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Thanks everyone. Has any of you checked her web site to see what you think from the photos? www.californiahairsurgeon.com? she has some (12) before and after photos there which a couple have close up of the frontal hairline for which I am interested. I also met patient 6 and his hair was very good and natural but he has light and softer hair than mine. Not all those photos relate to my situation except 3 that have received a decent hairline with adequate density. I like to hear you guy's opinion about those patients after you see the before afters as that is the only thing available since she has only been independent for one year and although her office claims that they have many photos but they say they can't display or show them due to medical privacy issues unless they get signature approvals. I know you see that I like to make it easy on me and want to believe in this Dr. but also in my discussions with her she came accross very knowledgeable and claimed that she does single unit follicle transplants as well as FUE's at times. she also has dedicated her practice to nothing but HT! At Dr Rassman's office most transplants are done by other Dr's trained by Rassman but under his name. One other point is that the Forum only recommends 5 doctors in california one of which is in my region with the name of Kabaker. I have already done 4-5 sessions in the 1990's with him who was also recommended then by the plastic srgery board on HT. My only issue for not going back to him is that I am not sure whether he can give me that natural, unnoticeable hairline, cause he did not 8-9 years ago when he could have (he is a good Dr though). But he did say that Dr Wasserbauer is pretty good and has a positively interesting approach! Sorry to drag this on on everyone but like your fair input before I finalize my decision between now and the next day or two. Thanks.

I am beginning to reconsider. Does anyone know of an excellent Hair Transplant surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area? Thanks.

Thanks for your continued interest to keep me informed and educated. She is a: - Member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons (ISHRS) - Member of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgeon (ABHRS) - She Completed the ONLY Accedited Fellowship in Hair Transplantation Surgery in the United Staters, working with a National team of board certified Hair Transplant Surgeons. She employs the follicular Unit hair transplants as the most natural state of the art technique. Thanks.

Dear All, I am impressed and very thankful to the responses I received from all of you in just a matter of two hours after my first posting. Its delightful to find such a site with caring individuals. Let me say that I am typically a very cautious guy and the reason I am saying that I need to know ASAP is that I want to have the surgery between holidays so I take the recovery time outside of my extreemely busy and demanding work schedule. Now on the choice for this doctor here are the positives: 1) I saw a patient of hers and the work was unnoticeable (or very good). The only thing was that his hair quality is softer than mine and lighter in color (mine is dard brown and coarse) which are both (his) good qualities for transplantation. 2) she worked with Dr. Rassman for a few years and he (Dr Rassman) was apparently the pioneer of single follicular units and is recommeded by this forum. At NHI (belonging to Rassman) there are hundreds of before after photos that speak well for their Institute and I know that Dr Rassman does not do them all himself as it says that if surgery is requested by him, himself, his fees are $10/graft versus $6 per graft by the other physicians. Now she did work with Dr. Rassman so I am assumiong some of those photos may have been her work? 3) she is board certified and fellowship trained in Hair Transplantation, meaning that she must have done over a few hundred successful transplantations to be certified by the american board. She said that when she was with Dr Rassman, she did belong to the "hair Transplant Network" of doctors but since her departure from the group she has no longer renewed her membership. She has been on her own the last 13-14 months when she started her office in northern Cal. 4) She has about 10-12 photos on her site only claiming that she needs to get permission and is awaiting to get that from other patients to display their photos. 5) two other doctors that were recommended on this forum perform two surgeries per day but she only does one a day which conforts me that she won't Rush things. 6) and perhaps very importantly, One of the doctors (other than dr. Rassman) who was recommended by your forum and was familiar with her, gave a positive response as to her abilities and standing. Anyway, I am still interested to hear from you or anyone who may know of her work. I also have the option to go to Dr. Meshkin in So. Cal (I know he is good) as my brother is doing his surgery with him in a week. Of course that will make it more complicated for me and what I am unconfortable with is that Dr Meshkin may want to do both our surgies on the same day (and as said before, I am afraid of RUSHING the surgeries when a doctor has two on same day). I will axiously await any responses and whoever I end up going to I will make sure I come back to this site and provide my final feedback in a few months. Thanks all of you.

I have had a few transplant surgeries in the nineties using mini follicular units by a well known bay area surgeon who is one of the recommended hair transplant surgeons from Hair Transplant Network. I am happy with his general work but Not with the naturalness of the frontal hair line. My scalp is tight and I like to have this last final surgery done by one of the best to revise the hair line for a truely natural one. Dr. Wasserbauer seems to be very compassionate with good credentials. I believe she has also worked with Dr Rassman in the past. There is not much info from patients on the web or on your site about her. All I have is from her own website. Her expertise is in eyebrows and eyelashes and she is bord certified in hair transplantation. Is there Anyone out there who has had work done by her before or know of her work? I need someone who has good vision and artistry to design the hairline and deliver near perfect results. Again, during consultation she came accross as a very good and genuinely interested doctor but as important as this is to me, I like to hear from anyone with diresct past experience with her. Thanks so much and I need your response ASAP as I am doing this in a few days.

I had several sessions with Dr Kabaker in mid to late 90's. He is a good man and has much experience in plastic surgery. each timne i was under his scalpel there was another doctor there learning from him. He did a couple of scalp reductions on me too. No real complications but I was not happy with the very round hari line he gave me. He used fillicular units of mini and standards (2-5 hairs each). Now there hair lines I see in many photos are single hairs and although I mentioned to him then that this is what I want in front he did his own thing and thus it shows that I have had work done on me. his prices are relatively high. In the next several days I am going for hopefully a final frontal revision hair transplant session to make mine more natural but have chosen a different Dr. to do this. On Dr. Meshkin I have heard many good things and my brothers did one session with him and one of them in doing a second next week. His work is very very good but the density fromn his first sessions on my brother were very low although they had virgin bald heads and he could have done much much more in that session (my only critique of him). I almost went to himn too but he is in southern CA and I am in Northern Cal. One other thing is that he does two sessions/day (like Dr. kabaker) and I did not like that as he could potentially rush one work and not completely transplant all the harvested units (I sure hope this is not the case). Anyway, good luck.