NORWOOD 6 members who have had HT surgery

[gillenator]

Maybe it's time to change my Avatar because that will show what my hair looked like before cancer...

[garageland]

Hi Gillenator,

I am sorry to hear about your lung cancer I am sure that puts the hair issues into perspective. Good for you in the job that you do it. I have over the years always found your posts very helpful, honest and sincere. It would be nice to see the man behind the Terminator avatar.

[gillenator]

Thanks for the kind words my friend.

If you go to the home page here at TBT, and click on the blogs link, there should be a photo when I wrote some articles for Spencer before the cancer days.

Am holding my lil' pug dog in the photo so it may be hard to tell who's who...

Looking forward to your update pics as your recent procedure matures...

[baldymcgee]

One more thing,having REALISTIC GOALS is IMPERATIVE l

I wholeheartedly agree with this, the trouble is always around trying to understand what "realistic goals" are.

Sure we understand that "full density" isn't an option and (some) surgeons tell us that we'll only have coverage with certain hairstyles, but I don't think that any of us know what that means practically.

Will we spend our mornings carefully placing each strand and then panicking each time the wind picks up? Will we fret with each haircut about donor scar visibility?

I realize that these questions are virtually impossible for a surgeon (or rep) to answer but these are the questions that worry NW5-6 people.

PS.

And, sure, we can meet transplant recipients but:
a) We have little idea how well results from others will translate to us (different hair, scalp, skin characteristics).
b) I'm not accusing surgeons of dishonesty, but they're far far far more likely to "showcase" the really outstanding results.

[youngin]

I am a NW6 and I think with today's technology you could have very good looking coverage for significantly less than times before... if you keep your hair short. Consider if you got about 3000 grafts including frontal 3rd and some diffused scattering through the rest and then you got SMP for the rest. You would have realistic coverage. At least your face would be framed and look good. That's my plan if nothing new comes out soon.

Like this: http://fue-hairtransplant.blogspot.c...alp-micro.html

[Artista]

This patient of Dr Dorin's was not a NW6 but his hair loss was extensive enough to warrant hair transplant surgery.

Dr Dorin ,you did a GREAT JOB on this man's scalp!

check this out guys (and gals)

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=628

[baldymcgee]

Question for those NW6-ers who have had hair transplants (or the docs who helped them):

With the progressive nature of hairloss, how comfortable are you with your predicted final loss pattern?

I've been looking at photos of people like Bruce Willis or Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon) and in their younger-days I could imagine them thinking "oh, I just need 2-or-3 thousand grafts and I'll look fine".

But then you watch them over the years and their sides get lower and their back recedes to the point that they're probably beyond help from current HT technology (at least with what I would consider "acceptable" density[1]).

To the patients: how big a concern was/is this for you? How long did you spend with your Doc. talking about this?

To the docs: How accurate are the predicted final loss patterns? Can you get to within an inch? Half an inch?

[1] Yes, this is a personal judgement -- different people will almost certainly have different expectations.

[Notcoolanymore]

Question for those NW6-ers who have had hair transplants (or the docs who helped them):

With the progressive nature of hairloss, how comfortable are you with your predicted final loss pattern?

This right here is huge. I responded to a thread earlier today of a guy in his 20's planning to get a transplant without using finasteride. How will you look as you continue to recede? Recession even happens while on finasteride.

[Artista]

Great question to ask Baldymcgee !
Hopefully we will get responses. Thanks Bro

[Artista]

Very impressive work by hair transplant surgeon Dr Doganay!
I would not want to use beard hair for coverage.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=789

[baldymcgee]

Very impressive work by hair transplant surgeon Dr Doganay!
I would not want to use beard hair for coverage.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=789

That's an *incredible* result.

(Though, as always, I wonder if Finasteride was part of the equation).

[Artista]

Another great before and after - another great doctor..
Dr. Sara Wasserbauer

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=850

[Artista]

Dr Fargo,,wow !

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=289

[win200]

Dr Fargo,,wow !
http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/album.php?albumid=289

The doctor who put the crop-row plugs in that guy's head should be hanged. What an abomination.

That said, Dr. Farjo's work is outstanding. This is no longer a bald guy. Not a *ton* of hair on his head, but a world of difference.

[Artista]

Your so right Win200 ..
Joe from Staten, reread what Win200 has said--
"...Dr. Farjo's work is outstanding. This is no longer a bald guy. Not a *ton* of hair on his head, but a world of difference. "
Joe, you have met with Dr Fargo have you not?