Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => To be or not be...Bald => Topic started by: Razor X on April 21, 2007, 07:00:25 PM
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For those who are comtemplating hair transplant surgery, here's a photo of what your head will look like directly after the surgery.
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Like Ive asked people on other boards, what do you do until that heals up?
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Like Ive asked people on other boards, what do you do until that heals up?
Exactly! There are many, many reasons not to do this, not the least of which is putting yourself through such unnecessary pain and scarring.
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Truly nasty! Thanks for sharing those; that should give anyone pause about going that route. It kind of reminds me of the pictures back in 1st grade -- healthy lung vs. a smoker's lung (no offense to those who smoke). I still enjoy seeing old movies where people are puffing away, and there are no antismoking zealots there to cry foul.
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For those who are comtemplating hair transplant surgery, here's a photo of what your head will look like directly after the surgery.
Damn, that's rough. It would make me think twice if I was tossing the idea up.
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I don't understand the urge to get this procedure done, especially multiple times.
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Why on earth would you honestly bother? Looks a right mess,i would be more self concious with that on my head than going bald
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Well look at any "good" transplants it just looks like your hair is thinning anyways because the hairs are so spaced. I looked around different forums in about september time when I was thinking of it as a possibility in the future and every transplant looks rubbish even when its done by one of the top surgeons and apparently is the "very good"
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Well look at any "good" transplants it just looks like your hair is thinning anyways because the hairs are so spaced. I looked around different forums in about september time when I was thinking of it as a possibility in the future and every transplant looks rubbish even when its done by one of the top surgeons and apparently is the "very good"
And the photos probably look better than the real thing.
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Here's another example of why hair transplants are not a good idea. This guy was badly scarred from a botched transplant so he went to another surgeon to get it "fixed". These are the before and after photos. Admittedly, the "after" is preferable to the scarred scalp, but does anyone really want to look like this? The poor guy looks like a human Q-tip. Should have shaved his head from the get-go and saved himself a lot of pain, humiliation and money.
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Yikes again. Man, these companies should be banned. All they do is prey on insecure people. We can only hope that as our shaved band of brothers continues to grow that their numbers will shrink. Power to the (shaved) people! D@^^
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Damn there is no way I could ever do that to my dome. One time a long time ago I contacted one of the trasplant people for the free info. Needless to say I wasn't impressed and now I have found my hair style LOL.
The best part of being sly is that if you want o change styles buy a new set of shades hehe.
take it easy guys.
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I was holding on...waiting until I retire from the Navy to actually check into hair transplants. So, So, So happy I went the best route...the SLY route!!! 8)
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Yeah, the drug and transplant companies really anger me :Xo! because they have so many false claims attached to their products. That is one of the many reasons I started this site was to show others that there is a natural alternative - shaving.
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I never considered going the transplant and/or Rogaine route. I can't imagine talking to people knowing that I have had some medical procedure that allowed me to from Uncle Fester to Cousin It overnight. These photos coupled with the new found feeling of confidence in my appearance is better than any procedure I could have used.
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Have you seen the pics of body hair transplants :*))
basically it looks like sewing pubic hair into your scalp.
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Now, why in the world would someone do that?
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Have you seen the pics of body hair transplants :*))
basically it looks like sewing pubic hair into your scalp.
That looks rather painful.............damn.
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Man!!!!!
The thing that sucks, is if it doesn't work well and the dude decides to try sly....he'll look like crap and he is totally stuck!
I've seen some similar botched jobs...VERY sad!
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Have you seen the pics of body hair transplants :*))
basically it looks like sewing pubic hair into your scalp.
From what I've read, once the hair is transplanted to your scalp, it takes on the characteristics, texture, etc. of your scalp hair. I'm not buying, it though. Imagine what the ladies would think if they found out that you were wearing your scalp or pubic hair on your head. :o
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This is a depleted donor-supply area after multiple transplant surgeries. This guy has to keep the hair on the back of his head long to cover up the huge bald strip that was created to transplant hair to the top of his head.
I never heard of this before, but it make sense that it can happen.
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Damn RazorX, if I want to see a horror movie, I'll order some popcorn and Raisnets. You need to step away from wherever it is you're getting these pics.
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This is a depleted donor-supply area after multiple transplant surgeries. This guy has to keep the hair on the back of his head long to cover up the huge bald strip that was created to transplant hair to the top of his head.
I never heard of this before, but it make sense that it can happen.
So he traded one bald spot for another? That's less than smart.
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Not that I ever thought about getting a hair transplant, but I can't believe I once considered myself part of a group that considers this a viable solution to hairloss. Seriously, now that my perspective has changed, these pictures make me physically sick, whereas they never did before.
And if you're balding to the point where you need to use body hair as well, no amount of transplants will ever cover up the thinning, and because of scarring, you might be eternally forcing yourself to keep your hair long and thin, to hide what it did to the scalp.
GROSS. I feel sorry for guys who feel they have to go through this to better their self-image. For the $10000 they spent on this, they could have bought themselves a headblade, a crapload of fashionable new clothes, and maybe a better-looking car (a used one). Guaranteed to make you look much younger than this god-awful surgery.
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Oh my Ive never seen such a bad picture as that one with the extended donor strip, maybe we should post that on the HLT forum. Surely the surgeon woulnd be allowed to let it get that big? Also the patient is blantantly an idiot for doing that to himself
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Holy Sh**, I did consider this at one time, for some reason on the highway within a 1/2 mile stretch there was about 4 billboards for these type of procedures...
My head had extra irritation on it from the "system" in the areas where the glue was put on constantly. After almost 2 weeks it is finally getting better..
Wish I stayed SLY this whole time!
If those pics don't deter people from getting plugs, I don't know what will.
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If those pics don't deter people from getting plugs, I don't know what will.
Amen!! Imagine how that guy with the depleted donor area must dread windy days??
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Damn RazorX, if I want to see a horror movie, I'll order some popcorn and Raisnets. You need to step away from wherever it is you're getting these pics.
Dude, I fell out laughing when I read this post. It's totally true though. Those pics are crazy. I think I threw up a little in my mouth on that last one. :-\ !*u%e
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Hey YOSP, it looks like from your pictures that the HCM and whatever else you did before embracing the sly side of life didn't damage your head... at least I hope not. Boy these pictures are like watching a train wreck... you don't want to look, but you can't turn away!
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I just saw on HLT pics of a guy who used minox and his crown grew back fully(i.e. less of a bald spot) then he stopped using it and within so many months he had a mammoth bald spot. His hair became crisp and brittle!!!! That has gotta cause some serious long term side effects if it can do that
I cant believe that stuff, thankfully I knew the risk with that stuff and have never used it.
What kind of stuff does that? Does it create dependency on drugs so much so that when deprived the hairs die? and the hairs turn CRISP?
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I just saw on HLT pics of a guy who used minox and his crown grew back fully(i.e. less of a bald spot) then he stopped using it and within so many months he had a mammoth bald spot. His hair became crisp and brittle!!!! That has gotta cause some serious long term side effects if it can do that
I cant believe that stuff, thankfully I knew the risk with that stuff and have never used it.
What kind of stuff does that? Does it create dependency on drugs so much so that when deprived the hairs die? and the hairs turn CRISP?
I'm no doc, but that's exactly what it sounds like to me.
Let's ask Dr Noner
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I will never do the transplant route, one of my balding uncles in germany did the transplant, he wears tupees, two of his tupees are from the last 1970's, three from the early 1980's, and two from the late 1980's, he did the transplant rout in the 1990's, it didnt work he went back to wearing the tupees,
I started receding in 2004, i decided to go to the shaved route, did i make the right decision, i happen to be born in canada, my mother emigrated to canada from germany in the late 1950's, i was born in the mid 1970's
Anyone that is familiar with the norwood scale, iam Stage III on the norwood scales, my receding pattern will get worse.
For those who are comtemplating hair transplant surgery, here's a photo of what your head will look like directly after the surgery.
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That is what happened to my uncle in germany when he had his transplants in the mid 1990's, he went back to wearing his tupees, he likes 1970's style tupees, i lived in Germany when he had his transplant, it looked awful, i said back then if i went that way i wouldnt do the transplant or wear a tupee
Here's another example of why hair transplants are not a good idea. This guy was badly scarred from a botched transplant so he went to another surgeon to get it "fixed". These are the before and after photos. Admittedly, the "after" is preferable to the scarred scalp, but does anyone really want to look like this? The poor guy looks like a human Q-tip. Should have shaved his head from the get-go and saved himself a lot of pain, humiliation and money.
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To think I was actually considering transplants at one time. I'm so very glad that I never went through with it - what a mess! And to think of all the money that was spent getting that way. :(
Darrell
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I agree with YOSP's assessment - holy sh*****t! So glad I have never seriously considered this route either!
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I got a Hair transplant 10 years ago in my 20s and it is by far the worst decision I have ever made in my life. That whole industry is based on lies and deception. When first losing my hair, I felt desperate and insecure. Now I am used to the idea of baldness and it is not a big deal in your 30s.
I feel that hair transplant doctors that prey on men in their 20s are crooks. They know that the young men are vulnerable at that time. So they prey on them and make it sound like baldness is horrible and transplants are a natural, permanent, solution. It is so wrong because these doctors know that the vast majority of the patients will regret it later in life... and that the vast majority of people accept their baldness a few years after the initial shock.
The hair transplant doctors are VERY good salespeople and marketers...unfortunately they are very BAD doctors (do no harm.)
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Back in the early 80s when I was on the PD we had a big meeting with the "new" mayor in town (Robert Sabonjian). The police and fire depts had meetings seperate from the other labor groups. In the meeting I was at I sat behind a Lt. from the fire dept who had just had plugs put in. I couldn't stop looking at the top of his head throughout the meeting because it looked just like a rice paddy. All the plugs were in perfect diagonal rows. I remember thinking that Stevie Wonder could've spotted that. I felt bad for the guy because I wondered if he had anyone in his life who cared enough to tell him how bad his "new hair" looked up close.
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Stevie Wonder could've spotted that. ...
Great new one-liner! Thanks !!
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I made the worst mistake of my life getting a hair transplant at 19. It haunts me every day but I believe a shaved head even with the scar looks much better than these shitty transplants look. If you go to a hair transplant website and read the forums you get an idea of how these things destroy lives. All these guys do is worry about their hair, they are slaves to their shitty looking hair and they never realize it until its too late.
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I've never known a man that was happy with a hair transplant, in fact, every one of them regretted having it done.