masterworks Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) After much consideration and watching so many people's lives change I decided to go ahead with a hair transplant. The journey however was staggered by me resisting hair transplant, taking time to choose a right hair transplant surgeon and going back and forth whether hair is important enough for my life. Now after 9 months after hair transplant I can say the whole process was totally worth it. I also understood by going through pages and pages of this forum that many people do not get good results here. I may have reasons why they don't and also why I got good results. I did make a special notes of what to see in hair transplant surgeons. So here is my journey of hair transplant. I had Grade 6 baldness (i don't understand as to me all look same after people called me bald). All I can say it was pretty bad. Since initially I was resisting idea of a hair transplant I went circles about choosing one. I wanted one that was done by independent hair transplant surgeons and not some faceless travelling surgeons working for corporates. My friend has gotten one from such a centre and he regrets the decision very much. I went to about many hair transplant centres. Most of them had me talking to sales guy or some guy responsible for convincing me to get it done from them as they are having discounts and etc. It was kind of embarassing as I knew more about hair transplant than those guys. The last one was with Dr. Tushar Kshirsagar (Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre, Pune, India). That lasted for about 45 mins and I got to know way more than I ever could from Google only. I was convinced about a hair transplant. I was still a little hesitant for surgery. So I requested Dr. Tushar for trying scalp Micropigmentation first as I would like to go for a shaved head look. (I know..). SMP was really not that big deal but also not something which I wanted. In about 2 months post SMP, I contacted Dr. Tushar again and booked for my hair transplant. Hair transplant was as follows 2.5 days (total of 4356 grafts) Scalp donor was 3825 grafts Beard donor was 531 grafts ( I barely have beard) Implantation was done by SAVA Implanters by doctor and his team. It was surprisingly not that painful. Also doc was using some kind of vibration and cooling for those initial pricks of numbing. It was really nothing. I would grade pain 2 or 3 out of 10. I tried dozing off especially during the implantation as it was long. After the procedure was done, that evening I did have swelling over forehead and some pain. A simple painkiller (here it is combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen) was sufficient to reduce the pain. Pain never became an issue after that. I had to take the dressing off my self at home. Doc had given a list of things to follow with the dates of the same. Also I was to share scalp photos of donor and planted areas over their official WhatsApp number. On 7th or 8th days I was advised on how to remove these scabs of planted grafts. That was not very hard. I was a bit apprehensive about grafts coming out. But Dr. Tushar had explained that grafts can't come off after 8 days. I did witness some hair coming off. As a part of shedding stage they do come off early too. Shedding phase for me lasted less that others as I started noticing hairline as soon as 2.5 months post hair transplant. At 6.5 months already it was looking awesome 😎. And 8 to 9 months it was simply stunning. Very happy that I chose Dr. Tushar at Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre. Maintenance : I am using finasteride and minoxidil. I ll stop these sometime in future. Finasteride for sure, minoxidil, may be. Sorry for long post. But my hair transplant journey was amazing! What do you think! Ps: i also think doing SMP before a hair transplant actually helped in over all look. I know it was not planned like that, but worth mentioning. Also sorry for watermarks, as I requested most photos from clinic. Edited March 27 by masterworks Image sequence was wrong, so corrected it 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Mahesh42 Posted March 28 Regular Member Share Posted March 28 Looks very clean work and nice growth around 9 months 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer_ Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 On 3/27/2024 at 8:52 PM, masterworks said: After much consideration and watching so many people's lives change I decided to go ahead with a hair transplant. The journey however was staggered by me resisting hair transplant, taking time to choose a right hair transplant surgeon and going back and forth whether hair is important enough for my life. Now after 9 months after hair transplant I can say the whole process was totally worth it. I also understood by going through pages and pages of this forum that many people do not get good results here. I may have reasons why they don't and also why I got good results. I did make a special notes of what to see in hair transplant surgeons. So here is my journey of hair transplant. I had Grade 6 baldness (i don't understand as to me all look same after people called me bald). All I can say it was pretty bad. Since initially I was resisting idea of a hair transplant I went circles about choosing one. I wanted one that was done by independent hair transplant surgeons and not some faceless travelling surgeons working for corporates. My friend has gotten one from such a centre and he regrets the decision very much. I went to about many hair transplant centres. Most of them had me talking to sales guy or some guy responsible for convincing me to get it done from them as they are having discounts and etc. It was kind of embarassing as I knew more about hair transplant than those guys. The last one was with Dr. Tushar Kshirsagar (Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre, Pune, India). That lasted for about 45 mins and I got to know way more than I ever could from Google only. I was convinced about a hair transplant. I was still a little hesitant for surgery. So I requested Dr. Tushar for trying scalp Micropigmentation first as I would like to go for a shaved head look. (I know..). SMP was really not that big deal but also not something which I wanted. In about 2 months post SMP, I contacted Dr. Tushar again and booked for my hair transplant. Hair transplant was as follows 2.5 days (total of 4356 grafts) Scalp donor was 3825 grafts Beard donor was 531 grafts ( I barely have beard) Implantation was done by SAVA Implanters by doctor and his team. It was surprisingly not that painful. Also doc was using some kind of vibration and cooling for those initial pricks of numbing. It was really nothing. I would grade pain 2 or 3 out of 10. I tried dozing off especially during the implantation as it was long. After the procedure was done, that evening I did have swelling over forehead and some pain. A simple painkiller (here it is combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen) was sufficient to reduce the pain. Pain never became an issue after that. I had to take the dressing off my self at home. Doc had given a list of things to follow with the dates of the same. Also I was to share scalp photos of donor and planted areas over their official WhatsApp number. On 7th or 8th days I was advised on how to remove these scabs of planted grafts. That was not very hard. I was a bit apprehensive about grafts coming out. But Dr. Tushar had explained that grafts can't come off after 8 days. I did witness some hair coming off. As a part of shedding stage they do come off early too. Shedding phase for me lasted less that others as I started noticing hairline as soon as 2.5 months post hair transplant. At 6.5 months already it was looking awesome 😎. And 8 to 9 months it was simply stunning. Very happy that I chose Dr. Tushar at Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre. Maintenance : I am using finasteride and minoxidil. I ll stop these sometime in future. Finasteride for sure, minoxidil, may be. Sorry for long post. But my hair transplant journey was amazing! What do you think! Ps: i also think doing SMP before a hair transplant actually helped in over all look. I know it was not planned like that, but worth mentioning. Also sorry for watermarks, as I requested most photos from clinic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer_ Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Just now, Wanderer_ said: On 3/27/2024 at 8:52 PM, masterworks said: After much consideration and watching so many people's lives change I decided to go ahead with a hair transplant. The journey however was staggered by me resisting hair transplant, taking time to choose a right hair transplant surgeon and going back and forth whether hair is important enough for my life. Now after 9 months after hair transplant I can say the whole process was totally worth it. I also understood by going through pages and pages of this forum that many people do not get good results here. I may have reasons why they don't and also why I got good results. I did make a special notes of what to see in hair transplant surgeons. So here is my journey of hair transplant. I had Grade 6 baldness (i don't understand as to me all look same after people called me bald). All I can say it was pretty bad. Since initially I was resisting idea of a hair transplant I went circles about choosing one. I wanted one that was done by independent hair transplant surgeons and not some faceless travelling surgeons working for corporates. My friend has gotten one from such a centre and he regrets the decision very much. I went to about many hair transplant centres. Most of them had me talking to sales guy or some guy responsible for convincing me to get it done from them as they are having discounts and etc. It was kind of embarassing as I knew more about hair transplant than those guys. The last one was with Dr. Tushar Kshirsagar (Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre, Pune, India). That lasted for about 45 mins and I got to know way more than I ever could from Google only. I was convinced about a hair transplant. I was still a little hesitant for surgery. So I requested Dr. Tushar for trying scalp Micropigmentation first as I would like to go for a shaved head look. (I know..). SMP was really not that big deal but also not something which I wanted. In about 2 months post SMP, I contacted Dr. Tushar again and booked for my hair transplant. Hair transplant was as follows 2.5 days (total of 4356 grafts) Scalp donor was 3825 grafts Beard donor was 531 grafts ( I barely have beard) Implantation was done by SAVA Implanters by doctor and his team. It was surprisingly not that painful. Also doc was using some kind of vibration and cooling for those initial pricks of numbing. It was really nothing. I would grade pain 2 or 3 out of 10. I tried dozing off especially during the implantation as it was long. After the procedure was done, that evening I did have swelling over forehead and some pain. A simple painkiller (here it is combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen) was sufficient to reduce the pain. Pain never became an issue after that. I had to take the dressing off my self at home. Doc had given a list of things to follow with the dates of the same. Also I was to share scalp photos of donor and planted areas over their official WhatsApp number. On 7th or 8th days I was advised on how to remove these scabs of planted grafts. That was not very hard. I was a bit apprehensive about grafts coming out. But Dr. Tushar had explained that grafts can't come off after 8 days. I did witness some hair coming off. As a part of shedding stage they do come off early too. Shedding phase for me lasted less that others as I started noticing hairline as soon as 2.5 months post hair transplant. At 6.5 months already it was looking awesome 😎. And 8 to 9 months it was simply stunning. Very happy that I chose Dr. Tushar at Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre. Maintenance : I am using finasteride and minoxidil. I ll stop these sometime in future. Finasteride for sure, minoxidil, may be. Sorry for long post. But my hair transplant journey was amazing! What do you think! Ps: i also think doing SMP before a hair transplant actually helped in over all look. I know it was not planned like that, but worth mentioning. Also sorry for watermarks, as I requested most photos from clinic. Expand How much does it cost??? Ana method used? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterworks Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 This was FUE, where they stored grafts in plasma (I guess this is called BioFUE) but I am not sure whether it is of any help. The doctor didn't say this first, I just asked about it after the procedure. Method of implantation was SAVA implanters they look like smaller choi implanters. Since I was looking for not very low or exorbitantly high in my location in Pune, India. I paid INR160,000/- (Just about $1900). This I would say is mid range in hair transplant cost where I stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer_ Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 2 minutes ago, masterworks said: This was FUE, where they stored grafts in plasma (I guess this is called BioFUE) but I am not sure whether it is of any help. The doctor didn't say this first, I just asked about it after the procedure. Method of implantation was SAVA implanters they look like smaller choi implanters. Since I was looking for not very low or exorbitantly high in my location in Pune, India. I paid INR160,000/- (Just about $1900). This I would say is mid range in hair transplant cost where I stay. Dr seems good…. You are on oral Finesteride…. How long to continue on medication???? Share ur experience…. But didn’t hear much about him…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterworks Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 Yes, actually I selected him because he was very open about discussing every aspect of hair transplant from the first consultation itself. I hated the idea of talking to some filler person and meeting the hair transplant surgeon only during the surgery. I found him on Instagram actually as (https://www.instagram.com/nuleaf.skin.hair). Also he himself was going to implant grafts as well, that plus my budget, all matches up my expectations. As for the procedure it was remarkably not as painful as I thought it was looking at YouTube videos. I am on oral finasteride 1mg per day, also on daily minoxidil spray. So far not facing any of the known issues with finasteride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer_ Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 1 minute ago, masterworks said: Yes, actually I selected him because he was very open about discussing every aspect of hair transplant from the first consultation itself. I hated the idea of talking to some filler person and meeting the hair transplant surgeon only during the surgery. I found him on Instagram actually as (https://www.instagram.com/nuleaf.skin.hair). Also he himself was going to implant grafts as well, that plus my budget, all matches up my expectations. As for the procedure it was remarkably not as painful as I thought it was looking at YouTube videos. I am on oral finasteride 1mg per day, also on daily minoxidil spray. So far not facing any of the known issues with finasteride. Thank you….. it was useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member OleBaldy Posted April 8 Regular Member Share Posted April 8 (edited) On 3/27/2024 at 10:22 AM, masterworks said: After much consideration and watching so many people's lives change I decided to go ahead with a hair transplant. The journey however was staggered by me resisting hair transplant, taking time to choose a right hair transplant surgeon and going back and forth whether hair is important enough for my life. Now after 9 months after hair transplant I can say the whole process was totally worth it. I also understood by going through pages and pages of this forum that many people do not get good results here. I may have reasons why they don't and also why I got good results. I did make a special notes of what to see in hair transplant surgeons. So here is my journey of hair transplant. I had Grade 6 baldness (i don't understand as to me all look same after people called me bald). All I can say it was pretty bad. Since initially I was resisting idea of a hair transplant I went circles about choosing one. I wanted one that was done by independent hair transplant surgeons and not some faceless travelling surgeons working for corporates. My friend has gotten one from such a centre and he regrets the decision very much. I went to about many hair transplant centres. Most of them had me talking to sales guy or some guy responsible for convincing me to get it done from them as they are having discounts and etc. It was kind of embarassing as I knew more about hair transplant than those guys. The last one was with Dr. Tushar Kshirsagar (Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre, Pune, India). That lasted for about 45 mins and I got to know way more than I ever could from Google only. I was convinced about a hair transplant. I was still a little hesitant for surgery. So I requested Dr. Tushar for trying scalp Micropigmentation first as I would like to go for a shaved head look. (I know..). SMP was really not that big deal but also not something which I wanted. In about 2 months post SMP, I contacted Dr. Tushar again and booked for my hair transplant. Hair transplant was as follows 2.5 days (total of 4356 grafts) Scalp donor was 3825 grafts Beard donor was 531 grafts ( I barely have beard) Implantation was done by SAVA Implanters by doctor and his team. It was surprisingly not that painful. Also doc was using some kind of vibration and cooling for those initial pricks of numbing. It was really nothing. I would grade pain 2 or 3 out of 10. I tried dozing off especially during the implantation as it was long. After the procedure was done, that evening I did have swelling over forehead and some pain. A simple painkiller (here it is combination of paracetamol and ibuprofen) was sufficient to reduce the pain. Pain never became an issue after that. I had to take the dressing off my self at home. Doc had given a list of things to follow with the dates of the same. Also I was to share scalp photos of donor and planted areas over their official WhatsApp number. On 7th or 8th days I was advised on how to remove these scabs of planted grafts. That was not very hard. I was a bit apprehensive about grafts coming out. But Dr. Tushar had explained that grafts can't come off after 8 days. I did witness some hair coming off. As a part of shedding stage they do come off early too. Shedding phase for me lasted less that others as I started noticing hairline as soon as 2.5 months post hair transplant. At 6.5 months already it was looking awesome 😎. And 8 to 9 months it was simply stunning. Very happy that I chose Dr. Tushar at Nuleaf Skin Clinic and Hair Transplant Centre. Maintenance : I am using finasteride and minoxidil. I ll stop these sometime in future. Finasteride for sure, minoxidil, may be. Sorry for long post. But my hair transplant journey was amazing! What do you think! Ps: i also think doing SMP before a hair transplant actually helped in over all look. I know it was not planned like that, but worth mentioning. Also sorry for watermarks, as I requested most photos from clinic. That is incredible work! Im sure the smp helps with the density appearance and it appears you have thick hair shafts. Congratulations. Edited April 8 by OleBaldy auto correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Kamran10 Posted April 8 Regular Member Share Posted April 8 Congrats , impressive result . Your donar looked untouched . Has this dr done many Norwood 6 and 7 cases ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member shashank19 Posted April 8 Regular Member Share Posted April 8 Hi @masterworks, your results look awesome, congratulations! Btw, you mentioned that your implantation was done by SAVA Implanters. Is this same Nuleaf team or someone else? Just not sure what SAVA means here. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member shashank19 Posted April 8 Regular Member Share Posted April 8 Nevermind. Just searched it: SAVA Implanter The surgeon usually complaint that choi implanter is costly and has many moving part, which can breakdown during surgery. To counter this problem Indian manufacturer designed the SAVA Implanter. It is cost effective and it consist of transplanter and an inducer. The graft is placed in transplanter and graft is slide in using inducer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterworks Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 Nuleaf Is the name of the clinic. My hair transplant was done by Dr. Tushar. SAVA Implanters I believe are type of implanter pens like choi implanter pens. They were used to insert grafts in the skin. They did not puts slits, like I see in most hair transplants here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member shashank19 Posted April 8 Regular Member Share Posted April 8 Thanks @masterworks. Not sure what's the best way to reach out to them, but I have emailed them. I will use your case as a reference if you don't mind. If I don't hear soon, will call them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member shashank19 Posted April 9 Regular Member Share Posted April 9 Dr. Tushar responded super promptly and in very detail. I'm kind of starting to like him. His charges are super good as compared to many other (but 5 star) clinics. Now, I'm thinking of picking either him or Neopel at Tijuana, Mexico. I will keep posting any updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Kamran10 Posted April 9 Regular Member Share Posted April 9 2 hours ago, shashank19 said: Dr. Tushar responded super promptly and in very detail. I'm kind of starting to like him. His charges are super good as compared to many other (but 5 star) clinics. Now, I'm thinking of picking either him or Neopel at Tijuana, Mexico. I will keep posting any updates. Since it’s in India , Do you think his clinic produce better result comparing with eugenix ? Did you see many successful cases with good donar management and result ? I ask because I’m also searching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member shashank19 Posted April 9 Regular Member Share Posted April 9 @masterworks did his there. Looks good. Not sure how to compare with eugenix as eugenix is super expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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