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Getting a Hair Transplant is enough to make you pull out your remaining hair. First of all what does board certifed mean? When I look at actual medical licensees there are only a few doctors who are "Truly" Board Certifed. Boards which are reconginzed by their states. All these other boards or paid memberships mean what exactly? What does it take to be a Hair Transplant doctor, I see doctors who are Family Practice Radiologists, urologists who are now Hair Doctors. _____________________ Why is it each doc I visit says they are the top 3? Or First one to do this or that? They offer unique clousure and barely visiable scar. If I hear Back to work in two days by anyone else I am going to blow my stack. _____________________ What's with the Hard Sell? When I say I can't afford the procedure they lower the price and want me to sign on the spot. How low can they go? _______________________ Ok, enough about the B!tch Moan and Complaining. _______________________ What is really involved in a hair transplant? I have researched and I have never seen anything broken down into best practices for each step. _____________________________ Cutting the strip out. 1 Choose the proper place to harvest. 2. What is the best width (I know everyone is different) but Min Max. How Wide and How long for 2000 Grafts of a dense donner area? 3. What are the ideal materials to be used to harvest a strip with minimum transection of hair? 4. How much hair should we expect to be transected when removing the strip? _________________________________ The Girls Doing the Slicing and Dicing. 1. So my strip comes out of my head and is handing off to a bunch of girls. Then what? What is the best method for handling a strip? 2. How is the strip divided between the girls or dudes? Is a straight cut or is it zig zagged around the hair. 3. How much hair is transected during the splitting the strip between the hair techs? 4. when the girls get the strip, how long does it take to slice the grafts into the proper size? How long should it take? 5. What is the best practice for the girls to slice my strip? Is the strip on a chilled dish? Is it kept in Saline or water? Does it dry out while under the light from the microscope? Does the Room have to be a certain temp? Should there be UV lights over the strip to keep bacteria from forming? 5. What is the quality control process to make sure each of the techs are cutting the same way? 6 What is the expected transection rate for the surgery? 7 what is the ideal size of the fleshy part under the hair? 8. Once the hairs are diesected what is the best time to get them back in my head? 9. How do I verify that I get the correct number which is quoted? 10. How do I verify what my transection rate was? Is this normally reported by Hair Transplant doctors? _____________________________ Closure 1 what is the best method for Strip closure? 2 How many stitches per millimeter? 3 Are staples used? 4. Is triclouser the best? Or some other newer technique, how do doctors get trained on the newest techniques? ______________________________ Making the site holes 1. What kind of method is best for making holes? Flat Blade or Needle punch or Laser? 2. Is Tuemesence used, if so How much? 3. Any different size holes used for the front of the hair line? 4. What about making holes in between existing hair? What is the best tool for this to prevent transection of existing hairs? 5. What is the proper depth of each hole? _____________________ Graft Placement 1 If the doctor is making the sites to a certain angle? How do the techs know what angle to place, when they are placing? Arn't they trying to place as fast as they can without damage? 2. How often does the bulb or bottom part get folded in half when placed in the hole? Does it still grow? 3. How long can grafts be deprived of blood floow before they are no longer viable? 4 what is the best tool for implanting - Not just the fastest. _________________________________ After care: 1 How long should I sleep on my face? How long should I sleep in a chair? 2. Should I avoid opening my mouth, yawning or anthing which can stretch the scar causing a wider scar. 3. What about using lasers for post surgical for wound healing and blood flow? 4. What about having cold air blowing on my head? 5 What about breathing in pure oxygen from a tank for the first 48 hours? (have no idea about this stuff, but it seems blood flow and oxygen are what is needed for health growth). 6. Do hair growth drugs make new hairs grow stronger? 7. Do hair growth shampoos make new hair grow stronger? 8 What are the best steps to help limit a big scar. Topical Treatments etc? __________________________________ To me Hair Transplants should be pretty straight forward. Take from the back put in the front. There should be a format for success but I dont really see it. I know this is a lot and I am frustrated. But Hair Transplant cant be this difficult. There seems to be so much potential for variation... Picking a surgeon for Open Heart Surgery does not take this long nor is it this frustrating.