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OK again put "good hair transplants" in quotation marks in www.google.com and 460,000 hits with THOSE WORDS come up. HOWEVER, check the actual websites and there are a total of 33, including your post by the way. Yes, a lot of people are not satisfied with fraxel. So they wasted some money and were red for a few months. With a hair transplant you are seriously scarred for life both from the donor scar and the thousands of implanted hairs. If I was allowed by site rules I would post websites with countless thousands of angry scarred patients who's lives have been ruined. But I will let people do their own research through the hundreds of thousands of websites on their own under "hair transplant repair" on yahoo and/or google. They can also look through the 33 websites for "good hair transplants" which are by the way almost entirely sponsored by the hair transplant industry that you so honorably represent.

Ok where do I start. First off when you put "good hair transplants" in quotation marks on www.yahoo.com only 163 hits come up. You said millions. Just a little gap don't you think? Like I said a lot of these people obviously work in this industry I'm trying to warn you about. Buyer Beware.

I'll tell you what it's very simple (the truth usually is) just go to yahoo's homepage www.yahoo.com and type in "hair transplant repair" in quotation marks. What you will find is that 335,000 (yes thousand) hits come up. Look at pictures and read peoples stories of how these procudures have ruined their lives and then come back and tell me how in your expert opinion,[never having the procedure done and not working in the hair transplant industry] that I am in the minority. The truth will always overcome in the end...........I just don't want anyone else to suffer in the mean time.

Dude don't get a hair transplant, you sound young and impressionable like me and many others that had their procedures in their early 20's. Do a yahoo search under "hair transplant repair" and you will find tones of pictures of people who have had their lives ruined by these procedures. See the pictures of artificial looking hair, donor scarring, bumps/redness/ridging where the hair is transplanted, you will be shocked. This is a dream that will quickly become a self inflicted nightmare. Trust me you are getting what most of us countless victims never got.....a warning.

The industry does not implode because there is a constant supply of people that don't realize what a surgery like this involves, they are sold on a false dream. I can show you transplants preformed in the 70's, 80's, and 90's where cookie type cutters the size of a dime where used to punch holes in patients scalps with up to 100 hairs per graft. These holes were left gapping and oozing and the patient was wrapped up and sent home. There is even a name for it in the industry "open donor" these people have obviously been seriously scared with corn-row transplants to boot. Why would a patient knowingly have a scalp reduction when it causes extensive scarring and the skin eventually stretches back and leaves atrocious scarring that causes serious scalp deformity. Why did/do the patients keep coming? They trusted the advertising and the doctors who showed them the glossy pictures and didn’t tell them the repercussions/implications. Come on lets be honest most of these doctors played on peoples insecurities and maliciously ruined people lives knowingly to make a buck. That’s the sad truth. I am studying to be a nurse and for the life of me I can’t understand stand how a medical doctor can do this for money. I wouldn’t ruin someone’s life for any amount of money, maybe I am weird I don’t know. But alas the patients kept coming because they didn’t meet the last guy who's life was ruined. How could they he is now hiding under a hat or hair piece or doesn’t leave the house and has cut contact with family and friends. Sounds extreme but it’s the truth…… you would do the same thing if you had an obvious hair transplant. The industry survives by a combination of desperate younger naive patients and doctors who are not completely honest and downplay the pitfalls. If doctors didn’t there is a good chance people would not have the surgery done. Sure people will have a series of surgeries done because it is a short term "fix" but once they continue to lose hair they will realize the scarring that has been done that the hair was semi-covering. This cycle has already happened to thousands and thousands of patients. How can a doctor do a series of hair transplants on a youngish patient when they cannot predict what the extent of future loss will be and the donor and scalp laxity is limited....it doesn’t add up. Actually my situation is not bad at all compared to a lot of others, their lives are for all intents and purposes is ruined. How can they live a normal life when they have an obvious hair transplant, they are humiliated. A person without arms or legs is worse off for sure but there is nothing as humiliating as a person with an obvious transplant that people stare at all day and whisper about behind their backs and snicker at. You don't know because it didn’t happen to you so it's not such a big deal. Trust me if you were in there situation you would feel totally different. I don't want another naive desperate young person to risk ruining their lives based on a false dream painted by a malicious industry and unscrupulous doctors . I truly hope this industry and these doctors are proud of themselves and enjoy the money they have made.