HairyHand

Can’t recommend him highly enough. Of course, I don’t have a finished result yet, but will check back when I do.

Cooley is a machine. He was involved at all times from 7am when I showed up to the clinic to after 7pm when we finished. He pulls out the strip, stitches it up, and makes the incisions over several hours. He’s also involved in all the actual hair placements with his lead tech, and he repeatedly went over to the technicians working at the microscopes to supervise and pick out the right hairs for me. He obviously has a plan for the procedure and wants to be involved at all times to make sure it’s properly executed. Both times with Lindsey, with a similar number of grafts, we were done before noon. Lindsey pulls out the strip and makes the incisions in about an hour and then he’s not involved, other than to pop in a few times to say hello. There didn’t appear to be any plan with him. Cooley’s finished product looks dramatically different. There are low-angle singles at the hairline and temples, and as I sit here now the transplanted hairs have not shed and look like my natural hairs. You’ve seen the Lindsey threads - his look like little antennae sticking straight up out of the skin after surgery, which is how they grow when they become full length hairs too. I’m not red, other than a couple spots where electrolysis was done to remove some of the worst Lindsey hairs. With Lindsey I was red for months. As I said, truly night and day.

I would not go to Dr. Lindsey. I will post details in a separate thread, but I had two sub-par FUT procedures with him and just returned from a repair with Dr. Cooley. The difference in approach between Lindsey and Cooley is like night and day. Do not waste your time, money, or more importantly your head/hair with Lindsey. And don’t pick a clinic just because it’s close to you. You’ll need to go for a consultation (you may be able to do this remotely, but as a repair candidate I had to go in person) and then for the procedure itself, but other than that you shouldn’t need to visit for anything else. And even if you do end up going back once or twice more, you want your hair to look good, right? In my view, it is worth investing in the best doctor you can find rather than going somewhere close. This is one of the most important things you will do! Don’t make the mistake I made and go to Lindsey just because he’s convenient.

Dr. Cooley

Sure, these are the best I’ve got. You can see the angles and density are not good which leads to an undesirable see-through effect. There are even some multi-hair grafts in the front of the hairline. All frustrating because as you can see I have an absolute ton of donor hair and only needed to fill the front so supply should not have been an issue. Next procedure should be a slam dunk and I can wrap this up.

I had two transplants with him, and cannot recommend him. I’m going for a final repair with another doctor later this year. I think Lindsey is a reasonably good surgeon but has not kept up with the latest techniques. Take a look at recent threads and compare them to the elite doctors recommended on here. Lindsey’s still implanting grafts straight up and down and in straight, sparse lines, and his work simply doesn’t look “clean” relative to what elite doctors are doing. This may have been adequate 10-20 years ago but isn’t acceptable today, and his results are a lot worse. You’ll get hair, but it’ll be sparse and unnatural. He won’t do what he calls “upper sideburns” aka temples likely because this is tricky work that requires fine hairs implanted at extreme angles. He’s an FUT evangelist in spite of the general consensus that FUE is as good or better (there is of course nothing wrong with FUT, just the inflexible allegiance to it). All in all I can see why he was recommended before when techniques were not as advanced but he has not kept up. I wish I’d been more informed when I picked him the first (and second) time!