Tsakalos, i have to disagree with u. Fact is, forums such as these provide information to potential patients worldwide. In short, without this forum, or the likes of it, i will not be able to really understand the mechanics of the procedure and real life experiences of what patients go thru. If u say, dun trust infommercials or words on clinics' website, i will agree whole heartedly. Its all up to the individual to analyse what he reads and interpret and making a decision, a choice. You cannot deny that some of the posters indeed had a terrible experience at Armani's. I am not sure who your doc is since u do not want to reveal but u said it yourself, past patients seem to be thrilled at the results. Look, nobody says that surgeries will definitely be successful, there is always a risk. You made a choice, took the risk, just like me and anybody else. I feel for u mate, i really do, but u need to understand that forums are our best bets as its the only avenue we get to see and listen to what the HT goers goto say

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My opinion is this. That the Hair Transplant Industry whould be much worse without the forums. This doesnt mean that everything u read in the forums can lead into a happy outcome. I dont deny that armani, had bad results, and i dont deny that the other clinic had good results.

However i can not confirm that i had bad results from armani, i can not confirm that he threatened me to keep my mouth shut and not to post them, and i can not confirm that my experience was a negative one. I also can not confirm that by not choosing armani (or anyone else) i got a happy end, just becouse others used to have.

My point is not to compare clinics. In fact i find people who compare clinics with fanatism being stupid (several forum cheerleaders are very amusing btw). Hair transplant doctors are not pop stars or idols to have fans, nor clinics are contesting on a league like football teams. Patients only care for results. Unfortunately clinics seem to be caring a lot for the "championship" and the recognition.

A hair transplant is a transaction, an exchange, an investment, If the product is good then its ok, if the product sucks then its not ok. So maybe the clinics should realize that we the patients we dont care about this rediculous world wide marathon of global dominance that docs seem to care so much about.

When they realize this, we might start seeing less screw ups, becouse the biggest failures occur when people are over self confident for themselves. (which by the way is a common in doctors not only in the hair transplant field but generally)

Ive had two with Armani and the sults were great....Conservative might be a good way to go, but cmon..Not all of us are seeing what would look great in 20 years.....Somew people dont like a 50 year old hairline at 30...What the heck would anyone care?? IF you all care so much cough up the dough to help pay for the repair procedure.....a man smart enough to get a transplant shoud also have done the research and know the limits.... Im so sick of hearing guys bash anyone or doctor willing to take a small risk,,,,,
All the recopmmended docs im sure pay a fee for this great advertising///but im sure have made a few errors in judgment while performing surgeries...i wonder why we dont hear of thise results?

Well written guys but still i regret i have to disagree again. Docs looking for global domination? Errrrr.. i think the recommended and top notch docs are busy everyday performing surgeries and even if they are in the forum, i have never come across any doc claiming to be the best or doing something like that along that line. They would be either contributing answers to hair related questions or presenting results. Hence i am not sure why u have that deeply rooted opinion. I admit there are some patients who had good results and had nothing but praise for their docs. I mean, u defended Armani as well but that does not make u a fan, does it

Trapps99, actually if u spent some time searching, there were many posts in which patients had bad results etc. They had no qualms bashing their docs online, and some were well founded, some were not. In fact, i did hear of a certain site in which bad results from Armani clinic would be deleted or something like that but i did not find out more, as it does not affect me, so dun quote me

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Well i do make all of my statements based on personal experience and not imagination

i suggest anyone reading this unsure on Armani or not to search all posts by me.
i had a HT with Armani i was far from happy. i actually started off neutral to this site about Armani and posted my results from day one, and as people started to see my results became more poor as time went on. i asked Armani to do something about it, in the best way possible, i was offered a free touch up but declined the offer as i did not want Armani to waste anymore of my precious donor hair, i then asked for a partial refund instead of the touch up as me not having the touch up would obviously save him alot of costs. but to my disappointment i was sent a threatening letter from the clinic trying to sue me for posting my results on this site and for asking for a partial refund saying i was trying to defame the clinic.
anyways i posted the letter on here for everyone too see and Armani backed down asap and offered to talk to me, they eventually just ignored my complaint and i never heard from them again.
they did not care that they scared my head to hell or that only 40% max grafts grew now probably 20 % left to this day. and they did not care about the fact they have caused me to lose all self confidence and cause i high level of anxiety but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that all that clinic cares about is money nothing else plain and simple, like i said search my posts and you will find some good reads and will back up everything i have said here including pics.

oh and the for the person above asking if a certain site wont allow and bad coment on anything armani is very true its the Hairsite forum your thinking of and i have tried to protect many people from making the same mistake as me by posting my results on there but they always get removed and i even got threats from the site admin warning me to stop making new accounts and to stop posting my armani story. he is obviosly paid off by armani as many of us know from this site.

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Balboa, i did follow your story mate from a long time ago and i can vouch for u. One moment i saw your post, the other moment it was gone. After that incident, i just left the forum for good Anyway, once again, i just want to express my condolences mate, i can understand your frustration and anxiety u went thru

Best of luck from now on...

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I think there is something off the second you see his prices.. It's just like Dr. Bauman with his NeoGraft. Both of them charge three times more than all other surgeons and we never see good results from Dr. B or Dr. A.

TBH, I have seen good results from Armani, but they aren't as good as everyone thinks, and his good results were from strip, not fue.

I've never seen anything good from Bauman, even the results he posted in his defense were pluggy.

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I managed to find this thread after googling " Alvi Armani hair transplantation network", lots of bad reviews i read.