Can someone explain about Hair Transplants

[Healthy Nick]

Ok. Tell me the details.

I know they take a strip of skin from the back of you head, and put it in the balding area. How bad is the scar in the back? Does having an hair transplant eliminate the possibility of being able to shave your head? Nobody is going to want a massive, visible scar.

Also, this hair should last forever, right? Or can it fall out?

Please give all the details. Thanks

 

[acfava]

yes the strip method will leave a large scar, and you probably wont want to shave ur head again. but there is another type of hair transplant which takes the follicle unit itself(fue) and will leave a less noticeable mark. this procedure is more costly/time consuming. there are pros/cons to both.

 

[Hairybush1]

The name alone, "Strip Method", gives me goosebumps. i dont like the sound of that at all. I read one guys experience with a hair transplant and although he was very happy with the final outcome, his story made me go pale.

Couldnt they have at least called it the "Shuffle Method" or "The Puzzler"?

 

[Guest]

The name alone, "Strip Method", gives me goosebumps. i dont like the sound of that at all. I read one guys experience with a hair transplant and although he was very happy with the final outcome, his story made me go pale.

Couldnt they have at least called it the "Shuffle Method" or "The Puzzler"?

I have had three of these done and they were not that bad. If they can take the hair from the bottom back of your head, it is kind of a piece of cake.

The last one though came from the side/back and was a b**ch.

No shaved head for me unless I want to tell Vietnam stories I make up!!

 

[Redbone]

Damn, I am going to stick with the woods method-

 

[Hairybush1]

The name alone, "Strip Method", gives me goosebumps. i dont like the sound of that at all. I read one guys experience with a hair transplant and although he was very happy with the final outcome, his story made me go pale.

Couldnt they have at least called it the "Shuffle Method" or "The Puzzler"?

I have had three of these done and they were not that bad. If they can take the hair from the bottom back of your head, it is kind of a piece of cake.

The last one though came from the side/back and was a b**ch.

No shaved head for me unless I want to tell Vietnam stories I make up!!

In all seriousness, are you not worried about the effect of having more hair fall out around the implants and therefore just leaving you with a diffused look with scars underneath? How many grafts did you have done and could you give me an objective rating of the overall final look?

Lastly we're you conscience during the operations? The guy in the story I read wound up passing in and out and said the injection to stretch out the scalp hurt like hell.

 

[Guest]

The name alone, "Strip Method", gives me goosebumps. i dont like the sound of that at all. I read one guys experience with a hair transplant and although he was very happy with the final outcome, his story made me go pale.

Couldnt they have at least called it the "Shuffle Method" or "The Puzzler"?

I have had three of these done and they were not that bad. If they can take the hair from the bottom back of your head, it is kind of a piece of cake.

The last one though came from the side/back and was a b**ch.

No shaved head for me unless I want to tell Vietnam stories I make up!!

In all seriousness, are you not worried about the effect of having more hair fall out around the implants and therefore just leaving you with a diffused look with scars underneath? How many grafts did you have done and could you give me an objective rating of the overall final look?

Lastly we're you conscience during the operations? The guy in the story I read wound up passing in and out and said the injection to stretch out the scalp hurt like hell.

No I am 54 and my hairloss pattern will not involve the donor areas. Total grafts over three procedures was 1300. All these were done in the front hairline area.

I am pleased with the look which is an accumulation of three procedures over a 15 yrs span. I also have been using drug means to retain my hair which as helped (regrew my crown last year).

I was awake for all three procedures and didn't find them painful at all.

 

[Healthy Nick]

Now Bruce, did any transplanted hair fall out? That's my big worry.

Also, how long did it take you to recover?

 

[Guest]

Now Bruce, did any transplanted hair fall out? That's my big worry.

Also, how long did it take you to recover?

Not that I am aware of but as you can imagine, this would be very hard to track on a precise basis. Apparently though, all have remained.

Can you define recover? End of pain, swelling etc or hair fully grown in?

The pain swelling part is over very quickly, esp if you ice up and take your meds.

The hair comes in slowly after it initially falls out. But at the one year mark, you look up and are stunned by full healthy thick hair.

It IS kind of cool!

BTW- using folligen or the tricomin basin lamin product after surgery def. speeds recovery.