark).
Also to give all the info, my hair is medium to dark brown (has some red left over from when I was young) and is quite thick hair, when I had a full head it was very strong and thick hair and it grows very fast (once amonth haircuts), also I had alot of it (less now ).
So look, here's the deal, weve all seen what ~Parable's~ hair looked like. I will let mine grow for a few months and then post some pre op and say 5 month photos and then some 7 month.
~Parable~ mate I think the scar is unacceptable and I would be as pissed off, I dont know if its been resolved or what but my opinion is that the story would have done some damage and had I have read all this before probably would have flown to the States and investigated some of the Doc's you guys all recommend.
(for your info I had researched hair transplants for the last 1 1\2 years (I found out about it in New York and went to a seminar there) and seen many pics of results)
So far all is well here but I will keep giving updates.
Best of luck to all of us.. Hope that clone technology goes well so everyone in the future can have the choice. Sometimes you have to ask 'what the.... is the problem with going bald, but the hair loss thing definatly messes with your head..
Anyway, ive been writing this for about too long, Take it easy..
qvarnis
