AdamAlvi

Everyone, Sorry I have not been responding. When I was first hired, I took it upon myself to start this thread without consulting my boss. Since then I have been informed that Shane is the only consultant from our clinic that is to post on the forums. That being said, this will be my last post as an employee of Dr. Armani. If anyone wants to reach me directly, I can be reached through our Beverly Hills clinic.

I start typing one more response and I have 3 new repsonses before I'm done It's 9pm here so I will get back to the other questions tomorrow.

I still have between 5000-7000 more grafts available for FUE in the future. Thats after 3000 for FUSS and 1500 for FUE. Also, I have been taking proscar and using rogaine every day of my life since I had my initial procedure. I was able tell very clearly when my head was shaved for my FUE that the meds had completely stopped my hairloss. To throw out a ballpark number, I will guess that the average patient that has never had a procedure will have somewhere between 7-10k available donor grafts to work with. Here is a picture of my donor area after the FUE. This was 7 days post surgery. No visible scarring and plenty of hair left. .... ok it says that the file is too big for this thread. It is posted on the other website that I referenced earlier.

A lot of questions, good to see the activity. For those of you that had responded to my post on the other thread, I'm sorry about not getting back to you. I thought that my post was deleted and I never checked it again until NG2BG brought it to my attention that I had "revived" it. Also, Bill had informed me that that's a no no as it can be viewed as promotional. So for the time being, I will only be monitoring this one thread. Chucky, you had asked about why Dr. Armani charges more than his other doctors. Simpy put, you are buying his time, experience and expertise. With his track record of amazing results, many clients are comfortable paying the premium he charges. I personally had my FUE done by Dr. Edwards in his Beverly Hills clinic under Dr. Armani's supervision, and I think that my results look great. NG2GB - Let me clarify my situation for you. I work from my own office in San Diego, not Beverly Hills. I am not tapped into his database from here. However, if I wanted to look at past clients pictures, they are not locked up in a steel vault. If I went to Beverly Hills, I could look them up. In order to share any of those pics on a forum, the past client has to have agreed to let us use their pictures for marketing purposes. I am a newer employee and have never asked for photos of a mega-session, but I will. The few times that I was in the clinic, there were clients doing FUE's that were a little over 3,000 in graft count so I know that can be done in a day. I will see what I can do about producing pictures. Stratman - If you didnt like what you found on youtube, then I dont know what to tell you. I think that the results look great. I was 25 when I went through the FUSS and I will be 30 in April of this year. Pushing40- Thanks for chiming in, I think the chatroom was just starting to warm up to me Some questions regarding FUE and scarring. I read the post stating that FUE causes 10 times as much scarring...? Perhaps if it isn't done correctly. I think that I have 10 times more scarring from my FUSS than my FUE. There are quite a few advantages that the FUE provides. - No strip scar. - Double or triples the amount of available donor hair. - Amazingly better recovery time, less invasive. - Doesn't take away from the lasticity of the scalp. Going through both procedures, I can say that it was a night and day difference between the two. FUE was much, much, much better across the board.

Please grow please- I will try to be a regular poster and keep my pictures updated. Keep in mind that it hasnt even been 3 weeks for me yet, so there really isnt too much to post that I havent already put on. Also, I don't work directly out of their Beverly Hills clinic, I am in San Diego so I'm not tapped into their database. I know that they are working on a new website that will launch in a few months and that will be loaded with FUE results. In the meantime check out YouTube.com and put in "alvi armani". You will be able to see some good videos of his work, and theres a 2 minute video of me as well. It was taken last year, so obviously before my FUE procedure. Bill - Thanks for the reply. I thought that I made it pretty clear that I was an employee of Dr. Armani, but just incase let me offcially say I AM A PAID CLIENT CONSULTANT WITH DR. ARMANI I think that it's kind of ridiculous to remove my personal contact information, but your site your rules. I am mainly here to share my exp and hopefully bring a positive image to the work Dr. Armani produces.

I think that Armani patients run into a lot of hostility when they post here. I know that it kept me from posting on certain sites after I had my HT done years ago. I simply didn't want to deal with all the negativity. Now that I'm almost 30 and no longer care about keeping the surgery a personal secret, I have no issues posting pics or answering questions. If you have any questions that you want to send directly to me, you can reach me at (contact information removed) - Adam

Here is another thread that I posted that details my experience a little better: http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-22385.html

ANother Pre-Op pic.

Pre-op pics 2 weeks ago for my FUE.

2-3 months after my FUSS procedure. You can see where the new hairline will be and a little bit of peach fuzz growth.

I will try to post some before and after pics. This was me back in aprox 03'

It's been a few years since I was surfing these boards as prospective Hair Transplant client. After obsessively researching for over a year, I decided to go with Dr. Armani for a FUSS procedure. Now 4 years later, I have taken a job with Dr. Armani as a part time consultant and I'm back looking into the forums again. All of the negativity disturbed me 4 years ago, and it still does today. There are a lot of people in these forums that put out strong, negative feedback regarding his clinic and it made researching Dr. Armani as a viable option more difficult than it should have been. I have heard all of the arguments about being unethical, too aggressive, taking advantage of young men's insecurities, ect. I can say first hand, as it is my job to council patients, that this is untrue. I typically spend a few hours on the phone (and in person if possible) going over everything from expectations/reality, medication, future hairloss, general HT questions, and I would like to think that all of my clients have a VERY good understanding of their reality before they book a surgery. When I was a client, I worked through Shane and it was a very informative, thorough process. I knew what to expect going in and I didnt feel like I was being preyed on by some quack plastic surgeon. The surgery changed my life for the better, and that is the primary reason that I am now working part time for his Beverly Hills clinic. I was in the Marine Corps for 6 years and I am a Pepperdine University grad. I can tell everyone that I will deal with clients honestly and ethically. Pat, I hope that we can leave this thread open for some dialogue. 3000 FUSS 04' 1500 FUE feb 08'

I love all the Armani bashing. Looks like things havent changed much from 5 years ago when I first started doing research. Take a look at this link. It's my own personal experience with Dr. Armani as a patient and as an employee. http://www.hairsite.com/hair-loss/board_entry-id-22385.html