Doug San Fran

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• Posted to Hair Growth After Hair Transplant on 2 Nov 2012

  Another example: check out "If Transplanted Hair in the Scalp Doesn't Grow, is the Hair Dead or Maybe Packed Too Closely to Grow?" in the Q & A section to the right. Those doctors are now contradicting what these doctors told this patient!

• Posted to Hair Growth After Hair Transplant on 2 Nov 2012

  Reading the comments from the doctors' regarding this patient's question, I think the widely varying results mirror just about every other question I've asked re: hair transplants to doctors on the web, and also explain how frustrating it can be for patients who are looking for answers can get. No one seems to really have any definitive answers, and it only points to the fact that hair transplants, despite being performed for decades, are still obviously a very crude and catch-as-catch-can kind of surgery. I am in my second month after an HT, and am noticing considerable growth which confuses me (I THINK, although they may be just a lot of vellous hairs... however, if they are, they're sure darker than they were before my surgery). What I'm finding after reading MANY answers from HT docs on the web is that it's becoming clear very few of them really have a definite answer for anything... they all contradict each other. There is clearly a need for some kind of organization of Hair Transplant Surgeons who can come up with solid answers to questions. I am a nurse, and I've never experienced such a wide variety of opinions from any M.D.'s I've ever worked with when it comes to any other physical surgery. Four months, six months, nine months, one year... this is very pitiful, especially for what hair transplant surgeons charge, and it only adds to the poor reputation the profession has among men who are looking for an alternative to baldness. The only consistent answer I've received from asking close to 40 doctors throughout the United States is probably the most honest: "I don't know, you'll have to wait and see."