Burned

Please delete. Thank you.

Nathaniel-Thank you for your comments. onemoretime-Best of luck on your situation. I know there are doctors out there who can improve your hair. I believe you're doing the right thing in researching doctors. You cannot do enough "homework". Lastly to Bill/Dr. Haber-If & when I respond, I believe I am going to take my time in doing so as I feel it needs to be very carefully worded, thought out & maybe some research done before I do so.

One last thing please. The original starter of this thread onemoretime owns this thread. I apologize if this thread went off track. It's not about my experiences with transplant doctors, but about him asking for feedback on a number of things including this particular doctor. That was my whole intention when offering my opinion and hopefully he could weigh in on the feedback provided from myself and the other board members who replied and will reply. Mods/onemoretime, if you feel the need to remove my comments and start another thread dedicated to my experiences, please let me know and feel free to do so. Thanks again..

Thank you for your comments. Let me make this 100% clear. While I guess your suggestion could be possible, the sites where Dr. Haber placed transplanted hair ALL had pitting. If there was that possibility, I would have expected the Dr. to notify me AND disqualify himself from further work on me and I'm not talking about the contract you sign before surgery that says this and that is possible to basically protect all hair transplant surgeons from anything going wrong. I also want to reiterate that when I went in for my 1st checkup and mentioned the pitting and told the doctor I was upset, he immediately told me "it's more pitting than we like to see, but it's still early in the healing process". I let him know how upset I was and he also told me quickly that he had some things in place that could help with the pitting in the form of injections and lasers, that could bring a more level appearance. When I went for my next check up, these options became lasers that in the doctors opinion "don't work" for pitting and the injections would only help for a temporary period. I was completely blown away at what a different attitude was present. He also got into the practice of every time he left the room saying the pitting was from me being transplanted so much. Again, I would have liked to be told and turned down as a patient if this indeed was the case. With regard to me selecting help with lasers, he told me he was going to be receiving a new laser machine and the option for using his current laser machine would go away, when the new machine arrived. He told me and I quote "knock yourself out". When I did choose to go in for laser treatment, the person operating the laser explained the new laser was the type that could level things out better, but would also kill the hair, so that was why they couldn't use it on me.

Here's some comments posted on 7/25/2012, that basically summarize my history of hair transplants/doctors/having comparison photos/etc. These were made under another username I have, but forgot about until this morning. Having not posted much on any or many hair loss message boards and basically trying to forget about the bad procedures, I somehow came up with 2 usernames with different emails. They are HT3 and Burned. From this day forward, I will use Burned only. I think in many cases, after having a hair transplant, the patient sits back for some time (I know I did) and after complaining to the doctor about being unsatisfied, is told things like "don't worry, time will take away the pits at your placement sites" or "we have some things here in the office we can use to help with the healing process" and the next thing you know, it's a year or two gone by. Then the doctor drops all offers of support and the patient who's been "burned" doesn't have much other than words to back up their disappointment with the doctor. I've had some transplants. 1 with Robert Bernstein was the best ever and did a lot to cover up the bad transplant I had before that. It doesn't change that the 1st transplant was terrible!!!!! Do I have photos to document my 1st transplant? No. After Bernstein, I had another with Francis Badamo. He was hired by N.H. I. (Bernstein/Rassman) and after being promised by staff that Dr. Bernstein would oversee this procedure, he wasn't there that day. Result? Badamo had some difficulty with placement direction of the hair. What was I told would help this? Start plucking. I've plucked and plucked and plucked and they continue to grow. The plucking plan was offered as they will come back thinner and thinner, then not at all. Never happened. My last transplant with Dr. Robert Haber was where I got all the pitting at the placement areas. It's next to impossible to show in photos, due to the Dr. Bernstein Transplant still holding up the "masking". Dr. Haber is the doctor who made the comments in my 1st paragraph and then after the healing/pitting never changed told me "it's caused from you getting transplanted so much" and the procedures that would remove the pitting (lasers/injections) would not work (lasers) and were only temporary (injections). It was a very different attitude than a few months earlier and a whole new agenda for the doctor. Can I prove this to this message board with photos, dates, etc.? Not most of it, but my point here is many folks who have inferior transplants are in the same boat. I forgot to add, after Dr. Bernstein left N.H.I., I decided to complain about Dr. Badamo (since fired from N.H.I. I believe) to Dr. Rassman in California as my wife & I were going to be in LA for another reason. Basically, Dr. Rassman couldn't be taken seriously and just joked & joked with me and gave my hair/scalp a view and said I had almost no miniturization. When I kept pointing him back to being serious about the hair direction, transplanted by Dr. Badamo, he agreed to give me a 10% discount on future transplants, but stressed, "if I needed one". Again, my point here is I'm not making this stuff up, but can't back it up with photos on this board. I can't say enough good things about Dr. Bernstein. Healing/direction of hair transplanted was great. My only criticism, if any, would be too conservative for me. In closing, I'll be more than happy to meet/speak to anyone considering trying the other doctors. The pitting can be seen fairly well when close up and in proper lighting. Thank you and I look forward to participating a bit more here if I can. I am considering Dr. Rahal if and when I go for the next one and trust me, I'll be doing photos and keeping much documentation this time.

As you've noticed in my profile, I indeed did have surgery with him David. I will elaborate further on my next post.

Just wanted to add this and say best of luck. "Am I right in saying the 'top' hair transplant surgeons do the whole process themselves? and not just pass it on to some assistant to do after making the graft incisions?" I am under the impression that when the doctor makes the incisions, this is what decides the direction the hair grows, not the assistants placing the grafts.

Dr. Haber? Run. He has done hairlines and left them with pitting.