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It’s expensive when compared to the oral pills. Dutasteride is not FDA cleared for hair loss so doctors don’t write the Rx for it very often. Topical finasteride in the liposomal form costs around $70/month. The finasteride pill from Costco costs about $27/year. Big difference

If I say on the minoxidil, will my body hair keep growing longer, like 10 cm? That is scary…

Body hair rarely grows that long because it undergoes telogen at about 6-8 months and falls out, only to regrow after. Telogen is the sleep phase and in all hair follicles go through it. These body hairs may stay in the sleep phase for up to 6 months before a new hair appears crating a new beginning of its new anagen hair cycling.

When I see an SMP like this, I must assume that this man wanted this look and found someone to do it for him because I can’t imagine any professional would do this voluntarily. I wouldn’t do it if I were asked, not for any money!

You have a Class 3A or 4 pattern of balding. At your age, you are an ideal candidate for a hair transplant. The frontal area with a normal hairline will make the man in the mirror look like he did 10-15 years ago.

Your donor area will never regrow since the hair grafts removed by the FUE are gone forever from the donor area. From the pictures it looks like you were both over-harvested (too many FUE grafts taken per square inch) and the area harvested was too high (not all of the grafts are permanent grafts and may eventually fall out). Scalp Micropigmentation will solve the see-through look (see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com)

I had 2500 grafts done one year ago and the results are not what I expected. Will more hair grow if I wait another year?

At 12 months you now have 98+% of what you will end up with. I would not expect substantially more growth than what you presently have. If you had a competent and ethical doctor, go back to that doctor and discuss your disappointment. If I were the doctor, I would want you to be happy and would do my best to make it happen, even at my costs to redo the surgery.

Will Hair Grow Back When I Lose it From Stress and Diet Problems?

Sometimes yes and sometimes no is the answer. For those individuals who have genetic hair loss, these stress factors tend to accelerate a normal hair loss process which does not reverse once accelerated. In some people, a telogen effluvium starts which is reversible and in a few, this type of problem can be cyclical when hair loss and stress are related in non-genetic balding.

My question is how soon can I wear my turban again?

After an FUE, the wounds are usually closed in under 5 days or so and all of the crusts are gone from the recipient area. As a Sikh patient, using a clean Turban at one week is reasonable as long as there are no crusts on the recipient area the the Turban is not too tightly wrapped. The problem you will have is a return of the traction alopecia if the Turban is tight

In a few patients, raising the dose of Finasteride has helped maintain or better the results that they have, but it raises the risks of sexual side effects.