She did not offer FUE, nor does she do FUE. She offered to fill in my corners more since they look so thin. She says they just look thin because the hairs there curl towards the center. When I look at the spacing of the hairs, I disagree.
One thing I will credit her with is that I don't think there was any shock loss. It just looked that way because I have so much area covered with grafts and the rest of my hair is so dense.
She did an exellent job on her first procedure with me. Since some places are thinker than others, I do think some of the second procedure's grafts did grow out, but I doubt it is over 50%. I just can't be that sure since I had the second procedure before the first one's grafts were fully matured.
Gillenator,
Everclear is 190 proof ethanol. It is the stuff college kids drink before bed. I used about 33% water, 33% everclear, and 33% propylene glycol in my mixtures. Rogaine is 20% ethanol, 30% water, and 50% propylene glycol. I used this 2 months after my surgery, and stopped covering them with a hat 2 months after, though I still stayed out of the sun as much as possible.
I don't know how an experienced surgeon who has fantastic magnification and no other patient in the building could mess anything up, but 1/3 of my hairline did not grow out to where it was post op, and most of the hair behind that still looks to me like 30 grafts/cm2, or maybe 40 in some places. None of it looks half as dense as the rest of my hair, though I do have dense hair. I think my donor hair is limited more by scalp tension than by the number of hair follicles. Yeah, that could mean FUE later, but I'm just waiting for HM, since it should be out by the time I have money to do anything like this again.