The Official Hair Transplant Thread

[Anubis]

i was gonna go through with a hair transplant in thailand. but what puts me off is the scars that it leaves in the back of the head. i seen pictures of after results they all have those dot scars in the back of their head. so you would need to keep your back hair long to hide it. back hair pictures after the surgery would be good. to see how bad it really is.

If it is done well that shouldn't be happening but there is always going to be some level of scarring it is surgery but to the average person it wouldn't be noticeable unless it was badly done. The only reasons for that to happen is, use of large punches during extraction, over harvesting of the donor or the extraction pattern is poor which are all doctor errors. So much of this can be avoided by picking a good doctor, the only thing that may affect the healing and end result that the doctor is unrelated to is your own physiology, if you're a poor healer in general that can affect the scarring. If you're prone to keloid scars for example, you're more likely to heal with visible scarring than somebody who has had never shown signs of that. There are only a couple good docs in Thailand and they wouldn't be among the elite options out there and only one of the 2 is adept at fue, the other is mostly an fut specialist so be very careful in who you go to out there, i've seen some sloppy work out of that region.

 

[dragonfire101]

If it is done well that shouldn't be happening but there is always going to be some level of scarring it is surgery but to the average person it wouldn't be noticeable unless it was badly done. The only reasons for that to happen is, use of large punches during extraction, over harvesting of the donor or the extraction pattern is poor which are all doctor errors. So much of this can be avoided by picking a good doctor, the only thing that may affect the healing and end result that the doctor is unrelated to is your own physiology, if you're a poor healer in general that can affect the scarring. If you're prone to keloid scars for example, you're more likely to heal with visible scarring than somebody who has had never shown signs of that. There are only a couple good docs in Thailand and they wouldn't be among the elite options out there and only one of the 2 is adept at fue, the other is mostly an fut specialist so be very careful in who you go to out there, i've seen some sloppy work out of that region.

I wish they had smp back when i first did this. I have so much pitting and ridging it look bad. Its worse than scaring to me. Its deforming. If i shaved my head it looks like i got hit with oval hammer head in couple places. Im going be screwed because i feel transplanted hair eventually dies

 

[epoxy]

i was gonna go through with a hair transplant in thailand. but what puts me off is the scars that it leaves in the back of the head. i seen pictures of after results they all have those dot scars in the back of their head. so you would need to keep your back hair long to hide it. back hair pictures after the surgery would be good. to see how bad it really is.

The whole point of the hair transplant was to have hair. Once my hair was longer than "completely shaved" you can't notice shit. That being said I had 2000 grafts, cant say what it might've looked like if I needed a lot more work. But I got FUE so I could regrow my hair and have medium length hair.

 

[Anubis]

I wish they had smp back when i first did this. I have so much pitting and ridging it look bad. Its worse than scaring to me. Its deforming. If i shaved my head it looks like i got hit with oval hammer head in couple places. Im going be screwed because i feel transplanted hair eventually dies

transplanted hair shouldn't die but that's not to say all people have a safe zone. If you're a destined nw 7 or a dupa patient you may not have a safe zone to speak of thus that transplant should never have happened as the hairs can potentially die but for the average patient who does have a safe zone that hair is safe and should last a life time.

Pitting is the result of poor technique, usually the result of implanting a graft too deeply, it can be addressed but usually needs to be punched out and if you have lots of pitting that is going to leave some scarring but its gotta be better than pitting. Ridges are a tough one, they can be your own physiology and how you heal but it can also be poor technique. Given what I've seen of your work and that you have pitting I would guess the latter from your earliest works. It's a little tougher to address but you can undergo scar removal, it may hurt some of the hair but if ultimately you want to flatten out your scalp and just go at it alone with smp then it would give you the best scalp to attempt that.

 

[dragonfire101]

transplanted hair shouldn't die but that's not to say all people have a safe zone. If you're a destined nw 7 or a dupa patient you may not have a safe zone to speak of thus that transplant should never have happened as the hairs can potentially die but for the average patient who does have a safe zone that hair is safe and should last a life time.

Pitting is the result of poor technique, usually the result of implanting a graft too deeply, it can be addressed but usually needs to be punched out and if you have lots of pitting that is going to leave some scarring but its gotta be better than pitting. Ridges are a tough one, they can be your own physiology and how you heal but it can also be poor technique. Given what I've seen of your work and that you have pitting I would guess the latter from your earliest works. It's a little tougher to address but you can undergo scar removal, it may hurt some of the hair but if ultimately you want to flatten out your scalp and just go at it alone with smp then it would give you the best scalp to attempt that.

I have some serious big deep gaps in scalp from several areas of ridging. Not sure how tgis coyld ever be corrected. The scars are too low to remove. The linear line is a inch up from nape and each end scar indented right before hairline by ear ends. I feel cursed. Im totally apposed to hairtransplant unless cloning becomes avaible. Im prisoner to self for 20yrs. I never even wanted them. I was dumb
20 yrs old who was talked into at time. I was planning shave my head. None these surgeons have anything to offer. All about money ans preditors Went back to one last year said cant help wish came to us sooner, but had no problem taking my money year before for small 800 graft procedure. Beard hair my only option.

Its not an option. Theses surgeons will throw anything on head and say well you want hair. My damn beard hair is so thick and course and diffrent color how freak is it an option. To look more like a freak.

 

[epoxy]

Figured I'd post a new one up since I was having a good hair day, 11 months post-op 2000 grafts FUE, all side/temple recession.

And to think this was literally 10 months ago.

 

[Anubis]

looks great Epoxy, dramatic difference. Worth every bit of the price tag for the result isn't it.

 

[TeknoViking]

Epoxy wow man! Worth every penny brother! Congratulations! We are hair farmers now.

 

[Deleted member 106824]

Holy crap man, amazing transformation.


I'm going to have to talk to my FUE doctor about the number of grafts. Both you and Technoviking started off with less hair than I currently have, and look amazing with the 2000 grafts. Dr. Vories is suggesting 2000 grafts for me too and 2500 if I want to bring my hairline down.

I'd rather get too much and be set for a longer period of time though so that's fine I guess

 

[Anubis]

Holy crap man, amazing transformation.


I'm going to have to talk to my FUE doctor about the number of grafts. Both you and Technoviking started off with less hair than I currently have, and look amazing with the 2000 grafts. Dr. Vories is suggesting 2000 grafts for me too and 2500 if I want to bring my hairline down.

I'd rather get too much and be set for a longer period of time though so that's fine I guess

The big problem with graft estimates is that you can't compare to somebody elses loss, 2k grafts looks different on different scalps. Your individual hair factors are so important when coming up with that number as is the type of loss you're facing, it just happens that both Epoxy and Tekno had similar hair loss patterns so the counts were close. You do have less obvious loss as is there is less completely vacant areas but they didn't have much hair loss going back while you with your diffusion, while not very advanced is kicking in past your hairline. So where they had to concentrate hairline and be spendy there ,you get the same graft number but will get hairline and midscalp done with that amount. If you just wanted to do hairline your number would be lower but it's like you said, you'll be set for a longer period by addressing the zones beyond the initial hairline and it'll look better as you don't want a strong hairline with weakness behind you want it blending.

 

[epoxy]

Epoxy wow man! Worth every penny brother! Congratulations! We are hair farmers now.

The biggest struggle has obviously be resisting this temptation to blast some heavy dosages. Part of me is dying on the inside from it. I wanted to give it 1 more month so I'm at the full 1 year mark, finally get on Fina, and then go back to hitting 1-2 blasts a year. Prior to the surgery I had blasted for about 4 years straight without ever going below a 500mg test dose. Now I've just been cruising for a year post-surgery, staying in the gym, upping cardio, but I've totally lost the 3d look I had on higher doses. I feel like a normie, but with great hair now, so I guess it evens out in a way?

 

[G.I.Bro]

The biggest struggle has obviously be resisting this temptation to blast some heavy dosages. Part of me is dying on the inside from it. I wanted to give it 1 more month so I'm at the full 1 year mark, finally get on Fina, and then go back to hitting 1-2 blasts a year. Prior to the surgery I had blasted for about 4 years straight without ever going below a 500mg test dose. Now I've just been cruising for a year post-surgery, staying in the gym, upping cardio, but I've totally lost the 3d look I had on higher doses. I feel like a normie, but with great hair now, so I guess it evens out in a way?

You're wise to reduce androgen use for your other hair. But the new transplanted hair should technically be DHT resistant like the donor locations. Your new stuff will hold up better than the mid and rear portions with existing hair.

Finasteride and minoxidil foam for mid and rear should be mandatory. You got your work done at the very early stages of loss which is party why the result is so good. 2k packed densely in frontal hairline versus spread out. I've had 4.3k now but my loss was worse and it was spread over a larger area.

 

[11111]

Figured I'd post a new one up since I was having a good hair day, 11 months post-op 2000 grafts FUE, all side/temple recession.

And to think this was literally 10 months ago.

Damn, Epoxy! That is impressive as hell!

If I ever bit the bullet and get this done, I'm going to your guy!

 

[TeknoViking]

Epoxy, I think you mentioned starting some dnp? Did you ever pull the trigger on that? Any impact on the transplanted hair?

 

[epoxy]

Epoxy, I think you mentioned starting some dnp? Did you ever pull the trigger on that? Any impact on the transplanted hair?

I still haven't yet - between the June/July heat and recently starting to date someone new I have been waiting for the right time. There's nothing like scaring your new girl with a big load of yellow jizz. Gotta ease into that over time.

 

[Nyoco]

Ok so I finally listened to Anubis and decided to avoid Turkey and went to Porto, Portugal (I´m spanish) and had surgery with Dr. Bruno Pinto. I had 3107 grafts done (107 on the house) during 2 days and the doctor did all the extraction and implants himself. He was very thorough in analysing my hair (thin blond, diffuse NW 4, and will need another 3000 grafts to cover the rest of my head since I only had front line and mid scalp done).

Having now experienced the procedure, I don´t even want to think about how those turkish "mega sessions" leave your donor area, Dr. Pinto told me he is starting to see patients for reconstructive transplants after negative turkish experiences.

I cannot speak highly enough of Bruno and his team 10/10 from me. Porto is also a beautiful city with great food and nice people. I payed 5700 euros for the procedure which included the hotel, thank you Anubis for making me think and reconsider.

 

[Deleted member 106824]

Ok so I finally listened to Anubis and decided to avoid Turkey and went to Porto, Portugal (I´m spanish) and had surgery with Dr. Bruno Pinto. I had 3107 grafts done (107 on the house) during 2 days and the doctor did all the extraction and implants himself. He was very thorough in analysing my hair (thin blond, diffuse NW 4, and will need another 3000 grafts to cover the rest of my head since I only had front line and mid scalp done).

Having now experienced the procedure, I don´t even want to think about how those turkish "mega sessions" leave your donor area, Dr. Pinto told me he is starting to see patients for reconstructive transplants after negative turkish experiences.

I cannot speak highly enough of Bruno and his team 10/10 from me. Porto is also a beautiful city with great food and nice people. I payed 5700 euros for the procedure which included the hotel, thank you Anubis for making me think and reconsider.

Damn, 3000 grafts for 5700 euros. I've wanted to travel out to Spain and the surrounding area for a little while now....I'm looking at paying $12500 in the states for 2500 grafts. Would probably be cheaper to travel to spain/portugal and get it done there.

Anubis would you recommend this Dr. Bruno Pinto guy for my situation (FUE for diffuse thinning)?

 

[Anubis]

Ok so I finally listened to Anubis and decided to avoid Turkey and went to Porto, Portugal (I´m spanish) and had surgery with Dr. Bruno Pinto. I had 3107 grafts done (107 on the house) during 2 days and the doctor did all the extraction and implants himself. He was very thorough in analysing my hair (thin blond, diffuse NW 4, and will need another 3000 grafts to cover the rest of my head since I only had front line and mid scalp done).

Having now experienced the procedure, I don´t even want to think about how those turkish "mega sessions" leave your donor area, Dr. Pinto told me he is starting to see patients for reconstructive transplants after negative turkish experiences.

I cannot speak highly enough of Bruno and his team 10/10 from me. Porto is also a beautiful city with great food and nice people. I payed 5700 euros for the procedure which included the hotel, thank you Anubis for making me think and reconsider.

Congrats on the procedure Nyoco and I'm glad you decided against Turkey. Not that there aren't a couple of quality docs in Turkey but far too many shady shops there, you were in much better hands with Dr Pinto. Definitely keep us updated, did you get your preop and immediate post op pics? if you are open to sharing them, they'd be great and very helpful to see.

 

[Anubis]

Damn, 3000 grafts for 5700 euros. I've wanted to travel out to Spain and the surrounding area for a little while now....I'm looking at paying $12500 in the states for 2500 grafts. Would probably be cheaper to travel to spain/portugal and get it done there.

Anubis would you recommend this Dr. Bruno Pinto guy for my situation (FUE for diffuse thinning)?

Tough call. I haven't met this doc personally but I've seen a few of his results in person and they were quality, also I know some of my Spanish dr friends do think well of him and his abilities. My only hesitation is that his track record is short. If you were a non diffuse patient I would say absolutely safe bet but as a diffuse patient, I would lean personally on the guys who have proven themselves to handle that over time and have the results to prove it. Dr Pinto worked for another clinic prior to going solo so much of his portfolio unfortunately is property of the other clinic so we simply don't know how he handles diffuse patients. The one upside you have here is Nyoco is a diffuse patient so if his case goes well, that clarifies the answer to that question further. I have seen one diffuse patient that went to him and in fairness that work was excellent so my belief is he could do it but it's hard to say go trust your hair to him based off the one example I've seen. When I advise, it's somebody who has delivered time after time, hundreds of examples, that's just the way I feel comfortable recommending somebody. So it's nothing based on what I've seen from Dr Pinto just that I haven't seen enough to be sure but I believe he will be one of the docs to watch going forward. If finances were an issue, I'd certainly have no hesitation putting this doc ahead of most of the docs in his price bracket.

 

[Nyoco]

Anubis, I had loads of pictures taken by Dr.Pinto but it never ocurred to me to ask for them since I wasn´t planning on posting them anywhere, sorry for that.

I´ve been told Dr. Pinto has treated a number of spanish celebs, football players, actors, TV presenters (no names given) and his waiting list is now 11 and a half months. That of course is no guarantee regarding results but if those kinds of people go to him it must also be for a good reason, not just price.

So far I can only speak as a patient, and Dr. Pinto is a fantastic professional, kind, with a good sense of humour and always telling you what he was doing / going to do. He took a lot of time in designing the hairline and analysed all parts of my donor areas meticulously which was very reassuring. He still reminds me via text message of when I have to send him more photos, its been ten days and you could barely tell I´ve had anything done.