# Has anyone here had hair transplant surgery? In Turkey?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-had-hair-transplant-surgery-in-turkey/990522 "2023-09-22T04:24:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-had-hair-transplant-surgery-in-turkey/990522/21 "2023-09-26T02:12:59Z")

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Something I read one time that still makes me chuckle: shaving your head when you’re going bald is the equivalent of “you can’t fire me! I quit!”.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-had-hair-transplant-surgery-in-turkey/990522/22 "2023-09-26T11:47:47Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> In short, it’s yet another personal maintenance item, just like shaving my face (which is a chore I would gladly give up, if there was a way to remain permanently smooth),

Electrolysis for permanent beard removal is an option, although it’s expensive, time-consuming, and apparently doesn’t feel very good. Not many men take that option.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-had-hair-transplant-surgery-in-turkey/990522/23 "2023-09-27T11:06:20Z")

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Or if it’s dark enough, laser hair removal. Both are popular with trans women.

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-had-hair-transplant-surgery-in-turkey/990522/24 "2023-09-27T13:13:10Z")

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> [@Shakester](#):
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> Just a counterpoint to the “just shave it” line - **shaved heads do not lot good on everyone**. I am a skinny guy, with hollow cheeks and jutting cheekbones. Mackenzie Crook level of skinny.
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> I shave my head and people do not think “cool guy” - they think “cancer patient”. It does not look healthy _at all_. Head shaving is absolutely not a “one-size-fits-all” solution to hair loss and I really wish people would stop trying to bully every man with hair loss into shaving his head

This, very much this. I’m the Pintel to **Shakester** ’s Ragetti (that is, the fat one), and while I’ve never shaved my head, I have experimented with buzz cuts. In my case, the result is less “cancer patient” and more “Would get ‘88’ and lightning-bolt SS tats, but mother would make him move out of the basement”. Far more authentic to merely acknowledge and accept my large bald spot, rather than cover it with a toupee or shave off all my remaining hair. I simply describe my hair as multi-colored - bit of brown, bit of gray, bit of pink.

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