FUE and the short hair cut

[topcat]

For those that are unsure whether an fue procedure can be performed and still allow the patient to wear their hair cut very short with a 1 or 2 guard yes it is possible. All one needs to do is research the industry and find the clinics that are achieving those types of results and view them in person with your own eyes.


Those that are paid industry experts or working for clinics to help guide patients in their decision not to know that this type of result is possible seems hard to believe. With easy access to information that was often hidden in the past this no longer becomes an issue. They are either not very well informed and therefore cannot possibly be an industry expert or they are deliberately spreading misinformation which is basically lying and certainly should not be guiding patients.


This type of misinformation might have easily gone unnoticed years ago when the medium was only one way and the experts were never questioned as their word was gospel but that has all changed. Now when they are questioned they like to fall back on accusations of agendas when an intelligent answer is not forthcoming. Of course none of this is true but it does become a convenient response. Patients that are aware are just sick of the scumbags in this industry that continue to believe it’s okay not to be completely truthful with prospective patients if it is to their advantage, meaning monetary gain. You see this is what happens when you start to massage the truth, you risk losing any respect you previously worked so hard to build and it now becomes okay for critics to use a harsher tone.


All patients are asking for is honest information so that they can make an intelligent decision. Lying, playing dumb, or just really not knowing when you actually work in this industry starts to become a very slippery downhill slope so it might be best to rethink your position and take the high road.


It is possible to have fue performed and cut your hair very short, yes. Anyone that tells you that it is not is a liar. Does this mean all clinics performing fue can achieve it, no. Just as many of those same clinics cannot even manage to achieve a decent yield. Do your research.

[HelpROGER]

All Hail King Topcat, ROYAL KING OF THE FORUMS and resident know it all!

[sausage]

I am confused, I cannot understand why it would not be possible to wear your hair short after having FUE, were you supposed to write FUT?

Surely you can have your hair cut short with FUE, It did not even cross my mind that it would not be possible, what would make having short hair with FUE a problem? there is no scar, the density should look ok long and short.

Wayne Rooney for one has his hair short and has has FUE.

confused :S

[Spex]

Im confused too. Where has this been mentioned that you cant cut your hair short via FUE ?

Here is a good solid example of FUE donor shaved to the bone after 1500 FUE.

[PayDay]

I heard Kobren discuss this several times on the show. He’s said the only way to do a very short buzz cut and have a hair transplant is to do FUE. Where did you hear differently? I don't think anyone in the hair business would deny that FUE is used when a person wants to keep their hair really short. That would not make sense.

[sausage]

exactly, I think topcat's gone loopey. One of the key advantages of FUE listed everywhere is that you can wear your hair short.

I have no idea why he seems to think that people within the industry say you cannot wear your hair short with FUE when it clearly says you can on every or near enough every hair transplant clinic's website.

[HelpROGER]

King Topcat has an unhealthy need to feel important on these forums. I wish he would stop all of the rhetoric and stop preaching. I have no idea what he’s talking about half the time.

[sausage]

Im confused too. Where has this been mentioned that you cant cut your hair short via FUE ?

Here is a good solid example of FUE donor shaved to the bone after 1500 FUE.

Completely baffling....

Spex in another thread has just written a long post about how you should NOT cut your hair short after having FUE because of scarring etc.

Yet 2 days ago he wrote the quoted post above claiming that FUE does not leave noticeable scarring.

This is very concerning.

[Follicle Death Row]

In fairness Sausage that's only 1500 but I must admit it looks phenominal. It seems to me Dr. Feller takes a smart conservative approach with FUE. If you do a max first time session of FUE of say 1500 and you get only 60% yield well you've only wasted 600 but if you were to go straight in and blast out 3000 and got a 60% yield you're looking at double the hair lost for good at around 1200 FU.

If you did 1000 on a norwood 2 and it gave poor yield you could change to strip next time and you would only have lost 400.

Personally I'd love to have FUE not so I could shave down all over but so I could have the back and sides really short which is the way I like it. Kind of like how Sean who had 3000 FUE done by Dr. Rahal likes to keep his hair. Unfortunately I think I'll probably need all the hair I can get down the line which would mean stripping out for 8000-9000 would make the most sense and then looking to add 2000 FUE afterwards. The really sucky thing is my father had a full head of hair until 35 and then it started to go and by 45 he was a nw5/6 and has remained that way since. I'm 26 in April and a nw2.5 I'd say so I anticipate heading towards a 6. Unfortunately I think I have my mother's fine greying hair. My father has thick donor hairs so I just seem to lose on every front hair wise. Worst hair genetics ever.

Joe and Spex, what sort of yield do you guys think is typical of the best FUE docs? I know it depends on the patient but ballpark? 80%? 85%? 90%? I often hear it's about 95% for FUT with 6000 available by FUE alone and 8000-9000 by strip alone.

[sausage]

In fairness Sausage that's only 1500 but I must admit it looks phenominal. It seems to me Dr. Feller takes a smart conservative approach with FUE. If you do a max first time session of FUE of say 1500 and you get only 60% yield well you've only wasted 600 but if you were to go straight in and blast out 3000 and got a 60% yield you're looking at double the hair lost for good at around 1200 FU.

I fairness.....

Spex wrote:

"Im confused too. Where has this been mentioned that you cant cut your hair short via FUE ?"

This clearly states he thinks short haircuts + FUE DO NOT go together.

Here he does not mention number of grafts and in the other post on the other thread he does not mention grafts numbers:

"You clearly have not seen FUE/ HT surgery shaved down in person . Its evident that 'something' has been done - its not 100% natural and when shaved to the bone especially a HT can create more issues than you realise. FUE CAUSES scaring whether you want to believe it or not. HT causes scaring minimal in most cases but scaring can be evident"

So clearly he has contradicted himself.

Anyway even if he was talking in numbers of grafts, from what he wrote in the other thread FUE causes scarring so even if you have a smaller amount of grafts your still going to get scarring, it is not going to stop scarring if you have 1500-2500 grafts. + if a large amount of grafts looks bad shaved down then a smaller amount of grafts will obviously look bad shaved down, its the same FUE procedure.

I think Spex needs to explain why he has written opposing thoughts on whether he thinks FUE and the short haircut works........