Bill - Seemiller

That’s true, they both come with their own advantages and disadvantages. However, I think answer really depends on the individual and their goals. Whats everyone think?

Melvin, Thanks for posting this article. I know there’s been some debate related to whether or not coronal or sagittal incisions produce more natural looking results. I’ve personally spoken to hair transplant surgeons that use both and hav even seen a side-by-side comparison on the same scalp whereas 1/2 of the scalp was performed using the lateral foot technique and the other was performed using sagittal incisions. Frankly, I’m not so sure there is a significant difference between the two. It’s possible that the lateral slit technique which uses coronal incisions allows for slightly more dense packing when appropriate for the patient, but I haven’t seen any real significant difference related to growth when it comes to either technique. As long as the surgeon is skilled and experienced, either technique can produce outstanding results. Other thoughts? Bill

@Raker, Thanks for expressing your concern. However, Jean made a great point about many surgeons not doing temporal work or at least presenting it but you have to remember, that many patients simply don’t need it or requested. And as you can see, the clinic responded to your concern and even showed an example of some temple work in his reply. So clearly they do this kind of work when requested although they admit that it’s rare because it’s often not needed by their patients. Dr. Alcaide he may have only just started presenting examples of his work and results here on this forum. However, his work and results are well represented in other places online. Moreover, he was trained and is backed by Coalition member Dr. Bisanga who is fully confident in his work and results. Certainly that says something as well but you know us. We never approve a doctor for recommendation just on someone’s word. We need to see the work and results for ourselves. But I’d say in this case, it certainly producing top notch results. Best wishes, Bill

Dear forum members, As many of you know, we gather as much information as possible about a physician, their staff, technique and track record before they are even considered for recommendation on the Hair Transplant Network. Part of our review process involves getting input from patients and the members of this forum community. To learn more about this review process, click here. Thus, we'd like your input on the potential recommendation of Dr. Antonio Alcaide of Malaga, Spain. At this time, Dr. Alcaide is being considered for recommendation only, not the Coalition. To see our demanding standards for recommendation, click here. Dr. Antonio Alcaide has been trained by Coalition member Dr. Christian Bisanga and performs FUE (follicular unit extraction) and some FUSS (strip surgery) when appropriate as the primary part of his practice at BHR Clinic in Spain. Dr. Alcaide has over 5 years of experience and operates on only 1 patient per day. He uses all of the latest tools and techniques including microscopic dissection, the trichophytic closure, minimally invasive blades, needles as small as .8mm, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and dense packing when appropriate for the patient. He specializes in FUSS, FUE, hair transplant repair, SMP (Scalp Micropigmentation), hair replacement (hair systems) and Mesotherapy. Dr. Alcaide also offers prescriptions for Propecia and free consultations for hair transplant surgery. Dr. Antonio Alcaide has the staff and experience to perform large, densely packed sessions of ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation exceeding 3500 grafts when appropriate for the patient. Dr. Alcaide uses both a manual and motorized extraction device (depending on the patient) with punch sizes ranging from .8mm to .9mm depending on the patient and the size of the graft. He uses single haired grafts for the crucial hairline areas to mimic nature and densely packs up to 50 FU/cm2 when appropriate. Dr. Antonio Alcaide prefers manual FUE extraction because he feels it's more delicate, gentle and less traumatic for the grafts than the NeoGraft and the SAFE Scribe. Follicular unit grafts are stored in a PRP / Saline holding solution after extraction for a maximum of 2 to 3 hours to minimize dehydration while waiting to be implanted into tiny recipient incisions made by the surgeon prior to implantation. Grafts are then inserted carefully using Ellis forceps by experienced technicians. Dr. Alcaide has a background in dermatology and trichology and is a member of the ISHRS, FUE Europe, the Spanish Academic of Dermatology (AEDV) and the Spanish Society of Trichology. Given Dr. Alcaide's training and experience in performing both state of the art FUT and FUE and providing only the best results, in my opinion, he should be considered for recommendation. In recent weeks, Dr. Alcaide has presented several examples of his procedure and recent results on this forum. Dr. Alcaide's Recent Patient and Surgical photos can be found below: Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2583 FUE - Crown restoration Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 1817 FUE Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2583 FUE - Crown restoration Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2756 FUE - Hair line and crown Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 1393 FUE - Crown restoration Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2292 FUE Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2505 FUE - Crown case Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 1981 FUE Dr. ALCAIDE - BHR Clinic / 2214 FUE You can find additional examples of his work by visiting the “Results Posted by Leading Hair Transplant Clinics” forum and by using the “search” feature. I welcome input and comments from forum members regarding his potential recommendation. To view our standards for recommendation, click here.

Confident Hair, You should know that promoting your website or peddling your product on this forum is for bidden and against our policy is. Therefore, you have been flagged as a spammer and banned. All your posts will be removed. Bill

Melvin and all, Selecting a quality hair surgeon is the most crucial part of hair transplant surgery and ensuring you get the best results. The article does a pretty good job going over various things to consider when researching and deciding on a Hair restoration physician. What does everyone else think? What makes for a top hair transplant surgeon? Best wishes, Bill

Daniel, Thanks for posting another impressive result. The front went from completely bald to what appears like true density. What is the actual density of the transplanted area? i look forward to seeing more best wishes, Bill

Good article Melvin. I agree that it’s important to stabilize your hair loss prior to undergoing address surgery. Otherwise, you’ll be chasing after me and frankly, never be satisfied. Any other thoughts? Bill

Daniel, Thanks for taking the time to introduce Dr. Alcaide to the community and present your first example of his results. This patient result is clearly top notch. I really like both the thickness and the naturalness of his hairline in particular. I look forward to seeing more examples of his work and results in the coming days and weeks. Best wishes, Bill

Selecting a hair transplant surgeon or clinic based on cost is not a good idea but it doesn’t mean that low cost clinics are necessarily bad. But, in my opinion, to ensure you Greg the best results, you should select s surgeon based on a proven ability to produce outstanding results rather than cost or location. Great article. What does everyone else think? Bill

Melvin and all, Even today, too many prospective hair transplant patients think that FUE is a scarless procedure. Now, it clearly lacks the linear scar associated with strip surgery however, shaving their head completely will likely reveal thousands of tiny round dots all over the sides and back of the scalp. These will be more or less visible depending on the patient’s physiology and wound healing properties however, still, many prefer it over the linear star because patients can typically wear their hair cropped just a bit shorter with FUE then they can with FUSS. Personally, I was never overly concerned about scarring. I was just so happy to be able to restore so much hair on top of my head that the thought of a pencil thin linear scar was far from troublesome to me. Today however, a lot more people seem concerned about this which is why they choose FUE in the first place. Thankfully, the procedure has advanced substantially and many world renowned hair restoration surgeons are performing FUE hair transplant surgery with outstanding results. Best eishes, Bill

Melvin, what a phenomenal video and even more outstanding transformation. I guess I didn’t realize that you had that much hair restored given how thick your hair is today. I look forward to seeing some of your next videos since I know you’ll be doing many including answering several hot topic hair loss questions. We are all looking forward to it 🙂 Bill

@Phil36fromaus I’m sorry, I meant to address @LaserCap Yes, you are right, that’s what SMP is. But this topic is about micro needling so I’m not sure what @LaserCap was talking about. That’s what is confusing us @LaserCap Click on the link at the top of this topic and it will explain what microneedling is. Best, Bill

@LaserCap it sounds like you are talking about scalp micropigmentation rather than microneedling. Bill

Personally, I couldn’t imagine wounding my scalp over and over again with a dermaroller. But the theory sounds interesting and I would love to hear from people who actually had this done. Have any members or guests reading this post tried microneedling? If so, how do you feel about the results? And how many times have you had the procedure done? I am certain a one time procedure would do nothing but wound the scalp. But potentially after some time, maybe there was an affect? I look forward to hearing from people on this. Best wishes, Bill

Melvin, great topic. The answer to this question definitely does Barry so I appreciate you sharing this. For me, it took 9600 grafts to restore my hair too what it is now. Of course, I was a full-fledged Norwood 5K, borderline Norwood 6. Considering it takes about 25,000 follicular units to restore truth density on a scalp as bold as mine, I have pretty damn good results. For an adequate illusion of density should be consistent all over the top of the scalp, I would need about 12,500 grafts. That’s why my crown is still relatively thin although I know longer have a bald spot that’s for sure. But if I put another 3000 grafts and the crown, it would be pretty thick looking. Sometimes I think about going for it 🙂 Bill

Thanks to everyone who provided their input on this important topic. Frankly, given the overwhelmingly positive feedback that we've received from several of his patients, forum members and other highly respected physicians recommended by our community, approving both Dr. Sethi and Dr. Bansal for recommendation is a no brainer. Thus, let's congratulate both Dr. Pradeep Sethi and Dr. Arika Bansal for being approved for recommendation. You can view their profiles below. Dr. Arika Bansal is recommended on the Hair Transplant Network Dr. Pradeep Sethi is reommended on the Hair Transplant Network Let's congratulate and give a warm welcome to both physicians. We look forward to seeing more outstanding results coming from both doctors for years to come. Best wishes, Bill

Members and guests, There are certainly times that a topic has to be locked but we have never locked a topic just because someone had shared an experience that was less than optimal. For example, look at this thread. Not only is the op not happy but we’ve allowed some posters to criticize us openly while we try to explain our reasons for our actions on s transparent environment. Ironically, very few topics have been locked and only when a poster becomes so obsessed about their own bad results that they begin condemning their doctor in every topic, even on another patient’s topic where they’ve shared positive results have we stopped a poster from ongoing posts. We are very fair and allow all members to share their genuine experiences and opinions on this forum. But derailing a topic like this by making false claims of censorship (especially given that we clearly are allowing this topic to continue) is not appropriate. If a member has a problem with the way something is being handled, I encourage you to contact me privately. But please keep this topic preserved in talking about the op’s results. Thanks, Bill

Right on @Niko1, I look forward to Reading all about your experience in viewing your photos.

@Mathe, Is there something I can help with? If you lost access to an account, I can help you get back into it. Did you try using the “forgot password“ option? Or has your email address changed? Send me an email at help@hairtransplantnetwork.com with your user name and email address you registered with, let me know what the problem is and I can help you. best wishes, Bill

Payam, I request that you contact me privately and send me the URLs to each result you feel is considered poor and I will look at each one and evaluate them. Again, I don’t want to turn this particular topic into this discussion so please send me a private message as I requested. Thanks, Bill

@harin and @BlackPanther, I see that both of you have also shared your experience and results from these surgeons on our forum and both of you are impressed and happy as well. That’s very encouraging. So in addition to the highly impressive examples we’ve seen from the clinic themselves, that’s 4 patient members who have shared their experience in photos on this forum long before we’ve even present of them for potential recommendation. I think this must be some kind of record 🙂 It’s almost all necessary to continue asking for feedback at this point however, since we did just send the newsletter asking for input, we will wait a couple more days for additional input. We do want to be thorough in our evaluations also, given the accolades for these doctors, it hardly seems necessary. But, our community is the only one that is very thorough in the way we prescreens surgeons which is why our recommendations at merit. We leave no stone unturned - which frankly, is another reason why we haven’t presented any doctors for awhile. Many hair transplant surgeons want in and to be recommended hear but not many want to take the time to go through the process because they just want to pay a fee for advertising. But that’s not how our community works. There are tons of other websites that will just take their money and list them, but we prefer to be thorough and make sure our recommendations are of surgeons who have a proven track record of producing outstanding results. Best wishes, Bill

@Ashishmehta, Thank you for chiming in as well. As I said above, as one of their patience, your input is one of the most highly value. While all member input is appreciated and considered, Direct patient input, especially those we’ve verified are patients and who has posted there procedure, experience and results to date on this forum his most valuable because you have direct experience with the clinic and both doctors. Personally, I’ve been very impressed by both physicians and all the feedback I’ve gotten so far has been highly positive, including private input I received from other members and recommended surgeons. We will wait for a little more import over the next couple days before making a final decision ( especially because we just send out a newsletter to garner more imput) but everything looks great so far. Best wishes, Bill

@budhair, That is extremely encouraging, thank you so much for sharing your experience… As a patient of theirs, your input is of most value since you have direct experience. While all member input is highly valued, clearly a direct patient will have the most experience. I’m also very impressed to hear that most surgeons thought that you weren’t a candidate but yet they felt you were and you are satisfied with your results and are likely going back for a second procedure to get more. Of course, this doesn’t dismiss any other surgeon this recommendation however, it speaks volumes of their impressive work. Best wishes, Bill

Mick, sonce they operate out of Mumbai, most of their patients are Indian and many of them have thicker hair. However, there are a few cases presented where the patient their hair is not as thick. That said, what is your opinion based on the actual results? Personally I’m very impressed. Also, two of his patients @harin and @Ashishmehta have shared their experience and photos on this forum I know harin is very happy. Ashish is very happy so far although his results haven’t fully grown in yet. I believe he is only at three months but somehow he still has experienced a good amount of growth already. He has a lot more to go though. Best wishes, Bill