The Usefulness Of Upcoming Treatments For People With Transplants

[kj6723]

Some of us had a brief conversation in another thread about this, but I wanted to get a deeper one going, and hopefully get some of our "experts" involved.

Of the new treatments on the horizon, which, if any, look to be most compatible for people who have gotten hair transplant's?

Which one's have the potential to work best for maintaining/making permanent native hair that is mixed with donor hair? Or have people shot themselves in the foot by reinforcing weak areas by transplanting through it?

For transplanted areas that are inevitably less dense due to the nature of transplantation and its "illusion" of density, will any of the new treatments allow new hairs to grow between these transplanted ones and create actual density?

Any other thoughts or insights on the new treatments and their compatibility (or lack thereof) with hair transplant for folks who have gone down that route?

 

[constrictedvoid]

Don't worry, your native hairs will just grow in between and it will be more than enough.

Of course some follicles have been "shot" by the transplanted hairs but it's no big deal.

Thanks to minoxidil, my vellus hairs that have replaced my terminal are a bit stronger so I can see them if I shine lateral light in my hair.

They're all still there, thousands of them waiting to be awakened, even though I've had 2000 grafts planted all over my NW5 area.

I wouldn't worry about this.

Wouldn't there be excessive density in, for instance, the front(if you just transplant there), if the regular follicles are re-awakened, compared to the rest of the scalp? I imagine it could look odd.

 

[buckthorn]

Wouldn't there be excessive density.

sounds like a pretty serious problem!!

 

[GoldenMane]

if a super dense front is your biggest hair problem then you no longer have hair problems

 

[buckthorn]

if a super dense front is your biggest hair problem then you no longer have hair problems

I would literally go in my garage. take out my miter saw. plug it in. set it to 45 degrees. Then stretch my right nut over the table and slowly cut it off and suture it together myself for a "super dense front"

 

[constrictedvoid]

I would literally go in my garage. take out my miter saw. plug it in. set it to 45 degrees. Then stretch my right nut over the table and slowly cut it off and suture it together myself for a "super dense front"

I legit think it could look pretty odd, wish we had any cases like that. Then again, maybe the hair won't grow in because of mechanical pressure due to the transplanted hairs being around it. I have no idea about that.

 

[Sanchez1234]

Do you think its smart for people who are doing a FUE as a NW3 to do a high density (>50cm2) transplant on the hairline and gamble that future methods will save the rest the next years?

So basically you will be f'cked if nothing comes out the next 10 years and you dont have enough donor to make it look good.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

Wouldn't there be excessive density in, for instance, the front(if you just transplant there), if the regular follicles are re-awakened, compared to the rest of the scalp? I imagine it could look odd.

If that happened you could just untransplant those hairs.

 

[hilbert]

Don't worry, your native hairs will just grow in between and it will be more than enough.

Of course some follicles have been "shot" by the transplanted hairs but it's no big deal.

Thanks to minoxidil, my vellus hairs that have replaced my terminal are a bit stronger so I can see them if I shine lateral light in my hair.

They're all still there, thousands of them waiting to be awakened, even though I've had 2000 grafts planted all over my NW5 area.

I wouldn't worry about this.

fully agree.

 

[pegasus2]

For Tsuji it should make no difference. For the others I could see a transplant negating the results somewhat due to some follicles that would've come back being damaged by the transplant.

 

[whatevr]

I would literally go in my garage. take out my miter saw. plug it in. set it to 45 degrees. Then stretch my right nut over the table and slowly cut it off and suture it together myself for a "super dense front"

HAHAHA it just got progressively worse as I read that post. Nice twist. Didn't expect that.

 

[kj6723]

If I were considering an hair transplant right now, I wouldn't get it until some of these future treatments shake out; if nothing hits the market within three years, then go ahead, but if something does hit the market by 2018 or so, I wouldn't.

It's all a gamble...say 3 years pass without any of these treatments coming to fruition...then there'll be something else being worked on...or maybe the same ones, and it'll again be, "well maybe I should wait another 3 years"

Meanwhile youth is slipping further and further into the past

 

[Mattias]

It's all a gamble...say 3 years pass without any of these treatments coming to fruition...then there'll be something else being worked on...or maybe the same ones, and it'll again be, "well maybe I should wait another 3 years"

Meanwhile youth is slipping further and further into the past

Yep, don't wait. you live now and you'r not getting younger. i did my first hair transplant at 24 and second now that im 29. Im so greatfull that i didn't wait.

 

[Mach]

Yep, don't wait. you live now and you'r not getting younger. i did my first hair transplant at 24 and second now that im 29. Im so greatfull that i didn't wait.

+1
Guy's with a hair transplant that start on the big 3 have amazing results.

 

[yellowbluegrey]

Yep, don't wait. you live now and you'r not getting younger. i did my first hair transplant at 24 and second now that im 29. Im so greatfull that i didn't wait.

Were the docs not reluctant to do it at 24? Im 23 and pretty much wrote off getting one any time soon cos of the amount of guys saying a surgeon won't touch a guy under 28

 

[hilbert]

Had a 1st one at 19 by a butcher; big regret and doomed to a scar and not shaving (i.e. no easy way out from the fight).
Saved by a 2nd at 32 with Hasson.
Small touch up and FUE-in-scar experiments with Feriduni at 41.

Too early is both good and bad: you might save your younger years, but be doomed to desperation in your older years. And believe me, when older you might care about hair as much as when in your 20s.
So my advice is: either FUE (by a top one) or nothing until you don't clearly understand your Norwood pattern, and it's <= 5A.

 

[Mattias]

Had a 1st one at 19 by a butcher; big regret and doomed to a scar and not shaving (i.e. no easy way out from the fight).
Saved by a 2nd at 32 with Hasson.
Small touch up and FUE-in-scar experiments with Feriduni at 41.

Too early is both good and bad: you might save your younger years, but be doomed to desperation in your older years. And believe me, when older you might care about hair as much as when in your 20s.
So my advice is: either FUE (by a top one) or nothing until you don't clearly understand your Norwood pattern, and it's <= 5A.

I agree. i choose to do the FUE witch also leaves scars, but done with a good surgeon its barley noticeable or something a little bit of SMP wont fix.

When i came home from my second hair transplant a week ago i showed my neck to my friends asking them to take a close look and tell me if they noticed something. no one reacted to the scars even if told them to look for it.

Heres a pictures of my donor after one hair transplant (2065 grafts) with very short buzzed hair, almost shaved.

 

[Mattias]

No one would ever notice this. Hell, I pointed a FUT scar to a friend once. His reaction? "Maybe he injured himself?!"

So people who are afraid of tiny FUE scars... Just another excuse not to go for it and wallow in their misery.

Yea i agree. no reason to wait or to be afraid. The hair transplant-surgeons has come a long way and the FUE technique are so refined its almost hard to get bad results . i bought back 10 years of my youth thanks to hair transplants and that's something to be happy about.

Worst case, if im not able to keep a descent look before everything behind falls of i will buzz that sh*t and look like a straight up killer .

 

[Mach]

Has anyone every tried rolling over an FUE scar? I know rolling is a technique to reduce scar tissue but I think the fue scar is more hair loss than scar???

 

[Mach]

Yea i agree. no reason to wait or to be afraid. The hair transplant-surgeons has come a long way and the FUE technique are so refined its almost hard to get bad results . i bought back 10 years of my youth thanks to hair transplants and that's something to be happy about.

Worst case, if im not able to keep a descent look before everything behind falls of i will buzz that sh*t and look like a straight up killer .

Can you at least smile?

Just messing, looks good!