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Thanks, I guess I could still shave :) But it's definitely not a common opinion.
I think both look good on you, I had a transplant because I definitely didn't look better bald.
How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
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Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#72Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?
Why are so many people brainwashed to think that anything makes an aesthetic difference? We just like what we like, having a great head of hair when you're older is rare, so it's more attractive.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#73The title just goes to show that 1. the turkish government had reasons for trying to get people to use "Türkiye" instead. 2. It's still not working. I 100% thought this was about birds until clicking
No, that's not it. The problem is that "How turkey" means a bird, but "How Turkey" means the country.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
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#75So I spent time living in Istanbul a few years ago. It really was wild. In the touristy areas (near where I lived), you really would see loads and loads of bald guys walking around with stitches on their heads. If I were bald, I would totally go there and do the same.
Am I the only one that likes being bald? Hair maintenance has always been a huge drag for me (yea executive dysfunction!) and when I had it I hated it getting in my eyes. I was balding anyway. Started shaving my whole head at the start of COVID and haven't stopped. I love it.
I have decent genes so decent hair. Albeit with first grey strands. I prefer to keep it rather short. Even when it is not really long it is much more work to wash. Proper short is like running hand with shampoon through once and being done...
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#76Why are so many people brainwashed to think baldness==bad? My hair really started to go down around 30 years old and am going to have to shave my head at some point, but who cares? Why does it matter?
If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#77I did it a few years ago when I was living in Istanbul. One evening, a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about the procedure. I ended up booking it almost on a whim, mostly just to prove him wrong. I did the transplant the next day. In the end, I was very happy with the results. I think it cost around 1500$. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olalonde/olalonde.github.c...
Obviously subjective, but I've got to say that looks pretty great to me. Do you mind if I ask where the transplanted hairs came from ?
They come from lower parts of the patient's scalp. The typical "receding hairline" pattern is caused because the follicles on the forehead and top of the head become sensitive to with age to DHT, the but the hair follicles on the lower and on the back of the head don't have the same sensitivity. There's usually more than enough of these resistant follicles to maintain sufficient hair density.
The surgery just moves the follicles around your own scalp. Body hair transplant can be done but is relatively uncommon, donor hair from other people (or animals) requiring a lifetime on immune system suppressing drugs as with an organ transplant is virtually unknown.
No, it's not pubic hair and you don't need to have a hairy back or chest, and no, there are not millions of low-status Turkish men walking around with scarred heads because they sold their scalp to a foreigner.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#78Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.
Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair. Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)
You can't donate follicles, but you can do IPL! All us bald(ing) people will hate you, though.
Re: How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry
#79Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.
They tried, and it sort of worked, but they couldn't stop the resulting cancer from getting cancer.
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You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?
They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.