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Myself I have had 2 procedures done both in the Uk both with the Farjo clinic, first procedure was FUT back in 2010 & 2nd was Fue in 2015. While I understand the questions relating to who is the best, where can I get a good hair transplant, it strikes me that any good, decent clinic is as good as another.

You see posts of people with extremely good results and those not so good but it all comes down to genetics, type of hair, doner amount, graft quantity etc and not the actual skill of the surgeon itself. After all the procedure is pretty much the same wherever you go. Any trained Doctor should be able to carry out the procedure just as well as another?

Strikes me there is a hell of a lot of emphasis on who is the best when really any one is pretty much as good as another ( If properly registered, trained etc).

What I do see is that perhaps some responsible clinics are more cautious than others and think of a patients long term outcome, i.e. what might the happen in 10 .15 , 20 years time and some not.

Just my thoughts. 😁

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You sound like someone who is ready to go to a place like Turkey to get the cheapest hair transplant you can find advertised and somehow think you are smarter than everyone on these forums because you were able to get it done cheaper than anyone else.

 

Anyone can be taught the steps to do a hair transplant. There isn't anything particularly hard about the each part of process. What is hard is to do it correctly. A 12 year old can be shown in less than a few minutes how to use a punch tool or motorized punch to extract grafts. You can show him/her in another 2 minutes how to make holes or slits in the recipient area. That's simple. You just punch a lot of holes, right? Next you can show them how to place the grafts into the holes. Now do you really think this kid is going to be able to get a satisfactory result? Do you want him working on you?

 

You have to know about depth of grafts. Did you know that not everyone has the same depth size of their grafts? If you don't get deep enough then you don't get the root of the follicle and you have a graft that won't grow. If you go too deep you risk pulling the graft apart as well. The depth can change slightly with each patient. What about the angle? Hair doesn't grow straight out, so you have to be at the right angle to FUE out the grafts or else you will be cutting the hairs and again not getting the root of the follicle. When you are making holes in the recipient site, do you even know what a natural hairline shape looks like? Most people think that is so simple, but it's not. Not doing a proper shape and temple areas will look very unnatural. Then there is the angles that the holes/slits must be made at. Do you know that hair grows at different angles in different areas of your head and that must be followed and done a certain way? I could go on and on, but this is just the basics.

 

Now I will agree that you can never know who the absolute best is because there are a lot of high quality Drs doing very good hair transplants and there are varying philosophies of where the hairline should be placed, how conservative or aggressive is suitable for each patient, etc. But if you stay on these forums for a little while, you'll keep hearing the same 10 to 15 Dr names over and over. If you want a hair transplant, it's probably a good choice to pick one of those.

 

 

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I am a forum moderator for hairrestorationnetwork.com. I am not a Dr. and I do not work for any particular Dr. My opinions are my own and may not reflect the opinions of other moderators or the owner of this site. I am also a hair transplant patient and repair patient. You can view some of my repair journey here.

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16 hours ago, blueboy63 said:

You see posts of people with extremely good results and those not so good but it all comes down to genetics, type of hair, doner amount, graft quantity etc and not the actual skill of the surgeon itself. After all the procedure is pretty much the same wherever you go. Any trained Doctor should be able to carry out the procedure just as well as another?

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Dr. G: 1,000 grafts (FUT) 2008

Dr. Paul Shapiro: 2,348 grafts (FUT) 2009 ~ 1,999 grafts (FUT) 2011 ~ 300 grafts (Scar Reduction) 2013

Dr. Konior: 771 grafts (FUT) 2015 ~ 558 grafts (FUT) 2017 ~ 1,124 grafts (FUE) 2020

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