It is my hope that my experience will help answer some questions you have about whether you should go for it and who you should choose and how you can be prepared. First two photos are from February 15 2023. Third is before surgery. Fourth is my template prior to surgery painted on by Dr Reyes. I hadn’t been taking Finasteride or Minoxidil. I decided to put in a contact submission form for Dr Reyes clinic as well as a few reputable clinics in Turkey. Dr Reyes is one of the best when it comes to identifying and extracting curly follicles. The way they are embedded in the scalp is very different from straight hair and as such can be easily damaged and not viable after 6 months. Knowing my hair wasn’t stick straight I had an initial bias toward Reyes. After speaking with all three clinics it was evident that Reyes was the right choice for me. First, the curly follicles being a component. Additionally, her office would not accept an appointment without first having taken Finasteride and Minoxidil for 6 months prior to my surgery. The others were booking two weeks our. Minoxidil and Finasteride will establish and confirm transplantable hairs. Secondly, the Turkish clinics kept saying “my friend, we will give you as many grafts as possible, up to 5,500”. Reyes clinic insisted that 2700 was my max based on pictures but could be adjusted on day of surgery depending on the success of the medicines. My surgery was today 7/11/23 and I’m sitting down to a nice dinner of octopus paella and spicy tuna maki at my provided hotel. I’ve had a driver from the airport to the hotel to the clinic and for anything else needed. So far I’m feeling great and can’t wait to share the day one results with you tomorrow when the clinic removes my bandages. I elected for a plasma extraction and application in the scalp. This is supposed to aid in recovery, redness, and ultimate staying power for the grafts. It was an extra $400 which was an easy yes for me as I don’t want to leave anything up to chance. I bought a travel “turban” on Amazon. Basically a silk lined cap. It looks like a thin beanie and was endorsed by the clinic as a way to travel home without having people stare at your scalp. The grafts at the time of booking were $2.25 each and included the ground transit and hotel with a $25 meal voucher. Everyone is kind and happy to help you here. I was made aware that if I approved and if Dr Reyes chose to use more grafts to fill in my crown she would do so. The first hundred extra are free. The next are $1 each. She ended up using 3500 FUE grafts to cover all my thinning, receding hairline, and balding crown. I arrived at the clinic at 9am and did some blood work and cardio exam to confirm I’m healthy for the surgery. This was an extra $100 which was made clear when I signed off on the surgery back in February. Ultimately no surprises. I was finished at 7pm but it felt like I was only there for an hour. The exam room is clean and modern. The staff speaks English clearly and is very positive and happy. So far my experience is an A+. I’ll continue to share updates and milestones that are significant and attempt to answer any questions you may be having about my HT.

Hey guys, long time lurker and first time poster. I have been losing my hair from a very early age (18-19) and I'm 33 now. I started taking finasteride around age 26 which successfully stopped my hair loss completely, but I was still living with a very thinned front region since about this age. I became a slave to Toppik. While living in South America last year I went one week without fin and experienced severe thinning in the front of my head, I decided after this point that I would have to find a more permanent solution. So, like many of you I read as much as I could online and watched as many videos and looked through as many photos as I could, analyzing every last detail. After a while I was finally scheduled in Istanbul for my surgery, where they estimated I would need roughly 2,000 grafts to repair my front hairline. I was excited, nervous, then dead set on not going due to the extreme civil unrest in Istanbul. There are a couple of threads on here about Dr Alba Reyes, but absolutely nothing substantial. Two posts (as far as I've found) one simply asking a question about her, and another of a young man who was persuaded by everyone to not go out of sheer ignorance. It was therefore very difficult to find any information on this doctor or her clinic. This is when I began instead searching in Spanish. The results were staggering, many interviews with her on national television, many celebrity transplants, and many phenomenal results. When I could no longer read anymore I sent an email with photos describing what I was looking for. To my surprise I received a phone call the next day from someone that spoke to me completely in English. My confidence was already through the roof with all of the research I'd done so I quickly scheduled my visit for the following week. I was picked up from the airport by their driver and escorted to the hotel. I stayed at hotel Barcelo, originally part of my package with them but I chose to upgrade to a junior suite which gave me a wonderful view of the affluent part of Santo Domingo I would be staying in over the next 4 days. I was picked up from the hotel at around 9:00AM, and was driven to the clinic only a couple of miles away. There I met with Vanessa and we went over the procedure before meeting with Dr Reyes. I was in with Dr Reyes by 9:30 and I had a wonderful time visiting with her. She drew out a plan for my hairline and was very open to all of my concerns, and open to adjusting the hairline if I disagreed with her (I didn't). 30 minutes later I was in for surgery and agreed to sleep for the length of time it would take on the first day. Roughly half of the grafts were implanted on the first day, and the remainder on the second. I am absolutely ecstatic with how my hairline has come out, and the apparent density. I am on day 5 now and almost all of my scabs are gone. I am not using any chemicals on my scalp, only Emu oil and a Tea Tree oil & Aloe Vera shampoo which I let sit on my head for roughly 10 minutes. I do not agree with letting the implants on your head scab over and die of dehydration. I know these stories are never as important as the photos, so I intend to keep you guys posted on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. Below are my pre and post op photos. 2,700 grafts FUE + PRP (before, day of, 5 days post)

I have recently had a surgery done in the Dominican Republic and would like to share my experiences. A friend of mine in New York referred me to Dra Alba Reyes in Santo Domingo, because according to him she was doing a great job overthere. I have informed and talked to their services Department extensively before making my decision, it is big thing and especially also going abroad to do the surgery. But they made me feel very comfortable and they have packages with hotel and all your transport included, so i did not have to arrange a thing. Any way, my experience has been a very pleasant obe, the dr is very kind and professional and she works with the newest techniques. I had a surgery of 8 hours with over 3800 grafts implanted. It was a long sit but absolutely worth it. I feel great and am anxiously waiting the first results, the area looks great and i am noticing the first hairs starting to grow , but i know that i still need patience..... It has been quite an experience and adventure but it turned out great. The clinic is very professional my stay was well arranged and the accommodation comfortable. Dra Reyes is certified by the American Board so you know as customer that you are dealing with someone who is very experienced and passionate with her work. It is only too bad that she is not mentioned in the different forums, i hope that my post can change that. I have mentioned it as well to their Services Department and i hope they will present themselves here as well. They have nevertheless lots of international customers so they are definetly a clinic worth mentioning here.

I had 800 grafts to my hairline, roughly 16 cm long and longer cm deep. It's supposed to be 50 FU per cm^2. I was about NW2.5 before surgery, my aim was to be restored the an NW2 with decent density. I'm not sure what to expect at this stage, but the hair density looks very low and see through. I don't think thickening alone will make this look good, I'm hoping the hair density will double as well as thickening. Can I expect much new hairs to sprout? Or at this stage are most of them up and just going to thicken? Pictures taken directly under a light and away from the light for contrast.