Hello doctors, about 11 days ago I received a hair transplant in Istanbul. About 5,100 grafts were extracted and placed into my beard. I hadn't been able to look at my donor area until now and it look incredibly depleted. Is this a case of overharvesting? The doctor said it should look much better in 3 months. Confused and embrassed.
September 23, 2016
Answer: Safe Donor Area I cannot clearly tell from your pictures the extent of the FUE extraction area but if it approximates the shaved area it is not appropriate. It is impossible to get 5,000 FUE grafts from the safe donor area. You can get 5,000 grafts but a great number of them may be programmed to be lost from male pattern balding.
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September 23, 2016
Answer: Safe Donor Area I cannot clearly tell from your pictures the extent of the FUE extraction area but if it approximates the shaved area it is not appropriate. It is impossible to get 5,000 FUE grafts from the safe donor area. You can get 5,000 grafts but a great number of them may be programmed to be lost from male pattern balding.
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August 29, 2016
Answer: Overharvested donor area? You may very well be right: that's a lot of harvesting, and over harvesting seems to be more and more common. But I t's impossible (for me, anyway) to assess what your donor area looks like from the photos, since RealSelf does not provide a means for enlarging them. The only thing I can say is, time will tell. Also, I hope you don't go on to have any significant hair loss from your scalp, because there will be a limited number of donor follicles with which to replace it. Thanks for your question, and best of luck to you.
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August 29, 2016
Answer: Overharvested donor area? You may very well be right: that's a lot of harvesting, and over harvesting seems to be more and more common. But I t's impossible (for me, anyway) to assess what your donor area looks like from the photos, since RealSelf does not provide a means for enlarging them. The only thing I can say is, time will tell. Also, I hope you don't go on to have any significant hair loss from your scalp, because there will be a limited number of donor follicles with which to replace it. Thanks for your question, and best of luck to you.
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