First off THANK YOU to everyone on this forum and this site. So helpful and resourceful.
In addition to all of Dr. Gabel's patients who have posted here, let me specially mention both SteelBlue7 and OtherSyde. Their thorough and detailed posts really led me to seek out Dr. Gabel and I'm so happy I did.
I traveled from California and had an initial consult, and I was impressed by that enough to go ahead and book it. We discussed FUE and FUT, I chose FUT after long consideration even though his initial recommendation was for FUE, because I wasn't having a significant amount of work done 1439 grafts total, and because at the time I was hemming and hawing about the scar. But then after more consideration and seeing Dr. Gabel's closure work I decided to go with FUT and feel fine about it.
So then travelled back for the actual surgery date, just a few days ago and will basically echo everything that has been said about this fantastic surgeon, all aspects just professional. It was fun actually, weird to say to anybody not having had it done, but the experience was so fluid and smooth and here I am on day 2 post op writing this message feeling great about it.
Anybody researching surgeons, really do yourself a favor and see the other reviews and experiences posted here about Dr. Gabel and his team, SteelBlue7 and OtherSyde in particular and know that's what you can expect just professional and in capable hands and really great because Dr. Gabel is in the room placing grafts chatting and overseeing his excellent staff do their thing, you just feel really taken care of.
Major shout to the Dr. Gabel and an equal and also enthusiastic shout out to his team which during my surgery was made up of... Aileen, Karina, Amanda, Katie, Bridgett, and Jennifer.
Privacy reasons prevent me from posting pictures but the results so far are so in line with what I expected, density in frontal hairline, placement, etc... it's all great.
If there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer but again the aforementioned patients have full and detailed accounts of the process you can expect with Dr. Gabel and his awesome team.
Again thanks to this site and all the contributors, so helpful.