This is a list of the "GOOD GUYS". Doctors who denounce Low Laser Light Therapy (LLLT) for what it is: JUNK SCIENCE.

All the doctors on this list are to be commended for their dedication to both science and their patients.

After the lunacy of the LLLT craze wears off, the doctors on this list will stand above their LLLT counterparts as men and women of uncompromising reason, rational thought, and commitment to the scientific method.

It is my hope that soon ALL physicians will be on this list, and LLLT for hairloss will join other quack therapies on the ash heap of history.

This list will be updated regularly:
Dr. Scott Alexander
Dr. Michael Beehner
Dr. Timothy Carman
Dr. Alan Feller
Dr. Steven Gabel
Dr. Raymond Konior
Dr. William Lindsey
Dr. Michael Meshkin
Dr. William Rassman

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

The above is a list of doctors whom I call "the good guys".

They are respected practitioners who believe, as I believe, that LLLT is quackary.

Each time I add a name to the list I will include a synopsis of our discussion so that the public will know why these doctors are oppposed to LLLT.

The purpose of this list is to counter the rather large list of doctors advocating for LLLT as promoted by large laser industry companies like Lexington (Hairmax).

These doctors lend the voice of reason and sanity to what I consider to be the out of control LLLT market.

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

I called Dr. Bill Rassman of New Hair Institute (NHI)and asked for his opinon concerning LLLT. He told me that he could find no scientifically valid reason for it's reported efficacy, but decided to put it to the test anyway.

He bought a large in-office LLLT machine and offered it's use for free to his patients. After a while it became clear that the device did nothing so he stopped using it all.

Dr. Rassman believes that LLLT is based on junk science and is pure quackary.

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

I called Dr. Raymond Konior today and asked him about his views on LLLT.

Other than the obvious fact that he has not seen any evidence of its efficay in before/after photos, he cites the lack of valid scientific studies to back up the claims.

As an academic he cannot buy into the homeopathic like explanations offered by the LLLT advocates and as such rejects the entire enterprise as quackary.

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

It's not all bad....

The cordless version of the LLLT light saber provides an excellent means of directing aircraft on the tarmac at airports.



hs. (former laser brush test pilot)

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These views are from my own learned experience. I am NOT a Doctor, but people say that I do look like one from a distance.

Dr. Feller---
Creating this thread was an inspired idea. The proponents of LLLT have been easy to identify, but you've been the only one who has been really vocal in speaking out against it.
I am very excited to see who gets added to this list.

I have sparingly used laser over the past year and half and agree with Dr. Feller that the scientific evidence is very sketchy and that our results have in no way met the expectations put forth by the laser companies. Until there is quality scientific data I do not believe that laser should be promoted as a medical treatment for hair loss.

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Dr. Alexander is an elite member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

I had a conversation with Dr. Scott Alexander of Arizona today. He was also skeptical of LLLT therapy but wanted to keep an open mind and try it anyway.

After spending well over $10,000 on a "top of the line" low laser light machine he told me that the "results" his patients experienced were questionable and no where near the cosmetic improvements indicated by the laser manufacturer nor the studies they cited.

He has since given up on selling the "therapy" to patients as he now finds this unethical.

Like all other doctors I have interviewed, he also has yet to see any compelling before/after photos of LLLT recipients showing cosmetically signficant improvement.

Well done Dr. Alexander. Welcome aboard and welcome to the "Good Guy List" at the top of this thread.

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

Any idea where Bernstein stands on the issue? I know he has offered LLLT but I remember hearing somewhere he no longer uses it (I could be wrong however)

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From the perspective of a person who, at the start of his hair transplant research, nearly made at least one regrettable decision on the basis of a lack of knowledge, fueled by the kind of insecurity that, at the risk of being presumptuous, hair loss can induce -- I'm thankful to Dr. Feller and to other doctors who are willing to take the time to take an informed and knowledgeable stand.

I don't have firsthand knowledge of the LaserComb or any analagous device, but having had two transplants already, and seen the patience that they require, I'm as skeptical of a device that is purported to regrow hair simply with a regimen of daily combing as I am of the well-known TV commercials that show animated hair instantly and painlessly "floating" toward a bald area of scalp.

That said...again, simply as a layperson, I can look through a large number of photos from doctors and patients on this site, and see results. I have seen no comparable results from laser treatments, and I have read compelling arguments and statements from physicians who could easily profit from selling laser therapy if they so chose. That speaks volumes.

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