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I continue to research St. Louis area hair restoration options. Recently uncovered this. Was just wondering if there were any reviews of the Artas machine.

Still digging and posted this on another thread. Good to finally see results from a variety of patients. Would love to see some scar closures on him though and wish he was still in touch with this forum. Link below. More results and info on any long time HT surgeon never hurts. Results show 6 male and/or female patients with about 500-1300 graft procedures

http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Share-info/hair_transplant_patient.asp?PatientID=439&DrID=

Just digging around and found this as there are some results for Dr. Samuel in St. Louis. Seems to only do small sessions, but makes solid results with a small amount of grafts.

Hair Transplant patient of Dr. Lawrence Samuels, Male Class 4, 1288 Grafts

Perhaps some scar pigmentation(temporary one first)to help cover/ blend the scar? Concealer such as Dermamatch may help any miscoloring. If I were you and chose to get another procedure, look for a reputable surgeon with skills for making pencil thin scars. Konior is one that has done this for me. Exceptional work. You are at the right place to seek advice and share you stories. I am sure there are several that share your concerns.

As far as a haircut goes, I have a great wife that cuts my hair and fades it paying close attention to the hair around the scar leaving just enough to conceal, but not too much to create a "flap look".

The best saying I heard was someone saying "once you have more hair all you want is...more hair". In regards to your perception there are some cognitive things that I try to do daily to help with perception. Digging up old photos from when hairloss was at its worst can make you look at "how far you have come" as opposed to "how far you have to go". I like to take two hands and cover up the HT to remind myself of what it would look like if i did not have hair in those paticular places. Cognitive thereapy can impact your perception and help create a glass half full attitude for some.

Dr Konior is a true artist. This point of the process is the best part. Just keeps getting better and better.

Through this forum I have talked with some people about different causes of hairloss. Everyone has a different journey and I have been encouraged to share mine by a few people. Hopefully I can share my experience that may help out some others as well who may be in a similar situation, or share some similar components in their own lives.

I am 31 and my hairloss started back in 2002 when I began to notice a little receding, nothing major, but a little bit non the less. Each year it slowly got worse until I finally took the plunge with Dr. Konior back in the summer of 2009 where I had about 2220 grafts placed on the frontal third of my scalp. I was also lucky to find this forum as I had traveled to St. Louis for a consultation and booked a date with someone from MHT.

Dr. Konior and his staff are outstanding which is well known on this board. My results were awesome. Though I have no photos to date, I was a happy customer with a great head of hair.

In the spring of 2011 everything changed not only for my hair, but most importantly my health. I had started to randomly have severe acute panic attacks. I have no family history of them and was completely consumed by them. Sometimes having 20+ per day that were very painful. The worst part was the insomnia where I went 7 days with 1 hour of sleep per day. It was a very rough time and there were no underlying causes of them. I have a great job, wife, kids, family ect. It was purely physical. Also I am a full-time high school teacher who had to work through the riggors of an anxiety disorder.

As Doctors prescribed medication after medication to try to get me to sleep and stop the panic attacks. With SSRI everything slowly got better after 2 months and I was able to get back on my feet again, but it was pure hell to walk through. Those who have been through them know exactly what I am talking about. Especially the start up on SSRI medication can be rough for many.

As things normalized I started to see side effects from SSRI treatment such as low energy, libido, ect.. I was prescrided Androgel and ED meds to help with the problems. Some of you know what is coming next from the "Androgel" statement. I shed hair like no other after a couple months of treatment and insisted that I be taken off Androgel. I had always used rogaine but also started finasteride for the past year and a half to combat the onset of my sudden hairloss and (hopefully) grow back some hair. I was aware that increasing testosterone could potentially accelerate hairloss, but being a transdermal it underwent an enormous amount of 5-htp interaction which skyrocketed DHT levels. Though I was able to stop the massive shed with discontinuation and medication, the damage had been done. In the frontal third of my head it is obvious that the hairs Dr. Konior placed are all that is left to be seen (I am thankful for that). I also use Toppik to help add density.

I shared my story becaue anxiety, hairloss from medication, and other factors played a role in my sudden hair loss after my first surgery. The hairloss was also very sudden and dramatic in a very short period of time. I am happy to say that I am much more educated now on the effects different medications, most paticularly the hairline. My journey for a 2nd hair restoration has began as I have sought out consultations from 3 of the outstanding surgeons recommended on this board very recently. I look forward to updating everyone in the near future.

that clarifies things. Much appreciated.

Thanks Blake. Much appreciated that you would look into this. Lookin forward to learning more hopefully.

I did dig a little deeper and found the link below. Seems like he prefers several small sessions over larger ones as most of the patients have 2 sessions but not a large number of grafts.

http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Share-info/hair_transplant_patient.asp?PatientID=436&DrID=55

I have been unable to get any info on this as well. It seems he was recommended at some point. Click the link below to see some info.

http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/155001-dr-lawrence-samuels-st-louis.html

I am also very interested in hearing from some of his patients. One of the moderators ”Bill” says that he is recommended by the Hair Transplant Network for performing high quality follicular unit hair transplantation. But the above post was in 2008.

Thanks for the advice. After a lot of research it seems like Dr. Samuels is IAHRS board certified and most experienced in the area? I also think he was recommended on this site at onetime but cant see why he is not anymore. A thread a couple years back stating he was recommended on this site but did not have a lot of results posted- but then again I have not seen any terrible experiences by anyone either. Any more info would be great. I have also found a Hans Wiemman and PAI medical that seem to either have bad reviews or outdated procedures.

here is the link: http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/155001-dr-lawrence-samuels-st-louis.html

I am currently looking for a reputable surgeon in the St. Louis are. Has anyone had any procedures done in that area? I had a wonderful hairline and density procedure by Dr Konior 2008, but have moved a bit south. I am now looking to add more density to the frontal region. Thanks for the help in advance.