I 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$.
So 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.
I visited one of those Bosley places in the US. The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc. They did talk about how few surgeons there were that do this stuff well though. Also talked about scalp injections I think?
It's been several years. I just decided to let it go naturally and deal with it.
> The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc.
I don't want to defend the esthetic surgery industry in general, which I do think tends to be quite predatory, but doesn't this sound like the opposite of that? If they really wanted to fleece you, wouldn't they offer surgery instead of the safer and cheaper treatments?
I can't read the article myself, but the blurbs I can read:
> Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation. [...] it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment and algorithmic craftsmanship
Seems there was some actual "hacking" involved, if they had to patch medical equipment, but who knows how much of the article is actually about that, I can't actually see any text.
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 :)
I 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...
How did it hold up over the past few years?
This is just like, my opinion man. You looked better bald.
this is one of those "if you have nothing nice to say" moments. there's really no reason for your comment.
The 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
My grandmother used to say, "the Americans are going to space while we're just growing butt-hair". She was so close!
Butt hair is not that bad if you compare to European promoted tech leaders:
There is Microsoft, we have Qwant.
There is Claude and DeepSeek, we have Mistral (originally a copy-paste of LLaMA stolen by employees, now a fork of DeepSeek, with a few changes).
Then there is ASML and Airbus, alone on their island of innovation.
We have LIDL too, so not everything is bad.
If it wouldn’t be that bad why European companies prefer the US.
https://archive.is/KxRaw
So 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.
It's interesting to read about.
I visited one of those Bosley places in the US. The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc. They did talk about how few surgeons there were that do this stuff well though. Also talked about scalp injections I think?
It's been several years. I just decided to let it go naturally and deal with it.
> The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc.
I don't want to defend the esthetic surgery industry in general, which I do think tends to be quite predatory, but doesn't this sound like the opposite of that? If they really wanted to fleece you, wouldn't they offer surgery instead of the safer and cheaper treatments?
> If they really wanted to fleece you
Tip: Bald people the worst to fleece.
Words are truly losing their meaning if its a hack to develop a business.
I can't read the article myself, but the blurbs I can read:
> Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation. [...] it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment and algorithmic craftsmanship
Seems there was some actual "hacking" involved, if they had to patch medical equipment, but who knows how much of the article is actually about that, I can't actually see any text.
> I can't actually see any text.
Turn off JS
Yeah they totally isomorphed that industry!
Hack is being used to get more clicks.
If you're not white enough, it's a hack. You can get around this problem by attracting some VC funding and building your HQ in Silicon Valley. /s
It’s hacking when it’s someone you don’t like.
In this context it's being used in much the same way as in "growth hacking", which is an actual position people hire for.
Has there been any progress on cloning hair follicles? I don’t want to move the hair around. I simply want more hair.
I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f...
No idea if ZME science is reputable at all.
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 :)
Buddy, I hope you have a glove on because you're about to catch these fists!
You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
Yes, yes it's coming. In 10 years.
Just in time for fusion energy?
Yes, imagine endless energy and endless hair. It's like nuclear and hippy again, but stronger and ai-government-mandated
No no fusion energy company is going public shortly so the technology must be closer than that :)