Saw my first transplant yesterday... wow!

[Mygoodness]

Wow it was terrible, Omg. Instantly obvious and very, very unatural. Granted it was the pluggy type but still if the HT industry once hailed plugs as modern, undectectable solutions, how can we trust them nowadays. The only good thing I noticed was that the transplanted plugs did look like they fully took.
Ok so we've come along way with micrografts you might say. Really? Punching a smaller hole or excising a large strip is a technological advancement? I think the micrografts may not seem so pluggy but they grow in frizzy and shitty and harsher then a natural hairline. No way you can replicate the.natural gradiation of a hairline. Seriously, I wanted to fill in my temples with a HT but not anymore.
I think this industry is all about marketing and suppression of Bad PR. Let's see the replies on this thread, I'm already assuming they'll be biased.

[ryan555]

Your post doesn't make any sense. What they are doing now is not even the same procedure it was when they were doing plugs. You probably have seen many hair transplants and didn't even know it. This was the first that was bad enough for you to detect. If you think a hairline cannot be reproduced surgically, you are sorely mistaken. I would put one of Shapiro's or Feller's patients next to a natural hairline any day and see if you can detect it. Go look and Sean Penn and George Clooney - both of them have transplanted hairlines.

[ravegrover]

add kevin kostner & kiefer sutherland to that HT list. i guess it all comes down to ur approach. if u get an HT at right stage, wth right doctor and have realistic goals - it's possible to have near natural hairline.
wth that said - i still dont have the balls to get an HT. i guess how badly u need hair is anthr factor. looks are probably more important to celebreties.

[Tracy C]

Wow it was terrible, Omg. Instantly obvious and very, very unatural. Granted it was the pluggy type but still if the HT industry once hailed plugs as modern, undectectable solutions, how can we trust them nowadays.

You are not paying attention. The old plugs where never considered undetectable. The current procedures are undetectable when performed by a gifted surgeon.

[mattj]

Hair transplants involve the removal of hair from the donor area and the creation of holes into which those hairs are placed. When reducing it down to those basic elements then old and new technology might sound the same. The difference is in the details - in the refinements which have been made as time has gone on, leading us the natural results being produced today.

Three of the four hairlines below are transplanted, leaving one that isn't. They all appear equally natural to me.

[VictimOfDHT]

Wow it was terrible, Omg. Instantly obvious and very, very unatural. Granted it was the pluggy type but still if the HT industry once hailed plugs as modern, undectectable solutions, how can we trust them nowadays. The only good thing I noticed was that the transplanted plugs did look like they fully took.
Ok so we've come along way with micrografts you might say. Really? Punching a smaller hole or excising a large strip is a technological advancement? I think the micrografts may not seem so pluggy but they grow in frizzy and shitty and harsher then a natural hairline. No way you can replicate the.natural gradiation of a hairline. Seriously, I wanted to fill in my temples with a HT but not anymore.
I think this industry is all about marketing and suppression of Bad PR. Let's see the replies on this thread, I'm already assuming they'll be biased.

You've been living in a cave or something? What you saw was NOT an HT. Wake up and smell the coffee. A natural hairline CAN be replicated IF you go to a good doctor and not some butcher. Just accept going bald then.

[worried]

i think upper left picture is not transplanted

This picture made me sad it reminds me of older days when i have good hairs

[Follicle Death Row]

Fun game. I'm going with one of the two on the left being real. As worried said top left looks so natural and dense (is it possible to pack that dense?) but just for fun and a bit of variety I'm going to throw a spanner in the works and say bottom left is real.

[mattj]

Hehe. Anyone else want to take a guess?

[Follicle Death Row]

Moarrrrrr. Any other ones Matt?