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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    Arashi has mentioned my donor is starting to look thin, granted! But it should also be said that my donor area was extremely limited to start with. You can't argue with that fact. That fact was told by even an ISHRS Dr to me. 2500 grafts he said. HDC said the same. One Dr told me I would be best having a scalp reduction and then doing a transplant.

    I've had just under 5000 extracted now with Hasci. Way more than I thought ever possible. As you can see I'm trying to remain positive.
    GC, your donor indeed wasn't too good to begin with. But keep in mind when comparing HASCI's graft to regular FUE grafts that HASCI seems to transplant way less hair than with a regular FUE. Based on what we've seen so far, recipients seem to contain mostly singles. So 5000 HASCI grafts might very well correlate to 2500 FUE grafts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arashi View Post
    GC, yes your donor wasn't too good to begin with. But keep in mind when comparing HASCI's graft to regular FUE grafts that HASCI seems to transplant way less hair than with a regular FUE. Based on what we've seen so far, recipients seem to contain mostly singles. So 5000 HASCI grafts might very well correlate to 2500 FUE grafts.
    No mate, closer to 25% less of recipient hairs compared to traditional FUE, not 50%.

    If my avg hair count in the recip is 1.5 then it would have to be an avg of 3 hairs in the recip.

    And they are telling me to come back next year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    No mate, closer to 25% less of recipient hairs compared to traditional FUE, not 50%.

    If my avg hair count in the recip is 1.5 then it would have to be an avg of 3 hairs in the recip.

    And they are telling me to come back next year.
    I'm basing my statement on the fact that the average hair/graft is 2.5 in general and if a hasci result has more singles than doubles, the average at hasci might be about 1.3 (or at least lower than 1.5), so that's about half.

    However it might be an interesting thing to analyze a part of unsafe zone on your scalp that was never used, count an average hair/graft number and see if it's any different from recipient.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arashi View Post
    I'm basing my statement on the fact that the average hair/graft is 2.5 in general and if a hasci result has more singles than doubles, the average at hasci might be about 1.3 (or at least lower than 1.5), so that's about half.

    However it might be an interesting thing to analyze a part of unsafe zone on your scalp that was never used, count an average hair/graft number and see if it's any different from recipient.
    First thing the HDC guy said to me was, "wow you have more singles than doubles in the safe area". My heart sank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    First thing the HDC guy said to me was, "wow you have more singles than doubles in the safe area". My heart sank.
    But isnt that because they harvested that area a lot already ? If I take a look at your non safe area (your side of the crown area for example) I don't see many singles. I see a lot of doubles and even tripples. When I look at your recipient I see mostly singles. So that would explain why you could get so many grafts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arashi View Post
    But isnt that because they harvested that area a lot already ? If I take a look at your non safe area (your side of the crown area for example) I don't see many singles. I see a lot of doubles and even tripples. When I look at your recipient I see mostly singles. So that would explain why you could get so many grafts.

    No mate, this was before I had any transplants. This was about 3 years ago, he used one of those camera things.

    I've just checked some picture just now too, if you look for example just below my scar which hasn't been harvested before on the set of photos with the marker pen you can see as many singles as doubles, well I can anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    No mate, this was before I had any transplants. This was about 3 years ago, he used one of those camera things.

    I've just checked some picture just now too, if you look for example just below my scar which hasn't been harvested before on the set of photos with the marker pen you can see as many singles as doubles, well I can anyway.
    Just look at this area, aside of your crown: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1z5h...5#.UjI6F8a1HiQ

    You see tons of doubles and tripples and an occasional single. Now look at your recipient. You see mostly singles.

    Of course, it might theoretically be possible that somehow in your safe area mostly singles grew, while in other area's doubles and tripples. But does that seem likely ?

    We know from analyzing the 2 50 graft tests that HASCI just transplants mainly singles, even if a donor contains enough doubles and tripples. To me that explains why you could get so many grafts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arashi View Post
    Just look at this area, aside of your crown: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1z5h...5#.UjI6F8a1HiQ

    You see tons of doubles and tripples and an occasional single. Now look at your recipient. You see mostly singles.

    Of course, it might theoretically be possible that somehow in your safe area mostly singles grew, while in other area's doubles and tripples. But does that seem likely ?

    We know from analyzing the 2 50 graft tests that HASCI just transplants mainly singles, even if a donor contains enough doubles and tripples. To me that explains why you could get so many grafts.
    Look as unlikely as it sounds it is what it is. When I used to spend like an hour a day doing my hair, with the hair piece, wasting my life away, I would combine it with hair thickener. I always had to spray hair thickener in the back just to make it look as equal as the rest.

    The areas near my crown and edges of the scared area was always the thickest as per the image you just linked.

    I don't know why, but the area was thinner and seems to have been backed up what the other Dr's had said at the time and the camera thing. I seen it on the big projector.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gc83uk View Post
    Look as unlikely as it sounds it is what it is. When I used to spend like an hour a day doing my hair, with the hair piece, wasting my life away, I would combine it with hair thickener. I always had to spray hair thickener in the back just to make it look as equal as the rest.

    The areas near my crown and edges of the scared area was always the thickest as per the image you just linked.

    I don't know why, but the area was thinner and seems to have been backed up what the other Dr's had said at the time and the camera thing. I seen it on the big projector.
    Ok. Maybe another explanation then why that other doctor thought you could only get 2500 is that he didn't recognize the fact that your donor had mostly singles ? Maybe if he had recognized that fact, he would have figured it would have been possible to harvest 5000 singles from your donor ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arashi View Post
    Ok. Maybe another explanation then why that other doctor thought you could only get 2500 is that he didn't recognize the fact that your donor had mostly singles ? Maybe if he had recognized that fact, he would have figured it would have been possible to harvest 5000 singles from your donor ?
    Perhaps!

    But we're talking about 2 Dr's here, both giving the same figures, seems unlikely that they wouldn't try that before suggesting a scalp reduction. It wasn't a 5 minute consultation.

    To be fair I think the HDC doctor was exaggerating slightly, but take it from me as fact I had a larger number of singles in the donor area than the average. I can't say anymore than that. We're going off on a tangent with this anyway.

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