Help me choose for FUE (Konior, Rahal, Vories, Diep, H&W)

[Hair4Chris]

Hello, my name is Chris, I am 30 years old and have frontal hair loss (thinning) NW3.

This is my experience so far with consultations and if I offend any doctors, or expose anything, I am sorry. I am also unwilling to go overseas for a FUE transplant, its surgery, I would feel uncomfortable doing that.

 

I take .5 mg of finastride a day as well as rogaine foam 2x a day. I like to wear my hair short on the sides and back and long on top. I would prefer FUE as I believe it's the most modern advanced type of hair surgery but the difference in before and after pictures for FUE versus FUT sort of concerns me. FUT always looks much better and the hair porn is real. I want to believe FUE can get me those results without the invasive cutting of the back of my head, so I have decided to go for FUE.

 

Now to the tough part. Choosing my Doctor.

 

Konior

Pros

- Post Op pictures are the best I have ever seen, clean.

- Communication top notch right from Dr.

- Does all extractions and plants all the graphs with no technician

- Best word of mouth reviews on the forums

- Manual Punch

- Perfectionist

- 1 patient per day

 

Cons

- 1 Year wait list, and you need to pay $1000 upfront non refundable.

- Expensive! Probably $10,000 more for 1800-2100 graphs than any other doctor on this list besides diep. Nearly $10 per graph.

- No travel aid

- Barely any before and after FUE pictures. It is a little concerning how few examples there really is, and this has been a complaint for years.

- Hairlines can look a little underwhelming compared to Rahal, and Diep's results but who knows if those are exceptional results cherry picked from hundreds of cases.

 

 

Rahal

Pros

- Cost. With Canadian exchange rate and his deals all the time, You can sometimes get 2500 graphs for $5 a graph.

- His successful hairlines look amazing, movie star hair porn.

- Travel Aid

- Growth guaranteed, tries to fix all none growth cases. (Could also be a con cause our donor areas are precious and it leads to believe efficiency over quality in my opinion)

- Can get a quick surgery day, month or 2 wait.

 

Cons

- Motorized trumpet punch

- Uses a technician for extractions. Not very hands on.

- Very salesman like emails from staff. Kind of a turnoff. If you wait the price seems to drop.

- Rahal never personally emails you.

- Tried to divert me to LA hair Clinic without even telling me, I had to ask who was going to do the surgery 4 emails into the conversation. They use rahals name but Dr Tahsini does the extractions., it’s like a referral system that seems sketchy.

- Some of the worst overharvesting pictures I have seen on a few cases, also some cases that had zero growth, or hairs that never grew back.

- Post Op pictures look pretty messy.

- Multiple patients per day

 

Vories (Haven’t contacted yet could be more Pros/Cons)

Pros

- Cheap! $4 a graph, can get almost 3 FUE surgeries for the price of 1 of Koniors.

- Results on website look good.

- Post op pictures don't look too bad.

- Learned from best overseas.

 

Cons

- Not many good word of mouth reviews but no bad result posts like Rahal.

- Some underwhelming cases, diffuse look.

 

Diep (Haven’t contacted yet could be more Pros/Cons)

Pros

- Good density

- Does extractions himself

 

Cons

- Hairline design not my favorite (zig zag)

- Post Op pictures a little messy with larger holes

 

Hason/Wong (Haven’t contacted yet could be more Pros/Cons)

Pros

- Hairlines look amazing

- They have learned from the best overseas

- Recent FUE Results show they can do FUE as good as their FUT

- Last to perform FUE but they said they were waiting to perfect it before offering.

 

Cons

- Technicians used for extractions

 

Any advice would be much appreciated, I would like to stay under $20,000 for the little loss I have in front, but I want density. What would you do? Do you think Konior's work is 3x greater than Vories?

[dan26]

If you're willing to travel to Canada, why not just go to Europe?

 

You will get the same or better quality as US/CAN but for a better price.

[Hair4Chris]

If you're willing to travel to Canada, why not just go to Europe?

 

You will get the same or better quality as US/CAN but for a better price.

 

Canada is probably the closest out of all those places, it is about a 30 minute flight from Massachusetts if you check out a map. Also terrorist, health regulations, distance, and having fewer large hurdles to overcome so I go through with it are all reasons to stay within my continent.