My FUE Procedure With Dr Rahal (mattj)

[mattj]

Chris: you never know. You could be surprised. I missed your question about the hairline.

Basically, Dr Rahal drew it and I gave the nod without hesitation. Partly because I felt experienced enough to picture the finished result and partly because I trusted his experience in designing hairlines. I wanted density more than I wanted a very low hairline, so I felt that the position was perfect. Now I see it as hair rather than as pen lines, I'm very pleased with my decision.

[chrisdav]

I agree with you Matty about density over a lower hairline- I think the same.

[itsmyhairs]

This looks like the typically amazing work Rahal is doing, the hairline looks absolutely perfect (in a realistic hairline for your age sense).

You don't appear to have any thinning or crown loss, so in 8 months or so you're going to look great, I'm so envious right now!

Looks like it's healing great too, after only a week!

Congrats man, I love seeing a-class work like this.

[mattj]

Thanks guys. Here are a few from day 14. I cautiously massaged away the scabs and they came away easily. I like reaching up and feeling hair where for so long there had been none.

[Jairus]

Hi Matt

Looks great so far, very neat, clear work.

Just wanted to ask u a quick question.

It looks like I have a similar hair loss pattern to yourself - NW3ish with badly receded temples but not too bad diffuse thinning on top. I see where the transplanted hairs have filled in your temples, but the Dr has stopped at the native hairs.

Is it generally an option to continue transplanting between the existing hair so that the semi circle has been closed? Or is the risk of shock loss too great?

My issue is that I am not on Fin so my temples will contine to recede so in an ideal world I would need hairs transplanted between the native hairs so at least I have something to play with a few years down the line.

Are u on Fin yourself?

Thanks a lot Matt

J

[mattj]

Thanks Jarius.

Although it may be hard to tell, Dr Rahal did need to plant grafts in areas where native hair was growing.

Here is a closer crop of the hairline, showing the areas being treated. Note that temple placement goes back behind the second line.



Many patients have diffuse loss and here's an example of an FUE result where grafts were placed entirely within areas of native hair.

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9906

[Jairus]

Hi Matt

Ah I see it now. I also see that your hair is quite thick in the forelock area so I guess you didnt need to go back any further into the native hairs. If the forelock was thin would transplanting hairs between the native be possible?

Thanks again, looks like you will have a fantastic result

[mattj]

Yes, if it was necessary then hairs would've been placed further back. That case I linked to above shows a good example of this.

[yeahyeahyeah]

You are a good looking guy matt. You look good buzzed and with hair.

Very nice features, no homo.

I think this goes to show that hair is not everything if your features are good.

[mattj]

You're much too kind.

[Spex]

Looking great Matt, right on par

[mattj]

Par for the course!

[mattj]

Here are some photos from week 4. There's really very little to report... there has been shedding of grafts but not as much as I expected. I'm toying with having the back and sides trimmed a bit to make it totally even.

[chrisis]

Matt, I'd definitely get a guard 1 on the back and sides to even it up - looks a bit patchy otherwise.

When you say you shed grafts, you mean entire lost grafts, root and all? Or just the dead hairs falling out?

[mattj]

That's an important distinction! Just the hairs. No lost grafts!