Franklin

I have had Fue and after receiving 3 strips the procedures are like night and day.Don't be to concerned about location you want the best for your particular situation.And my Fue doctor has lots of results and has been doing it for years.Oh and as far as Dr.Benmer I hope he is not the same doctor Behmer from Saratoga springs N.Y who I saw on the discovery channel last night.I consider myself a expeirienced ht patient since going through both procedures and Dr.Behmer used a 4 bladed knife to take out the donor strip how outdated.And he also performs beard hair transplants which I was unfortunate to see on this poor man that had a huge scar and had to have it repaired from doctor Woods.Please Do your homework.

Well lets see they are like little nails they put in your head to help keep the recepeint holes open.What are these guys doing?OUTDATED!

Elliot and True have informercials on Saturday afternoons and late Sunday nights on Long Island N.Y station 55.Also I beleive dialators went out in the 80's.No good Doc uses them.

I have had 1100 grafts about 5 months ago and the hair is filling in.If you have many questions feel free to e-mail me at Mikek48@hotmail.com.

You can get 2 back to back procedures with Woods (600 a day)and fill in the middle just fine.It is comming along very nicely for me.

I have been thinking about using minox for a while now and have asked a lot of people that are on it ans doctors about effectiveness.Seems the overal opinions is that it is best at rejuvinating hairs that are starting to miniturize and help keep what you have.I do not think it will grow decent hair on slick bald spots or hair that is just about gone from site.But Finasteride and minox should be part of your maintenance program after Ht.I will let you know how it turns out with me.

Hey Paul just curious what side effects did they say.I never heard of side effects with the topical spiro only with the pills.

No No No No No I want you to e-mail a freind of mine hey got messed up by Brandt in Pitt and also Nu Hart Has huge grafts too.Stay away from both.Travel if you have to.E-mail him at IamDhead@aol.com.Really don't do anything to you hear his story.

Hey pic I only as of today April 22 2003 are 3 months post op.I should be starting to see some results soon.I have posted my after pics 2 weeks after surgery on hairsite.com go to Woods conference in N.Y.C on Feb 8th and you can see my before and right after I had my work done.I will definately post pictures this summer.But if you look at these pics it gives a good aspect on what I had done.If youwould like to e-mail me Mikek48@hotmail.com.

Hey guys just to let you know all is well after 2 months of my Woods procedures.I can't tell you enough what a huge difference from my experience that Woods technique was than my strip procedures.I think he did a very god job with me.If anyone missed my photo's I am at www.hairsite.com and I can be found at Dr.Woods confrence recap on the main page.I am the patient Franklin.I will update photos in the months to come.

O.K guys if you go to www.hairsite.com and hairtransplant forum go to link Franklins pictures.These are 2 weeks right out of surgery with head shaved.I also shaved down the donor site the night before the pictures were taken as I was going to the Woods conference and wanted to show the real senario.I did not take photos but you can get a general idea.Also if I ever need anymore work Woods says he can get 2 more procedures but says I should be set for awhile.

Sorry it was a typo.Yes he can place the grafts in between exsisting hairs.And the best thing about the procedure you can see him do it.Yes I did have to fly to Australia.Hey I thought it was a great experience.I did not need to spend hardly any money just what I wanted for my enjoyment.

Hey Franklin here.First of all the cost is alot alot more than I could afford but what the hell I only have one head.I had 1100 grafts I paid around 14000.My situation I thought was to dufficult to go to any doc.I had received 800 mini micros not much growth from them and the scar not so good seen alot worse will get it taken care of though later with some fill in grafts.Any way I am 40 and wanted to fill in the vertex area.I only have a poloroid from before but I will scan it and it will give you idea of my concern.Also my whole procedure was done with 23 gauge needles tightly packed.Also I choose to shave my head.I did not have to but wanted to take every precaution.Yes the surgery was long 12-15hours.But breaks when you want lunch dinner and I was able to veiw the whole placing of the grafts on high powered magnification.I tell you I am no surgeon but what I was seeing on the screen I felt I could place the dam grafts.Anyway doc sees this with much more magnification than what I seen.Actually compared to my previous strips this was real assuring that I was in the best hands.Also this should after all grows out rest peoples minds that you can't inplant between exsisting hairs.I don't own a digital camera but David from hairsite is going to take pics 2 weeks out of my head to give everyone a good idea what is going on.Also in my quest to get this done I also am in contact with some other recent Woods patients a few months out and will ask them to do the same.I do not go on these boards to debate but just share info.More to come

Arfy no problem.I am happy to do it.Even 2 weeks out.Again the worst is my haircut. LOL

O.K guys here is a little more info from a recent Woods patient.I know I haven't posted in a while and wanted to wait till after I had the procedure done.Let me say when I first posted on this site I was acuused of being a schill for Woods.Nothing can be farther from the truth.I am just a guy who after having 3 strips 40 years old 800 grafts.Wanted to improve my situation.And I must say after meeting several people and speaking to them on the phone and countless Top notch strip docs in the U.S I beleive I made the right descion.I am 6 days out and will be at the Woods Seminar in.N.y.C and will show anybody who is interested my 1100 grafts that are tightly packed together.I have shown my head to a few people who I hold high regard to and have ht's many years ago and they can't beleive how close and uniformed these grafts are.The procedure is like night and day from the strip.And I can tell you from my strip procedures there is no pain and my recepeint site is pink not red after 6 days.I am amazed at that alone.I don't have a digital camera but there will be pics up in a few weeks on hairsite David has been good to me and I told him that hE is more then welcome to take as many pics as he wants so people can see 2 weeks out the high quality of Dr.Woods work.Also if anyone wants I will show the whole room my head at the seminar.No Problem whatsoever.This much I can tell you is that every head is treated different.You don't feel like you are getting the cookie cutter procedure like I felt before and the way they advertise one size fits all.My procedures were done with 23 gauge needle the whole way.Can't wait for this to start growing.One more thing he takes hair all over your head so when it grows out it will be even with the rest of your density.I saw this in person before I went in.And there were no patchy marks left.Saw a GUY FROM 6 YEARS AGO 3200 grafts.No trace everything spread out.I thought that even though my first ht's were o.k I was told density is average at best.Strip would have killed me.Yes the boards have helped but until I have seen real results people up close.I would not have gone the extra mile.I think if anyone is the least bit curios they should make there way to the seminar and see for themselves.Good Luck to all of you.

O.K guys here is a little more info from a recent Woods patient.I know I haven't posted in a while and wanted to wait till after I had the procedure done.Let me say when I first posted on this site I was acuused of being a schill for Woods.Nothing can be farther from the truth.I am just a guy who after having 3 strips 40 years old 800 grafts.Wanted to improve my situation.And I must say after meeting several people and speaking to them on the phone and countless Top notch strip docs in the U.S I beleive I made the right descion.I am 6 days out and will be at the Woods Seminar in.N.y.C and will show anybody who is interested my 1100 grafts that are tightly packed together.I have shown my head to a few people who I hold high regard to and have ht's many years ago and they can't beleive how close and uniformed these grafts are.The procedure is like night and day from the strip.And I can tell you from my strip procedures there is no pain and my recepeint site is pink not red after 6 days.I am amazed at that alone.I don't have a digital camera but there will be pics up in a few weeks on hairsite David has been good to me and I told him that hE is more then welcome to take as many pics as he wants so people can see 2 weeks out the high quality of Dr.Woods work.Also if anyone wants I will show the whole room my head at the seminar.No Problem whatsoever.This much I can tell you is that every head is treated different.You don't feel like you are getting the cookie cutter procedure like I felt before and the way they advertise one size fits all.My procedures were done with 23 gauge needle the whole way.Can't wait for this to start growing.One more thing he takes hair all over your head so when it grows out it will be even with the rest of your density.I saw this in person before I went in.And there were no patchy marks left.Saw a GUY FROM 6 YEARS AGO 3200 grafts.No trace everything spread out.I thought that even though my first ht's were o.k I was told density is average at best.Strip would have killed me.Yes the boards have helped but until I have seen real results people up close.I would not have gone the extra mile.I think if anyone is the least bit curios they should make there way to the seminar and see for themselves.Good Luck to all of you.

I asked doctor Rose this question and he said smoking (tobacco use)only matters pre surgery in the matter of bleeding before surgery.

I will give my opinion on PAT Boone HT.I saw him on cnn show talking about when he lived next to Ozzy Osbourne.It showed a picture of him in a photo that clearly looked like a rug.Thick hair.And when he was giving his interveiw he had nice well distributed age apropriate hair.We know he has been wering this peice for years.But now he has nice Ht.

I will give my opinion on PAT Boone HT.I saw him on cnn show talking about when he live he lived next to Ozzy Osbourne.It showed a picture of him in a photo that clearly looked like a rug.Thick hair.And when he was giving his interveiw he had nice well distributed age apropriate hair.We know he has been wering this peice for years.But now he has nice Ht.

Sorry for type o's in a hurry!

Arfy don't mean to disagree.But from talking to Woods I got the impression that a lot of the young guy's from Australia have been comming to him for years for just a (Top Up)That is how this all got started his technique can be used for thickening to just small regions.He is very careful on tarnsplanting in really young guys 20 or so but if you are in your 30's he often will see guy's for touch.I wish in the near future when Doctor Woods does come to N.Y make plans on attending and you will see alot and be able to ask him questions.I value your post's tremendously but on this one a little bit more education would help you get a real good idea on his technoque and how it differs from all the rest.