They say a picture is worth 1000 words, clearly that is the case here. The surgeon’s plan was faulty from the start, transplanting only the first 2 inches of the hairline from an FUE harvest and leaving the area behind it bald.  After 8 months, the plan nevertheless failed, because the grafts failed to grow.  If the surgery would have succeeded, this poor man would have a bald patch between the transplants and the hair behind it.  What the surgeon should have done was either spread out the recipient grafts to cover the entire frontal area that was devoid of hair producing a thinner look, or he should have increased the number of FUE grafts transplanted into the front and top.  No person should be left looking like a half finished hair transplant job as this man would have looked like had the surgery succeeded.  His doctor was clearly more oblivious to the realities of the transplant technique than this patient believed. Now he has lost about 2000 of his donor follicular units forever (possibly 1/3rd of his supply), and has a failed transplant in the front that he has to live with.

Interesting with what appears to be a good double blind study. Impressive; however, more subjects are needed for it to become a standard treatment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819075/

This article “reports the hair regrowth-promoting effect of a newly synthesized novel small molecule, IM176OUT05 (IM), which activates stem cell metabolism. IM facilitated stemness induction and maintenance during an induced pluripotent stem cell generation process.”  This article appears in the most prestigious journal in the science field so I guess it has merit to it.

More and more research is coming forward which makes this field more exciting almost every day

https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-018-0185-z

A world champion Olympic weight lifter told me the same thing that you said. He also told me that the only thing in life he could not control was his hair so we transplanted him. Then, he had it all! He was 28 years old.

For the first time in my life… from tressless

These results for three months looks goo. I would expect much more value over the next 9 months if you to stick to the treatment

It is discouraging. What’s interesting about human attraction and looks is, the most important factors are those you cannot change. Your height. Your hair. Your facial characteristics. Can’t get a date!  Turns out being fit working out and being muscular doesn’t actually matter. Dressing nice matters but can’t compensate a lack of something genetically determined. I’m so bummed out how important the genetics code is to be successful in this area

This is an interesting study; however, although I don’t want to be a snob, a proper study should be done from a recognized academic institution that would lend credibility to this study. The link does not show this, but some of the science is there. Using peppermint oil certainly will not hurt you if you try it. I would love to hear some people’s response to their use of it reported back here.

This study proves that peppermint oil is more effective than minoxidil, can you guys tell me why it isn’t? from tressless