FUT 6500 hairs in France - Paris

[EricLaurent]

Hello,

Thanks you for accepting me on the forum.

I am 46 yo. I am balding from long time now, there is pics that show the evolution since 2009. My regimen was Minox 2% from around 23yo to 35 yo and 5% later.

 

 

 

I got a FUT 4 mont ago in Paris in a litle clinic with a lot of good review on google. The surgeon make me the scare and 3 assistants the implantation. They do FUT & FUE from 20 years. Total time was around 7,5h.

For the moment I am rather confident, I am just hopping geting enought density later (as every one here !).

To try preventing loss in future, my new regimen is Minox 5% 2x/day, topical Finasteride 0.025% + biotine 0,5% + pyridoxyne 1% + IgrantineF1 0,5% 4x/week (I start topical fina with 3x/week as recommended by FueClinic), zinc and MSM, + shapoo (DHT Striker shapoo and another one - I switch between them).

Here is some pics at J+0 :

 

The scare at J+6:

At 1 month with scare 1 month also:

At 2 month:

At 3 month:

At 4 month:
 

Scare at +4 month:
 

 

Hope it can help some member here, as other helped me 🙂

Thanks.

[BurnieBurns]

Thank you for posting. From your title do you mean to say this was 6500 grafts?

[EricLaurent]

Hello, no it's 6500 hair

[Dillpickle123]

So about 2500-3000 grafts, 6500 hairs 

[Henry]

I would say, pretty good result.

[EricLaurent]

Hello thanks you, I received 1300 grafts.

Some pics from 5 months:

[Gatsby]

1,300 grafts is a very low number and would not translate to 6,500 hairs. But the result looks good. Are you taking topical finasteride because you have side effects from oral finasteride? Thanks for sharing!

[EricLaurent]

Hello,

In fact it is really 1300 grafts but I got a lot of grafts with more than 4,5,6.. hairs (I got 800 grafts with 5 hair and even some with 10). I thinks it is an interest for FUT because with FUE you cannot pick up grafts with more than 3,4 hairs. 

Well, I wait for the final result... I will keep update this 🙂

 

[A Fue Good Men]

800 5-haired grafts? Hmmm…

[WhereIsMyMind]

Idk, FUT strip for 1300 only and 6500 hairs. I never heard something like that. Regardless, whatever number it is seems to be goinf well so far 👍

[EricLaurent]

Hello all,

An update at 6 month, photo are taken in the sun.

My hair are very curly, do you have experienced same things ? Thanks ! 

[Rafael Manelli]

6500/1300=5

Your hairs per graft average is 5.

Either you have the most stupendous unfathomable monstrous yeti donor I’ve ever seen or somethings not right here. That is a titanic amount of hair for that many grafts. Are you sure they didn’t use MFUs? Do you have any photos of the donor postop?

10 hair follicular units…unheard of.

Your hair is coarse, curly and apparently 5 hairs per graft on average. If your donor density is average, you could go from nw7 to a nw0 with that kind of donor.

Edited February 4, 2023 by Rafael Manelli

[HairEnthusiast101]

Who was your surgeons by chance?

[EricLaurent]

11 hours ago, Rafael Manelli said:

6500/1300=5

Your hairs per graft average is 5.

Either you have the most stupendous unfathomable monstrous yeti donor I’ve ever seen or somethings not right here. That is a titanic amount of hair for that many grafts. Are you sure they didn’t use MFUs? Do you have any photos of the donor postop?

10 hair follicular units…unheard of.

Your hair is coarse, curly and apparently 5 hairs per graft on average. If your donor density is average, you could go from nw7 to a nw0 with that kind of donor.

Perhaps it was a MFU.. My surgeon said it was a FUT but perhaps he used multiple grafts on my incisives....

I only have a photo of my donor at j+6 (FUT scare) wich is on top of the post.

Edited February 4, 2023 by EricLaurent

[Rafael Manelli]

6 minutes ago, EricLaurent said:

Perhaps it was a MFU.. My surgeon said it was a FUT but perhaps he used multiple grafts on my incisives....

I only have a photo of my donor at j+6 (FUT scare) wich is on top of the post.

Cool. Who was your surgeon? Do you think you'll have another procedure? 

[EricLaurent]

17 minutes ago, Rafael Manelli said:

Cool. Who was your surgeon? Do you think you'll have another procedure? 

I will ask him if he is ok to have his name on internet forum before posting here. I hope my density will be ok for me and I will not have to get another procedure by taking some medication... Wait and see ! :-)

[EricLaurent]

On 2/4/2023 at 1:12 PM, Rafael Manelli said:

Cool. Who was your surgeon? Do you think you'll have another procedure? 

Hello his name is Paul Benet : https://docteurpaulbenet.fr/

I have a question about my scar. I just take another picture of it at 7 months. I can see the staple scar and my scar is always a little bumpy... Do you think it is normal and the scar will flatten ?

Thanks !

Edited February 18, 2023 by EricLaurent

[EricLaurent]

Hello !

Well, I am now at 8 months. My transplanted hairs seems a little less curly and a little more dense. But I still need more density, because with some lighting I see the lake of density on top of my head.

For example here it is ok :

But whith a lot of light I see some lake of density (see below)

Unfortunately I can't take finasteride or duta, even in topical form because I have bad side effects. Do you think that if my condition does not improve at 1 year, a densification would be feasible with a small additional graft? Thanks a lot for advice about it !

Edited March 19, 2023 by EricLaurent

[EricLaurent]

To mod : Is it possible to edit my title please : "FUT 6500 hairs - Paul Benet (Paris, France) - 1 year update"

Here I am now 1 year post-transplant.

Everyone around me tells me that it's a success and that the result is very natural I am personally a little more reserved because:

 

- I would have liked to have an invisible scar with a 9mm shave at the back (see the photos below) - but it can no longer be seen at 11-12mm and it is enough that my hairstylist does not make a gradient that is too low;

- I would have liked to have more density, especially on the golf courses. The lack of density is particularly visible on the top when the hair is wet (see photos also)

- I still have the transplanted hair which tends to wave. However, it improves over time and the result is more and more natural.

- The transplanted hair is white so when it is long it is more obvious; but that doesn't bother me more than that...

 

I have to take stock at 1 year with my doc, I will ask his opinion for the scar (what he thinks of the tattoo or perhaps another technique... ). I also believe scars progress over a year for FUTs so I may try a 9mm cut again in 6 months.

For the density, I will surely have the final result in a few months but I think that in a few years (since the alopecia unfortunately evolves despite the transplant), when I need to go back, I will take the opportunity to fill in more golf courses if possible and necessary (well yes because finally having overfilled golf courses when you are old is it really aesthetic??!!)

As a reminder, before the transplant:

 

Today with normal light background:

 

Hairline:

 

With a very bright background (the face is generated by an AI):

In sunlight:

 

Back:

 

Wet hair top view:

 

 

Back view wet hair:

 

Scar at 9mm head not tilted:

 

 

Head tilted:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 5, 2023 by EricLaurent

[BackFromTheBrink]

AI software 5/10.

Transplant 9/10

It does look very natural and for a first pass it as much as anyone could expect, imho.

[EricLaurent]

Thanks you 🙂

[StuartChristie]

Thanks for sharing - very useful!

[A_4_Archan]

@EricLaurent

Looking natural and age appropriate and framing your face well ..congratulations 

[RobertoDeNiro]

It looks like a good result. Why didnt you go for FUE?

[EricLaurent]

Thks

Got FUT to get all my graft from safe area, get less transection and save grafts for later FUE

Edited August 17, 2023 by EricLaurent