The Greatest Hair Transplant Ever Performed?

[mwolfe]

In my opinion this is the most successful hair transplant procedure ever performed. Does anyone have any theories on this? FUE or FUT? How many grafts? Is this do able for non-billionaires and how longer until we start noticing he has more recession from Finasteride losing effectiveness?

[Stevedawg18]

Given the time period when it seemed to occur I'd say it was a FUT. I'd say he probably needed about 3000 grafts. This is definitely do able for non billionaires. 3000 graft FUT would probably run you about 10k. I've had a result I'd put on par with this and I'm just a normal person.

[mwolfe]

That's a really good insight about the FUT procedure. If you see him these days he always has the back long and cuts the sides short, so he might be concealing the donor scar.

I'm very surprised this is only 3k grafts. I thought this would be way more. I mean he went from almost his top full on bald to having a banging head of hair.

Have you had to deal with continued recession after the transplant? I'd like to do something like this, but I worry about running out of donor grafts.

[Stevedawg18]

Well I say 3000 grafts because it looked like his crown was mostly still intact so he really just had to restore the front half. At least this is what I'm basing that guess on. In my experience you can cut your hair way shorter than that even with a FUT. I stay on a small dose of Proscar since my transplant to try and stabilize what's left. I don't want to paint too rosie a picture but I'm a year out from a 5000 graft procedure that IMO was very successful. I'd just caution its a hard road to get there, the first 3-4 months sucks. You can check out my thread if you search 5000 FUT Dr Wong on this site. The results are better now than what's in that thread because the photos are from 7 months. I'll update with 1 year photos shortly.

[mwolfe]

you look good! i look forward to seeing the 1 year photos.

[pkipling]

Yes, the results are outstanding... But does anyone care to fill me in on who this is?
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[mwolfe]

Elon Musk

[mattj]

I didn't know who he was either.

I searched google images... looks like he's definitely had some hairline work and it's good work. Plenty of transplants look just as good though. Remember that lighting will make a big difference in how dense hair looks.

[mwolfe]

He's the guy who started paypal and is doing all the automated car and commercial flight stuff now.

You're probably right about the thickness and the light. It look sort of diffuse here.

But damn I'd take hair like that at age 45 any day.

[mattj]

I like and use PayPal - I'm not so keen on the idea of automated cars lol

It's possible that his frontal zone is now thicker (due to his transplant) than the midscalp. I'm guessing you're referring to how his hairline kicks up and looks fuller than the area behind it.