Neograft and Doctor Opinions

[sehrenpreis]

I am in the process of researching and deciding on the best doctor and treatment for my hair transplant. A doctor in my area (Maryland) just opened a clinic that uses Neograft for its transplants. I do not know much about the process. I, therefore, would love any opinions and information on the process.

 

The doctor is Dr. Herman J. Singh at Blush Med Institute in Bethesda, MD. He and his wife just opened their clinic in June. I was not able to find much information about them. I welcome any information or opinions on them as well.

 

I am also looking into traditional transplants and have placed a call with Dr. Vogel in Baltimore but would welcome any other suggestions.

 

Thank you for your help.

[Shampoo]

would welcome any other suggestions.

Thank you for your help.

 

 

sehrenpreis.....I would be very cautious choosing a doctor that doesn't do hair transplants full time. In fact a part-time hair transplant doctor was a "deal breaker" for me. I wanted a doctor that has done hundreds if not thousands of hair transplants. I wanted a doctor whose passion and practice is dedicated solely to hair transplants.

 

A doctor doing botox, liposuction, lips, weightloss, ect and doing hair transplants part time is generally not going to have the skill level and deep staff of highly talented hair transplant surgical technicians that are key to the success of hair transplant surgery.

 

This is something that is going to cost thousands of dollars, and you will have to live with the rest of your life....why not go to an elite doctor that is so specialized that he/she does hair transplants on a full time basis and has a rich history of years of results for you to review.

 

I suggest you watch as many of the videos in the link below to not only help you choose a doctor, but to learn more about hair transplant surgery. http://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Consult-a-Physician/physician-interviews.asp

 

Dr Lindsey is someone you may want to consider. Also don't be afraid to travel, I went to Canada all the way from Texas.

 

Good luck on your journey.

[Jotronic]

Congratulations, you found a great resource, this website, that will lead you to the right place. Neograft is the last thing you want to go through. It is in my opinion one of the great scams in hair restoration. It also represents a relatively cheap price point to enter the hair restoration field as with each graft costing in the neighborhood of ten bucks each the return on investment (ROI) is not only high but quick as well. It allows just about anyone with a clinic to jump into performing hair restoration with no team, no experience and quick profits. Run, don't walk, away from Neograft.

 

And don't even consider a clinic that just opened and that has two docs that you can't find any info on. There are big red flags with your post so I highly suggest you not do anything till you've learned more about preventing further hair loss via medication and then once you've got that part down you can start researching surgery.

Edited November 13, 2012 by Jotronic

[sehrenpreis]

Thank you for your opinions. I have been using medication to stop hair loss for over 7 years so I think I have that part down. I have also been researching transplants for roughly 4 months. So I think that I am ready to make a decision.

 

I have made appointments with two conventional transplant doctors (Drs. Vogel and Lindsey) for consultations and was really looking to see if anyone had any opinions on Neograft or the doctor that I found who does Neograft in my area.

[TommyLucchese]

You've had great advice on neograft and that doctor. I think it's really in your best interests to heed the advice given to you.

 

Dr. Lindsey posts on here a lot and is very informative. Wouldn't you rather go to a surgeon who has numerous results, a great reputation and posts his work and knowledge in this very community?

[chrisdav]

I agree with Shampoo. You want a doctor who is specialised in hair restoration, and you are in the right place to find one.

[sehrenpreis]

again, thank you for the recommendations. I, however, would like to actually see or hear some reasons why Neograft is so terrible. Simply saying it is bad does not mean that it is bad. That is why I came here and asked because I thought people on this would be more helpful then simply saying stay away.

 

As for the doctor, I agree to be wary of a doctor who is new and does other things. That is why I am here looking and asking questions and would love to find information about this doctor. It is also why I am meeting with two other well respected doctors. As everyone says, you need to check your options and see which works best for you.

 

But again thanks.

[Dr. William Lindsey]

I'll restate what I've said in 2 or 3 other posts. Wendy, my lead tech, and I went to a seminar a few years ago, run by a facial plastic surgeon that I know in our area. He is a great guy, has a much better demeanor than me and is a nice family man.

 

When we got to the office, immediately I was trying to calculate how I could replace all of my human resource problems and expenses with this machine. It looked fantastic and all of the guys who don't do much hair were even more excited than I was.

 

But at least the grafts that I was able to see and handle, with my magnifying loupes on, were not of high enough quality in my opinion. It could be that I saw only a few poor grafts, but my interest plummeted and we left the seminar.

 

FUE is hard. And at present, I think that machines have not replaced the doctor. I think I'm pretty good at FUE and still we have patients who just don't get the results they, or I, want with FUE. I tell every FUE patient, "with a strip, done at a reputable office, most people are going to get a triple or home run, most of the time. With FUE, you might get a home run, more likely are going to get a double or triple, and you might foul out." Strip is not a sure thing, but its certainly more sure than FUE at providing consistent results.

 

I could be completely off base from that initial assessment and I'd welcome some contraption that makes FUE easy, safe, and reliable! But to date, nobody, patient or salesman, has come in my door to show me a series of grown out excellent results. Or even one grown out result for that matter.

 

I'm waiting.

 

Proceed after doing your own diligent research.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

[Jotronic]

Here is my opinion on why Neograft is bad. From a mechanical standpoint your grafts are scored with the punch then ripped out of the incision by a powerful vacuum. The graft is sucked through a tube into a reservoir where they sit until they are needed for reinsertion. This vacuum action introduces the element of desiccation. This means that most or all of the moisture in the graft is removed thereby drying the graft out. This is one of the big sins in hair restoration; allowing your grafts to dry out for even a second because once they are dried out, no matter how short this time is, they have a much smaller chance of growing to their potential.

[sehrenpreis]

Thank you Dr. Lindsey and Jotronic. That is very helpful.

[gobble]

Dr. Lindsey, what makes FUE hard? I had some done and the doctor would just poke my head with a drill type tool and an assistant would take the grafts. I trust what you're saying, just curious what makes it harder. To someone not knowledgable it seems easier than cutting a large strip of skin out of someone's head then sewing it back together.

[SamBradford]

Jotronic,

Everything you say about the Neograft system is wrong. The words you use show your ignorance and prejudice - "ripped out" of the incision by a "powerful vacuum". What nonsense! I've seen dozens of Neograft procedures. The follicles are one by one isolated and gently sucked out by the Neograft machine where they sit briefly in a reservoir, bathed in saline, where they do no such thing as get dried out. Why not say that in the strip method, the doctor hacks out a large portion of your scalp before slapping it on a table where it is chopped up like a piece of meat at Benihana! Actually, it is the strip method that is now considered barbaric and passe. Why live with a linear scar from ear to ear for the rest of your life when there is a new technique that eliminates any such disfiguring mark? And you are totally wrong in this respect as well - it is the Neograft procedure that produces a higher yield of viable follicular grafts, because during the Benihana part of the strip procedure, many of the grafts are transected and rendered useless. In Bethesda, there are 2 physicians who do Neograft - Dr. Singh at Blush Medical, which is a Medical Spa, and Dr. Parker at Parker Medical Group, which only does hair restoration. Jotronic - it's time for you to enter the 21st Century!

[chrisdav]

SamBradford,

 

Having looked at the whole website of the clinic you are referring to, their sole selling point is to aggressively downgrade strip and highly advocate Neograft by using unethical marketing tactics.

 

Every single before and after picture that is posted is not only average work, but has had the lighting manipulated to aid the results, and again misleading potential patients.

 

I don't need to look at it much further to realise what type of clinic it is.

 

Whether you represent the clinic or not, it is not in the same league as a clinic of the stature of Hasson&Wong.

[TommyLucchese]

Jotronic,

Everything you say about the Neograft system is wrong. The words you use show your ignorance and prejudice - "ripped out" of the incision by a "powerful vacuum". What nonsense! I've seen dozens of Neograft procedures. The follicles are one by one isolated and gently sucked out by the Neograft machine where they sit briefly in a reservoir, bathed in saline, where they do no such thing as get dried out. Why not say that in the strip method, the doctor hacks out a large portion of your scalp before slapping it on a table where it is chopped up like a piece of meat at Benihana! Actually, it is the strip method that is now considered barbaric and passe. Why live with a linear scar from ear to ear for the rest of your life when there is a new technique that eliminates any such disfiguring mark? And you are totally wrong in this respect as well - it is the Neograft procedure that produces a higher yield of viable follicular grafts, because during the Benihana part of the strip procedure, many of the grafts are transected and rendered useless. In Bethesda, there are 2 physicians who do Neograft - Dr. Singh at Blush Medical, which is a Medical Spa, and Dr. Parker at Parker Medical Group, which only does hair restoration. Jotronic - it's time for you to enter the 21st Century!

 

Quite the first post.

[lorenzo]

I base my decision on NEOGRAFT and what I have SEEN and what top doctor are saying. So far in a few years I have heard about NEOGRAFT I have not seen any great results nor have I seen any top doctor that are using it. Whenever I see a new poster defending a doctor or a machinery so aggressively I dont take much merit in it. Sam not only are you questioning Jotronic, you are saying that doctor like Dr. Feller, Dr. Rahal, Dr. Hasson, Dr. Wong, Dr. Shapiro, amongst other top doctors are stupid because they dont use the NEOGRAFT machine. When the world elite doctors say no to the machine I take that very seriously so should any poster that is considering using it. The world elite doctors in hair transplantion say NO to NEOGRAFT because they dont believe in the benifits of it.

If anyone is ignorant or prejudice its you . Not only you probaly have a financial benifit from NEOGRAFT but you as a one time poster question Jotronic intregity? You are better off postering on websites that posters are not educationed or knowledgable because posters on this website are very smart and dont buy it. I wouldnt do NEOGRAFT if not only it was offered for free but if they paid me to do it.

 

Having looked at the whole website of the clinic you are referring to, their sole selling point is to aggressively downgrade strip and highly advocate Neograft by using unethical marketing tactics.

 

Every single before and after picture that is posted is not only average work, but has had the lighting manipulated to aid the results, and again misleading potential patients.

 

I don't need to look at it much further to realise what type of clinic it is.

 

Whether you represent the clinic or not, it is not in the same league as a clinic of the stature of Hasson&Wong

 

Fully agree. When I looked into the doctors he mentioned he not only reaffirmed my opinion but made himself look uneducated and unknowledgable.

[Jotronic]

Hi Sam,

 

Welcome to the forum. Is it safe to assume you work for one of the two clinics or that you represent Neograft in some way? You said you've seen "dozens" of cases so that would be a logical explanation.

 

Instead of discussing how the grafts " are bathed" or how they are "gently" sucked out lets discuss the legitimacy of anything that you say.

 

Exhibit A:

 

The patient below is taken from one of the clinics you mentioned.

 

 

The same image happens to be on other hair restoration websites, one in Savannah, Georgia, another in Chicago and one in Houston.

 

Exhibit B:

 

This image below is another from one of the two clinics you mentioned...

 

 

It must be a really good result because no fewer than TWELVE different clinics decided to add this image to their "own" respective galleries.

 

Exhibit C:

 

Next we have a third image in from one of the galleries you mentioned.

 

 

This one is used on no fewer than SIXTEEN different websites.

 

So this begs the question; if Neograft is so good and the results are so much better why is it that none of these clinics can share their own results and claim them as unique? Why must the same photos be used on so many websites?

[Davis91]

Ah Sam Sam Sam. It was a good try. Do not pass Go and do not collect $200. You rolled the dice but went directly to Jail instead of Park Place. The only Monopoly on these boards is held by a few gurus and top clinics and dedicated posters. Goodbye Sam I doubt we will hear from you again in your current form.

[lorenzo]

If these are the pictures they are posting them I am not impressed. With the lighting, angle or combing of the hair. All make to make the result look better, even though they dont look impressive anyways.

When are they going to learn. That whenever you post crap it hurts your company rather than helping it. Now anyone that is interested with neograft will research and this forum topic will appear. Now any smart person reads it they will decide against neograft. You see alot of negative stuff about Bosley but never see them posting or trying to defend themselve with lies. They have an intelligent marketing team and realize by trying to defend will give a negative post a greater chance of being found on a search engine.

[TommyLucchese]

Hi Sam,

 

Welcome to the forum. Is it safe to assume you work for one of the two clinics or that you represent Neograft in some way? You said you've seen "dozens" of cases so that would be a logical explanation.

 

Instead of discussing how the grafts " are bathed" or how they are "gently" sucked out lets discuss the legitimacy of anything that you say.

 

Exhibit A:

 

The patient below is taken from one of the clinics you mentioned.

 

 

The same image happens to be on other hair restoration websites, one in Savannah, Georgia, another in Chicago and one in Houston.

 

Exhibit B:

 

This image below is another from one of the two clinics you mentioned...

 

 

It must be a really good result because no fewer than TWELVE different clinics decided to add this image to their "own" respective galleries.

 

Exhibit C:

 

Next we have a third image in from one of the galleries you mentioned.

 

 

This one is used on no fewer than SIXTEEN different websites.

 

So this begs the question; if Neograft is so good and the results are so much better why is it that none of these clinics can share their own results and claim them as unique? Why must the same photos be used on so many websites?

 

You're my hero

 

Sam I knew you were bogus from having such a specific FIRST POST on the forum. Most people sign up in a state of despair and are seeking help, you seemed to have quite a . different agenda. It was already obvious before Joe ripped you a new one. Better sign up with a new name and try again, buddy. :cool: