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Repairjourney2021
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Hi guys,
I would like to take the chance to document my journey so far with The Hair Dr clinic. A little background on myself: 26 years young, had a previous transplant in Turkey which yielded a poor result, my natural hairline continued to recede behind it and honestly it just looked bizarre. So, something had to be done. Cue: The Hair Dr.
During my first consultation with them, they were quite polite and attentive, and easy to get along with. They were also keen to take on my case which would basically be a revision, and assured me that they had the level of expertise needed to fully repair my hairline – the deciding factor in choosing to go with them over other clinics I had looked at. We agreed that the best thing to do would be to extract the hairs previously transplanted and reuse these further back to reconstruct a hairline with proper density. All hairs previously transplanted at the front were to be removed as they were poorly transplanted. Hairs were also to be taken from the usual donor zone at the back and these were used to create the frontal portion of the hairline that would typically be on display. And so with the goal set, we proceeded on with the surgery.
On the day of the surgery, all went well. Dr Arshad is a very nice person, and very easy to have a conversation and a laugh with. Sommiya is also very nice and down to earth. I also cannot say enough of the girls who work there – they’re all fantastic, and nothing is too much trouble! So as you can imagine, although from memory I finished at around ~11pm, the day flew by for me. Fast forward 10 months to where I am now, and the hairline has mostly taken form, so I likely won’t see much more growth. I didn’t find that I shed all that much, and my result grew in quite quickly – always a bonus to have some genetics on your side for once! In all honesty, the new hairline is a far better improvement on the first. The transplanted result looks natural, even more so than some of my friends who have had transplants. However, I do want to stress that the left side is a fair bit sparser than the right, which is disappointing, and I can see this under certain lighting conditions. During the follow up after my transplant, Dr A pretty much noticed this immediately. He also made a comment that the peak in the middle of my hairline, contrasted with how high up the hair line has been done at the sides, makes it look like I’m still receding (if he didn’t know any better). Pretty alarming comments to receive from the surgeon who did the procedure. All in all however, a much better attempt than the first one.
However, I do want to stress main reason I chose The Hair Dr to begin with; I was assured they could repair the poor initial transplant that has made me so miserable in the past, and that it could finally look normal once again. Well, I’m disappointed that the vast majority of these hairs have been left in, and it still looks like it is in need of repairing. The last year or so has been a pretty torturous game of desperately trying to hide these somehow, whether it be eye-watering threading, or just tediously plucking each singular hair one by one. It’s gotten to the point now wherein I just wear my hair flat against my forehead like I had done previously before my transplant. When I saw him recently, Dr Arshad expressed his personal annoyance at how many hairs were actually left in, and when I was asked whether or not I wear my hair up to show off the new hairline (since I turned up with my hair flat to my forehead), I awkwardly had to express my disappointment in that I couldn’t, due to sheer embarrassment and unsightliness of the remaining hairs.
They have since suggested I find someone who specialises in laser hair removal, and have them do this on my old hairline to remove the persistent hairs. In principal, I’m being told that if I want the complete result I paid for, then I need to now go elsewhere. To top it off, I was also told laser is a lifelong commitment, and that I would need to continually have this done for the rest of my days. Not something any of us expects to be told, after going into a hair transplant clinic for surgery, right? As you can imagine, I expressed my desire not to do this. Afterwards, I was told any further attempts to extract them would result in potentially further scarring (the area is already still relatively red with many white dots from punched out hairs), making this not likely to be a viable remedy, and so I agreed, since the scarring was largely played down in my initial consultation, but the actual resulting scarring is making me way more self-conscious than I would’ve been comfortable with, to add to my list of woes. I do feel quite annoyed at this result, as a patient; I do not feel the pair of them were transparent enough in this regard. The most that was said was that any hairs left in, if any at all, would be “baby hairs” – something I doubted in my head at the time anyway, considering these were already fully fledged adult hairs.
Since then, we have concluded that lowering the hairline to the initial transplant level to mask the remaining grafts is the best way forward, albeit with proper implantation this time; however, they are proposing a significant cost for doing this, something which I do not agree with, since complete repair was the condition set for proceeding with my first transplant with them. I’m currently in talks with them about this, albeit their response time has significantly slackened since expressing my distaste for this, and I've had a total of one reply from them in over a week. Does anyone have any similar experience with this or have any advice on how best to proceed, going forward? I’ve included pictures below.
Thanks very much guys,
Repairjourney2021
Current Result (Nov 2022):
Pre-surgery with The Hair Dr:
Post-surgery with The Hair Dr:
I would like to take the chance to document my journey so far with The Hair Dr clinic. A little background on myself: 26 years young, had a previous transplant in Turkey which yielded a poor result, my natural hairline continued to recede behind it and honestly it just looked bizarre. So, something had to be done. Cue: The Hair Dr.
During my first consultation with them, they were quite polite and attentive, and easy to get along with. They were also keen to take on my case which would basically be a revision, and assured me that they had the level of expertise needed to fully repair my hairline – the deciding factor in choosing to go with them over other clinics I had looked at. We agreed that the best thing to do would be to extract the hairs previously transplanted and reuse these further back to reconstruct a hairline with proper density. All hairs previously transplanted at the front were to be removed as they were poorly transplanted. Hairs were also to be taken from the usual donor zone at the back and these were used to create the frontal portion of the hairline that would typically be on display. And so with the goal set, we proceeded on with the surgery.
On the day of the surgery, all went well. Dr Arshad is a very nice person, and very easy to have a conversation and a laugh with. Sommiya is also very nice and down to earth. I also cannot say enough of the girls who work there – they’re all fantastic, and nothing is too much trouble! So as you can imagine, although from memory I finished at around ~11pm, the day flew by for me. Fast forward 10 months to where I am now, and the hairline has mostly taken form, so I likely won’t see much more growth. I didn’t find that I shed all that much, and my result grew in quite quickly – always a bonus to have some genetics on your side for once! In all honesty, the new hairline is a far better improvement on the first. The transplanted result looks natural, even more so than some of my friends who have had transplants. However, I do want to stress that the left side is a fair bit sparser than the right, which is disappointing, and I can see this under certain lighting conditions. During the follow up after my transplant, Dr A pretty much noticed this immediately. He also made a comment that the peak in the middle of my hairline, contrasted with how high up the hair line has been done at the sides, makes it look like I’m still receding (if he didn’t know any better). Pretty alarming comments to receive from the surgeon who did the procedure. All in all however, a much better attempt than the first one.
However, I do want to stress main reason I chose The Hair Dr to begin with; I was assured they could repair the poor initial transplant that has made me so miserable in the past, and that it could finally look normal once again. Well, I’m disappointed that the vast majority of these hairs have been left in, and it still looks like it is in need of repairing. The last year or so has been a pretty torturous game of desperately trying to hide these somehow, whether it be eye-watering threading, or just tediously plucking each singular hair one by one. It’s gotten to the point now wherein I just wear my hair flat against my forehead like I had done previously before my transplant. When I saw him recently, Dr Arshad expressed his personal annoyance at how many hairs were actually left in, and when I was asked whether or not I wear my hair up to show off the new hairline (since I turned up with my hair flat to my forehead), I awkwardly had to express my disappointment in that I couldn’t, due to sheer embarrassment and unsightliness of the remaining hairs.
They have since suggested I find someone who specialises in laser hair removal, and have them do this on my old hairline to remove the persistent hairs. In principal, I’m being told that if I want the complete result I paid for, then I need to now go elsewhere. To top it off, I was also told laser is a lifelong commitment, and that I would need to continually have this done for the rest of my days. Not something any of us expects to be told, after going into a hair transplant clinic for surgery, right? As you can imagine, I expressed my desire not to do this. Afterwards, I was told any further attempts to extract them would result in potentially further scarring (the area is already still relatively red with many white dots from punched out hairs), making this not likely to be a viable remedy, and so I agreed, since the scarring was largely played down in my initial consultation, but the actual resulting scarring is making me way more self-conscious than I would’ve been comfortable with, to add to my list of woes. I do feel quite annoyed at this result, as a patient; I do not feel the pair of them were transparent enough in this regard. The most that was said was that any hairs left in, if any at all, would be “baby hairs” – something I doubted in my head at the time anyway, considering these were already fully fledged adult hairs.
Since then, we have concluded that lowering the hairline to the initial transplant level to mask the remaining grafts is the best way forward, albeit with proper implantation this time; however, they are proposing a significant cost for doing this, something which I do not agree with, since complete repair was the condition set for proceeding with my first transplant with them. I’m currently in talks with them about this, albeit their response time has significantly slackened since expressing my distaste for this, and I've had a total of one reply from them in over a week. Does anyone have any similar experience with this or have any advice on how best to proceed, going forward? I’ve included pictures below.
Thanks very much guys,
Repairjourney2021
Current Result (Nov 2022):
Pre-surgery with The Hair Dr:
Post-surgery with The Hair Dr:
