botchedatbosley

hi guys, Very pleased with results after third procedure. But, due to a very poor yield from my first HT with Bosley (went with better doc for last two thankfully), still have untreated crown. So leave my hair long and comb it back, which gives decent coverage. The problem: controlling the long hair. If the slightest breeze comes up, the hair goes forward and stays there! Hair is particularly uncontrollable the first/second day after shampooing. Although wash hair in shower every day, now only shampoo once a week because of this. So can anyone give me some advice for products that can be used to tamp down transplanted hair in the back? I'd like to avoid transitioning to the "wet" look for all my hair, but at this point.... Thanks, botchedatbosley

As you can tell from my screen name, not a fan of Bosely. Had a very poor result from another office (maybe 60% yield), Bosely acted entirely unethically IMHO, and I would never go back. Ever. It was not the Denver office, although I dealt also with the Bosely HQ folks when I realized that my results were poor and that the local office had been unethical in trying to convince me that the result was a "good" result (by their standards maybe). You can read more about my experience in one of the other recent threads ("Faster on One Side?...") My advice: Please, please, please don't make the same rookie mistake I did by going to Bosley! There are just too many great alternatives, most of whom are recommended on this site. If you have to travel, so be it. Small price to pay. My 2nd HT (with one of the recommended physicians here) has turned out great, further reinforcing what a mistake I made in going to Bosley. Botched@Bosley

My original HT was performed in 2009. I have had my 2nd HT. I'm now in the growing season and growth is terrific. I'm so relieved. Although I had suspected that Bosley botched my original HT based on my outcome when I saw how unbalanced the growth was (little on left side of head) at the end of 12 months, I did wonder whether I was just a poor responder or something (in other words, I still was willing to cut Bosley some slack, even after their laughable "good outcome" assessment). Seeing the results of my 2nd HT have absolutely confirmed for me that Bosley was the problem.

It wasn't the Denver office, so maybe you are lucky. I wish you well with your work. To me, it wasn't just the poor yield, which would have been bad enough. I believe Bosley was entirely unethical in a variety of ways. Most importantly, my office insisted that my result was a "good" result. In fact, they did their best to rush me back into the chair for a 2nd HT based on this assessment. But after 1st HT, I had discovered this site and the fact that there was significantly better options available (oh how I wish I had before 1st HT!). ONLY when I went back to Bosley with the fact that three leading HT surgeons had agreed that my final yield was poor (the second and third w/o ever knowing Bosley did the original work) did my surgeon finally concede--and reluctantly--that the final result was less than hoped. Of course, Bosley quickly offered to "gift" me nonappearing follicles if I had a 2nd HT with them. Yeah, like I'd again trust my now even more limited donor follicles to THAT crew after they fumbled and lost several hundred on me the first time. The Bosley folks--and I've spoken with many about my experience at this point--truly have a persecution complex. They clearly believe that leading HT surgeons "hate" Bosley because "we are the market leader." Interestingly, not one other HT surgeon with whom I've consulted ever made a critical comment about Bosely. All their comments were limited to the outcome of my HT specifically.

Denvergrowth, In my 1st HT, I made the horrible mistake of going to Bosley (I know, total rookie mistake!), and I absolutely had far better growth on one side than the other. In addition to poor yield, few if any doubles and triples coming in (after techs told me they had never seen so many "multiples"), I had poor growth on the left side of my head. When I saw other docs (recommended by this site), the consensus was that there was a "technical problem" of some sort at Bosley. So I had to "waste" much of my 2nd HT to address the imbalance instead of addressing Bosley's hack job. But all is much better thanks to one of the sugeons widely recommended on this site.... In terms of what the issue is, no way to tell. Was it because of the tech working that side of my scalp and not placing the grafts well? Or were the grafts that were placed on the left side on my head cut and prepped differently? All mysteries and will forever remain such unfortunately. Another Bosley victim here.... BotchedatBosley