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#15 by kenny57028 on 08 Aug, 2010 19:56
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Do wish the guy happiness, but I really just can't get over how painful hair transplants seem. Just sounds awful...
Not as awful as when they just used to move whole slabs of the scalp and rotate them to the top of the head.
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#16 by Magoo on 08 Aug, 2010 20:49
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Do wish the guy happiness, but I really just can't get over how painful hair transplants seem. Just sounds awful...
Not as awful as when they just used to move whole slabs of the scalp and rotate them to the top of the head.
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#17 by Nate on 09 Aug, 2010 00:43
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I and a few other guys have had transplants
I hear those flaps (moving slabs of skin) are painful. But the transplant itself is not. Worse part is the needles into the head (which sound bad but seriously its nothing).
In saying this transplants are 95 percent fails. The odds of looking good is pretty small and all those guys that do end up working for the clinics as consultants. How many times when I was browsing those hair loss forums guys post their pictures with one year results like this guys and there are ten comments by the same guys saying looks amazing and another happy transplant patient. How can this guy be happy... Shave it to a buzz cut and hes got this big wave of hair to the left front -
#18 by phigg on 10 Aug, 2010 11:19
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This is another reason of why I'm glad I found this site before I paid for plugs, rugs, or drugs.
ROFLMAO!
BTW, hair transplants themselves aren't particularly painful. The head is numbed with lidocaine or whatever, and you get the gas too.. The day after you're a bit sore, but it's not that bad.
The shame of it is what Nate said. The vast majority of the follicles die after the procedure. Then the HT center lies to you and claims it's 100% guaranteed, if any plugs die, they'll redo them free of charge. My place admitted to a few dying and redid them as a "feel good" measure, but I think if they hadn't, it would've been obvious even then how many didn't work; though it's kinda hard to tell unless you shave your head and see just how much from the donor area they took. Now that I can see, I'd say maybe 35% to 40% of my transplants had taken.. and that's being generous. It just doesn't work, at least, not as a permanent solution. It bought me a few years, that's all. Then I had to start parting my hair on the side. . then I was using Toppik, more and more every year, until I finally said enough!
Transplants only leave you scalped in the long run - both financially and literally.
(Though I'd never have done that old flap thing, what a horrible idea!!!)
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#19 by marty22 on 10 Aug, 2010 11:21
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agree with the above. It buys you years and then u get it good when the scalp recedes...
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#20 by jagger111 on 02 Jan, 2011 10:35
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That is why I hesitate to have the procedure. AT 48 I have just in Spetmeber lost a spot in the vertex and the hairline is thin with temples receded. Everwhere else is very thick and I am probably a good candidate. My fear is if it fails I would then not be able to shave without having to spend additional dollars to correct the scars.This is another reason of why I'm glad I found this site before I paid for plugs, rugs, or drugs.
ROFLMAO!
BTW, hair transplants themselves aren't particularly painful. The head is numbed with lidocaine or whatever, and you get the gas too.. The day after you're a bit sore, but it's not that bad.
The shame of it is what Nate said. The vast majority of the follicles die after the procedure. Then the HT center lies to you and claims it's 100% guaranteed, if any plugs die, they'll redo them free of charge. My place admitted to a few dying and redid them as a "feel good" measure, but I think if they hadn't, it would've been obvious even then how many didn't work; though it's kinda hard to tell unless you shave your head and see just how much from the donor area they took. Now that I can see, I'd say maybe 35% to 40% of my transplants had taken.. and that's being generous. It just doesn't work, at least, not as a permanent solution. It bought me a few years, that's all. Then I had to start parting my hair on the side. . then I was using Toppik, more and more every year, until I finally said enough!
Transplants only leave you scalped in the long run - both financially and literally.
(Though I'd never have done that old flap thing, what a horrible idea!!!) -
#21 by buddha on 02 Jan, 2011 17:56
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I hope that this MD's parents are proud that they went into debt to send their son to med school just so he could end up being a glorified hair stylist. Definitely worth the tuition.
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#22 by Nonick on 02 Jan, 2011 20:54
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This is another reason of why I'm glad I found this site before I paid for plugs, rugs, or drugs.
OK, so all you guys that thought about the plugs, rugs and drugs, just ante up about 10% of what you would have paid and send it to the Sly Bald Guys party fund...
Better than that, buy an extra t-shirt or two from the website store, and tell all your potential sly friends about this site and how they can save THOUSANDS $$$$$
Say, wasn't it Soopy Sales who told kids to get all that nasty green paper out of their parents wallets and send it to him care of the local TV station... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales YIKES!