Both of these young men had too many FUE grafts taken from their donor area and now, even with long hair, have what appears to be balding in the back of the head. Longer hair will help, but Scalp Micropigmentation (https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/scar-covering/) usually solves the appearance but doesn’t replace the missing hair in the donor area.
That is the ultimate question. When a person goes bald, the hairs disappear, but many experts believe that below the skin in these men, at least for a number of months or years, the stem cells for hair growth are still there. We like to call that dormant, but they may have died off. Nobody knows!
This will be my 3rd attempt at hair transplant. How many grafts will I need and how many can my donor still provide? I would also like to blend my next HT with SMP. Please find the pictures attached. Thank you for your suggestions. Thanks.
The original donor density has to be known. It may still be possible to estimate that number but I would have to examine you and measure it myself. In addition, you did not state how many grafts you had so far and there is a suggestion of over-harvesting on the photos, but I would still have to see you to understand what your remaining supply is. SMP is the final step and should not be done until a Master Plan has been built!
I am 6 months and 10 days after my second hair transplant and I am very satisfied with the result, I am starting to behave as if I had not done a transplant seeing myself very well, so I am no longer taking the typical precautions, for example today I have taken sun and unfortunately I have not put sunscreen on the head nor cap. The sun was strong enough today and I took it for about 2 hours, I am now seeing that a red blotch has formed on the upper part of the forehead just before the hairline, but NOT on the skin, that is right where the hair starts. skin, in that point, looks white perhaps because there are so many hairs now that have protected the head from the sun. This red stain on the upper part of the forehead clearly scares me a lot now though, even if it doesn’t burn. I am reddened in that point but I don’t feel burning. The questions I wanted to ask are: at 6 months, a possible sunburn of this type can make my hair fall out: the hair regrown until now with the second transplant? Or could it compromise the growth of future hair?
I would like to understand if at 6 months I can behave as if I had not done a transplant or if there are still precautions to take, thank you very much. I hope in your answer
Don’t worry. Just be more careful in the future to use a hat or a skin blocker. The skin from the transplanted hair came from the back of the head which never saw sun, so this skin has to get used to sun over time, so take it easy and use a blocker to allow the time for a transition.
It sounds like you’re way better off than me. I’m 31 and I’m pretty much a diffuse NW5 right now, and exactly 1 year ago I was pretty much a NW2 with some diffuse. I had massive hair loss over the course of one year. The amount of hairs I was losing every day when I had my hair super long were in the several hundreds. If you’re only losing a hair or two when you run your hands, or only 10 or so hairs in the shower, you should be okay. You can try to look into a LLLT helmet, I bought one back in November and have been using it pretty much all the time. Not sure how much it’s really helping my case because I’m in shit at this point, but for your situation it may be perfect.
Find out if you are really losing hair with a HAIRCHECK test ( https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-and-what-its-value/ ) and the build a Master Plan with a good doctor who cares about you, not your money.
Clearly you have male patterned balding with corner recession. It could have skipped generations.
A hair transplant surgeon is always motivated to meet his patient’s agenda. I have done such hairlines in men when pushed to do so. Many were actors that had an image that they needed. The fact that it could be done is critical and other than being very low, it still has a gentle V-shape and is found (at the mid-line) in his juvenile hairline position. Many people would find such a hairline too low. (taken from Reddit post)
Yes, most of the hairs in the donor area shown are miniaturized but a few are thicker showing the comparison from normal to miniaturized hairs where the miniaturized hairs exceed 20% by a large margin. To demonstrate the normal hairs, I placed an arrow next to them and as you can see there are only 5 hairs that have a normal thickness, the rest of miniaturized. That is how the diagnosis is made. It is always better to evaluated the hairs when they are cut shorter than sent here by this patient so it is easier to count both miniaturized hairs and normal terminal hairs.
This is what we do every day with speeds of between 1000-1800 grafts per hour depending upon the patient’s skin characteristics. The key to good results from FUE is good speed with accurate excision and no damage to the hairs in the grafts (shown here in the video), proper handling of the grafts from the point they are removed from the body, sorting them by sizes and quantifying any damage done, and then placing them into the recipient area with minimal trauma in a fast and expeditious manner in a short period of time. Note that many of the grafts contained more than two hairs. That is because the surgeon can select which Follicular units he wishes to excise. This is nicely done by Dr. Devorye showing the excision which always must be done by a surgeon (by law).
17M Hey yall, I took 1mg of proscar 2 weeks ago, I think I still have brain fog. Haven’t been able to sleep more than 5 hours this past week no matter what I did. Also haven’t been able to enjoy or laugh at the things I could just before taking fin. All of that might be completely unrelated to taking fin. Have there ever been cases of PFS or persistent side effects after just a single dose, and how does being as young as 17 affect the chances? It could be just in my head, I hope that’s the case, but I really just want to know how likely it is that taking a single pill of a hair loss drug could be divine retribution for my vanity.
Not possible. It has to be in your head, a Nocebo effect
But does oral min have potentially less catastrophic or permanent side effects then what finasteride can allegedly have in some select people?
This is the reason each and every person being prescribed a medication needs a doctor. I can’t give you assurance that any drug is absolutely safe. Read the drug information that is easily supplied on the internet and then you must make a judgment with your doctor on what you want to do.
One point that I think is worth mentioning is that the deviation in response for Dut is much narrower than it is for fin. Finasteride inhibits 70% +- 18% of Dht while Dut is 94% +- 3%. As you can see, it’s clear why there are about 14% non responders to fin when they may only be inhibiting 52% DHT. With Dut, everyone in the study was above 90% inhibition so you’d have to be terribly unlucky to not respond.
For those who are thinning on Fin or who want better results, Dut is all but guaranteed to work better than fin. Dut is three times as potent at inhibiting 5AR2 which is what we want to inhibit. As a downside, Dut also inhibits 50% of 5ar1 which has unknown consequences.
I keep reminding Reddit readers that dutasteride is reported to cause sterility in a small number of men who take it as possibly is finasteride as well although the FDA trials, which are not present with Dutasteride, is available for finasteride. Neither of these medications have long term studies on young men under 30 years old. I generally tell patients that it is best to stay with drugs that have an FDA clearance for hair loss use as finasteride is than drugs that don’t (dutasteride).
This shows the proper use of a concealer to produce the appearance of a good looking ‘full’ head of hair.
Has anyone used this hair spray from Hair Cubed before? It looks super impressive and the application seems a lot easier than in the case of hair fibers. from tressless
You should add minoxidil and then go another year. Likely, it will make a difference
It looks like you have a maturing hairline developing. I can tell this because the highest crease in your furrowed brow is just one finger breadth above the lowest part of your hairline. It will eventually take on a typical male V-Shape. In the future, you might yet develop frontal recession, but now it does not look like that
