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.