Senior Member Loags79 Posted November 18, 2014 Senior Member Share Posted November 18, 2014 At 6 months the pinkness is almost gone, but with your lighter complexion it could be a few months more. my HT thread: http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/175267-dr-radha-fut-3261-grafts-photo-word-heavy.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted November 18, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted November 18, 2014 About 6 months. As always, the photo quality isn't that good. I've only got an ipad on me for easy pictures at the moment. Left side pictures are notably worse, looking kind of blurry. Left and right picture in bright sunlight, pictures the same as I've taken for the past while and 2 images with the hair parted through the middle of my left and right transplant areas. It looks better than month 5 with hairs becoming a little longer and thicker, but I can't see any new hairs. The thickest areas look to be about 35 grafts/cm with the areas right in the middle of my hairline ranging from about 10-20 grafts, with my right side being worse in that spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted December 18, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted December 18, 2014 7 Months. Most of it seems about the same desnity. Except for a tiny bit on the middle of my head, right side of my body. It doesn't want to grow for some reason. Maybe a tiny bit in the back of my left side is lagging too, I can't tell if it's just because I'm parting the hair when I look there. While it looks slightly better with the hairs becoming more normal and less like thin wiry pubic hair, I'll probably have to get a second procedure of 30-40 grafts per cm to make it match the rest of my head, especially when parting it. Pulling it back slightly tight makes it look better for some reason, if I had to guess I'd say it's the 'shingling' effect I've read about here before, with all the hairs lying on one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member gibbsville Posted December 20, 2014 Regular Member Share Posted December 20, 2014 As you are still only 7 months in i think its a decent result so far as you say you can get another small procedure to increase density but you need to give yourself another 6 months minimum with this procedure first. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted December 22, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted December 22, 2014 Just one more picture of my recipient for this month. In the red circle, you can see that the density is much less than the rest the there's even a small but where no grafts have grown at all. I might try update with donor pictures when there's sunlight. Does anyone have any idea of how many grafts have actually grown? I wouldn't guess above 40/cm. Overall at month 7, the result is too thin to contribute to any hairstyle or for me to not have to cover it with my existing hair. I'll update until month 10 for the final result, but my current opinion is that the result is very, very disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member 2youngforthis Posted December 23, 2014 Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 Take a pic looking straight on so we can see before and after.. I only ask because you are the first person on here with non brown hair. It does look like an improvement, but what do you think. How do you feel about it, and would you do it again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted December 23, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) Straight on as in looking directly from the top like in the OP images? I've tried to take it in similar lighting as the original images. Overall I currently feel horrible about it. While I know it's not the 'final result', I doubt I will experience a sudden large burst in graft count and density at this point and am not looking forward to much more than slight improvement. I'd do it again because the whole point of the transplant was to have a reasonably dense hairline, which this really hasn't achieve at all at the current point in time. I've cut a small 1X1cm portion in the thicker area of the recipient and the same in my normal hair, and it's definitely nothing near 70 grafts/cm, I'm struggling to even claim that it's 35 grafts/cm/ I wouldn't complain about the clinic I went to, as everybody else seems to have achieved great results, but more feel that I'm just the rare screwup that all surgeons have every now and then. Edited December 23, 2014 by Transhair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member 2youngforthis Posted December 23, 2014 Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 damn that stinks.. ia m sorry... i feel i have the same style hair as you and no i wonder if i will achieve the same end result? have you spoke tot he dr yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted December 23, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 (edited) I emailed her at month 6 and was to wait until month 10. You can also see that my graft yield is just awful, it's definitely much less than the promised 70ish grafts per cm. so you'd be fine if your surgery was successful... Here's a picture of my donor I tried to take myself. It's not that great either really... Edited December 23, 2014 by Transhair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Shacked Posted December 23, 2014 Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 Any surgeon that promises 70 grafts per cm-squared isn't realistic. Most surgeons consider around 50 per cm2 as dense packing. Iv'e never heard of or seen the amount you were expecting in any cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Transhair Posted December 23, 2014 Author Senior Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 Any surgeon that promises 70 grafts per cm-squared isn't realistic. Most surgeons consider around 50 per cm2 as dense packing. Iv'e never heard of or seen the amount you were expecting in any cases. I guess I discovered that with my lower yield. I received the graft count and breakdown and the drawn out area of 30 sq cm, and the overall density equals 72 grafts/cm. I asked when at the clinic and the density was confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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