Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 Sharing my recent FUE hair transplant with Dr. Bicer in Istanbul and hope to give back by sharing my story with this great network. I am surprised at how smooth the entire process was from initial consult to surgery day with her offices. I traveled from US after having interviewed 5 doctors on my situation across US and Mexico before selecting Bicer in Turkey. I’m 35and norwood 5 verging on 6. Fortunately have strong donor area to utilize and appreciated the plan recommended to me by Dr. Bicer for obtaining maximum coverage now and preserving donor for future need. She recommended a session of 4k grafts and potential for 4k more in a session down the road since I had a large balding area. We did a super session of 10 hours. The team was very good and I appreciated their natural approach to recreating my hairline. Dr. Bicer was there checking on progress and doing the extraction and incisions herself and her team handled anesthesia and insertions. I was drowsy and slept for part of the surgery but the time flew for being 10 hours! She did check in on every stage of process. the only discomfort felt was with needle during anesthethia and that was quick process to numb the area. I appreciated how they ensured there would be no pain and methodical approach here. after a successful surgery, I was given my medications and instructions and walked the 2 mins to the Sheraton hotel to recover. The day after the surgery I did my follow up with Dr. Bicer and she was very pleased and excited for my future results. The benefit in my case was how much donor hair I had to work with and how much they were able to cover on my scalp in one session. Optimistically it might be some time before I need to do another session. We will see over the coming year. Fingers crossed. Sharing some before and after photos below. You can see they did a large graft harvest all along my donor area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member duckling Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 You have lot of existing hair spread across your scalp. If you are on meds/planning to go on meds then they should help you with density until you get your second surgery. Coming to the work, its very clean as expected in terms of implantation and with 4000 grafts implanted you will have amazing coverage in a year's time. For checking extraction work , Can you please share donor pics from back angle ? (both pre and post op). I wanted to see how 8000 FUE grafts donor looks like as people normally have 6000-6500 grafts. The hairline is same as what people get but the irregularities are nicely given. Happy growing ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted April 21, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 @duckling here’s donor pre- surgery and two days after surgery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Rafael Manelli Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 She took the grafts from a rather restricted area. I’m surprised she didn’t spread the extraction zone for their towards the temple. FUE megasessions are risky but you have very strong donor and pocked a good doc so best of luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Jackdaniels Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 Good work from dr bicer. 4000 grafts is a good number for first procedure. After one year you will see if u need a second one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member ScottishGuy21 Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 You’re in safe hands. I had the same number done by Dr Bicer back in October and my donor is back at the point which you’d never know I’d had a transplant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted April 21, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) @ScottishGuy21Glad to hear about your similar experience! Thats great! Did you share any of your photos on the forum? Taking any medications? I'm on minoxidil oral and have been doing topical finasteride. plan to keep this up Edited April 21, 2023 by cafeguy87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member ScottishGuy21 Posted April 21, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 21, 2023 2 hours ago, cafeguy87 said: @ScottishGuy21Glad to hear about your similar experience! Thats great! Did you share any of your photos on the forum? Taking any medications? I'm on minoxidil oral and have been doing topical finasteride. plan to keep this up Yes my thread can be found below. I’m 6 1/2 months in now and so far everything is going well. Like you I need a second procedure, this time for my midscalp and crown. I’ve been on Fin for a few years along with biotin / zinc supplements. Unfortunately tried but had sides on Oral Minox / Topical. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Spring15 Posted April 22, 2023 Senior Member Share Posted April 22, 2023 Good luck pal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member j1000 Posted April 28, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted April 28, 2023 Happy growing. Fellow Bicer patient here myself, a fellow American. I’m on month 8. I’m a slow healer and grower so I’m looking foreword to my 12 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted May 9, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted May 9, 2023 3 week update. healing nicely and growing quickly. not sure when the ugly duckling phase will start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Spring15 Posted May 10, 2023 Senior Member Share Posted May 10, 2023 I suspect those hairs will start leaving in droves. They will return Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member saulgoodbruv Posted August 17, 2023 Regular Member Share Posted August 17, 2023 Any updates? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted August 17, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 17, 2023 2 month, 1 week. Photos below after first haircut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted August 17, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 17, 2023 3 month photo update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted August 17, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 17, 2023 4 month, 1 week photo update lots more growth and lots of coverage. Happy with hairline. Density is still thin in transplanted areas. We will see if that gets thicker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member cafeguy87 Posted November 3, 2023 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 3, 2023 6+ month update Thicker but still not very dense when viewed from above and up close. From afar looks filled in. feels like it got thinner since month 5? Anyone experience thinning or shedding late at 6 months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valued Contributor Gatsby Posted November 3, 2023 Valued Contributor Share Posted November 3, 2023 Look at the improvement from month four to month six? 👌 I think it just needs a few more months. 👍 GATSBY 'UNPLUGGED!' 15,671 (3 surgeries) Grafts FUE+BHT Dr. Sethi Eugenix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member Spring15 Posted November 4, 2023 Senior Member Share Posted November 4, 2023 I see a lot of growth, wait a few months before final judgement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Clean241 Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 How did you do your payment? Had to be done all cash or what were the options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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