Woman with Traction Alopecia *3250 Grafts FUT* Los Gatos, CA

I wanted to do a quick review. I August 2014 I decided to get a hair transplant for my 30th bday. I suffered from traction alopecia, I started wearing weaves very young and ended up paying for it in the worse way. I did alot research on Dr.diep before I decided to go with him. The main thing that I liked about him was that he specialized in my type of hair and he had plenty of videos to back up his work! That was a plus. I booked my apt in June with a required 1000$ deposit and in august a week after my birthday I was off to CA to get my hair transplant surgery. I stayed at hotel very close to the clinic, exactly 5 mins away. I was told to be at the clinic at 6am, I was not a minute late! I sat in the lobby for about 5 mins then Dr.diep came out and handed me a little cup with 3 pills in it (if I remember correctly) they kicked in pretty fast. Next I was took to his office where we discussed my goals and what he thought was best. At that time I also paid and extra 300 for Acell. He said that my grafts would be soaked in the Acell before being placed back in my scalp so they would have a greater chance of survival. Next I was off to the operating room and sat it a reclined chair/bed, he told me that he would proceed to shave my donor area. I ended up dozing off and when I woke up he was stitching up my donor area. I didn't feel one thing. Afterwards he more to my frontal area where the grafts would be placed and started to make incisions, while his assistants about 4 of them sat at a table with microscopes and started to separate my grafts. After Dr.diep was completed making the incisions he disappeared and I had one assistant on each side of my head placing the new grafts. I ate lunch at some point, had a very bathroom breaks/stretches and watched 2 and 1/2 men all day. I was done around 4:30pm my surgery went well and I was back off to my hotel. The next morning before catching my flight back home I went to the clinic and has my first wash by the a lady from the front desk (weird) but it was very quick she gave good directions on how the wash should be performed and gave me ointment and I was on my way. I did up suffering from a infection which was probably my fault because I kept a turban on my head once I got home and didn't allow my head/scar to breath. I didn't want my fiance to see my head (silly me) It took my scar and extra week and 1/2 to heal where the infection was. But I got past that. Oh I did end up with hypertrophic scarring where the infection was but I applied tea tree oil faithfully and it has went down quite nicely. I suffered from shock loss on both ends of my scar and under. Thankfully it's all growing back now! That's exactly what I didn't want. Also I did have two black eyes that lasted for about 8/9 weeks. I had ALOT of swelling and I did not sleep upright as I should have. Anyhow I have made progress and I'm very excited to see where I end up! I noticed my first signs of growth at exactly 3 months, I've read that most people experience major changes between month 5&6 so we'll see. I'm just happy I did this for MYSELF it was my biggest insecurity and I started feeling like a prisoner to weave. I definitely didn't want to live the rest of my life that way. I will keep you all posted and I hope I was a little help to anyone considering.

Hello all I wanted come and let you all know how things are going so far, I will actually be hitting the 6 month mark this tuesday. I have seen more growth and some thickening in certain areas as where I have a few areas that haven't begun to grow or at least not enough for me to notice a huge

Hello all I wanted come and let you all know how things are going so far, I will actually be hitting the 6 month mark this tuesday. I have seen more growth and some thickening in certain areas as where I have a few areas that haven't begun to grow or at least not enough for me to notice a huge difference. I still have a ways to go but it's refreshing to see some progress. I'm able to part the new hairs a little and that makes me happy. Also all the hair I loss due to shock loss is finally growing in! I started back taking my hair vitamins so hopefully it will speed things up a bit. I will do another review at 8 months just to give it enough time to hopefully reach a huge difference