Hair Transplant Strip Scar, What's The Big Deal?

[topcat]

Strip scars are less of a problem for young guys with super thick donor. The problem presents itself when that same patient becomes older and their donor area starts to thin out. This is why you see so many patients looking to have the strip scars repaired. All one needs to do is perform a seach on some of the forums.

Of course a clinic can show a young guy with very thick donor and comb through it and everyone is amazed, wow it's like magic can't see a thing.

Personally it took me over 10 years to get the all the feeling back where the strips were taken and I had extreme tightness it both the back of my head and neck area. None of it’s a big deal until it becomes a big deal.

[Follicle Death Row]

Strip scars are less of a problem for young guys with super thick donor. The problem presents itself when that same patient becomes older and their donor area starts to thin out. This is why you see so many patients looking to have the strip scars repaired. All one needs to do is perform a seach on some of the forums.

Bingo. Gillenator is always going on about this but it's a big issue I feel. Unfortunately some people do thin in the donor big time and were never candidates in the first place. Others have thick donor and good physiology and I've seen a Feller patient on the forums buzz the sides to a 2 without the scar being visible. Really need to be sure the donor isn't going to thin. Thankfully my old man has thick donor but is about a 6. Hoping not to go to norwood 6 myself but hey I'd have to plan for it donor wise if I ever went under the knife.

[gillenator]

The guys who tend to experience donor zone thinning typically have it in their family histories and can be on either side maternal or paternal.

I do not believe that the clinical trials of Propecia considered any long term effects on the donor zone, only the mid and post anterior regions of the scalp are tested from what I have read.