Update From The God Himself - Dr. Takashi Tsuji

Ollie

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This treatment is a bitter sweet. We basically have to be bald for it, or be a very solid receder who can sort of chase their hairline as it goes back with the treatment . Diffusers sort of have to wait to be bald.
 

nahte42

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This treatment is a bitter sweet. We basically have to be bald for it, or be a very solid receder who can sort of chase their hairline as it goes back with the treatment . Diffusers sort of have to wait to be bald.

I don't think it will be that much of a problem for diffusers. Most men lose density in a diffuse pattern as they age anyway....for those of us in our 20s with aggressive diffuse thinning, just have this done...we'll have good density until we're 50 and the rest of our original hair goes and we'll be back to looking a little diffused...but at that age it won't be a big deal to us.
 

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Yeah I don’t know why anyone thinks diffuse thinners won’t be able to have new, healthy grafts implanted over the basically dead ones to add density.
 

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Yeah I don’t know why anyone thinks diffuse thinners won’t be able to have new, healthy grafts implanted over the basically dead ones to add density.

from what I gather, at least this has happened personally to me, hair transplants specialists do not want to perform a transplant to diffusers because they claim there will be a huge shock loss of hair because of the procedure.

I'm a diffuser, and I've sent pics of my hair to several hair transplant clinics for evaluation, many of them never replied back (no idea why) but those who have, told me that they won't perform a hair transplant on me because since I'm a diffuser basically the entire hair on my scalp is weak and will most likely die from shock loss from the transplant, they told me I should go on finasteride and wait for at least a year and then see how my hair looks and how much stronger it gets.

that or wait until I lose more hair.

this will not be any different than a hair transplant in terms of the procedure.
 

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from what I gather, at least this has happened personally to me, hair transplants specialists do not want to perform a transplant to diffusers because they claim there will be a huge shock loss of hair because of the procedure.

I'm a diffuser, and I've sent pics of my hair to several hair transplant clinics for evaluation, many of them never replied back (no idea why) but those who have, told me that they won't perform a hair transplant on me because since I'm a diffuser basically the entire hair on my scalp is weak and will most likely die from shock loss from the transplant, they told me I should go on finasteride and wait for at least a year and then see how my hair looks and how much stronger it gets.

that or wait until I lose more hair.

this will not be any different than a hair transplant in terms of the procedure.
Sounds like you have dupa, and not just regular diffuse loss. I think the replies were in regards to normal diffuse loss.
 

Xander94

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Sounds like you have dupa, and not just regular diffuse loss. I think the replies were in regards to normal diffuse loss.
I have normal diffuse loss and Ive also been rejected by all decent clinics in fear of shock loss
 

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I think I'm in the same boat as a diffuse thinner. Anyone consider SMP? Right now I'm just holding on with lots of meds and supplements to maintain and luckily have dermmatch to look like a Norwood 0.5. I'm really curious if SMP would be a permanent replacement for dermmatch or if it'd look funny with medium length hair.
 

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from what I gather, at least this has happened personally to me, hair transplants specialists do not want to perform a transplant to diffusers because they claim there will be a huge shock loss of hair because of the procedure.

I'm a diffuser, and I've sent pics of my hair to several hair transplant clinics for evaluation, many of them never replied back (no idea why) but those who have, told me that they won't perform a hair transplant on me because since I'm a diffuser basically the entire hair on my scalp is weak and will most likely die from shock loss from the transplant, they told me I should go on finasteride and wait for at least a year and then see how my hair looks and how much stronger it gets.

that or wait until I lose more hair.

this will not be any different than a hair transplant in terms of the procedure.

But Tsuji's hair germs are much smaller than the FUE punches, wouldn't they need much smaller incisions to place? If any? That makes me think shock loss would be less of an issue
 

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For those of you that are diffuse thinning, do most of you have intact hairlines at either NW1 or 2? If so i feel like your best option is a skin fade on the side and keep your hair at a 2-3 inch length on top.
 

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For those of you that are diffuse thinning, do most of you have intact hairlines at either NW1 or 2? If so i feel like your best option is a skin fade on the side and keep your hair at a 2-3 inch length on top.

My hairline is like a mature Norwood 0.5, it is why concealers are god.
 

BigOl'BaldingHead

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I always felt like Follica could be the saviour for diffuse thinners, as it provides alot of regrowth.
 

nahte42

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For those of you that are diffuse thinning, do most of you have intact hairlines at either NW1 or 2? If so i feel like your best option is a skin fade on the side and keep your hair at a 2-3 inch length on top.

Extreme diffuse thinner as you can see by my pic... on close inspection, I still have a hairline that maybe you could call Norwood 3. But density loss is so extreme that growing it longer doesn't fix the problem for me. I usually do let it grow longer anyway and shave the sides and back to zero length, but it's still quite obvious what's going on.
 
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