Thinking about getting FUE for hairline lowering. Possible risks/complications. PA preforming procedure?

If you are considering surgery it would be best to discuss your options with a doctor. The doctor needs to examine you to give you a better assessment.

Hair transplant surgery is surgery. Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners should not be performing surgery.  Best to find a physician who actually performs the procedure. 

It is not advisable to have the hair restoration performed by a physician assistant. This is a difficult procedure that takes the skill of a doctor. Something to remember when doing your research, there are literally hundreds of new clinics and doctors world wide popping up left and right trying to do FUE, rather it be strip doctors trying to now convert to FUE and have little experience doing the FUE procedure, new clinics where the PA does all the procedure while the doctor sits in the other room doing consultations - never once going in to the procedure, or brand new clinics claiming they can do FUE using a NEO GRAFT Machine, ARTAS or some other device.
It is important when considering an FUE doctor to take in to consideration how long they have been doing FUE.The other conmponent is, who is doing the harvesting? Is it a Physicians Assistant (PA) or a technician doing the FUE harvesting while the doctor was in the other room doing consultations, which has become very common practice at a lot of FUE clinics. Or is it the doctor?Below are critical questions that you need answers to before moving forward with any FUE clinic.
1) Is your Doctor the person doing the FUE harvesting or is a Physician Assistant or technician doing the harvesting?
2) How long has your surgeon been doing FUE and FUE harvesting?
3) How many FUE cases does your doctor perform monthly?
4) If your doctor does both Strip and FUE, Does your doctor perform more strip cases then FUE cases monthly?

A physician assistant is not an MD. In the rare case there is an emergency, caveat emptor. Look at before and after photos and ask to speak with a patient whose before and after photos are made available to you. Try to make a wise decision based on both reliability and economics.

I think that the most important factor in determining the best surgeon is one who understands the hair transplant process and also has an Aesthetic eye in creating a natural hairline. Too often we are correcting that in patients whom present to us for their second transplant. 
 Moreover, your surgeon should be conservative and figure out the best way to treat you NOT based  on the initial results you can achieve but based on what you may look like 5, 10 and 15 years from now. Your surgeon should have a plan that fits your needs based on your family history of recession and his experience  in hair loss prevention.  
Additionally, as a correction:  If the physician or technician removes the hair from the correct donor area, that hair graft will grow on any well vascularized, healthy scalp area. 
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Hair follicles planted in healthy skin typically grow.A physician should design your hairline and make the sites (openings) for graft placement, and do the strip excision for an FUT procedure.  Having technicians place the follicles and having a PA remove the follicles is acceptable.

I am surprised that this person told you that the hair will not grow in areas where it was not there before. This is incorrect. As a joke, I have told patient that if I put a hair graft on the end of the nose, it would grow to pony tail length.  This person's comments may reflect a lack of understanding of the transplant process.