Hi everyone
I've gained a lot from this site earlier on, and not it's my time to contribute.
I've been loosing my hair since the age of 18. Went on rogaine and kept it at a minimum. But I still had a receding hair line and wished to fix it.
Last year I contacted Dr. Marwan Saifi from AM-MED in Wroclaw, Poland, and he convinced me that a FUT would be good. I did mention the concern I had with the scar, as I like my hair short on the sides and the back, but he mentioned that it should't be a problem and attached 2 pictures of really good looking scars.
First of all. Dr. Saifi personally replies to every e-mail. Everything is very professional. You get picked up personally by a driver and driven to the hotel. Really nice hotel. The day after you get to the clinic and as they only do 1 patient a day, you are really taken care of. There's nothing to say about that. Top quality.
However. 2 major points would make me not recommend this clinic.
- First of all the scar IS a big issue, when you want short hair in the back. The 2 pictures he attached perhaps reflect the 2 best outcomes, but my outcome was not that good, and now I need to have a hair cut at least 15 mm on the back to cover the scar (usually I had 6 mm).
- Second of all. He didn't ask me 1 single time what my goals were with the transplantion. He didn't drew my new hair line. Didn't ask me what concerned me. Nothing. This was my first hair transplant, so I didn't question anything. The results are now, that yes my hairline did improve slightly but I still had a pretty bad hair line.
Price: 8 zloty pr. graft therefore 12000 zloty for 1500 grafts.
Now, after a lot of research, I've decided to get my next HT - this time a FUE done by Dr. Ilkay Apaydin from Istanbul. I got it done yesterday, so results are not in yet.
2500 grafts were approximately transfered including covering the scar.
This has also been very professional from the get-go. Pick-up, hotel amazing and everything professional. Although it isn't the doctor who replies to e-mails but a girl who speaks good english.
Only bad experience so far was the communication or the lack of.
- I mentioned explicitly that I wanted the FUT scar covered along with the hair line. I got an reply that this was doable.
Then, when I met the doctor. The first he said was that we couldn't do both the FUT scar and the hairline in the same procedure. Had I known this, I wouldn't have chosen that clinic. I felt extremely bad, but luckily I insisted and agreed to the possible loosing of grafts at the FUT scar as you usually sleep on your back.
- I asked, was if I could keep my hair long on top, as I would like to hide it as much as possible. This was again, not a problem. Although when I came to the clinic, the lady who shaves almost shaved off all of my hair. Luckely I managed to stop her.
- I asked if I could get a 6 mm hair cut on the sides and back just to keep the difference in check, so I don't have a completely shaven head on the back and 2 cm of hair on the sides but rather 6 mm. I was advised against this, as they would shave it at the clinic. Guess what, they only shaved the back even though I asked for the sides as well. So now I look completely retarded.
A very good experience except that, and the results look promising. I'll update as time goes.
Price; 1850 euros everything included.
If anyone are interesting in anything about these clinic or my experience, feel free to ask.