Hair restoration cost

[chris2b]

I visited the medical hair restoration clinic in colorado today. I am thinking about getting a small transplant on my receding hair line. My hair line has receded about and inch and a half and I'm wanting to add maybe an inch or so there. Well they told me it would take about 800-1000 grafts and would cost me about 5,000 dollars. It seems expensive and a lot of grafts for such a small area. What do you all think, is this about right?

[chris2b]

I visited the medical hair restoration clinic in colorado today. I am thinking about getting a small transplant on my receding hair line. My hair line has receded about and inch and a half and I'm wanting to add maybe an inch or so there. Well they told me it would take about 800-1000 grafts and would cost me about 5,000 dollars. It seems expensive and a lot of grafts for such a small area. What do you all think, is this about right?

[HairBeThere]

the price is right for them!! Run away.. Do a search on them, and you'll find they are not the best choice, or maybe the worst you could make!!

[Smoothy]

Way too high especially for sub-par/average work.

The best surgeons in the industry would be no higher than $4.50 a graft for 1,000 grafts, 1500 around $4 and 2,000+ probably inthe $3-$3.50 range.

[chris2b]

Yeah if I could get a little added to the corners of my hair line, for about 3,000 or so that would be ideal.

[arfy]

I recommend you avoid the big franchises. They pass the high costs of advertising on to you, and most of the work tends to be mediocre.

 

You can do much better than MHR.

 

Are you doing anything to stop the progression? Unless you stop the progression, that first surgery is just the beginning, you should expect additional surgeries unless you are a guy with no Male Pattern Baldness whatsoever, just an incomplete hair line (occasionally a guy like that will post here but they are rare).

[chris2b]

I hope I'm that guy, I have a receding hair line, but I haven't started thinning anywhere else including the crown, but I am still young.

[arfy]

Some guys tend to thin out all over the balding area (me) while other guys have a hairline that creeps back while still maintaining density or volume beyond that. If you are a guy with a creeping hairline, the bad news is that it is very possible that it is male pattern baldness (unless it is just the normal, minor recession that creates a "mature hairline"). You will probably know in your gut if you have male pattern baldness.

 

The good news is that type of hair loss can often tend to be better suited for hair transplant satisfaction than a guy who is losing hair all over the top of his head.

 

My suggestion is to stop the progression as best you can, with the least complicated regimine as possible... probably Propecia or Avodart but you decide, just beware that 99% of the stuff out there is crap. Try to keep as much of your original hair as possible. You can't replace everything with transplanted hair (not even close) so the more original hair you can keep, the better off you are in the long run.

 

If you get a transplant, pick a doctor whose work seems to be possibly the best in the world, often these doctors aren't the most expensive and in some cases they can even be cheaper than franchises (which I suggest you avoid) like Bosley NuHart PAI or MHR. Do yourself a favor and do lots of research before getting any surgery, keep asking questions and keep learning.

[chris2b]

anyone ever filled in their just temple area? how many grafts would it take? I'm confident that I can keep the majority of my existing hair, but do want to fix my corners of my hair line.

[BorderlineHairline]

Take a look at me, although by the way you are posting, it would seem that I was worse off than you.

[chris2b]

after looking at you post I think I'm about where you were before your HT. I'm just not looking for a complete fix, just a little bit to give me more options with my hair style and maybe if it didn't look so bad when wet. I also don't have thousands of dollars to throw down on a procedure, so I kinda have to see what I can do. To me anything is better then nothing.

[arfy]

If your hair is still pretty good then I suggest holding off on surgery (I'm not sure your exact status). Your comment about fixing the temples is sometimes heard from young guys who want to use transplants to erase all evidence of hair loss.

 

Of course hair loss is progressive and so trying to use transplants to hide all evidence of hair loss is usually unrealistic and sometimes a disaster down the road.

 

Your comment about not expecting "a complete fix" seems sensible. Better to go in with modest expectations and be surprised, than to expect perfection and be disappointed (or extremely disappointed).

 

Pick a great doctor, or don't do it at all, in my opinion. The great ones are rare but are worth the extra effort to find and in many cases travel to.

[chris2b]

Yeah what I want too do is add about 400-500 grafts on my corner temples. If I were to do all my thinning areas it would probably take about 1000 grafts, but I don't mind still appearing with a receding hairline, the smallest improvement will make me happy.

[Big1]

Look into Dr. Feller's "postage stamp" program.

[BorderlineHairline]

Chris, thats how I felt. I went for what I thought was the 'gusto' but now at 6 months I feel that I should have went for more than the 2100 that I had done. Maybe I am at the second ugly duckling stage or something, but I really wish I had more coverage.

[Reverse the Curse]

borderline

could you post some new pics? did dr hasson do your work?

[BorderlineHairline]

New pics will be up in the coming days, I will be 6 months out of the chair on Feb 9th. I will get a new haircut this week to have my donor area REALLY short then post pics. I kinda wish I went a little more aggressive on the temples.

 

Chris, don't kid yourself about the 'little improvement' thing. Thats how I felt, now I regret not going 'BIG'. Although Dr.Hasson probably wouldn't go any more aggressive than he did. He did pile 2100 grafts into a relatively small area....