WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY did you go to this same doctor 4 times?

At some point the patient has to take responsiblity for their results. You didn't get good results with the 1st transplant. Your experience with Bauman should have ended their.

I don't even know what to say. And you are still talking to him about another surgery. At this point you get exactly what you deserve.

Its horrible that the results are this bad. Its sad that you could have avoided 80% of this EASILY.

'I even had his secretary stop me on the way out the door after the 3rd HT asking for more money. I was shocked. I ask why and she said they got more grafts and was insisting that i pay an additional $2400 dollars before leaving , which i did not.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE

I'm sure some of these clinics think there is a correlation between hair loss and brain loss.

I have been asked by a couple of people in different forums or by individual email if the 4th HT price was a typo. That is the correct pricing according to my invoice. Further more here is the email I received from Dr. Bauman regarding his FUE pricing.

Hello Nate:

Thank you so much for the additional emails- I really appreciate you forwarding those to me. The FUE NEOGRAFT is priced a bit differently than a traditional linear harvest mainly because of all the additional benefits such as; no scar, no down-time, quicker healing process, no stitches to remove, etc. The 1st 500 grafts is $10,000 and each graft thereafter is $10. For ex: a 1000 graft session size would cost $15,000 . I hope this information helps and I look forward to following up in August.



Thank you and have a great weekend!



Tara Sikes

Patient Services Coordinator

That's $20 per graft! It would be funny if it were not so obscene.

Of course graft has several definitions. Now when I hear Bauman's name I'll think of this definition:

graft??‚??‚[graft, grahft]
??“noun
1. the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, esp. through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.

I think Bauman is trying to be the USA version of Mr. Norton who ran the notorious Norton Clinic in the UK. Sounds really familiar because Norton also offered other types of cosmetic surgery instead of just hair transplants.

I'd bet that Bauman probably drives a Ferrari around as well. Docs like him will probably just try to keep the clinic going for as long as they can rake in enough profits to retire the outfit for good. Then they just start up another clinic with a different name to have a new BBB record and a clean slate for the next series of butchery.

Obviously there's only one way left to administer justice to hack money fiend surgeons like this -- the old fashioned way!

I love this part. After giving you three separate bad strip scars spaced all the way up your head he has the nerve to say that they had to charge you more for surgery #4 because you got the added benefit of "no scar." I'll say this for him, the guys got balls.

I feel compelled to point out that the NeoGraft machine provides no additional benefits than traditional FUE tools, at least in terms of scarring, healing and downtime. The FUE procedure does produce scarring in form of a small whiteish dot wherever a follicular unit has been extracted. These scars are typically easily concealed by the patient's own surrounding natural hair assuming not too many follicular units have been removed from a single area.

The NeoGraft device does not change the heart of the FUE proceduer. However, it may (or may not) make the procedure easier for the physician. But it has no real additional benefit to the patient than an FUE procedure in the hands of a skilled physician using his/her own much cheaper tools. The FUE procedure using NeoGraft probably costs more because the NeoGraft machine itself is highly expensive.

I want to point out that I'm not anti-NeoGraft. But like many other aspects of FUE, I believe the NeoGraft has been overhyped and overpromoted.

Best wishes,

Bill

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I have no idea how I missed this post, but if those prices for FUE with Dr. Bauman are accurate, then I'm speechless.

Without making this into another NeoGraft argument, isn't one of it's benefits supposed to be making FUE cheaper? How the hell is BAaman charging $20 per graft for FUE? I just threw up in my mouth thinking about that.

Does Bauman seriously think it's common practice to make 3 strip scars and then fill them in with FUE? Shocking....

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