Diezel,

Welcome to our forum community.

I am always concerned when I see young hair transplant patients at only 20 or so years of age with virtually no hair loss receive large megasessions that will quickly use up a finite donor hair supply.

In my opinion, Dr. Armani continues to prove that his ethics are more than questionable. Read more of my opinion on Dr. Armani.

Of course, we wish you the very best hoping both that you do not experience a lot of additional hair loss and that you experience high growth yield.

I encourage you to create a hair transplant patient photo album and hair loss weblog to share your experience and photos with us. Please only create these if you intend to follow through until maturation 9-12 months later. Photos such as before, immediately postoperative, monthly progressive photos, and after pictures will be helpful.

For your reference however, and future learning, I recommend reading the following:

Am I Too Young for a Hair Transplant?

What Should I Consider when Researching Hair Transplantation?

What are the benefits, limitations, and potential problems of FUE?

Best wishes,

Falc

Thanks for all the concern everyone.

I'll see what happens in the coming months, I have photos post op and monthly so far so i could create a weblog. I'll more than likely do this in a couple of months.

I really do understand what everybody is saying. I was aware of the situation before the op and am not overly concerned about any loss in the future although it's hard to show any emotion to it unless it's actually happened.

The way I look at it, is that if i were to lose any hair and medications did fail and supposedly there were no future 'options', to cover the rest then I would happily try to blend in a Zidane like bald spot. Some people may find it hard to believe but i don't think that would bother me . I wear my hair buzzed, i like it buzzed and I thought why not try this seen as I have had no hair loss and very very little loss in my family.

In relation to the dude that said they don't know where they would put 4500 grafts... Like i say it was more like replacing a lost hairline but with no hairloss. I had a high hairline with no temples. I would have thought this was better than somebody who had showed signs of loss early.

The shape that Armani has given me is fantastic, i have every faith in his artistic ability, and in general I would say that although he does market himself strong and business like he is a really nice guy with good staff and good clean facilities.

One thing yesterday that did concern me a little was that i did not know about low yield rate in FUE and the fact that some of you find that he has not proven himself much in his FUE. Now, I did have a look around yesterday and found several grown out FUE pics which did look rather good. I guess that anyone who claims they can do huge FUE megasessions with high yield rate is going to raise some eyebrows and people will want evidence. From what I have seen is enough to put my mind at rest for the money I have spent.

Thx

As long as your happy thats all that counts. I believe even if only 3000 grow youll probably be happy. Im starting to see and believe thats what hes doing now , over packing areas that way even if 65% grows there will still be a nice cosmetic difference. Yes thats a horrible way of going about it but it seems people are ok with that. By the way I was taliking to my buddy about his price and what I feel is shady is that he quoted him $14 a graft but after he decided his price was too high he came down to $7 a graft. Hes all over the board some people pay 6 some 14 .

Diezel,

We all hope the best for you of course.

I do hope you will document your progress by creating a free hair loss weblog.

Without pictures, it is difficult to determine whether or not 4500 grafts is an over-estimate for your specific case. Unfortunately, I have seen Dr. Armani give extreme over-estimates to other patients. I have posted examples to other patients revealing this on this thread.

This concerns me greatly and I can't help but wonder if the proper handling of the delicate grafts has been sacrifced for speed. After all, by transplanting more hair than necessary, a lower hair growth yield would still produce a nice cosmetic improvement.

In other words, if you only really needed 2500 grafts to obtain a nice hair transplant result, and you were given 4500, even if only 2500 grafts grew, you would still sing praises and be satisfied with your hair transplant result.

But the reality of this hypothetical scenerio is that you would have lost 2000 grafts from your finite donor supply and only received about 55% growth yield, which is terrible.

Best of luck!

Falc