Assessment on my scalp

[wedd]

all,
attached my scalp photos, i started losing hair in 2002, since then i have been taking one or the other medications.. including fin/min 2%, min 5%, min5% foam, aloe gels, etc etc.. Now my hair loss become noticeable and I am 27, want to have some reasonable hair into early or mid 30s..

I have decided to go with FUE, i assessed my scalp would require about 800?

Your opinions please.. Want to have it done in UK. have heard about Farjo.. anyone want to share their experiences please..

[dudemon]

all,
attached my scalp photos, i started losing hair in 2002, since then i have been taking one or the other medications.. including fin/min 2%, min 5%, min5% foam, aloe gels, etc etc.. Now my hair loss become noticeable and I am 27, want to have some reasonable hair into early or mid 30s..

I have decided to go with FUE, i assessed my scalp would require about 800?

Your opinions please.. Want to have it done in UK. have heard about Farjo.. anyone want to share their experiences please..

Your hair seems to be holding up well from the meds at your age. But I do think you are going to need about 2,500 to 3,000 grafts (maybe a little more in the front as well) because your NW pattern is about a NW3-V right now, with some thinning in the frontal core region.

It's good you have decided to get FUE and not strip. But, from everything I've heard and read on this site and many other sittes is that the UK is not a place to get a decent HT...from anybody there. In fact there is a member on this forum, who goes by the name "saf," who will tell you all you need to know about UK HT surgeons and clinics, and how/why you should avoid them.

Almost all of the decent HT surgeons in the whole world are in the US or Canada.

Don't be afraid to travel, because it's not that bad when getting an HT. HTH, and good luck.

[wedd]

Thanks dudemon
I m planning to just cover up the patches with minimal number as my budget is a bit tight at the moment. Could anyone tell me whats the minimum number of strands done in FUE?

I am just curious, if not a stupid qn, Will FUE cause damage to the strands that are already there in the recipient area ?

Thanks
wedd

[dudemon]

Thanks dudemon
I m planning to just cover up the patches with minimal number as my budget is a bit tight at the moment. Could anyone tell me whats the minimum number of strands done in FUE?

I am just curious, if not a stupid qn, Will FUE cause damage to the strands that are already there in the recipient area ?

Thanks
wedd

Honestly, your budget should not have any influence whatsoever for getting an HT. Get a credit card and charge it if you have to.

There is no minimal number of grafts done in any HT. IMO, 800 is quite small though, and you will need at least 2,000 bare minimum, IMO, to get any real noticeable improvement looking at your pics.

If the grafts are implanted correctly by a competent HT surgeon and their staff in the recipient area, there should not be any damage to the existing follicles. There may be a tiny bit, but it will not be noticeable.

However, what happens quite often is called "shockloss," and it can either be temporary or permanent. Usually shockloss is temporary, but sometimes it can be permanent. What happens is the trauma caused by the HT surgery itself will cause some of the pre-existing follicles to fall out and go into a resting phase for a few months after the HT, but sometimes can last up to (I think) about a year. Shockloss can occur in your recipient area as well as your donor area.

Most of the time, shockloss affects guys who already have more advanced (NW4+) male pattern baldness (MPB) and a great deal of their pre-existing hair is already in the "miniaturization process" caused by MPB. The MPB causes di-hydra testosterone (DHT) to weaken the follicles and the trauma to the scalp during the surgery kills what's left of them, or puts them into a long resting phase.

I don't think you are in this category at your current stage of MPB, and you won't need to worry too much about shockloss.

[s.a.f]

If I was in your situation and the fin was holding it steady I'd probably just sprinkle on some nanogen. It'll give the same appearance as a HT but for alot less hassle.

[zeroheat]

I agree with saf, some toppik/nanogen should hide that area pretty nicely.. and keep saving money so you can go for a bigger graft later

[wedd]

Thank you folks..
I was unaware of nanogen or that kind of products..
I was looking for a product like that..
Let me try that and see.. I saw a video.. it looks great.. Hope it works for me..

I ll come back soon with a few photos with the cosmetics..

[monty1978]

I wouldn't go for a transplant so early cos you have still not determined your hair loss pattern.

I would also travel if I were you. That said, not all the hair transplant surgeons are terrible, most are but Farjo seems ok.

Farjo advised me to wait a while for a transplant when i was still almost a kid so they are ethical. Also Duncan Bannatyne from dragons den had his hair done by farjo and it aint that bad!

[s.a.f]

Duncan Bannatyne from dragons den had his hair done by farjo and it aint that bad!

Yeah but what did he look like before? If I was going to do a HT from scratch I'd be sure I was going to a world class surgeon, not just the best of the UK clinics. Thats hardly proof of excelence.

[monty1978]

Duncan Bannatyne from dragons den had his hair done by farjo and it aint that bad!

Yeah but what did he look like before? If I was going to do a HT from scratch I'd be sure I was going to a world class surgeon, not just the best of the UK clinics. Thats hardly proof of excelence.

He was a norwood 6 and I said it was ok not excellent!

Feller is excellent!