Caporegime
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So tell me how they last 6 months when there is real hair growing underneath?
It's 2-3 weeks max. Think how often you shave your beard that hair growth is happening underneath.
My hair transplant journey
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So tell me how they last 6 months when there is real hair growing underneath?
It's 2-3 weeks max. Think how often you shave your beard that hair growth is happening underneath.
Soldato
I think that assumes your utterly bald under the hair piece
Nah it just means you'd need to shave that part of your head again, the hair piece itself doesn't suddenly become useless.
You'd also need to cut the back and the sides or go to the barbers as you'd do with a full head of hair.
Some people with a full head of hair go to the barbers every 2-3 weeks... someone with a hair piece can do the same... albeit perhaps discretely at the barbers that fitted the thing - (assuming that most people probably wouldn't want to be sat in a chair at a regular barbers on the high street in full view of the window etc...)
You'd also need to cut the back and the sides or go to the barbers as you'd do with a full head of hair.
Some people with a full head of hair go to the barbers every 2-3 weeks... someone with a hair piece can do the same... albeit perhaps discretely at the barbers that fitted the thing - (assuming that most people probably wouldn't want to be sat in a chair at a regular barbers on the high street in full view of the window etc...)
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They must have fixed the bonding issue then.
I've seen that system before but it required you to go back every 3 weeks and get it done again because your natural hair messed up the bond where the wig couldn't be used again as it had glue and hair stuck to it.
I suppose that the removal, reapplication and haircuts at these places ain't cheap either even if you don't need a new wig.
I wonder if you could get a donor for a hair transplant. Like pay 4 different people from a poor country £500 each so £2k and you take their hair from the back of their head and get it transplanted. So now you have a full Barnet and they have a years wages each.
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For me there is still no comparison... having a good head of natural hair growing from your head will beat a wig every single time. One is an artificial wig that comes off and one is growing from your head and looks like it did 10 years ago.
For many people the issue stopping them doing transplants would be the cost and I understand that, but if cost is not a factor then it's going to be £10k well spent.
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The decent ones cost £30k and the top guys are in Vancouver, Canada. Conte had his third one done there after the first two failed.
That is not true that 'a decent one costs 30k', you are generalizing and quoting absolute top-end prices.
I live close to a well regarded clinic and the prices are:
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1 Graft = 1 - 4 Hair
Small 5’600.00 EUR / 1000-1500 Grafts
Regular 6’800.00 EUR / 1500-2000 Grafts
Regular Plus 8’000.00 EUR / 2000-2500 Grafts
Mega 9’800.00 EUR / 3000-3500 Grafts
Giga 13’900.00 EUR / 4000-4500 Grafts (2 days)
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Only the best for PS!
I know, good grief are we really arguing about hair-transplant clinics now? Pack it in, enough of the petty bickering.
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The other poster perhaps does have a point - perhaps in future there will be some way of growing your own hair in a lab and implanting that.... currently the more expensive option (FUE) still involves little round dots essentially being left in the back of your head etc.. (sometimes done with the aid of a robot) and if you require multiple procedures then... They can certainly cover your head/cover baldness but it's not like the thickness of a normal full head of hair.
Few years back it used to be "hair plugs", things have progressed since then. Perhaps one day if it can be lab grown then maybe some robot assisted implants of hair could actually be done to restore things to something closer to regular thickness.
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What are you talking about? No-one is engaging in 'petty bickering over clinics', we are just discussing them back and forth in a civil fashion and that includes pricing.
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Oh man, the amount of Google warriors in this thread spouting the first thing that pops up in their search results I have a PhD in hair follicle biology so can spot the classic googling's a mile off.
Looking forward to seeing the OP's results. Generally the later in life you leave it to get a transplant the more stable it will be and shouldn't change too much over the following years, this is as the effects and levels of DHT plateau. DHT is the hormone responsible for balding in men (amongst other things) and is a metabolite of testosterone, with about 10-fold more potency however.
I started going bald at about 18, last year at 28 it was the classic nothing on top, plenty on the sides. Couldn't bring myself to have a hair transplant, I have a decent shaped head, that classic dome, so shaved it all off and got my head tattoo'd instead! Look way better than when I even had full head of hair.
Cost more than the OP's hair transplant though! But it was the best option for me, IMO.
I have a PhD in hair follicle biology so can spot the classic googling's a mile off. Looking forward to seeing the OP's results. Generally the later in life you leave it to get a transplant the more stable it will be and shouldn't change too much over the following years, this is as the effects and levels of DHT plateau. DHT is the hormone responsible for balding in men (amongst other things) and is a metabolite of testosterone, with about 10-fold more potency however.
I started going bald at about 18, last year at 28 it was the classic nothing on top, plenty on the sides. Couldn't bring myself to have a hair transplant, I have a decent shaped head, that classic dome, so shaved it all off and got my head tattoo'd instead! Look way better than when I even had full head of hair.
Cost more than the OP's hair transplant though! But it was the best option for me, IMO.
What are you talking about? No-one is engaging in 'petty bickering over clinics', we are just discussing them back and forth in a civil fashion and that includes pricing.
Any thread that turns into people frantically googling for info all over the place, especially when it involves Sonny will turn into endless pages of drivel. It's calling nipping it in the bud - it's already firmly heading in that direction. This thread is for the OPs transplant journey, not where Conte goes in Canada for his transplants.
Ahh, maybe you have more experience with Sonny than I do.
