3DPsycho

From my perspective Dr. Panine and his staff were exemplary in everything from the initial consultation, the setup, overall knowledge and artistic ability on hair placement, procedure, and follow up. More importantly I am extremely satisfied with the results thus far and the way the new placement fits so well with my existing hair in the treated areas Dr. Panine would be a great asset as a Coalition doctor from what I have experienced.

thank you BadBeat, and I will try to find some before pics (although I think I was a bit embarrassed to have many!)

As I come from 6 years ago and being in Cleveland when I was quoted 3800 to do a hair transplant, I was (needless to say) in for quite a shock when I decided to finally go under the knife here in the Chicago area. Like the rest of you who are scouring these boards who have more brains than money (or so I like to tell myself) I would assume that most of you are not a salesperson without a grasp on the real world and are looking for a reasonable affordable price to have a transplant done without half of the wrong side of your skull being done. I believe I have done an exhaustive search and evaluation to weigh the balance between quality work and being actually able to come close to affording this procedure. Any rich lazy snob can go with the most expensive person in the most affluent area and tell you only stick with “the best” or you’ll be sorry (and yes the more expensive ones are certainly worth it if you can afford them from what I gather). Get real, most of us don’t have that kind of scratch to pay for a fancy office. For about 1/3-1/2 the cost I found that after an extensive search, interviews, phone calls, reviews with local and “affordable”(but scary as it turns out) outside the state surgeons, Dr. Panine was the one that was that perfect balance… (um, ok he turned out to be the only one that wasn’t “run away screaming” for the price that I could find any sort of enough reviews, testimonies, and history on this and a number of other sites and searches) at least for this area… I am sure there are people out there that have done other research and found other competent surgeons for a comparable price either around the area or a competent affordable out of state surgeon (mind you I didn’t do as an exhaustive search outside the state). That’s why its always good to do your own research, this is just a good place to start. So, my personal experience was very impressive so far… they explained everything to my technical satisfaction, Stuart their main contact put up with a lot of annoying questions and constant phone calls including ridiculous questions about hats and hair loss. Aids were cute, I mean patient and nice. They explained that hair transplant was more an art form (which of course appealed to the 3d animator part of me) to correctly align the hair follicles and follow calics with what you have. They even put up with me subjecting them to 4 hours of antique road show while they were working on me. So its been about a month since I was at the Chicago hair transplant clinic and I am going through that stage where your hair falls out from shock and then starts to grow in again. Super satisfied with the results so far. Will of course post pics as time goes on (sadly I don’t have any before surgery shots, I am about a class III vertex?... thin heavily in the crown and major widows peak, I’ve had about 3000 grafts) This round of pics is right after surgery and some two weeks after when they pulled the stitches out of the back of my noggin.