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Dear friends, coinciding with my decision to trust Dr. Rahal (over all other surgeons I consulted) come these interesting articles that were just published about his work. Wanted to share here... Hair today, more tomorrow Hair Q&A with Dr. Hussain Rahal Hope this helps out others who are considering Dr. Rahal.

Hi, I live in the Toronto area and went to see the top recommended surgeons on this forum for my upcoming HT (as well as some of the bad ones mentioned here). I'm down to a tossup between Dr. Rahal and Dr. Simmons. However, to my surprise there is a very significant difference between the recommendations of Dr. Simmons and Dr. Rahal's patient advisor here in Toronto. Whereas the Rahal clinic recommended a mega FUT session of 4500 grafts, the Simmons clinic recommended 3400 grafts MAX - reasons stated are less technicians (I knew this already), but more importantly: they said if they did more than 3400 grafts, they would have to go outside the "safe zone" to get the hair, and also split the grafts into very thin grafts, and also apparently the elasticity of my head is not good enough to allow so many grafts in one session. They recommended I wait 6 months and come back for another 2000. I know Dr. Rahal's clinic is known for doing great mega sessions, but I have concerns about why one doctor says not to have more than 3400 done at one time while the other is saying 4500 is possible. I have decided to travel to Ottawa next week to get an evaluation from Dr. Rahal himself, but any comments here would be appreciated.

Hey Munro, I also live in GTA and considered BRIEFLY Mulholland. I watched the videos and the hype about Neograft because I didnt want a scar either. When they finally called back to say my consultation would be over 100$ I declined. By then I had also done more research - found great reviews on him as a cosmetic surgeon but nothing on his hair transplants. I would say another one who tried to use Neograft as a quick way to boost his bottom line by suddenly getting into hair transplant the easy way. I met a similar doctor in the GTA who does it on the side with the Neograft - only 60 HTs done....over the last 2 years, and he's considering getting the ARTAS because he's not happy with the results he's getting with Neograft. So, in my opinion, if its not too late, avoid doctors that are adding HT to their arsenal of other cosmetic surgeries, and using the Neograft to market themselves. Having said that, I chose to stay away from Dr. Mulholland and Dr. Poon.