I m a 28 years male. I had already 2 hair transplant operations, total 2500 grafts.
The first one was in April 2008: around 1000 grafts. The second operation was in Bangkok in Dec 2008 with Dr. Path: 1500 grafts. When we had the consultation before operation in Decembre he said I needed basically 1300 grafts. I instisted and negociated with him to make it more dense and he accepted that we d put 1500 grafts. This was supposed to cover perfectly the front line and sides areas.
I have sent him email with today s fotos and he said that I need another operation with 1000 grafts or more on the same areas.
My question is the following:
Why he didnt put straight away 2500 grafts instead of 1500 grafts on last Decembre??? so I would not need to come again to finish to fill up the density???
I mean it s not a few 100 grafts that is required, it s about the same number of grafts that we did on last Dec... I d like to have your opinion:
- on the work that has been done on the last operation 1500 grafts (comparing fotos before operation and today s fotos)
Here are some fotos that will help you to feel the process I went through.
I put them in order of date: from february 2008 before the first operation, then November 2008 before the 2nd operation, then the day of the 2nd operation (Dec. 2008), finally Sept 2009 fotos

feb2008a.JPG (81 KB, 361 downloads)

foto

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fev2008e.JPG (72 KB, 182 downloads)

novembre 2008

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ft nov 2008

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foto nov 2008

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foto pre op with doc path

dec2008b_bef._operation.jpg (95 KB, 172 downloads)

pre op with doc path dec 2008

dec_2008c_bef_operation.jpg (84 KB, 127 downloads)

pre op with doc path

dec_2008d_bef._operation.jpg (82 KB, 111 downloads)

foto post op dr Path

dec_2008a_post_operation.jpg (74 KB, 133 downloads)

foto post op with doc path

dec_2008b_post_operation.jpg (63 KB, 123 downloads)

foto today

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today

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today foto

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today sept

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today front

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I think your photos look good. Just my untrained eye. You seem very young also. Best to get on medications and see if that helps. I'd wait it out longer because you will see this transplant mature more fully and also have a chance to see what 'nature' deals you. If you are on your way to developing deep 'widows peaks' down the road in ten years, you definitely will want to conserve your donor hair for down the road. Just my opinion.

From the pics, the front and left side look great. The right side looks thinner but still doesn't look like a transplant.

But you are committed now. If you frontal core starts to go you would not want to end up with just the corners filled in.

From what I could see from the pictures, your hair looks very good. Of course, sometimes pictures can be deceiving. Unless that's the case, the HTs seem to have gone off well.

thanks for your reply.
I think the work he did was good in a certain way but I have seen many fotos of people quite bold, and with the same amount of grafts done(2500 grafts), they could fill up completely and perfectly a much larger area.
So I m wondering if there has been 2500 grafts really transplanted... (as for example he wrote that for the 1500 grafts taken, he took a stripe of 13cm2 and I have between 80 to 90 grafts for 1cm2 on the donor area. When I do my maths: 13cm2*85= around 1100 grafts taken...)
I was classified as a Norwood 2 and was supposed to get everything fixed with that 2nd operation. But...
Dr. Path said last week, that I would need another 1000 grafts to add density on the same area.
According to different doctors to who I send the same photos, my density on the front line and sides seems to be between 25 to 35 grafts per cm2 which is really light for a person with black hair on a white skin.
On the consultation day before the operation (last Dec) I required to put at least 50 grafts on the front line though....
I lost confidence in the doctor who took only few minutes to give me the number of grafts needed on the operation day, and who saying 9 months later that finally I would need another 1000 grafts operation.