Dr Ted Miln (Westminister Medical Group) - 3500 Grafts

[HairRoss]

Background
I'm a 26-year-old male who has been slowly losing my hair since the age of 16. I have a deeply receding hairline, accompanied by minitaurization in the mid-scalp and crown regions. Ever since I first noticed it, my hair loss has caused me a great deal of grief, and I've always stuck to one type of hair style to try and cover it up. I've always been conscious of how my hair looks and have always been afraid of windy days and getting it wet, which has greatly affected my self-confidence. I did try taking finasteride before in my early 20s, and in hindsight, the results were great, and I was a fool for getting lazy and discontinuing taking it while also being paranoid about side effects. As my hair loss progressed, it became more of an issue, and I found myself more willing to do what was needed to regain my hair, so I started taking finasteride again. I've since been taking 1mg finasteride every day for the past year without any major issues and it appears to have stabilised my hairloss. For me, topical minoxidil is a bit of an inconvenience to apply, and I also find it affects the appearance and styling of my hair. Furthermore, I have cats, and so I am concerned about its toxicity to them. I am considering adding oral minoxidil to my regime to try and thicken my existing hair, but I am a bit worried about the side effects, as I am someone who has experienced some issues with heart related effects before as well as frequent headaches. I plan to assess the results of my surgery and do any relevant health checks before making any changes to my treatment regimen.

Choosing a Doctor
I had initially considered going abroad to the likes of Laorwong, Bisanga, etc., but ended up deciding to stay in the UK to make the recovery process as easy as possible for myself from the comfort of my own home, with the added benefit of making future in-person checkups and such much more accessible. I think it is crucial to go with a doctor who only sees a single patient a day and is involved in all aspects of the procedure. For me, the likes of Dr Ball and Dr Reddy are a bit out of budget, so I decided to pay for an in-person consultation with Dr. Manish Mittal, as he seemed to be a very up-and-coming doctor and is also forum-recommended. I found him to be extremely personable and ethical, and his work looked very good. The only concern I had was that he was not willing to do any work on the temple points. I felt that with the state of my temples, this would leave me with a pretty wide forehead, so I decided to do a free video consultation with Dr Ted since I noticed that he was one of the 3 IAHRS members based in the UK along with Mani and Dr Ball. Despite not seeing much of him on this forum aside from his recent interview with Melvin, his work looked great to me on his Instagram profile. After speaking with him, I was very impressed. He struck me as someone who was very knowledgeable, empathic, and has high attention to detail. Dr Ted agreed with me about my thoughts on the temple points, and I found that he had a good history of performing restoration in this area. I was initially quoted for 2800 grafts; however, after an in-person consultation and also a follow-up video call, we eventually settled on using ~3500 grafts to restore my hairline and temporal points while also scattering some grafts around the midscalp and crown regions to reinforce these areas in what Dr Ted likes to call a 'density mission'.

Surgery
On the day of the surgery, I arrived at Harley Street at around 8:30 a.m. and was initially quite anxious; however, Marzena and Dr Ted quickly made me feel at ease. I was given a number of pills and changed into surgical attire. I was placed face down in a chair and given local anesthetic. For me, this felt like a series of relatively painful, sharp scratches, similar to having a blood test. For the rest of the morning, the extraction process took place and was completely painless. I was then given time to stretch my legs, go to the bathroom, and was provided with a nice lunch while the technicians counted the grafts and prepared them for implantation. The team extracted 3428 grafts (7550 hairs), giving an average yield of 2.2 hairs per graft with a breakdown as follows:

• 784 single grafts
• 1420 2 hair grafts
• 1150 3 hair grafts
• 119 4 hair grafts

I recall the team mentioning that they had to split a few of my grafts in order to create more singles, as temporal points require lots of fine single hair grafts to do correctly and my understanding is these numbers given to me are after this process so I'm not sure exactly how many grafts had to be split to achieve this.

In the afternoon, I was seated upright and given another round of local anaesthetic before undergoing the implantation stage. The team at WMG is quite large and very efficient, and at times I had three people working on my head simultaneously to implant the grafts. The technicians were all really lovely and bubbly. They also kept commenting on how nice my grafts were and how easily they were coming out, which was extremely reassuring. The day flew by and concluded at around 6:30 p.m. I was bandaged up, given some post-op instructions by Dr Ted and a gift bag containing a travel pillow, a cap, shampoo, conditioner, painkillers, medical gauze, and covers for my pillows. Dr Ted also gave me his personal mobile number and told me to contact him should I have any questions or want to provide updates on my progress. On the morning of the second day post-surgery, I headed back to the clinic and was given my first wash and check-up. I was then given another wash a few days later before beginning to wash my hair myself at around day 5. On the 10th and 11th days, I removed all the scabs following a super helpful video tutorial made by @Melvin- Admin. At the time of writing this, I am now just over a month post-op and have now shed most of the transplanted hair. I am looking forward to seeing the results in a few months's time. Dr Ted has been fantastic, promptly answering all my questions and monitoring my progress.
Thank you to Dr Ted, Marzena, Barbara, Theresa, and the rest of the team at WMG for making my procedure as smooth as possible. The service I have received has been nothing short of fantastic. I know Dr Ted has recently set up his own clinic in Wales and also still works under WMG in London, so I highly recommend you check both options out if you are based in the UK. I hope to see more of Dr Ted's work on here, as I think he is a brilliant and deserves more recognition. 
 

Photos Before

 

Photos Immediately Post-OP

/

 

Photos of scabbing after a few days

 

Photos after removing scabs

/

 

 

[Melvin- Admin]

That’s fantastic Dr. Ted is doing top-notch work. It’s great to get independent reviews here 🙏 thank you for sharing your experience.

[Davies]

Many thanks for sharing your case. The work looks very good by Dr Ted and the Westminster Medical Group team. I've been researching a fair bit on surgeons in London and Dr Ted and Dr Taleb Barghouthi at Westminster Medical Group seem to be surgeons to go to. I quite like Dr Manish Mittal's work also. We're almost spoilt for choice here in the UK now 😁

[HairRoss]

30 minutes ago, Davies said:

Many thanks for sharing your case. The work looks very good by Dr Ted and the Westminster Medical Group team. I've been researching a fair bit on surgeons in London and Dr Ted and Dr Taleb Barghouthi at Westminster Medical Group seem to be surgeons to go to. I quite like Dr Manish Mittal's work also. We're almost spoilt for choice here in the UK now 😁

Absolutely, I remember when doing research a few years back it didn't seem like there were many highly rated surgeons in the UK aside from maybe Dr Ball and Dr Reddy and I was always thinking I'd most likely have to go abroad but nowadays I think the UK is a much more viable option for surgery.

[davidn]

Did the doc tell you how many grafts you have?

[HairRoss]

59 minutes ago, davidn said:

Did the doc tell you how many grafts you have?

Yeah, they told me they extracted 3428 grafts (7550 hairs) after the surgery.

• 784 singles
• 1420 doubles
• 1150 triples
• 119 quads

If you mean grafts as in an estimation of the number of available grafts I have before the surgery or how many I have left afterwards, he didn't say.

Edited June 22 by HairRoss

[davidn]

1 hour ago, HairRoss said:

Yeah, they told me they extracted 3428 grafts (7550 hairs) after the surgery.

• 784 singles
• 1420 doubles
• 1150 triples
• 119 quads

If you mean grafts as in an estimation of the number of available grafts I have before the surgery or how many I have left afterwards, he didn't say.

yeah I meant left afterwards. Would be good to know given you are only mid 20s.

[Gatsby]

The work looks super clean @HairRoss. I hope you update you results and I look forward to following your journey. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

[HairRoss]

1 hour ago, davidn said:

yeah I meant left afterwards. Would be good to know given you are only mid 20s.

I agree, it would be good to know a rough number in case the need for a future surgery arises. I'll ask next time I go in for a review.

[TakeAction]

Healing up nicely, please keep us posted 🙏 

[Nobaldscalp]

happy growing!!

[rotciv10]

What was the pricing? ?

[Melvin- Admin]

Love to see these reviews of Dr. Ted.

[mr_peanutbutter]

looks super clean

[HairRoss]

On 7/4/2024 at 3:17 AM, rotciv10 said:

What was the pricing? ?

I was quoted £8450, however I ended up paying £7950 total since WMG offer a £250-£500 discount for letting them use either blurred or full face photos for their advertising. I'm not sure if the price is any different if you go through Dr Ted directly with his Wales based clinic.

[hrh93]

Fantastic write up, glad you're happy.

I had an extremely similar procedure and experience with Dr Miln 1 week ago, I planned on doing a write up that will look very similar to yours (3,200 grafts with Ted, Marzena and the team at Westminster Medical Group). Will be following your progress!

Edited July 19 by hrh93

[HairRoss]

20 minutes ago, hrh93 said:

Fantastic write up, glad you're happy.

I had an extremely similar procedure and experience with Dr Miln 1 week ago, I planned on doing a write up that will look very similar to yours (3,200 grafts with Ted, Marzena and the team at Westminster Medical Group). Will be following your progress!

Thank you, I'm really looking forward to seeing your write up and results - happy growing!

Edited July 19 by HairRoss

[receedinglegend]

any update mate?

Edited September 11 by receedinglegend

[Melvin- Admin]

+1 for update 🙏

[Sunshine09]

Any updates mate?

[Dragonsphere]

Is it a typically method to pepper FUE incisions like that behind the hairline? 

I've never seen it done like that before. 

[Sunshine09]

2 hours ago, Dragonsphere said:

Is it a typically method to pepper FUE incisions like that behind the hairline? 

I've never seen it done like that before. 

What do you mean?

[Dragonsphere]

On 9/15/2024 at 10:33 PM, Sunshine09 said:

What do you mean?

It just seems incredibly sparse the way the grafts have been implemented behind the frontal third. 

[Melvin- Admin]

5 minutes ago, Dragonsphere said:

It just seems incredibly sparse the way the grafts have been implemented behind the frontal third. 

If you look at the graft placement close-up, you see he has a lot of native hair. You can't dense-pack when there is a lot of native hair, otherwise you will damage the surrounding hair follicles.

[HairRoss]

Hi all, sorry I've been away in Turkey with my partner for the past week (for a vacation, not surgical reasons 😆). Here's the roughly 3.5/4 months update.

These photos were taken by WMG at about the 3.5 months mark:

And these photos were taken by me right after my first haircut, last week before my vacation.

 

 

Edited September 19 by HairRoss
Adding more pictures