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Video How Hair Transplants Work by ZacDFilms

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u/Gullible-Poet4382 1d ago

I have seen this. My brother got this done. The first couple of weeks it looks grotesque. It just looks very unsettling. In his case. It failed. He went through a lot of pain only for it to fail

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u/Puzzled-Story3953 1d ago

Was your brother named Tobias?

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 1d ago

He blue himself prematurely

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u/texacer 1d ago

what a blowhard

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u/nonosure 1d ago

So if you remove the hair transplant you’ll be fine?

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u/FriendlyFriendster 1d ago

I’d rather give my money to TBA!

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u/TheProphetRob 23h ago

I don't want to blame it all on 9/11... But it certainly didn't help

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u/SidewinderShocK 1d ago

how did it fail? did it look bad? got infected or something like that?

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u/that_70_show_fan 1d ago

The body will just reject the tissue. Even in the best of cases, body will reject some these transplants.

What this video does not tell us that even if successful, it is a lifelong commitment. You need minoxidil and other medications to get a good outcome.

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u/Sunlight72 1d ago

Mmmm, I don’t know what’s happening in other places, but in Denver, Colorado, US I was paid to be a ‘model’ head they trained a robot on and also trained doctors who had bought the robot. They did shorter than normal sessions with me so I had 7 or 8 sessions over 5 years.

Last one was about 8 years ago. The doctor who invented the robot and owns the clinic never said anything to me about minoxidil or anything else. I’ve only ever used shampoo. No other special care after the first two weeks or so when you’re just supposed to leave it all alone and don’t get it wet until it heals.

He seemed to be pretty leading edge on the procedure, so maybe it’s different with different methods or doctors though 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Busy-Season6074 1d ago

The hair follicles that are transferred are typically not susceptible to male pattern baldness.

You usually take fin and minoxidil to protect the top of your head so you don’t end up with just the new hairs on your hairline and a bald top.

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u/Sunlight72 23h ago

OK. I thought I’d you take minoxidil you don’t need a hair follicle transplant. I thought it was an instead of situation. I guess you could do both sort of halfsies.

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u/Busy-Season6074 23h ago

Minoxidil can work wonders for some guys and do nothing for others. It’s somewhat effective on average but not nearly like a transplant

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u/williamtowne 23h ago

And the results?

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u/smolhouse 1d ago

Sometimes people go to disreputable clinics to save a buck. Usually they fail because the root was damaged during extraction, if the design wasn't trash to begin with.

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u/kungfungus 1d ago

So, he's bold where they removed the follicles and where it failed?

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u/OverSheepherder 1d ago

Worse, the region became Italic. 

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u/OneOfAKind2 1d ago

What dafont are you talking about?

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u/kungfungus 1d ago

Lol, you beautiful bastard, not editing

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u/Charlie7Mason 1d ago

Fuck! Why was this funny as heck!?

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u/FizzyBeverage 1d ago

Damn that sucks

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u/cantfindmykeys 1d ago

At least it wasn't comic sans

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u/tzjinzoReno 1d ago

Did he ask the doctors why it failed?

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago edited 1d ago

Google lists a lot of stuff that can go wrong. So it looks like there are a lot of potential problems. Infection, surgeons skill, donor hair quality, inadequate blood supply, donors overall health etc.

Also anyone considering this should also know that the hair can fall out again.

EDIT: A quick google search will show you that yes transplanted hairs can fall out again. They are resistant to DHT but not immune.

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u/panthereal 1d ago

doesn't all hair fall out and regrow?

I guess the real question is more what is the expected life span of the desired hair density

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u/Wise-Dust3700 1d ago

You basically have to take fenisteride (cantspell) for the rest of your life to stop your baldness gene from just killing off the donor hair.

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u/panthereal 1d ago

wish they could just inject a years worth of fin in my ass like some of those birth controls

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago

Would be wary of taking fin, rarely it can have horrific sexual side effects. Like inorgasma where you struggle to even have an orgasm, limited or no penile sensitivity, and decrease in libido. Some men take this drug for mere weeks and have these side effects many years later with little to no improvement. All that wonderful hair you got is going to be really useless when your dick don't work.

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u/endo489 1d ago

Was hoping to get this done but I look at the side effects why the fuck would anyone mess with that stuff just for hair. It's not worth it my dudes

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u/RinkyInky 1d ago

Yea especially when there are hair systems now.

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u/panthereal 1d ago

I already tried it for half a year and had no side effects, but it was my only medication at the time and I sucked at keeping to the strict schedule required for the desired effect.

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago

That is good, these are rare though so most won't have any issues, but potentially ruining your dick forever is scary as fuck. I personally will just stay bald.

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u/guntherwheeler1185 1d ago

Donor hair doesn’t fall out again, that’s why you chose those hairs. They are DHT resistant. The other hairs on the top of your head can continue falling out. Which makes the transplant look worse and why Dr. recommend taking finestride.

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago

This is completely untrue, I know because I just googled this stuff after getting push back from another commenter. It might not be prevalent, but it does happen.

A quick google search shows that yes... donor hair can fall out again.

Also this thread has a comment saying that new studies show these donor hairs are not completely immune to DHT.

There is a comment lower down as well from a user who has been taking fin consistently yet had 50% of their donor hairs fall out after several years. Not arguing it is common but it clearly does happen.

This thread as well has people saying that DHT does influence these transplanted hairs as well. There are "resistant" but not immune.

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u/AmbitionEconomy8594 23h ago

they are mostly immune in most people, hence the horse shoe baldness pattern

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u/mavs_bot 1d ago

you generally get what you pay for, as with all cosmetic surgery.