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Forehead Reduction healing gone wrong

UPDATED FROM Newme1771
2 years post

Over two years post op and unhappy with my final results

Newme1771
Hi,
I want to be honest in this post and say that there is not a day that goes by that I do not regret my decision to do this surgery. I regret it very much and wish in the end that I did not go through with it. My forehead is so scarred that it is very hard for me to cover. I have to wear a hat every time I go out because my hair barely covers the bald patches and the skin is too thin and sensitive to wear sunscreen on them since they start to bleed when I wash it off. I can never wear my hair back because my scar/bald patches to me are quite disfiguring and they make me very self conscious about it :-(. I also can not get my hair wet/go swimming since my hair is quite thin in the front and the bald areas show very easily. People who have seen me without a hat sometimes ask me what happened as if there was some kind of accident and I do not exactly know what to say. I am currently suffering with depression and I know it is not entirely due to my forehead situation but feeling sad about how my forehead looks especially since it's my face does not help. I do not feel confident in myself and find am quite down about the outcome. Dr Jumaily had told me that he could do hair grafts in March this year but I can not afford the revision unfortunately at this time. I am not sure when I will be able to get the revision :-( At this point all I would like is a few hair grafts in the very front small bald patch/scar and not even care about the rest - like the very large bald area. Anyways I thought I would share this update. Sorry that it is not a positive one but I wanted to be realistic in what happened to me.

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Jeffrey Jumaily, MD

Jeffrey Jumaily, MD

Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Replies (5)

March 23, 2021
He won't put in hair grafts for free eh? Is he giving you a big discount? I'm sorry
April 12, 2021
I’m not sure how much he wants to charge, but check out Bogota_hairlines on Instagram. He’s a surgeon who trained in the US and has a practice in Colombia. It was a reasonably priced surgery & I felt a bit more comfortable going there than Turkey. I also have scarring from having a forehead reduction last year and needed transplants. I wanted to have a doctor,
not just technicians do the extractions & implantation. I think he’ll be more affordable compared to having it in the UK. Best of luck.
April 22, 2021
I'm sorry you went through all of this, I too have regrets. In hindsight, I should've just gone with hair transplants. I had to do it anyway and it would've been much cheaper and I wouldn't have this crazy bald spot. I've tried to do damage control with transplants in the crown but it'll never be as dense as before. I hope you can find someone to help you feel beautiful again.
July 6, 2021
Did you end up getting the grafts ? You're very brave you deserve to feel good <3
January 2, 2022
Wait, hold up. He's making you pay to cover his poor workmanship? If there was ever an indication that a surgeon did not have an ounce of integrity. it baffles me that they do not equate this terrible pr with losing more money than would cost them to give up their time to do revisions for free.
UPDATED FROM Newme1771
1 year post

Hair transplants

Newme1771
Hi everyone,
I met with my surgeon (Skype) to discuss future treatment options for fixing what has happened to my hairline. He gave me a couple different options but in the end we both decided it is best to do 2500 grafts in the front along my scar and bad bald areas and just hope for the best. I really Hope most of the hair grafts take to the scarred areas. If the bald area doesn’t take then I hope the rest of the scar across the front and other side takes. I am unsure of the exact procedure date but will update on here when it’ll happen!
Fingers crossed... I’d love to be done with this!!

Replies (4)

July 20, 2020
Hi hun, sent you a direct message
November 18, 2020
Update ?
January 27, 2021
How did your grafts take to the scarred area? I’m sort of experiencing the same issue after my surgery.
July 24, 2024
Hey! So sorry to hear of your experience, and hope you are doing ok now… can you share who did you have the hairline lowering surgery with? I am considering either a hairtransplant or hairline lowering, any advice would be great thank you x
UPDATED FROM Newme1771
1 year post

Hair loss/scar update photo

Newme1771
Hi.
I thought I should update everyone who comes across my review with a photo of my present scarring situation. I still lose hairs everyday - definitely not as bad but still do. It’s hard to tell if it’s the normal amount of hair loss that you’d get day to day because I’m hyper aware of the hair loss maybe I over exaggerate the hair loss? Not sure. Just sad with this whole procedure. My scar is so wide that my forehead isn’t much smaller than before the procedure but then I have terrible scarring on top of a large forehead.
I hope to have hair grafts all along my hairline in the future. Not sure if I’ll go with my surgeon again for any future procedure to fix this... sometimes I wonder if I should ask for money back? But I’m too nervous to even ask :-(. Hair grafts might not even work in the scar tissue so I’m worried about that... I wish I had gone with grafts in the first place.

Replies (4)

May 5, 2020
Sorry the app crops the photo horribly. I am not sure how to fix this
May 10, 2020
I’m sorry you’ve had such a bad time! Where did you get your surgery?
May 12, 2020
I got it done by Dr. Jumaily in Toronto
February 20, 2024
Ur not alone
February 20, 2024
I'm also searching the same thing I can fix my scar I got two options one forehead reduction surgery again second hair transplant. I searched best clinic in the Thailand