Repairguy

I agree with you Behappy. The hair at the very front is my own existing hair, not transplants. The redness is from the system which i had only worn since April 06. I am sorry to have come across aggressive but i was made very angry as i was being made out to be a liar and having words put in my mouth like "BUTCHER". Which i never said. I have some some further questions: Why isn't Farjo participating? Surely he has something to say? Why doesn't Farjo himself post pre op and mid op photos and immediate post pictures to show everyone where the grafts were placed?. After all, all top clinics proudly take such photos as a matter of course don't they.Can we see ANY mid op/immediate post op photos from the farjo clinic of ANY patient 3 years ago?

This is directly for Bill. My expectations were NEVER TOO HIGH so please stop trying to cloud the facts with YOUR opinion. As stated before i had VERY REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS. How YOU can presume to know MY expectations is remarkable !!! I am VERY disappointed my thread was locked as all i am trying to do is show you the result of my Farjo transplant which i am genuinely disappointed with and have very good reason. I feel i have clearly shown you the result of their work on me here. This statement of YOURS concerns me about you though. ""But the fact that you are making statements that you were "butchered" by the Farjo clinic "" PLEASE SHOW ME AGAIN WHERE I SAID I WAS "BUTCHERED" - you didn't answer me the first time in the post you locked, did you avoid it. You clearly want to put words in my mouth for some reason, why?. I said i was disappointed and the work in my opinion and confirmed was POOR and UNSATISFACTORY. Again this is IMPORTANT. Please show me where i said i was BUTCHERED by Farjo! When you can't direct me to it i expect an apology please for trying to manipulate what i ACTUALLY said. Surely this is wrong, and you are a moderator! Also...... ""Though I can sympathize for you that you feel that you've had a negative hair transplant experience, in my opinion, you have not shown sufficient evidence that Dr. Farjo gave you an sub-par hair transplant."" Is NO growth as clearly shown and this scar picture which is 1 inch approximately from my ear , not enough sufficient evidence or were my "expectation" still TOO high??. This picture with the staples doesn't show all the Farjo scar, the scar continues into the area highlighted by red as you can see below. See the blue lines in this picture below to correspond the position, see how the Farjo scar continues and gets longer and larger. See how close to my ear it ends! Is this "too high expectations" Bill? Well it is clear to me even if i shown you 1000 pictures documenting every step of Farjo transplant you would have another handful of excuses for them. Ask them to provide before and immediate post op pictures. Until they do you surely can not lock this topic as they are responsible as much as i am to provide them. If they do not have them either then surely these results here speak volumes enough. Where are the 1500 grafts growing?? Is the scar satisfactory?? Is the position that of a world class transplant clinic?? You seem to be very slippy in my opinion and trying to protect Farjo along with Balody who for the record never answered my direct questions to him either....interesting. The results of the Farjo work on me are clear to see (nothing). Nothing other than a few grafts and a scar which is in the wrong position for 1500 grafts, FACT. If you are still not prepared to at least entertain myopinion then i presume you haven't taken a minute to ask Feller his opinion yet on the standard of work.... that would be TOO easy i suppose! The best thing as i suggested previously to help YOU get a better understanding is to clarify all this simply with Dr Feller and simply ask him his opinion. If his opinion is not 100% the same as mine here with regard to the standard of work received and the position of the scar being inappropriate (especially for only 1500 grafts ) then i will retract all my posts and pictures where ever requested and make a formal apology here publicly to Farjo and actually thank them for the work they performed on me. If Feller feels like you that this is satisfactory and that i am in some way deluded then feel free also to remove this account of mine and post what ever you like in order to confirm that i am just a patient that has no right to be unsatisfied and that i in no uncertain terms just had very unrealistic expectations. Is this a completely outrageous request under the circumstances????? Lock away Bill if it helps protect you and the clinic you recommend. The proof is here and when i get further pictures from Dr Feller and you have spoken to him you can maybe confirm everything here for me. I do not have the pictures you requested only the results of the Farjo transplant as shown here. The picture one poster thought was a pre op picture!! I look forward to your response and especially clarification on where i said i was "BUTCHERED" Repairguy

This is directly for Bill. My expectations were NEVER TOO HIGH so please stop trying to cloud the facts with YOUR opinion. As stated before i had VERY REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS. How YOU can presume to know MY expectations is remarkable !!! I am VERY disappointed my thread was locked as all i am trying to do is show you the result of my Farjo transplant which i am genuinely disappointed with and have very good reason. I feel i have clearly shown you the result of their work on me here. This statement of YOURS concerns me about you though. ""But the fact that you are making statements that you were "butchered" by the Farjo clinic "" PLEASE SHOW ME AGAIN WHERE I SAID I WAS "BUTCHERED" - you didn't answer me the first time in the post you locked, did you avoid it. You clearly want to put words in my mouth for some reason, why?. I said i was disappointed and the work in my opinion and confirmed was POOR and UNSATISFACTORY. Again this is IMPORTANT. Please show me where i said i was BUTCHERED by Farjo! When you can't direct me to it i expect an apology please for trying to manipulate what i ACTUALLY said. Surely this is wrong, and you are a moderator! Also...... ""Though I can sympathize for you that you feel that you've had a negative hair transplant experience, in my opinion, you have not shown sufficient evidence that Dr. Farjo gave you an sub-par hair transplant."" Is NO growth as clearly shown and this scar picture which is 1 inch approximately from my ear , not enough sufficient evidence or were my "expectation" still TOO high??. This picture with the staples doesn't show all the Farjo scar, the scar continues into the area highlighted by red as you can see below. See the blue lines in this picture below to correspond the position, see how the Farjo scar continues and gets longer and larger. See how close to my ear it ends! Is this "too high expectations" Bill? Well it is clear to me even if i shown you 1000 pictures documenting every step of Farjo transplant you would have another handful of excuses for them. Ask them to provide before and immediate post op pictures. Until they do you surely can not lock this topic as they are responsible as much as i am to provide them. If they do not have them either then surely these results here speak volumes enough. Where are the 1500 grafts growing?? Is the scar satisfactory?? Is the position that of a world class transplant clinic?? You seem to be very slippy in my opinion and trying to protect Farjo along with Balody who for the record never answered my direct questions to him either....interesting. The results of the Farjo work on me are clear to see (nothing). Nothing other than a few grafts and a scar which is in the wrong position for 1500 grafts, FACT. If you are still not prepared to at least entertain myopinion then i presume you haven't taken a minute to ask Feller his opinion yet on the standard of work.... that would be TOO easy i suppose! The best thing as i suggested previously to help YOU get a better understanding is to clarify all this simply with Dr Feller and simply ask him his opinion. If his opinion is not 100% the same as mine here with regard to the standard of work received and the position of the scar being inappropriate (especially for only 1500 grafts ) then i will retract all my posts and pictures where ever requested and make a formal apology here publicly to Farjo and actually thank them for the work they performed on me. If Feller feels like you that this is satisfactory and that i am in some way deluded then feel free also to remove this account of mine and post what ever you like in order to confirm that i am just a patient that has no right to be unsatisfied and that i in no uncertain terms just had very unrealistic expectations. Is this a completely outrageous request under the circumstances????? Lock away Bill if it helps protect you and the clinic you recommend. The proof is here and when i get further pictures from Dr Feller and you have spoken to him you can maybe confirm everything here for me. I do not have the pictures you requested only the results of the Farjo transplant as shown here. The picture one poster thought was a pre op picture!! I look forward to your response and especially clarification on where i said i was "BUTCHERED" Repairguy

Bill, please show me where i said i was butchered??? Baldoy, Try reading my posts. For the third and final time as you seem to be having a problem reading and you are persistent in trying to sleazily make me out to have an ulterior motive, i will spell it out AGAIN. As mentioned twice previously: 1st time: It is no coincidence that i make this post now as i am a very busy guy and wanted to wait it out until i saw results from my last surgery with Dr Feller to compare. Well now i can compare easily! This is the reason for my posting here now. I don't see anything funny about this post at all. I am a legitimate unsatisfied patient who came to you for a transplant. I knew nothing of transplants when i had a procedure with you. Now i am much more aware and realise how poor the work performed by Farjo was in my opinion. You called me remember Mick chasing me up so its not the first time at all you have heard of me. Your first lie right there.......! I told you what I thought back then of the work and my intension to get repaired. Only now can i comment on the night and day difference in transplant experiences pubically here. 2nd Time: As stated before i was always waiting it out to see the results from my recent surgery in order to determine the benefits from it before i posted my account. If the results had been as poor as the first time round i too would have posted the information openly also. These recent results have allowed me to compare the 2 well and enabled me to gain a much better understanding of the results i previously received which i now know were poor. This was 3 yrs ago and maybe Farjo has improved his work, i hope he has!...i don't know but i for one an existing patient of his would not risk having another procedure especially after the results i received from the last one. Although i will elaborate further just for you as you just don't quite seem to get it or want to get it. My surgery with Farjo was 3 years ago but i only found the forums about 18 months ago. At this point i had nothing to compare my surgery to and thought that was transplant surgery. Only when i researched further did i start to realise that the work i had previously had was potentially unsatisfactory and that it should/could have been much better. This was then only confirmed when i took the leap of faith to have a second session to make my previous situation better. I didn't want to make judgment though on my result like many do immediately post op due to already being bitten before and wanted to see the results before i made any comment about my experience. Does that spell it out enough for you or would you like a drawing? You mention you don't know what you are supposed to be looking at, well as i am sure you know pictures do not always paint an accurate picture. My shown here clearly highlight the Farjo scar postion, just not all the scar as hair is covering it. The pictures also show nothing on top as the hair right at the front is my original hair. So from the picture you can see nothing as there is nothing to show you hardly, where are the 1500 grafts that i paid nearly ??4000 for. Based off your picture here it looks quite unnatuarl to be honest and nowhere near world class BUT you claim it is. Anyone here see your result in person or are we just taking your word for it? I am sure many will agree it is not world class, but you say it is. The picture is not highlighting your hair at its best is it? ...or is it? As you personally are so determined to prove me and everyone else wrong, please can you direct me to all the UK happy satisfied patients from Farjo patients that are more than 12 months post op who feel their results are world class? You appear to be the only one...why is that??? There are more satisfied UK patients who travelled to the US on this one topic alone than the Farjo clinic has on any /all forums combined, can you explain why that is? Can you find me just 5 satisfied 12 month post op posters with world class results from Farjo who actually post and have documented their procedures from start to finish on all the numerous forums combined? Why do not more patients post? Maybe that helps you understand why i didn't chose to post previously also... For all your information i have requested further pictures from Dr Fellers office but have yet to received them. Half of me thinks he is keeping them from me to be honest as he doesn't want to be associated with this at all which i don't blame him as it puts him in an awkward position and i am sorry to land him in it. But when people call me a lair it kind of fuels my fire so i will try to highlight even further to show you the poor growth and scar thanks to my Farjo surgery. Unfortunately only Feller possess these pictures although i have a few others which i will try to add that i have added information to.

I only just joined the stophairlossnow forum yesterday and haven't even had chance to post on there yet so please do not presume to know me or my research. Your accusations are quite something to be honest. How can you make such a presumption. I have never posted on there so please tell me how i "come from there". Trying to detract away from the issue here is not what is needed. From what I read of your post on there just, it seems that you got into a fight with another forum owner hence why the topic was locked. I have no affiliation with that forum or any forum for that matter. Does this stophairlossnow forum prevent ALL the satisfied UK patients from posting on ANY forums?? From my research i found numerous unsatisfied UK patients on all the forums and hardly ANY satisfied ones for your information,hence why i travelled. "Repair" surgery for me is having to live with a scar that is sloppy and hardly any growth to show for it and wanting it sorted out once and for all. 1500 grafts where are they?? How much donor hair was wasted?? It is clear from the pictures provided the poor growth and a poor scar position were as a result of my first surgery. Anyone can clearly see this as many have already. I don't appreciate being call a lair which is being made out here. Who would be satisfied with this transplant?? I do not have before pictures or immediately after surgery pictures of Farjo work, indeed they would only help my case here and amplify my opinion and allow you all more clarity. Ask Farjo to provide them to you. You can clearly see from the Dr Feller pre surgery pictures though the result of my 1500 grafts procedure with them... not a great deal quite obviously. All i really had to show for their attempt is a few grafts and a scar that is clearly in an inappropriate place never mind for only 1500 grafts. Heckle me all you want and try to discredit me if you wish if it makes my honest posting sit easier for you. I am quite disappointed myself at the lack of humanity shown here to be quite honest and thought more of this forum. I had a poor surgery, these are the facts. If i had even been slightly satisfied would i not have returned to Farjo clinic to continue further surgery... instead i was confined to a hair system and then opted to travel across the Atlantic to have another session 3 yrs on after finding a way it could finally be fixed. Does that sound like someone that just needed a touch up or someone that is genuinely unhappy with the previous work? Why did i not return to Farjo must be questioned, no?? Why are there not many more satisfied Farjo patients posting here AND on all the other forums also? I have only ever seen 1 poster who is here on this topic actually ...also trying to discredit me. Only 1 patient with 12 months growth or more from Farjo on all the forums...no one ever questioned that? The poster has a clear agenda also in my opinion. Maybe he is put up to posting as you imply i have been <.< Repair/fixing is in my opinion what i required as i had little growth and a sloppy scar which actually still could not be removed, as seen. I also wish to say that you can try pin on me that i had "unrealistic expectations" but my expectations were always grounded. I just never expected to spend ??4000 for hardly any growth and a scar that couldn't be removed with further surgery. Is that an unrealistic expectation or just an unfortunate situation? Maybe that's just me being unrealistic..... Thanks for clarifyng what my expectations should have been. If i had known to expect that result i would have most certainly decided against surgery with them. I have not been received well and questioned heavily which i find wrong. I am the patient that has to live with my "unrealistic expectation " and have shared my experience which is 100% true. Just pick up the phone to Dr Feller. It might not be the most serve repair case ever seen but it is a repair case to me as i was the one who has lived with the disappointment of the previous surgery and the one who had to pay another ??4000 and travel to the US for further surgery. I am entitled to my opinion on my own experience am i a not? As stated before i was always waiting it out to see the results from my recent surgery in order to determine the benefits from it before i posted my account. If the results had been as poor as the first time round i too would have posted the information openly also. These recent results have allowed me to compare the 2 well and enabled me to gain a much better understanding of the results i previously received which i now know were poor. This was 3 yrs ago and maybe Farjo has improved his work, i hope he has!...i don't know but i for one an existing patient of his would not risk having another procedure especially after the results i received from the last one. You put up all these links like its suppose to mean something and take the pain away and make it all better. Well let me make this simple. If you had received the result i had received you too would have been very disappointed. That's the bottom line. You can try tip toe round it and link me to information about your opinion but at the end of the day the surgery that was performed on me was below satisfactory. I do not appreciate either people informing me that Dr Feller shouldn't be used as a shield - What are all your fancy links if not shields. At least my defence is real and has the facts. I recommend you call Dr Feller and just get his opinion. At least then you know where i am coming from a little more and then imagine being in my shoes for a minute rather than telling me that "my expectations were high". If you received my surgery your self esteem would be very low trust me and your expectations would have been shattered also. The best thing is i think to clarify all this simply is for one of the owners here to make a quick call, email, pm to Dr Feller and simply ask him his opinion. If his opinion is not 100% the same as mine here with regard to the standard of work received and the position of the scar being inappropriate (especially for only 1500 grafts ) then i will retract all my posts and pictures where ever requested and make a formal apology here publicly to Farjo and actually thank them for the work they performed on me. If Feller feels like you that this is satisfactory and that i am in some way deluded then feel free also to remove this account of mine and post what ever you like in order to confirm that i am just a patient that has no right to be unsatisfied and that i in no uncertain terms just had very unrealistic expectations. I think due to the fact i am being made out to be unreasonable that you contact Feller and ask him directly to get the facts: Was the scar portioned correctly? Was there 1500 grafts(that i paid ??3700) growing in the recipient area? Was the growth in the recipient area completely natural looking? 3 simple questions that should only take a couple of minute to obtain the answers which will sort this all out and prove to everyone questioning me that i am not being unreasonable at all. I hope you find the time to speak to Dr Feller to get clarification on this matter as it will enable you a much clearer understanding. I am no longer going to post here as i do not deserve to put up with people telling me what they think they know. They didn't have the surgery i had. They didn't have the poor growth i had and they didn't have the scar i had from the surgery. End of.

The section of scar shown is the best part (thinnest) of the Farjo scar although it DEFINATELY DOES run out the safe zone as confirmed by Dr Feller, hence why he couldn't get to it and remove it which is what i wanted. I remember him commenting at the time that it was V shaped and not good at all. These pictures do not clearly show the scar unfortunately, they are the only ones i have got. I am not wrong in my assessment of the work performed by Farjo. Feel free to contact Dr Feller directly for him to give his opinion on the standard of the work performed. I give him full permission to talk about my case here or privately. He might not be able to publicly say but I am sure if needed he will tell you privately. I feel he has great experience and credibility and will only confirm my situation if needed. I will PM you my name Bill, not a problem. Like i said previously I had a surgery with Farjo on 7/5/04 and they gave me 1500 grafts supposedly. My initials are HH. The growth was not particularly natural and not a great deal of it either. Here is a picture of the top of my head before Dr Fellers repair work. He condensed the work in the front to help. After feller Farjo are bound to come up with an excuse or try to discredit me in someway. That is the way of the world isn't it. The fact remains i had poor inappropriate surgery with them that needed repairing. The standard of the work performed on me was not good and that was confirmed. Luckily for me i am on my way to repairing it all now and I appreciate al the support. I just wish i had never gone to Farjo initially. I know they are recommended here but my experience with them was a bad one. The fact is to anyone reading this is you need to do your research and realise why so many people travel to get their transplants in the US and Canada. I know now why they do! It is no coincidence that i make this post now as i am a very busy guy and wanted to wait it out until i saw results from my last surgery with Dr Feller to compare. Well now i can compare easily! This is the reason for my posting here now. I don't see anything funny about this post at all. I am a legitimate unsatisfied patient who came to you for a transplant. I knew nothing of transplants when i had a procedure with you. Now i am much more aware and realise how poor the work performed by Farjo was in my opinion. You called me remember Mick chasing me up so its not the first time at all you have heard of me. Your first lie right there.......! I told you what I thought back then of the work and my intension to get repaired. Only now can i comment on the night and day difference in transplant experiences pubically here. You comment that the surgery was appropriate at the time but it could never of stood alone regardless of slight further loss. Also the scar which is not clearly shown here is far from just a non tricho scar, but one that is V in shape and runs out the safe zone. It runs straight across and then kinks up. Feller remarked on this to me and hopefully can comment here also if he is allowed. Try to discredit me all you like. I am in possession of the facts as it is my result and my opinion that matters surely. I have nothing to gain from posting this other than making others aware of my mistake. I do not intend to stay here and have a pissing match with you. I want to get on with my life. The one which has been on hold thanks to a mistake i made getting a below par surgery at your clinic 3 years ago. I think that very few people are prepared to stand up and get counted due to the anxiety already associated with hair loss and bad transplants. I have decided to finally stand up and voice my opinion. Kind Regards Repair guy

Forum members/readers/owners, I have been lurking here for some time and felt it important to post my experience as i have been plagued by a poor decision i made back in May 2004 by having surgery at the Farjo clinic here in the UK. I see they are recommended here but after my personal experience i find it difficult to understand why? My results were very unsatisfactory and the transplant performed by Farjo clinic left me requiring repair surgery. I was very naive and vulnerable when i decided to have a surgery with Farjo clinic and at the time i was informed i would require only a 2000 graft procedure. They seemed to know what they were on about and at the time and was lead to believe it would solve my problem. Unfortunately it only created me more problems and caused me a great deal of anxiety and further loss. I had a surgery with them 7/5/04 and they actually only gave me 1500 grafts supposedly not the 2000 initially quoted and charged me ??3700 for 1500 grafts! At the time I had nothing to compare it to so thought this was the price you must pay for a transplant. In brief the result was far from satisfactory and made no real difference at all apart from a funny v shaped scar which at its widest point is 4 mm. I just thought that this was hair transplants and thought that there was just nothing to be done other than have another surgery to add even more,even though 1500 grafts did nothing other than look unnatural amongst my thin existing hair. I needed on reflection about 3000 grafts for the goal i wanted to achieve not 1500. 1500 grafts didn't even grow as confirmed. My existing hair during the procedure wasn't even shaved down at the time of surgery unlike my recent repair session which i believe lead to shock loss also. I decided against having another surgery after this especially with Farjo again and decided to wear a system instead as it seemed like the only solution. I travelled from the North to Birmingham on a regular basis to have it adjusted, that's how desperate i was. I needed the system to cover the mistake i had made which was a few obvious transplants when i stood under any light especially as i couldn't hide it. It was far from a "stand alone transplant". I was convinced that nothing could be done until finding the forums. This gave me hope that somehow could remove the transplants and fill in the scar as at this point now all i wanted to shave my head down as the system was a pain but the scar also was a real problem being hard to cover without a lot of hair. I spent many months on the internet and finally came to understand that the UK is not the place to get a transplant whatever people try and tell you to convince you otherwise. The US and Canada continuous had rave reviews after much research and the many satisfied patients travelling over from the UK gave me hope that something could finally be done to repair my mistake as so many others were in the same boat and had been repaired. I spoke with a few people online and found guys that were in a very similar situation to me that they too were in need of repair and were researching to find a way it could be done in such a way to enable me to finally be rid of the poor transplant work. I also wanted rid of this system i had been confided to as a result of this transplant. It was a real sad case of affairs to be honest. It caused me great stress and anxiety which is in the past now but still there in my memory. The large debt is not a memory though, that sadly is a harsh reminder of the saga everyday. I was not prepared to give in though and continued researching. I saw many guys pictures and a lot were even worse than mine so hoped that something could be done as i still had a lot of donor hair available it just needed to be used well and for this i was now aware there were only 2 clinics i could trust. I looked into HW and Feller medical due to the many great reviews both clinics received form repair patients and after much deliberation opted to travel to see Dr Feller who was hopefully able to resolve this mess finally due to cheaper cost. I had a surgery with him in April 07 and now finally seeing very positive results which it such a relief after all this time of just not trusting in anything to do with transplants. I have been growing well so far and now planning my return to see Dr Feller next year to work further back into my balding crown which needs attention. He had to focus the first surgery on resolving the front with the appropriate number of grafts which totaled 2500 grafts and only cost me ??3800 a lot cheaper and much much better than previously experienced, completely different class in actual fact.. The results from this last session with Feller have been very good so far as i mentioned but hopefully still more to come through from it that's why i am waiting before going back again to see him. Feller left most of the original scar as it was in a funny position(out of the safety zone). He said and he needed to go for donor in the correct area and not the scar which didn't fall within the safe zone. (See pic) Blue lines show Farjo scar Post op Feller, blue lines show Farjo scar which runs out safety zone I intend to get this filled in at a later date with either grafts from next strip or FUE at a later date. Just before i was about to go to the US for my repair the consultant form Farjo, Mick rang me out of the complete blue which i found very weird and he wanted to know if i was prepared to come into the office to have some pictures taken and whether he could use them on their web site. I was very frank with him and told him in no uncertain terms that if he used my results on his web site that the Farjo clinic would not benefit in anyway and that the results were far from satisfactory. I told him how disappointed i was and also told him i had scheduled a repair session with Dr Feller.. and he just wished me well. What else could he say really.... I wasn't surprised as it must happen a great deal. He never once offered to help or have me in for an inspection though which i found quite disappointing and typical of the entire Farjo experience. I would not have returned anyway and he was more than likely aware of this by the nature of our conversation. I just wanted to share my experience with you as i know this forum is highly regarded but might not be aware of people like myself who unfortunately didn't have a satisfactory experience with the Farjo clinic that is recommend here...far from satisfactory it in actual fact! Happy to answer questions or to be contacted by owner of this forum or moderator to disclose my name, date of surgery with Farjo if need as i feel its important the truth is told. I DO NOT want to be contacted by the Farjo clinic or any rep as i have nothing to say to them other than what is posted here. Do your research. Kind Regards Repair guy

Forum members/readers/owners, I have been lurking here for some time and felt it important to post my experience as i have been plagued by a poor decision i made back in May 2004 by having surgery at the Farjo clinic here in the UK. I see they are recommended here but after my personal experience i find it difficult to understand why? My results were very unsatisfactory and the transplant performed by Farjo clinic left me requiring repair surgery. I was very naive and vulnerable when i decided to have a surgery with Farjo clinic and at the time i was informed i would require only a 2000 graft procedure. They seemed to know what they were on about and at the time and was lead to believe it would solve my problem. Unfortunately it only created me more problems and caused me a great deal of anxiety and further loss. I had a surgery with them 7/5/04 and they actually only gave me 1500 grafts supposedly not the 2000 initially quoted and charged me ??3700 for 1500 grafts! At the time I had nothing to compare it to so thought this was the price you must pay for a transplant. In brief the result was far from satisfactory and made no real difference at all apart from a funny v shaped scar which at its widest point is 4 mm. I just thought that this was hair transplants and thought that there was just nothing to be done other than have another surgery to add even more,even though 1500 grafts did nothing other than look unnatural amongst my thin existing hair. I needed on reflection about 3000 grafts for the goal i wanted to achieve not 1500. 1500 grafts didn't even grow as confirmed. My existing hair during the procedure wasn't even shaved down at the time of surgery unlike my recent repair session which i believe lead to shock loss also. I decided against having another surgery after this especially with Farjo again and decided to wear a system instead as it seemed like the only solution. I travelled from the North to Birmingham on a regular basis to have it adjusted, that's how desperate i was. I needed the system to cover the mistake i had made which was a few obvious transplants when i stood under any light especially as i couldn't hide it. It was far from a "stand alone transplant". I was convinced that nothing could be done until finding the forums. This gave me hope that somehow could remove the transplants and fill in the scar as at this point now all i wanted to shave my head down as the system was a pain but the scar also was a real problem being hard to cover without a lot of hair. I spent many months on the internet and finally came to understand that the UK is not the place to get a transplant whatever people try and tell you to convince you otherwise. The US and Canada continuous had rave reviews after much research and the many satisfied patients travelling over from the UK gave me hope that something could finally be done to repair my mistake as so many others were in the same boat and had been repaired. I spoke with a few people online and found guys that were in a very similar situation to me that they too were in need of repair and were researching to find a way it could be done in such a way to enable me to finally be rid of the poor transplant work. I also wanted rid of this system i had been confided to as a result of this transplant. It was a real sad case of affairs to be honest. It caused me great stress and anxiety which is in the past now but still there in my memory. The large debt is not a memory though, that sadly is a harsh reminder of the saga everyday. I was not prepared to give in though and continued researching. I saw many guys pictures and a lot were even worse than mine so hoped that something could be done as i still had a lot of donor hair available it just needed to be used well and for this i was now aware there were only 2 clinics i could trust. I looked into HW and Feller medical due to the many great reviews both clinics received form repair patients and after much deliberation opted to travel to see Dr Feller who was hopefully able to resolve this mess finally due to cheaper cost. I had a surgery with him in April 07 and now finally seeing very positive results which it such a relief after all this time of just not trusting in anything to do with transplants. I have been growing well so far and now planning my return to see Dr Feller next year to work further back into my balding crown which needs attention. He had to focus the first surgery on resolving the front with the appropriate number of grafts which totaled 2500 grafts and only cost me ??3800 a lot cheaper and much much better than previously experienced, completely different class in actual fact.. The results from this last session with Feller have been very good so far as i mentioned but hopefully still more to come through from it that's why i am waiting before going back again to see him. Feller left most of the original scar as it was in a funny position(out of the safety zone). He said and he needed to go for donor in the correct area and not the scar which didn't fall within the safe zone. (See pic) Blue lines show Farjo scar Post op Feller, blue lines show Farjo scar which runs out safety zone I intend to get this filled in at a later date with either grafts from next strip or FUE at a later date. Just before i was about to go to the US for my repair the consultant form Farjo, Mick rang me out of the complete blue which i found very weird and he wanted to know if i was prepared to come into the office to have some pictures taken and whether he could use them on their web site. I was very frank with him and told him in no uncertain terms that if he used my results on his web site that the Farjo clinic would not benefit in anyway and that the results were far from satisfactory. I told him how disappointed i was and also told him i had scheduled a repair session with Dr Feller.. and he just wished me well. What else could he say really.... I wasn't surprised as it must happen a great deal. He never once offered to help or have me in for an inspection though which i found quite disappointing and typical of the entire Farjo experience. I would not have returned anyway and he was more than likely aware of this by the nature of our conversation. I just wanted to share my experience with you as i know this forum is highly regarded but might not be aware of people like myself who unfortunately didn't have a satisfactory experience with the Farjo clinic that is recommend here...far from satisfactory it in actual fact! Happy to answer questions or to be contacted by owner of this forum or moderator to disclose my name, date of surgery with Farjo if need as i feel its important the truth is told. I DO NOT want to be contacted by the Farjo clinic or any rep as i have nothing to say to them other than what is posted here. Do your research. Kind Regards Repair guy