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I emailed Dr Erdogan my pictures last week and inquired about having a pretty small hair transplant, not to lower my hairline or fill in my temples, just to round out my forelock a bit more for a smoother NW2 appearance. I was thinking maybe 700 or so grafts would suffice. This is the response I got today:
Thank you for your interest to our clinic. This is Dr Koray Erdogan's professional evaluation. According to the pictures we received the Doctor evaluates your general features as suitable for a hair transplant surgery and proposes 2600 grafts FUE surgery for your frontal area in 1 operation day. We need this graft number because in the first frontline we will use only single and double grafts for natural looking and as your original hair is dense we need more graft number to achieve close density to your original one. The Doctor recommends to continue the usage of Finasteride in order to maintain and optimise your original hair. If you use minoxidil or rogain you should stop it 2 months before the operation. The operation will be planned and carried out by Dr Koray Erdogan and his staff, composed by trustworthy, highly qualified and experienced team members. The surgery will be performed under local anaesthesia and its not painful. The graft extraction is done exclusively by MANUAL PUNCH (not micro motor), which represents until today the only instrument capable of preserving the patient's donor area and optimising the management of its resources, guarantying at the same time a higher quality of the extracted grafts and minimum scar outcomes.
Now this is A LOT more grafts than I was expecting to need, and obviously all used at the front edge of my hairline, so it doesn't leave much room for further hair transplants as my male pattern baldness eventually resumes.
I'm thinking the hair transplant proposed is not a very conservative one and maybe they think I want my hairline lower than I actually do. For the record, this is what I hoped to achieve (black line), and what i thought would require ~700 grafts:
and this is my hairline up close from the front
sorry it's upside down, don't know why that keeps happening.
Thoughts? Would you get a 2600 hair transplant with this hairline and likely destined for an NW5 or 6? Is it worth replying and discussing a more conservative hair transplant? I have no idea what exactly he even has in mind in terms of hairline shape and position...
Thank you for your interest to our clinic. This is Dr Koray Erdogan's professional evaluation. According to the pictures we received the Doctor evaluates your general features as suitable for a hair transplant surgery and proposes 2600 grafts FUE surgery for your frontal area in 1 operation day. We need this graft number because in the first frontline we will use only single and double grafts for natural looking and as your original hair is dense we need more graft number to achieve close density to your original one. The Doctor recommends to continue the usage of Finasteride in order to maintain and optimise your original hair. If you use minoxidil or rogain you should stop it 2 months before the operation. The operation will be planned and carried out by Dr Koray Erdogan and his staff, composed by trustworthy, highly qualified and experienced team members. The surgery will be performed under local anaesthesia and its not painful. The graft extraction is done exclusively by MANUAL PUNCH (not micro motor), which represents until today the only instrument capable of preserving the patient's donor area and optimising the management of its resources, guarantying at the same time a higher quality of the extracted grafts and minimum scar outcomes.
Now this is A LOT more grafts than I was expecting to need, and obviously all used at the front edge of my hairline, so it doesn't leave much room for further hair transplants as my male pattern baldness eventually resumes.
I'm thinking the hair transplant proposed is not a very conservative one and maybe they think I want my hairline lower than I actually do. For the record, this is what I hoped to achieve (black line), and what i thought would require ~700 grafts:
and this is my hairline up close from the front
sorry it's upside down, don't know why that keeps happening.
Thoughts? Would you get a 2600 hair transplant with this hairline and likely destined for an NW5 or 6? Is it worth replying and discussing a more conservative hair transplant? I have no idea what exactly he even has in mind in terms of hairline shape and position...