Good day to you all, good people. I ve been away from the forum for the best part of a month - to the untrained eye, it looks like I ve been drinking wine and taking it easy - but in reality, I ve been thinking all things HT.
I visited Brussels, Belgium last month. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I did not visit Dr Feriduni but had 1st consults with Drs Bisanga and Devroye and, as I was in town , a 2nd consult with Dr Mwamba as a follow up to my initial one with him in London in July.
All the Drs are really nice guys. I d read somewhere that a previous client had said that Dr Bisanga was a bit edgy and impatient. I found him to be a warm, witty and friendly man. His assistant, Stephen was also a good chap and very informative. Stephen was also displaying some top notch work on his own head - a crewcut HT - very impressive - as done by Dr Bisanga himself. I enjoyed the consult, they were both honest, professional and complimentary about my present appearance and told me exactly what could be achieved. I left feeling very positive.
Dr Devroye is a very cool brother - there s a touch of Jean Claude Van Damme about him - i kid you not
Again, very approachable, straight talking and professional.
Dr Mwamba was how I remembered - very smiley, with a peaceful aura about him and again: thorough and professional. He uses a sort of camera stylus pen on your head and allows density to be monitored on a laptop. However, anyone visiting his premises should beware the clear glass wall that awaits you when you leave the bathroom - I walked into it full on and was still feeling slightly concussed whilst speaking to his aide, Clara, 20 minutes later.
It would make decision making much easier if one of them had been unpleasant or negative in some way but this was not the case. I m sounding like I m making light of this but the actuality is that getting a final (repair) HT is a MAJOR decision for me and I ve been thinking about not much else over the last 22 days - and it s time to make that Decision.
Both Drs Bisanga and Mwamba plan on approx 2500 grafts via a combination of strip, FUE and BHT. Whereas Dr Devroye only offered 1500 via FUE alone which is why I ve ruled him out on this occasion.
Dr Bisanga planned 2xstrips from my virgin scalp area above the ears of approx 1300.
The rest made up from FUE from the same area and from the depleted donor area at the back and around 500 BHT.
Dr Mwamba initially wanted to take a moderate strip from the depleted donor area of approx 600, 500 BHT and the remainder from FUE. During the 2nd consult with him, I expressed some concern about taking anymore strip from this ravaged area as something Dr Devroye had said to me apropos his reluctance to perform strip in that area as it could possibly affect neck mobility. Dr Mwamba said he would take the strips from the same new area that Dr Bisanga would take them from.
Dr Bisanga estimated one day in the chair with resultant stitching having to be removed via a medical professional back in England approx a week post surgery (if I m honest - slightly bothers me as I don t really wish to involve anyone else). Dr Mwamba says that his procedure would take 3 days in the chair. I intend to take a fortnight off post surgery.
Anyway. Time to make an appointment & get it done. Anything that you good folks want to add, comment upon, swing my decision or anything at all - please feel free to do so( the sooner the better please)
Its a journey - I feel privileged to have met Drs Bisanga, Mwamba, Devroye and Wong and look forward to the end result wherever I end up.
Thanks for listening.
Fanto
