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Thankyou soo much, since i bought the minoxidil already im gonna finish the bottle and then I'll just continue with fina as u suggested, secondly I'm young asf 19y.o so i was hoping to get it after 23-24 beacuse u know college and stuff i dont have any visible crown thinning rn but my dermatologist checked from camera and noticed that my hair are thinning im that region too. Lastly i wanna ask how many grafts were required and from where u got hair transplant done?
Hello,
If you do not have visible crown thinning, be strict with finasteride/dutasteride and you should very likely not need a crown hair transplant at the age you are talking of (23-24) and it is much more preferable that you dont.
I had hair loss starting my early 20s too. I remember when I was 22-23 a couple of people commented on my crown around the same time. They happened to see on the top of my head though. My landlady who was putting color streaks in my hair, and a work colleague who was on a walk way directly above me and so could look straight down onto my head.
It wasnt so bad at the time I dont think because it didnt really even register with me really what they were saying. But when I got to my early 30s I realised that it had become very significant.
I have to say, Toppik does a very good job of covering it, fixed with hairspray, and I did that for a few years. But eventually, after probably a couple of hundred hours of reading forums, I bit the bullet and did an hair transplant with Dr Lorenzo of Madrid. I specifically chose FUE over FUT and I specifically avoided American doctors. There are certain reasons why most of them are far more expensive. Also, they were slow to embrace FUE and so are behind the curve compared to others in terms of experience. Although there are one or two who are no doubt very good. Although unjustifiably expensive.
BTW, the hair transplant forums are another rabbit hole, and its a bit of a shady industry. The hair transplant forums are actually sponsored by hair transplant docs and are a marketing vehicle for them, they are not the consumer websites that they present themselves as, so you have to be very discerning when wading through them.
By my mid 30s my crown baldness was around maybe 5 inches wide and 3 inches front to back. My results are comparable to the results on Lorenzos website/youtube channel, where he has many before/afters published. I am very happy with the results, I do not use Toppik anymore, and dont even think about it anymore. Nobody would think I used to have a bald patch or receding hairline. It really is a wonderful solution if you are a decent candidate.
The patch took 2000 grafts. I also had 1200 in my hairline. I still have 6000 grafts left I am told. He told me he doesnt expect ill need another transplant though.
My donor hair was slightly on the thin side in terms of the width of each hair, but I had a reasonable average number of hairs per graft/follicle. I think the average was a bit over 2.5. It cost around 14,000 EUR if I remember correctly. Future hair transplants with him would be cheaper due to the price structure which was something like 4 EUR per graft for the first 1000, then 2.5EUR per graft after that. (I am going from memory but something like that.)