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NO i have not had transplants done YET!!!. I'm only 25 and still have a decent head of hair, relatively speaking of course. I have extensively researched the subject, and have been following the evolution of hairtransplants and learnt about what terrible sh*t went on in the 80's with plugs(If you can imagine looking like a doll). All for the prupose of eventually getting a transplant, if like you say nothing else works or comes along. I'm a vain motherFucker and nee hair.
It does not hurt because the doctor numbs you up real good.
FUE's are hairtransplants. There strip tranplants and FUE tranplants.
Strip is where they literally take a strip of scalp from the back of your head and then take those follicles from the strip and transplant them into your balding area's. FUE's is different because they kind of punch the follicles out one by one and then tranplant into your balding area's.
You could have one procedure or you could have 2-3, depends on how bald you are going into surgery and how your baldness progresses after.
Remeber it's you own hair and you can gel it etc. and do all you want. Follicles from the sides and back of your head are not affected by DHT.