Was this guy's hair transplant too aggressive?

[Thickandthin]

He is Rahal's poster boy client it seems. Doesn't say his age but I suspect late 20's/early 30's. Went from a NW3 to a wall of hair NW1. 1600 grafts.

Do you guys think he went too aggressive with the hairline?

 

[s.a.f]

IMO he did'nt really need a hair transplant, if he continues to lose hair and is destined to be a NW6 then yes he probably will be fucked.
But unfortunatley Rahal is just playing to the market. The average guy looking into hair transplant's is the former NW1 in his early 20's who has receeded to about NW2-3 and they dont think about the long term they just want a great hairline.
The king of doing this was Armani he'd routinely do 2000 grafts on a NW2.

You'll notice that barring H&W's Jotronic nearly all hair transplant surgeons 'poster boys' are guys who had very little loss to begin with.

 

[DoctorHouse]

s.a.f., do you think ( just hypothetical of course since this guy is most likely in his 20's) if this guy was in his early 40's and just had this done would be perfectly fine since most likely he might not get too much aggressive loss later. Take into consideration that he WANTS to have one even though you don't think he should have.

 

[s.a.f]

If this guy was in his 40's then I doubt he'd be so bothered about having what was at the most a not very noticible NW3. But lets just say he was theres still the fact that he'd probably have to come back in the future to have more work done.
Yes he WANTS the hair transplant and thats his choice but then again Michael jackson went to plastic surgeons with a little pixie anime looking nose and they happily took his $$$ to reduce it even further.

 

[Jojje]

eehm if this guy is in his late 20's is on finasteride or dutasteride to stop hairloss and only used 1600 grafts to get that result.. i would not say its to much or agressive hair transplant.
I think using 1600 grafts there is a greate result and he stil got much hair left to do later hair transplant if he needs to.
Remember we usually have 10 000 grafts in our donor erea.. and this was a strip so with another strip procedure + eventual fue work he can get out plenty of grafts later.
I think the dr did greate work.
But i would never go for a strip, dont want the scar or the long recovery + there is chanse for chronick pain after such procedure.

 

[s.a.f]

10,000 grafts is a generous figure I'd say more like 6-10,000 is the average. but look at the small space that the grafts were used in, now imagine if he went to NW6 thats at least 10x the area.

 

[Jojje]

If youre not on a internal blocker that works heading for nw6--- wy bother getting a hair transplant.....
If you are using a blocker and not... yes go ahead.
my dutas works greate but i got on the finasteride/dutasteride wagon to late so yes im holding and gained some but i want my hairline back.
Say i do the same and keep it for another 10-20 years and need a tuch up.
I would say its deff. worth it.
Then at age 50 if i cant keep it up .. f*** it and shave.. think il prob have allot of other problems at that age then my hair

 

[Thickandthin]

IMO he did'nt really need a hair transplant, if he continues to lose hair and is destined to be a NW6 then yes he probably will be f***ed.
But unfortunatley Rahal is just playing to the market. The average guy looking into hair transplant's is the former NW1 in his early 20's who has receeded to about NW2-3 and they dont think about the long term they just want a great hairline.
The king of doing this was Armani he'd routinely do 2000 grafts on a NW2.

You'll notice that barring H&W's Jotronic nearly all hair transplant surgeons 'poster boys' are guys who had very little loss to begin with.

NicNitro and Bobman were both NW5/6. Of course they are exceptional hair transplant patients, but bald before hand nonetheless.

If he was NW6 destined how long do you think it would take him to get there? I mean, he COULD have miniaturization across the entire vertex already, but it looks thick to me. Assuming he doesn't have any now, and he is NW6 destined by age 50, that's a good 20 years to reach it. He might be thinning in 10 years, but I'd say it would be 15 years until he had an obviously balding vertex or crown. And IMO a vertex can be filled in with Toppik much more easily than a hairline.

I dunno - I think he made a good decision. Even if he only gets 5 years of good hair with that - no concealer needed - I'd say it would be worth it. I'd definitely have to know what my hair was up to, miniaturization-wise, before I attempted a hair transplant like that though.

 

[s.a.f]

He could be 20 though for all we know. The point is Bobman and Nicnitro spread their grafts conservativly over the entire scalp area, if they'd previously had a hair transplant and concentrated on a thick dense hairline they would have screwed their final result.

 

[BodyDysmorphic]

i think the hair transplant looks great maybe too aggressive if the guy was early 20s and not on an internal anti-androgen
but non the less you have to admit his hair looks super good and very youthful

 

[RP3X]

he looks like hes 23-24 at that age am sure all the lucky women are surrounding him.

 

[barcafan]

sh*t i'd do it if i had the cash. Looks very good IMO

 

[Petchsky]

It does, but you have to think about 20+ years time.

 

[Jojje]

It does, but you have to think about 20+ years time.

Yes thats true, thats wy i would go with fue.. say i have 6000-8000 grafts of donor hair for fue i can use 3K now and use the rest for tutchups.
And if thats not enough i can always shave when i get older because there will be no strip scar.
Does that seem like a ok plan, and i will be 26 this desember, and my hair is holding steady on my regiment

 

[barcafan]

how expensive is FUE?

 

[Jojje]

how expensive is FUE?

i was considering doing it at prohair clinic, have seen alot of great result from them on another forum + youtube.
3000 grafts would cost me 6500 euros

 

[Petchsky]

Yes thats true, thats wy i would go with fue.. say i have 6000-8000 grafts of donor hair for fue i can use 3K now and use the rest for tutchups.
And if thats not enough i can always shave when i get older because there will be no strip scar.
Does that seem like a ok plan, and i will be 26 this desember, and my hair is holding steady on my regiment

Yeah, sounds like a plan.

 

[iwantperfection]

does this not look terribly like the guy who was asking about transplants a while ago...the model...21ukheregoes

???

 

[s.a.f]

Yes but its not him.

 

[richlocks]

Prohair clinic? Come on. That's not a plan - go with a top FUE.. it will cost far more than 6,500 euros for 3K FUE. If its that cheap, there is something very wrong. Should be $6-$7 per graft.

Also realize there is the risk and reality of white dot scars.. especially if you get up to 6K FUE grafts.. so i don't think you can go below a 1.5 grade.. don't think i would care to anyways.. but gotta be aware that's a possibility.

Perhaps some body hair implant into the donor will take those white dots away, but that's just more time, money, and trauma.