donor area density

[sapcote]

hi all,

Just about to book a transplant for next month or feb, but i'm now concerned about my donor area at the back of my head. I was going to upload an exciting video of me combing the back of my head! but i guess i can't upload a video clip so i'm attaching some pics of the back of my head.

i had a consultation last feb and was told my donor area was good (it was just a quick visual inspection by the doc however) and other posters on this board and others have said it looks to be decent.....as you can see there's a bald strip on the back ( i don't believe it has changed much over the years). the bald spot just about reaches the small protruding bone at the back of the head. would the strip be taken from above this bone or below it? If taken from above then the strip would run right across an area that as you can see in the pics is thinning...

Should I go and get a proper test to see if the donor area is minaturizing before i go and reserve a surgery date?

 

[sapcote]

here's another pic

 

[sapcote]

ah sorry, i posted this in the wrong forum......i don't know how to move it, can the mods move it to the hair transplant section??

 

[Bigmac]

The bald strip may just be the way your crown is. What did the doctor say about it.

Your donor does look good and the doc will re evaluate it when you go back for your HT.

 

[bullitnut]

sapcote wrote:

I was going to upload an exciting video of me combing the back of my head! but i guess i can't upload a video clip

You can upload videos but you need to use another account such as youtube or photobucket etc and embedd it on here.

 

[anand]

I don't understand what u r trying to show in the picture.

 

[sapcote]

i'm so confused right now. I sent the pics of the back of my head to the doc in thailand and they said the donor area looks ok...there's a surgery slot open for late Jan. I just today went to a clinic in seoul Korea where I live. I saw 2 doctors there. The first assistant doc said my donor area was 'thin but donor density relatively good" (isn't that a contradiction?)......he then said another assistant would measure my area with the telescope.....it wasn't measured, instead i then saw the head doctor who said my donor area was 'thin relative to other people's" !! and then said i wasn't a good candidate....he did then go on about how he is only used to korean people's hair etc etc

just don't know what to do....the hairloss is killing me and it feels right to do something about it now, however, caution is telling me to get lots of consultations both in thailand with the clinic that i'm planning to do it at, and also in Uk (my native country). I'm on holiday for jan and feb and plan to go to thailand and uk anyway, regardless of whether i get transplant or not....

is the best thing to do to have my hair telescopically measured with a densitometer? can the results be interpreted differently or is there an industry standard in terms of what makes a result good or acceptable for treatment? e.g one doctor's 'acceptable' donor density for a patient may be another doctor's 'unacceptable' density.....

i've read posts on here of people having their trasplanted hair fall out or thin a few years post surgery, and this has partially been explained by the original donor hair being subject to DHT....if my donor is thinning even a little bit then there's no point in having a transplant?

 

[sapcote]

i've attached below a one min video of me brushing my hair at the back...can someone please take a look and give an opinion as to whether the donor area looks good......so far one doc said yes and one said no ( in person at the same clinic) . I am going to try and get my donor measured with a densitometer next week.

has anyone out there had experience of being told different things from different surgeons as to their suitability for a transplant? is a degree of variance in clinical diagnoses to be expected?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-mZaZq890

 

[sweetfreedom]

From the video I would say the donor area looks fine, possibly medium to good density with hair medium shaft thickness.
Though an inspection by several docs in different clinics is the best route. Tedious but worth the hassle to get a balanced view.

Your crown looks normal to me and I wouldn't touch it yet!