Destroyed Donor areas (tiktokers)

[stephcurry30]

 

 

 

No idea how these people think this is a decent result. What's even more alarming ar the people in the comments who are saying it looks great. so many ignorant and delusional people about hair transplants. 

[BaldDude]

too early to judge donor area.

[Melvin- Admin]

Hard to say the donor is destroyed at this stage, though, the first guy may have issues if he went to the famous clinic targeting afro hair patients in Turkey. 

[Doron Harati]

Too early to judge 

 

 

[HappyMan2021]

do these guys actually get money doing this? where do I sign up 🤣

[A Fue Good Men]

I’m gonna disagree with most on here and say it’s not too early to judge. No donor should be looking like the first guys even at 1 day post op. There are far too many grafts taken and they are not evenly spaced. There is too much skin showing as too many follicular units have been removed. Shock loss usually occurs several weeks after the transplant, not a week post op.

[Gatsby]

I think what these guys and their clinics are preaching and influencing others with is down right dangerous. I'm going to be doing an interview with Spencer Kobren in the next few weeks about 'My Story' from the beginning and how even today, things in the industry and social media, are just ruining young guys lives. Whether they realize it now, a year from now or five years from now, they will eventually regret making decisions to have surgery with little if any real objective research and education.

[stephcurry30]

4 hours ago, 5BetaReductase said:

I’m gonna disagree with most on here and say it’s not too early to judge. No donor should be looking like the first guys even at 1 day post op. There are far too many grafts taken and they are not evenly spaced. There is too much skin showing as too many follicular units have been removed. Shock loss usually occurs several weeks after the transplant, not a week post op.

Completely agree. No idea how someone can look at those videos and say it's too early to judge... These are horrid case that have depleted and ruined the patient's donor/head. 

[Ryan Daniel]

Both of them have destroyed donor areas. You can literally see the white patch of shadow of the overall overharvest,  however these people (and their viewers) only care about having thick hair on the front

[drawdownfx]

It’s scary that this is being eyeballed by the young adults and teenagers who will be thinking about doing this especially in this tinder/social media age where looks is the most important thing on these platforms.

[JohnCasper]

Well.... TicToc rears its ugly head.  Pardon the pun. Not ugly at all but I do hope these guys are happy down the road.

[Rafael Manelli]

Tiktokkers have an average in of 78 so unsurprising,

[CharlesBarkley]

On 12/24/2022 at 12:19 PM, Gatsby said:

I think what these guys and their clinics are preaching and influencing others with is down right dangerous. I'm going to be doing an interview with Spencer Kobren in the next few weeks about 'My Story' from the beginning and how even today, things in the industry and social media, are just ruining young guys lives. Whether they realize it now, a year from now or five years from now, they will eventually regret making decisions to have surgery with little if any real objective research and education.

Completely agree with you @Gatsby these TikTokers are going too far with certain things. I do not like it at all. Society is in danger.

[mister_25]

I just checked their updates and it looks like their donor has really bounced back. The first guy maybe not as much but still doesnt look as "gruesome" as it was in his early days. The second guy however had a massive comeback

First Guy Day 90:

Second Guy Week 9:

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by mister_25

[Melvin- Admin]

6 minutes ago, mister_25 said:

I just checked their updates and it looks like their donor has really bounced back. The first guy maybe not as much but still doesnt look as "gruesome" as it was in his early days. The second guy however had a massive comeback

First Guy Day 90:

Second Guy Week 9:

 

The first guy looks a bit overharvested, he has afro hair which conceals it better than straight hair. Second guy bounced back very well. But I’d be interested to see how it looks with shorter hair.

[hairthere]

Check the SMP section of this forum to see a recent result I posted of a FUE scarring repair client. Unfortunately this type of FUE work has become commonplace and it's mostly being done by robotic extraction. Dr Feller let me observe him doing manual FUE surgery 10 years ago and I remember him telling me how meticulous and careful you needed to be with those grafts. I don't think most of the "doctors" performing this surgery now are worried about being meticulous. Time is money, and sadly that's become very obvious in the hair transplant industry. 

[Dillpickle123]

The Afro patient probably went to a clinic that starts with an A and overharvests everyone that goes but those vids were to early to judge as the donor area was shaved down making it “look” over harvested 

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

I agree with Melvin. It’s far too early to determine if his donor area has truly been destroyed. He may have experienced extreme shock loss. This can happen although nobody wants it to.

and yes, sometimes the hair looks great postop, but what the commoners don’t realize is that all of that hair is going to fall out and take up to 12 to 18 months to fully grow in.  At the very least, hopefully the patient knows that.

Best wishes,

Rahal Hair Transplant

[Al - Moderator]

The real problem will show up several years later when they need another hair transplant for further loss, but their donor area is already too thinned out to do much with it. 

[Belve]

U can’t judge donor area before 7 months. By the way their donor looks to have bounched back well, till now…so that’s why it’s useless to judge the donor on first days. 

[Silent123]

On 2/26/2023 at 12:06 PM, hairthere said:

Check the SMP section of this forum to see a recent result I posted of a FUE scarring repair client. Unfortunately this type of FUE work has become commonplace and it's mostly being done by robotic extraction. Dr Feller let me observe him doing manual FUE surgery 10 years ago and I remember him telling me how meticulous and careful you needed to be with those grafts. I don't think most of the "doctors" performing this surgery now are worried about being meticulous. Time is money, and sadly that's become very obvious in the hair transplant industry. 

Hey man, this seems to be something a lot of people are doing lately. Good the option is there though one should never have to have it I guess