Thread: 5 months into my 3,168 graft FUT “strip method” hair transplant. (Pics)

https://imgur.com/gallery/Ah7oS5I

Just need someone to embed them for me and I’ll rep for life.

The first pic is of my hairline the night after the surgery. You can see the blood spots marking where my new hairline is gonna be.



Second and third pics are a couple months in.

The crown takes much longer to grow in so it’s still early on that part of my scalp.







The next pic is of my hairline today. 5 months in. It’s gonna keep growing thicker too and max out at 1-1.5 years. The crown takes longer to come in because the skin is thicker there but I’m extremely happy with the hairline even so early.



Last pic is the back of my head where they took out an ear to ear slice of skin. The doctor was a goddamn artist though and stitched it up so well you can barely see it. I have brown concealer spray I can use but don’t feel the need to unless I’m going to some event.



Went with Bosley. Here’s a link to the doctor.
https://www.bosley.com/hair-transpla...-m-alpeter-jr/

Cost me 14k and I’d do it all over again.

I was at a Norwood 4 and shaved my head as a test to see how I’d look and took the Nope Train to FukThatVille. My melon is just too big to rock the bald look.

I’m on TRT and will never ever roll the dice on propecia so a second transplant is likely needed 5-10 years down the line and I’m cool with it.

Open to see pictures

Spoiler!

First picture.





second picture.



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seems like a waste, you're still an ugly bastard

mirin results mang

but i hope no one sees these results and thinks it works for everyone, ive basically got a FUE horror story srs

no i didnt go to thailand for it either

Originally Posted by friesbruh

mirin results mang

but i hope no one sees these results and thinks it works for everyone, ive basically got a FUE horror story srs

no i didnt go to thailand for it either

Yea I was gonna go to Istanbul, Turkey for a third of the price and they’re the hair transplant capital of the world. But lots of bad clinics in the mix too. Went to a free consultation with Bosley and when I saw the doctor with his credentials and tons of experience I said fuk it, I’m going with a legit US/domestic doctor.

Originally Posted by EDcellent

Thankfully I look good bald, but you had hair way better than me. Nice save OP, glad it worked out for you.

Thanks brah

Originally Posted by gesten

What Norwood level were u before?

Norwood IV.

My crown was worse than my hairline. Maybe about 2.5 inches in diameter. I could and still do conceal it with Toppik hair building fibers. But you can’t use that stuff on the hairline because you need your real hair to “sandwich” it in on the perimeters. But the doctor knows how pattern baldness works and performed accordingly by adding more grafts further out on my crown so that if I continue to bald along the perimeter, it won’t look like an island of hair.

I was scheduled to have 2500 grafts done with FUE but switched to FUT a week before the procedure. Because you get better quality AND quantity with FUT. if you can just get past the scar, it’s really a no-brainer. The survivability rate of FUT grafts is higher than that of FUE grafts. And I got 3,168 grafts instead of 2500. AND I preserved plenty of donor hair in the back with FUT for future transplants. FUE destroys your donor hair area in the back.

Thats alot of money brah, I'm glad it worked out for you.

I wish you all the best my big melon headed boi

That would cost 5k max in Turkey boyo

Nice brah, was the hair loss from gear or just age?