Hair Transplant: Stories

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I agree, Dr. Cole does excellent work and is one of the few physicians willing to use new technology. I believe ACell opens the door to even more advances in regenerative medicine and an extended donor supply.

Are you using propecia as well? Or are the results we see from the hair transplant alone?

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http://dubrules.com/

Thank's
marc

Yes i do, it's not urgent tho...this is the approach i adopted from the beginning, nothing to hurry, i take the time, small multiple sessions until i reach the goal. Now that i lost some of my existing hair it will be great to have another session of 1500-2000 grafts, it's been 6 years since my last session and i saved money. With this approach i fill my head gradually with good density. Dr. Cole advanced his FUE hair transplant techniques since them, ACELL and PRP are great additions and i am sure it's going to be great!

Hi man, you did a great change definitely, glad to see that you are happy with the decisions taken, that means a lot!

Are you planning to have more work done in the near future?

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I know you want to believe. So do we all. This industry needs us to believe so we keep putting money into it.

But I don't put too much faith in the PRP/Acell. I had PRP done earlier this year and there was no effect. If you read into it, you will see that it is only useful to aid in scar healing. PRP is not effective to regrow hair. Cole makes claims of using Acell with FUE and actually allows the donor site to regenerate itself. I don't really believe it.

If you want to see where the work on hair multiplication/regeneration is you can check out Dr. Gho at HSI in Holland. He claims he can do it. He claims that by bissecting the hairs, you can keep getting more and more hair. In essence, hair multiplication. But he won't really share his results or teach his method to other doctors. And they won't even try because they don't have solid proof it works. (Gho claims it works in some cases, but not all. He doesn't know why that is. Etc. Etc.)

So there you have the quandary. The doctors in this industry have gone on so long with deceit, false promises, medication that doesn't work (Propecia and Minoxidil), and a generally poor track record of success, that they can't even believe each other. Hair multipication is used to give guys like you hope. It gave me hope when I started my HT's, but not anymore. You'll eventually see and know how this HT game works.

First rule: Don't believe everything you hear or read out there. I've been in the hair transplant game for 8 years now and can tell you it's based on false promises. Think about it. Even if you could clone the hairs from the "permanent" zone, they will still get old and die, as the hairs in the donor region do over time. So even that is not an answer to the problem.

I don't think they will ever find the real cure, because they still are not actively trying to answer the right question. The right question is not why do the hairs fall out. The right question is why do the hairs get old and thin in the first place. They'll tell you it's DHT, but that's only part of the answer. The truth is they really don't know, and offer this patchwork solution of hair transplants as a miracle and hair multiplication as hope.

Truth kills sales. You'll never hear a transplant doctor tell you this awful truth.

i think when i will be 60 it will be less of concern to shave the head of needed. there is plenty of time until i rich that age and i am sure there will be new inventions...Dr. Cole started new treatments with PRP/Acell hair regeneration and shows success...this is just one example:
http://www.forhair.com/hairtransplant/topic1875.html#p7218

Thanks for being honest with your results. Yeah, the hair loss never really stops. It's demoralizing for a lot of men to pay so much money and have to keep paying just to keep up wit the hair loss.

But it truly is one of the advantages of FUE over strip. If a patient can understand that they will keep thinning, and accept that, then they have the option of shaving it down close once hair loss finally wins the war. You will have that option.

Those of us that did strip will never have that option. We can get more grafts (with strip and topping off with FUE) than a strictly FUE patient, so the opportunity for more density is there at the trade off of the scar.

To be honest, I think you made all the right choices as far as a hair transplant is concerned. Right doctor, right procedure, right attitude. But to be completely honest, when you are older (50's? 60's?) you will be probably be shaving it down because the transplanted hairs (there is nothing permanent about those hairs; don't believe the hype) will start dying and thinning. But you will have that luxury because of the FUE.

In the end, there is no winning against hair loss. But at least you know that and have a long term view of what is coming and willing to accept it. Good luck with your future procedures!

Thank you for your comment, you have a point. I did lost many of my existing hair since then, All the transplanted hairs still stand proud tho :)
I am thiner but still i have the frame that Dr. Cole build me and it still looks good...i am aging but it's natural that i wil not have full hair. now, i can go ahead and after 10 years add more hair with another session (i think 1000 will be enough) after i saved money since then but i am really ok with what i have right now.
I am a guy who looks at the other half cup, i am not totally bald as i should have been by now...my confidence has build up and will never do down again.

What happens as your hair continues to fall out and you age? I hope you are aware that your hair characteristics make it highly likely that you will be left with thin, wiry and unmanageable hair as you age. What about the donor region in the back? Most likely you will thin there as well. Have you considered the long term consequences?

And you are right, Cole is definitely the best of the best.

That was for my 2 first sessions of 1500 grafts

The $8000 - was that for the 800 graft procedure? Did you spend $24,000 in total?

Thank you, i will try to get more after photos :)

Hi there, thanks for sharing your experience with us. Your after pics look great!