I have some bald areas that makes me comb hair. I’m start thinking about hair transplant. But, is there a sense of doing this? I mean, did you notice that women start paying attention to you more? Or nothing has changed, and there are no visible changes?
What is the cost of buying and maintaining one? And also how does it work, does anyone here have any kind of experience with it?
Good hair systems over a 5 year period will cost you more than a hair transplant. You have to have more than one and they wear out every year or two. You have to wash them often, wash your hair and remove the glues, change them as you have hair cuts, etc. I wrote this back in 2011: https://baldingblog.com/repost-my-hair-system-cost-me-over-16000-in-5-years/
A good transplanted hairline will have a transition zone created in front of the larger grafts (2-3 hairs each) so that there is an easy gradation from forehead to thicker hair. This picture shows the absence of a transition zone and hair lined up like soldiers, not a random normal placement of the grafts. In addition, the transplant is not aligned to the forelock so it was poorly planned. This surgery was done recently by another clinic.
I have been a long time fin user and recent Dutasteride user for the last few months. I’ve already spoken to the guy that’s done my dysport for years about trying oral minoxidil. I’m not interested in using it topically and have read some really encouraging and really recent literature lately on low dose oral Min for MAA. Is this a reasonable option?
Oral minoxidil can be very effective and is a good alternative to finasteride
What does your scar look like and what length can you hide it under? Like I usually get cut 3 on the sides and back, I have dark hair.
I had three hair transplants with strip surgeries. I can cut my hair to a one cut, and have no visible scar. Most people get just a line scar but 5% do get wider scars easily treated with Scalp Micropigmentation or wearing your hair slightly longer. Half of the hair transplants we do are with strip and the other half is with FUE and few patients complain of the scar as we are now using staples for the closures and they remain in for 3 weeks until the wound is healed. A minor inconvenience, I am told.
Yes, it can be done but should you do it? Body hair has a very short growth cycle, usually between six to eight months, which means that it not only will look like your body hair but it will be short (no more than one inch). That does not give you either bulk or length which is a requirement for styling and value.
If you were very bald and have a poor donor density, then this hair could be placed behind the hairline or any on other part of the head except the first one inch of the hairline in order to add bulk to the hair transplants from the scalp. This is where the value is and if you happen to be very bald (a Class 7 balding pattern) then your chest hair might work.
You have been over-harvested with FUE, something I have been discussing here on my site with too much frequency. By too much, I mean that too many doctors don’t understand the limits of FUE as I defined in a published article here: https://baldingblog.com/2017/07/21/many-fue-grafts-many-fues-grafts-one-know-safe-limits/
The best treatment for this is Scalp MicroPigmentation which, although it is not hair but a type of highly specialized tattoo, can fill in these bald area and look like it is hair. You will have to keep your hair very short so that the gaps in the hair are not overly noticeable.