Dr Arshad- Hair Dr 1800 Graft Second Pass Surgery and Slight Lowering of Hairline

[HHH]

Hi guys, so I thought I'd make a thread detailing my hair transplant journey so far with the Hair Dr.

I had my first transplant there back in July last year, which consisted of 2000 grafts to the front. As shown below in the pics it didn't exactly go to plan and the density wasn't great (on the left side in particular). After chatting through with the Dr and Sommiya (practice manager) they agreed to redo the areas where growth was looking sparse, and at the same time I paid for an extra 1000 grafts to slightly bring my hairline down. Was originally quoted about 300 grafts to redo the area, however on the day the Dr agreed that more was needed so I think just over 800 grafts were used. They haven't sent over the pics directly post op yet, but I will upload them next week once I have them.

The Dr wasn't entirely sure why the grafts had not taken as well as expected, although possible reasons were the punch size used at the time, which was I believe mainly 0.6mm and probably led to some trouble cleanly extracting anything more than 2 hair grafts. With this op he used a 0.9- 1mm punch.

My donor area wasn't the best (it has strengthened a bit on finasteride), so this probably didn't help things. Dr Arshad was more selective with the hairs that were used from the donor area this time around.

 

I'm not really going to detail the actual day of the surgery as most of you know the drill already, everyone at the clinic was lovely and the procedure went very smoothly. I've never had a problem getting a question answered either.

 

Current Meds: Finasteride for the last 15 months, Nizoral shampoo once a week, minoxidil 1x per day- I alternate between the liquid and the foam (will try the tablet version soon after a bit more research), saw palmetto and biotin. No regrowth but the crown hasn't changed in the last year so this seems to be stabilising things.         

            

I was aware when going back that a few patients have had similar complications, although I did think that this was part of the game and that some would always need a second pass to get the results they wanted (Mike's FUE story is a good example of one who went from pretty good to amazing from the 1st to the 2nd procedure). I will say that from spending a lot of time on forums whilst i've been off work this last 2 weeks, it is a bit worrying to see the full volume of  patients that are  in the same position, but hopefully given that he probably sees over 400 patients a year, these cases are still in the minority.
 

Anyway I'll keep putting out monthly updates and hopefully will achieve a good result! Does anyone have any tips for helping achieve maximum growth from the grafts?

 

[follically challenged]

Hang in there dude, it could get better. 

Do you have any clearer pictures of the hairline now? That last pic doesn't really show the hairline in any detail....

[HHH]

43 minutes ago, follically challenged said:

Hang in there dude, it could get better. 

Do you have any clearer pictures of the hairline now? That last pic doesn't really show the hairline in any detail....

Hi buddy, apologies that the pics are a bit unclear (is there a way to add text to them?) 2nd Hair transplant was 12 days ago, current pics are in the bottom 5- very last one is how my hair looks pulled down to disguise the recipient area, then two of the current donor and two of the transplanted area.

I've added another to try and clearly show the left hand side. Would you say that the density is sufficient to give a half decent result?

[follically challenged]

Looks clean work to me mate. I guess we'll have to be patient for the final result. Whats the donor area looking like now after the second surgery? It looked barley touched before...

Edited November 15, 2021 by follically challenged

[HHH]

4 hours ago, follically challenged said:

Looks clean work to me mate. I guess we'll have to be patient for the final result. Whats the donor area looking like now after the second surgery? It looked barley touched before...

Cheers man, i'm 13 days in now and tbh you still can't rally tell that i've had anything taken from the donor area so lucky in that regard I guess. 3rd pic is immediately post op the first time, and the one after is the second surgery.

 

Yeah you're right, nothing you can do for at least 9 months before you get an indication of the end result, so not going to worry about it!

 

Thanks dude

[Britanium]

And now it’s time to “play the game” the waiting game 😂🤣

[HHH]

27 minutes ago, JC71 said:

And now it’s time to “play the game” the waiting game 😂🤣

Lol indeed 😂😆! This shedding phase is good fun haha!

[jxlegend]

any update?

[HT-FUE]

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