The work looks very good. It is nice and clean. I think you and the doctor went for utilised a good strategy for these remaining donor grafts. Having the natural looking hairline that is thinning going towards the crown does provide a natural look.
Now just the waiting game again.
Thanks BM
Yes I wanted the most natural look - others on hair restoration network forums said my previous procedures are unsuccessful. And that my clinic and Doctor didn't have my interests at heart. They said I should have focused on one area and have had more hairs at front but then it would look too front loaded with nothing at the middle. Which is why in my 3rd procedure - I opted for front and middle and especially that island tuft to filled more dense which was has all gone now but was present in 2015 some 10 years ago.
Others said I should have had beard grafts and facial hair and recommended other number of specialist Doctor surgeons charging some $35,000 USD or something etc and a few suggested I would have been better with FUT when they I didn't think that was for me as it's an older method and strip technique leaves a linear scar and more painful. They then tried to promote the advantages of FUT saying something along the line of "What's a few months of pain and recovery going to do compared to lifeline of hair until old age, which would be the case with FUT, unlike the FUE you went for where they extract grafts are from donor area's that are prone to thinning!"
Some members on there appear snobbish and belittling. They think they know everything. Not all but some.
The first comment after my 3rd procedure (10 yrs after 1st) was that 1150 grafts/3002 hairs are not enough to cover anything and will make no difference and that I will need another procedure and recommended other Doctors. - I am aware it won't cover everything but it will look more dense.
I kept reiterating the fact that I am lucky to have 3 x FUE procedures when some people don't have the donor quality and quantity for 1x let alone 3x. They also shared with me a video of someone who has had 6,000 grafts in one go and what it could cover as if it is a competition. What some members on there failed to take into account was that I already had x2 previous procedures some 8 and 10 years ago and this was whilst I still had existing natural hair which was liable to thin so of course results won't be as visible but then when I showed them photos of my 1st procedure to re construct the frontal area especially focus on my temples, front and back they didn't comment. They thought of another way to put me down saying that it's poorly implanted grafts. I reiterated from what I was told that the specialists don't implant new hair into existing hair that's prone to falling due to DHT because it can damage the follicles it further especially if they are implanted too close. - Which is why (if you scroll back to beginning of these pages). No hair was implanted into that island tuft at the front.
Yet I could never have this much in one go because my hair loss was not NW6 in 2015 I was a NW4-5 and had existing hair especially in that island tuft at front, I so didn't need 6,000 grafts. Of course when you are already bald at NW6/7 stage it's easier for new extracted donor hairs to harvest as existing hairs have fallen/died and you would essentially be implanting hairs/grafts on bald spots, which will of course be more noticeable.
Others went on to say my procedures were unsuccessful but that my problem is that my hair line is too low and angled and should be higher and straighter line which I disagree as I am happy with it and surely that's all that counts.
Basically BM it was just criticism when I was happy with it. What they could have said about my 3rd and final procedure on hair restoration network was something like "Well done on your 3rd procedure...we shall support your 3rd journey, good luck with it!" - Basically something encouraging! Especially knowing I didn't have much donor hair left to take - Instead they chose to criticise to making me feel like rubbish which isn't what the hair loss community forums is about. I was also criticised for not taking finasteride when I have had bad side effects from them on top of being on current medication. I was criticised for not using beard grafts or doing FHT when I don't have sufficient facial hair and or want it. I felt like some were trolls.
Again I am/was new to that forum but many come across snobbish and belittling esp over the clinic I chose, how much hair and grafts I got implanted yet none of them are Doctors. I said we are all here to support one another and that if they have nothing positive or useful to say then they shouldn't bother. This below is a copied comment following my 3rd procedure and was the only positive and encouraging comment I got on hair restoration network forum out of so many putting me down. See below in comment:
"I don’t think this last surgery was a bad plan. It’s easy to say he should have gotten more grafts toward the front to fill in that front middle section more, but that would mean putting less grafts into the mid scalp. He had 6667 grafts total. He probably didn’t have any more to take. You can only use what you have available. He can’t just do more grafts if they aren’t available. If he placed more of the grafts towards the front he would end up too front loaded with very little behind it. I think they did a good job trying to get the front half covered as much as possible. - The only thing I disagree with is I think he does look like he has a lot of beard hair under his chin area that can be used if he wanted to. There’s not much beard hair on the cheeks, but that’s not where it needs to be taken from."
Sad really, for the hair loss community. They all seem to think they know everything and on hair restoration network forum.
I like how on this network forum of "hair loss experiences" that people support one another and respect each others decisions and are not criticising other peoples decisions and putting anyone down based on what clinic they went to and what Doctor they saw and subsequent decisions which were made between Doctor and patient etc.
Anyway's sorry for going off on one. Just venting a little after the snobbery and condescending comments on the other forum.
Thanks for support btw BM
