drmstx,

Could you clarify what you mean by "I have a feeling the doctor plays with the graft numbers a little."?

Also, are you sure that Dr. Madhu performs 3 --if not more -- surgeries in a given day?

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Hmm, that '3 plus surgeries a day' comment is a little disheartening. Bill, would you mind trying to contact the doctor and ask some questions about the number of surgeries he does per day?

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drmstx,

I appreciate your concerns and I'll do my best to address them.

I've done extensive interviewing with Dr. Madhu via email, phone, and through photos. If you take a look at his surgical walkthrough album, much of what he told me can be validated including his use of a single blade to harvest the donor area, the fork hooks method, microscopic dissection, etc. In fact, the reason we require a surgical album for surgeons being considered for recommendation is to verify what we're being told.

Regarding, performing 3 hair transplants a day, what you don't understand is that while his clinic performs 2 or 3 daily, there are 4 physicians, several junior physicians, and 12 surgical assistants. It is not unusual for clinics with multiple physicians and a large staff to do this many procedures a day.

While in person visitations and observing clinics in person certainly can verify what we've come to learn, it isn't always feasible in a timely manner. Pat Hennessey, publisher of the Hair Transplant Network may be traveling to the eastern part of the world in the coming months and I know he would like to meet with and observe Dr. Madhu in live surgery.

Given all the excellent work we've seen from Dr. Madhu over the last several weeks and his prompt responsiveness to member's concerns, I think we ought to trust our eyes and instinct on this.

Best wishes,

Bill

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Hello guys,

I am very happy to see the comment made by Dr. Bill Parsley.

Reg. no. of surgeries: We have big team of 12 surgical assistants and 4 doctors who are ISHRS members, and a cosmetic dermatologist and 3 more junior docs. We also have 3 surgical theatres. Performing 3 surgeries is not a difficult task for us. It entirely depends upon the case, if they are bigger sessions, we adhere to 2 cases and if smaller sessions, we go even upto 4 cases. The other 3 ISHRS doctors are also, even though we are not projecting them, doing a great job. They are also upgrading themselves by attending many international workshops and conferences. They participate to a great extent in dealing with the surgery. This you can appreciate if can click this link.

http://www.hairhospi.com/aboutourteam.html

Reg. counting of grafts: As far as i know, we have one of the most transparent systems in counting the grafts in hair transplantation procedure . Actually we arrange 20 grafts per tray which were shown even in the surgical album. It is much easier to count the no. of trays and multiplied by 20 gives you the total no. of grafts and we arrange the one haired, two haired and multi haired units in different colored trays to make it very easy to count and transparent. We even encourage the patient's attendants to count and we have instances where some of the patient's attendants counted to their satisfaction. You can witness the same from the link given below or from the surgical album which we posted earlier.

http://www.hairhospi.com/Counting.html

Regarding privacy: During the month of Feb'09, we were establishing in Hyderabad. Only half of the premises (2500 sq. ft) out of a total 5200 sq. ft had been used for the purpose. But now, we are fully open and we have a separate consultation wing no way related to surgical wing. Now we have junior doctors to counsel who are fully trained. This can be appreciated by visiting our web site through this link.

http://www.hairhospi.com/aboutourcentre.html

And even I am fortunate enough to have a good no. of my patients who are qualified doctors (15-20%).

Thanks & regards,
Dr. Madhu.

Thana,

What I meant was that there is a possibility the doctor might exaggerate number of grafts than what he had transplanted. For a couple of patients, I could not believe they were transplanted with ~3000 grafts. It looked more like ~2000-2500. But I see the doctor himself has clarified the issue for us, so no more concerns in that regard.

Bill,

I apologize I forgot to mention this before: I am pretty sure the clinic does 3+ surgeries a day, but yes, it includes work by the other physicians and assistants as well. His wife is also one of the physicians (apart from many other doctors) who works there in the clinic. Again, the doctor himself has responded to most of the issues (privacy, # of grafts etc)here so no more concerns.

Dr. Madhu

We really appreciate you taking out time to respond on this forum more frequently. Your recommendation on this forum only means that there is hope for balding Indian guys for whom an expensive transplant surgery abroad is still a distant reality. Thanks again for the great work and we hope to see these consistently good results in the future as well.

This 50 cents per graft deal may be more economically feasible for many alongwith the work Dr. Madhu has been producting.

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drmstx,

From the results that i have seen from Dr.madhu so far i always felt that a large area of the scalp were covered with less number of grafts,keeping in mind that indians comparatively have a small head n the hair texture is relatively curly n have thick hair.But u seem to have felt otherwise.

Bill,thx for he info

Hey Guys, I just registered on this forum but have been following it from last one year. After reading all good comments about Dr. Madhu here, I am sorry, I have specially registered to be a spoil spot Well, I visited his clinic twice in the last few days and am not satisfied with his dealings and consultation. The doctor doesnt talk openly and this makes me feel something is missing. I attended his training session - most of the patients there were for hair loss treatment and NOT for a HT. I myself consulted him for my HT. It was a short consultation and the doctor drew a hairline and estimated my total grafts - 7000 he said in 2 HTs. However I wanted to discuss a strategy, a way out -where and how to place my grafts for the best results according to my hair density and characteristics - he never did that. I admit his results look good in the pictures here, but there have to be so many other things to get a recommendation. I feel going to him for a HT right now will be llike experimenting with myself, so have decided to go abroad. Hope ir helps.

confused123,

I'm sorry you felt rushed during your consultation with Dr. Madhu. Did you express any of these concerns to him while you were there at his clinic?

In my experience, Dr. Madhu has been very thorough and willing to respond to the questions, comments, and apprehensions a few of had regarding his photos and potential recommendation. He's also posted a number of examples demonstrating the quality of his work.

In my opinion, you may want to contact Dr. Madhu privately with your concerns about your consult. Given what I've learned so far, I feel confident that he'll do what he can to help you.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Bill

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