nikkop23

1. NO. 2. N/A. 3. It doesn't.

I'm impressed with Dr. Rassman's very matter-of-fact response to some of the armchair quarterbacking that inevitably goes on here. Unlike certain other doctors, I've never seen him take the bait. But anybody who thinks he's doggin H & W doesn't have very good reading comprehension. It's very clear what other clinic (or chain of clinics, now) he has in mind when he warns against sticking 3000 grafts in the first inch of the hairline entries. Cross-reference some recent baldingblog entries to that effect.

C'mon, Bill. What the point in posting this result? This better not be a prelude to another "We want to add him to the coalition docs--want do you guys think?" thread. Sorry to say so for this guy, but nm315 pretty much got it right.

lol, you frame the question and planting issue as if you already have an answer in mind, if you know what i mean. i agree w/ Dewayne about Alexander--he's explicit about his own artistic background, and he's not someone who legally changed his name to make you think he's really Italian in an attempt to ride the coattails of certain rather predictable but, alas, widely recognized Renaissance figures.

so you two just signed up unsolicited to rave about Epstein at the same time, huh? and right on the heels of the recent controversy, too. interesting.

No no no misterno. The only Shapiro you should be looking at in my opinion is the one in Minnesota. The great work of Dr. Ron Shapiro only gets done in a colder clime, not in Florida. PLEASE be certain you are not confusing your Shapiros because the consequences could be disastrous.

This is the one and only "Johnny" Diep? Who like so many other doctors rotated onto Dr. Rassman's baldingblog masthead for a few months and then vanished without a trace? I think Rassman is disingenuous when he claims his member physicians (eg, Pak) do work just as good as his own (and I'm no fan of his, aesthetically, for the most part), but perhaps if you contacted NHI they might have some photographic evidence of Diep's ability, or be able to refer you to patients treated by him. Always love that euphemism "treated"....

I'm not making assumptions, I'm simply pointing out the obvious and asking for squirrel's disclosure.

i can't believe nobody else noticed this, but secret_squirrel, is it significant that you keep repeating the word "true" over and over again in your posts? are you refusing to name your doctor but dropping not-so-subtle hints via your repetition? let me be the first to say that this wouldn't jibe with what i know about the physician in question, so i don't believe any covert signaling is going on. but we have to make sure so that nobody's reputation is being maligned here unintentionally. all the more reason to name your doctor.

sorry, but not one of those results on the web site looks satisfactory to me. that's my opinion, but there are so many superior doctors and only somebody who wasn't truly educated about hair transplantaton could express satisfaction with any of those "after" pictures.

If you're not a shill, you must not be able to spot an advertisement masquerading as journalism. Looks like this is just another product that contains minoxidil as its "active ingredient".

LOL, I have to agree w/ Bill that your statements about women doctors, surgeons, pilots, etc etc are pretty ridiculous. One has only to do a quick backsearch of your posts to realize you have some MAJOR issues with women, dude. Here's to some more hair helping you out with that....

Then please by all means tell us where your *particular* clinic is and who the *particular* doctors you work for are. And post their results. You certainly have to do a lot of qualifying and bending over backwards in order to salvage your personal integrity amidst the disastrous Bosley record. Why do you even bother unless you're some kind of paid shill/damage control consultant for Bosley yourself?

If your motive for being here is to rectify statements made to a prospective patient of yours about Bosley, I don't see how you can try to convince us that your post has nothing to do with your affiliation with Bosley and that it's all a matter of personal opinion. Your sign-off is pretty disingenuous, and you can't have it both ways. If you know of Bosley doctors outside the coalition who do good work, then, as B-Spot said, post their results so we can evaluate them. Otherwise, it's really bad form to use other people's pictures without their permission, post glamour shots of your own as some sort of provocation, and then put an "MS" behind your name as if that's any kind of credential. What does a master's degree in "the analysis of public opinion" enable you to discern that other experienced, articulate posters here can't? Nothing. And let me guess, you keep telling us you're going on vacation so we won't be surprised when you stop responding to this thread. You haven't revealed anything that anyone here doesn't already know, and your supposed concern for newbies is more like a concern for newbies still considering Bosley.

i would avoid the generics b/c you never know if you are getting the real drug, but @ BeHappy, no, Avodart is NOT Rogaine!!! Rogaine is the brand name for the generic minoxidil, and Avodart is the brand name for the generic dutasteride. People don't alternate Proscar (another brand name for 5 mg finasteride) and dutasteride. They usually take one or the other and add Rogaine as an adjunct therapy, usually applied to the crown.

Armani: "We're not doing any surgery at all...." [@2:31] So FUE is 95% artistic, 5% "medical or surgical". But wait, I thought it wasn't surgery? For the community's amusement.... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=391165491375717...&q=alvi+armani&hl=en

Armani: "We're not doing any surgery at all...." [@2:31] So FUE is 95% artistic, 5% "medical or surgical". But wait, I thought it wasn't surgery? For the community's amusement.... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=391165491375717...&q=alvi+armani&hl=en

a new low. unfortunately, his late teens/early 20s demographic doesn't seem to care about the deception. they make the no scalpel = no surgery argument for him on other forums. face lift, huh? glad this got posted over here for all to see.

The_Judge, Nice of you to sign up to shill for HTC. Since you are more than likely an employee of the clinic (or maybe even the doctor himself), could you please fully disclose your relationship to this clinic for us? Also, how can a doctor be "much too professional" to respond to patients' concerns about their procedure? If your results are really great, we'd all love to see the before and after photos. Otherwise, as a newbie, you probably don't realize yet that posts like yours do the clinic's reputation more harm than good.

I think B Spot characterizes Rahal's hairline style well. If you like the dense hairline aesthetic of an Armani, Rahal's results look comparable and he seems to achieve the illusion with far fewer grafts. His approach with patients also seems more aboveboard, and patients deal directly with him rather a front-office clown like Shane at Armani's.

Shane, is that you posting under another alias again? LOL. Like I said nycman, judging by this last response, look at the nonsense you might be getting yourself into. There are plenty of other docs who can give you what you're looking, ones who don't need stupid cheerleaders who contribute nothing substantive to this forum and who sign up here merely to heckle posters who disagree with them. Bspot, Bill, all the most prolific and knowledgeable posters here are offering you the same advice.

NYCguy, Notice the bland and general character of johnyd's endorsement above. He doesn't have any arguments and avoids all the difficult issues brought up in this thread. That is what I'm talking about when it comes to the level of discourse you can expect, and I would be cautious as a result. As for the estimate that *basic* received, it's unclear who comes up w/ those numbers and reviews each case. Sometimes people with comparable loss get widely discrepant estimates, as anyone who reads one of the other hairloss sites probably already knows.

Please don't trust the oversimplifications the Armani staff will give we about just "making it really dense up front and less dense behind." Unlike someone like jotronic at Hasson/Wong, they are not there to educate you about the subtleties of hair transplantation, and making preference the issue is itself one of their grand oversimplifications. I think they totally gloss over the problem of donor limitations and have recently been getting around this problem with ridiculously high 10-15K donor graft estimates. Of course the young patients they target don't know any better, but they claim the average patient can get the usual 7-8K via strip and FUE the rest out. They'll have no photographic examples to show you of this approach, of course, and the ones promised on other sites have never materialized. If you do your research on one of the other hair loss sites, you'll also discover how dishonest and occasionally vicious their representative there is, blaming unhappy patients' physiology for their own poor results and selectively answering only the questions that suit him. Listen to Feller and Bernstein and keep doing your research. You can still get a great hairline without wasting thousands of grafts the Armani way.

Jay, you've received some excellent advice here from other posters already so I'll just say that's it's good to see you looking ahead to the future already and planning conservatively. Too many guys your age want immediate gratification and say they'll worry about the future when it comes. But you sound like you're on the right track. I would just recommend you find some way to stay on Propecia since taking meds is going to be a necessary adjunct to any transplant you may receive.

jesus, all this pussyfooting about not being or wanting to seem negative--who cares. the fact of the matter, as B Spot pointed out, is that these clinics only get around to posting when they think they're being attacked in some way. if there's a record to set straight, let Tara set it straight with photos and evidence. but her response is a bit disingenuous since the timing of her post isn't coincidental. she only started posting when the clinic was called into question in some way.