Neograft starting to feel like it's not worth it anymore. Donor area is not even with the rest of the hair.
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You may have sacrificed the ability to trim your hair with a 1 or a 1.5 level trimmer. The FUE procedure, whether using NeoGraft or any other FUE tool, reduces the number of follicles in the donor area. It's like removing trees from a forest; if you remove too many, you're going to see a lot of the forest floor. The surface area of your scalp remains the same while the number of hairs in the donor area is decreased. Over-extraction can be a major problem, especially for inexperienced clinics. I see many physicians in the country who have been doing other types of medicine (eg: botox and fillers and laser resurfacing) purchase a NeoGraft device and call themselves hair restoration surgery experts by piggybacking on the marketing efforts of the NeoGraft corporation. Using the NeoGraft, because it is a hand-held instrument, and must be performed manually, is very difficult work, and typically a technician with or without any experience in hair restoration is asked to actually perform the procedure of follicular unit extraction (FUE) with the NeoGraft device while the surgeon performs procedures simultaneously on a different patient in a different room. Because of these various factors, the results from an FUE procedure using the NeoGraft device, or the ARTAS robotic hair restoration system, will vary dramatically from one provider to the next. One major advantage of the ARTAS robotic system is that it allows me to set the distance between the harvest sites in the donor area down to an accuracy of 0.001mm. For instance, in a person with very dense hair in the donor area, I might set the robot to extract follicles no closer than 1.875mm from each other. In a person with less dense hair in the donor area (as measured by the ARTAS system itself) I will increase that to 2.225mm, or even 2.575mm to prevent over-extraction.
Hair transplant results will depend entirely and 100% on the experience and dedication of your physician and his or her team of technicians. There are literally hundreds of subtleties and nuances in the performance of this hours-long, surgical team-oriented, artistically-demanding procedure. Clearly, common sense would tell you that a physician who has dedicated their practice and career to hair restoration will deliver much different results than a physician who recently acquired a device to start performing hair restoration procedures. Interview more than one physician, and make sure you're comfortable with their background in the field before proceeding.
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In the final analysis, though, you still simply have to wait to see how it all grows in and that is going to take a full year. If your donor area looks thin compared to the top, one potential remedy to consider would be SMP (scalp micro pigmentation). For the moment, take a deep breath and realize you are going through a transitional stage right now. Everything will look different in 6-12 months, just give it some time.
I hope that helps!
In most cases, the donor area will retain adequate hair density so that no post-surgical effects are noted, but over-harvesting in the donor area is certainly possible. We make every effort to ensure that this does not occur, and I personally have never seen this be an issue in my practice after one transplant session. After a 3rd or 4th transplant session, this is a very realistic concern and should be addressed during the pre-operative consultation.
It is possible that wearing the hair even slightly longer (a #2) on the sides/back might make a tremendous improvement in the appearance of the donor area. It is also possible that more time is needed for the hair in that area to return to normal after a transplant less than 2 months prior.
Post-operative concerns should be discussed with your hair transplant surgeon, and I always recommend seeing a fellowship-trained hair restoration surgeon.
All the best,
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At 6 weeks it is really too early to tell what the end result is going to be. The hair has not even started to grow in yet. It has been 2 years since you asked this question so I would be interested in hearing how everything turned out. Hopefully you got a great result.
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You really should give 6-12 months before making any judgment. There will be many changes over the coming months.
The FUE harvest typically is imperceptible.
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