karlsd Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 just had a consult today....i have mixed feelings....promised some things that sound a little too good to be true...but who knows. i cant find anything about this doctor or his practice online..........anyone out there hear of him or have any experiences? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member zx_toth Posted March 20, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 You need a better search engine. Don't trust websites and claims on them, however here is his site apparently. Would be good to have forum members speak up re: first hand experience with this surgeon though. Long Island NeoGraft | Dr. Keith Durante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member zx_toth Posted March 20, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 How weird is that! His before and after section on his website are not even before and after pictures!!! they are just letters from supposed patients .... my spider senses are tingling and I don't like it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlsd Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 this was a very very weird experience...ive done a consult at another place before who actually charged me which i wasnt happy about.....and this place didnt...of course i was happy about that but still thought it was odd...i was expecting to pay...anyway...i get there and its a multi tenant building...there was a sign outside but once i was inside there was no sign on their door..all the other tenants in this building had a sign but not this place...it was downstairs with no sign....not a big deal but 2 odd things in a row.....so i go in and there are multiple things going on at this place....i didnt pay much attention....fill out the paperwork....and eventually get called in.....i sat in a room for about 10 minutes waiting for the doc alone....he comes in...we chat and i kid you not...starts painting himself out as gods gift of the hair transplant world..."i was the first to bring Neaograft onto LI"..."i can do things no one else can do"...and on and on......says he can fix my entire head in one shot with 3K grafts.......no problem.......i say to myself OK great.....at least hes confident.... then he takes pictures of me...adds me to one of his folders on his IPAD...and proceeds to show me some before and after pictures (yes very odd that what he showed me are not on his websites).......and he kinda struggled to be honest......flipping around back and forth showing me lots of before pictures and telling me their stories....this went on for 10 minutes...saying how no one would help these people but me....finally i had to stop him and say.."can i actually see an after picture??"....im thinking this should be easy..scroll and bam....before....3 months...6 months...1 year...final results......he ended up finding one or 2 but passed up a bunch to selectively show me a few......he explained that he was trying to find people with my particular pattern....which may be true.....but it was just odd how long it was taking him....you would think he would know exaclty where to scroll through. so we get past that.....then he wants to do 3 things........ 1. introduce me to his star tech who he flies in specifically for certain patients who need special treatment 2. meet one of the patients there actually having the procedure. 3. go over pricing with one of his girls. so i meet the tech....VERY friendly....i ask him where hes from...says Dallas....i ask why do you fly back and forth...why not just live in NY?......i was just feeling him out...not trying to be nosey......he joked and said he might as well and gave some story about how he teaches the technique in Dallas........OK so next up meet the patient........ here is where it got a little weird for me...and that little voice in my head kept yelling at me when i left.....so the patient happened to take a bathroom break which left the room they were working on with him vacant and gave them an opportunity to bring me into the room and show me their progress......their were 2 attractive and VERY friendly female techs in there.......lots of smiling and giggling...adn they give me a mask to put over my face....put these glasses on me and ask me to look at these live follicles...they said 1500 in total...i gave a peak.......looked legit i guess..... and right when i was done looking and about to leave the room, the patient comes back.....another SUPER FRIENDLY GUY!...very talkative...very helpful......after hello...it was "are u thinking about getting it done?" "they do it all in one shot here...so im going for it" "i thought it was going to hurt but its a piece of cake"...i small talk back and then its "just let me know if you have any questions you can text me"......he was a young guy who had bandages on the side of his head wrapped around so couldnt see much....i saw the top of his head and yea he looked like he could have been losing it...or had a bad haircut to make it look like he was....just TOO friendly for me...it was just a 10 minute does of TOO friendly for me....this is NY after all...people are not that friendly here....... then it was all business when i sat own with the girl....she had the price sheet ready......no smiling or friendly business here....just dollars......talked about the sliding scale pricing.....all business.. was this a complete staged scam? an acting job? something just didnt smell right here. the way that young guy came in smiling and super friendly seemed so timed and coordinated. if yes, then why? well ill answer my own question...so i get excited and come back in a week with my tax refund.........but then what? they cant just steal my money and get out of dodge. My guess is that they will do the procedure but not give me the promised results and then i got back 2 more times to fill in all the spots missed? is this just a case of false promises and taking advantage of desperate people? i see nothing on the Internet on this guy or his practice other then his website and his past life as a vascular surgeon. or am i imagining it all? trust me id like this to be legit...says he can get 3.5K grafts from my donor area...and i have a relativity small head! all in one session....and i think reasonably priced from what ive researched.....$7/graft for first 1K....$6/graft for 2nd 1K and $5/graft for anything thereafter..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member KO Posted March 20, 2015 Senior Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 Facepalm. 3382 FUE Lupanzula http://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/eve/185463-3382-grafts-lupanzula.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member zx_toth Posted March 20, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 Paranoid often? Lol ... I wasn't insinuating he was a scam artist just that he has unproven results and for some strange reason isn't showcasing his patient results on his website. So my concern is the quality of his work and experience not whether he is a fraud! I don't know why you would put a down payment down if you had such a creepy feeling. cosmetic surgery clinics are obviously going to be very friendly because it's elective, competitive business not because they want to scam you. It's not like an universal paid medical clinic where they don't need business and can be rude and give poor servi. So dial down your scam-meter and find a recommended surgeon who has hundreds of proven patients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member HairyPotter79 Posted March 20, 2015 Senior Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 I'm on the island and I never heard of him..i was in for a consultation with a different dr and met a patient who had almost all the grafts in his head already very similar hairloss to mine about 5 years older and I remember at first it was surreal I thought it was planned also so many similarities to me this guy had but I talked with all them for a few minutes and realized the dr was so quick to show me this guy because how similar are cases where I mean he was like yea he won't care and just brought me in and the guy was cool let me get in close and ask questions .now granted I went to a recommended surgeon and idk It was pretty easy to tell this guy was legit..your story screams red flag though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlsd Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 not being paranoid....there was a staged show being put on for me...buyer beware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member zx_toth Posted March 21, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted March 21, 2015 ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member farmcat Posted March 21, 2015 Senior Member Share Posted March 21, 2015 I remember getting bad vibes when I went to meet with a dentist about having my wisdom teeth (all 4) pulled. Just small things, like springs missing on the overhead lights they pull down to look at you, a desk clock that they drilled into the wall to make it a wall clock, etc....anyways, I made an appointment but still had bad feelings about the place. I debated canceling but was having problems with my teeth and already had the appointment set so I went. It ended up being a bad experience, was in the chair for 7 hours....he couldn't get the bottom two out and kept chiseling away......he kept leaving the room for like 45 minutes at a time and the gauze in my mouth was saturated with blood so I actually went through the drawers in the room and found some and changed it myself......I stopped him from even trying the second bottom one and he was like "when people do this they historically don't come back and have the last one pulled" and I was thinking no shit, they go somewhere else, which is what I later did, and had a great experience there. Moral of the story, trust your gut instincts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlsd Posted March 22, 2015 Author Share Posted March 22, 2015 guys just a heads up...im gonna delete this thread tonight. i have not changed the way i feel but i dont need any headaches that may come with what i posted...i see that this post is showing up at the top of some searches on this doc. which is a good thing but until i have more concrete evidence im going to err on the side of caution. i have some ideas to prove my theories out.....ill get back to you when i do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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