After learning that Dr. Rogers was moving toward adopting leading edge refinements such as using tiny custom cut blades as small as 0.8mm and moving toward bigger high density sessions, I decided to visit his clinic and observe him and his lovely associate, Dr. Alexandra Stevenson, performing surgery.

After visiting with them over two days, my impression of Dr. Rogers, Dr. Stevenson and their staff is that they are ethical and striving to do quality work for their patients. Dr. Rogers is well aware of the ultra refined surgical techniques being used by the leading hair transplant clinics in North America and has made progress in recent years in implementing some of these evolutions in technique, including smaller and less invasive incisions.

Dr. Rogers and Dr. Stevenson also take great care in how they remove the donor tissue and they do a double layer trichophytic closure.

However, they are still not doing all microscopic dissection. They do use microscopes for trimming the donor strip into smaller sections (a process referred to as "slivering") and for some of the grafts. Yet most of the techs are only using back lighting with eye loops or no loops at all.

In my opinion, based on observation, published studies and input from dozens of leading physicians, all microscopic graft dissection is important if a clinic is going to successfully perform ultra refined follicular unit grafting with optimal results.

I hope that they will adopt all microscopic dissection in the coming months. If they do, I think that their procedure has the potential to be world class.

Dr. Roger's has over ten years experience in performing hair transplantation and performs sessions of up to 3,000 all follicular unit grafts.

Dr. Stevenson has been doing hair transplantation for over two years and learned her techniques from Dr. Rogers. While the quality of her work is very high, her session sizes are typically limited to around 1,500 grafts. In my opinion, if she aspires to be competitive online on a world wide playing field she will need to move beyond her comfort zone and perform bigger sessions when appropriate for her patients.

I did see Dr. Stevenson perform a decent follicular unit session. However, the patient would not allow photos of the surgery and so they are not presented on this album.

In general I believe that the Rogers Clinic and its committed staff are doing vastly better hair transplantation than other hair transplant clinics in the UK, with the exception of the Farjo Clinic. They typically perform only one surgery per day.

I expect that they will in time rise to the challenge of doing all microscopic dissection in the coming months. I look forward to monitoring their progress and patient reports and in time recommending them on our community once they meet our high standards (To view our standards for recommendation, visit http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Consult-a-Physicia...tion-physicians.asp).

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Hi,
I am 38 years male and seriously considerinh HT, Can you pls suggest me the best clinic in UK?

Thnaks
Tulip

Tulip123,

I think you should investigate creating your own thread in the Hair Transplant Experiences and Surgeon Reviews section of the hair loss forums. This will allow other members to offer accurate and helpful advice. In the mean time, there is a list of the physicians we recommend in the United Kingdom and Europe in general.

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All opinions are my own and my advice should not constitute as medical advice.

ive had surgery with rogers it was a mistake he damaged my native hair which resulted in extra loss he also wouldnt transplant anything larger than 1000 grafts even though i asked for more which resulted in barely any noticable result as the majority of grafts did not grow and due to the damage to my native hair the final result was poor to say the least! the only thing i can say is that his scar was very good but i didnt pay to have a nice scar i wanted hair growth.

i personaly would never go to rogers ever again. I would strongly urge any one else considering him not to go through with the surgery. untill he dramatically improves his over all approach to his work.

he needs to improve the size of his sessions thus the amount he is able to safely transplant as at the moment he cant even transplant 1000 grafts safely as the yield is pathetic and the amount of native hair loss is not even covered by the regrowth.

he also has density issues i strongly feel his choice of density ie grafts per cm2 where way out resulting in unatural positioning. or he just didnt feel confident transplanting very dense.

and he charges alot if not the same as coalition drs that use more advanced methods.

he leaves the room for very long periods of time leaving his assistants to do whole grafting. and i have my doubts as to whether they where indeed properly trained.

all of the above is harsh but true i know my experiances could be a one off but i have also spokenn to numerous people on line who have had similar problems with dr rogers as i have.

i feel he is along way from being considered a coalition DR and if he is made one at his current performance it would make a mock of the hairtransplants stricked vetting policy as i am affraid he just isnt good enough at this time.

he needs to radically alter his approach to HT surgery hes got it all wrong!!!

just trying to save some other poor englishman the trouble i have had and save them a year of there life waiting for non existant results!!!!!!!!!!!!!